Guild Wars 2

I’ve literally noticed no difference between 0 and 30 traits points in beastmastery. My pets seem to die just as often which has led me to put those 30 points into wilderness survival. Are pets even viable in this game? Is it worth it to put any trait points into them?

Yea, It’s definitely viable and works very well with a lot of melee builds, but I can understand your frustration. It took me a good while to warm up to this talent tree and I really didn’t see what other people liked in it so much.

Don’t matter where I put my trait points, nothing seems to make any difference to anything.

5points gets you 2seconds of quickness every 20 seconds
15points gets you 2sec every 18

5 points for such regular quickness is very competitive on the Ranger talent tree – even operating under the assumption that the stat points in pet and healing are completely ineffective, it’s still a very competitive option.

5 points is almost mandatory
its a 10% damage increase for all times, and even works to kill downed players or revive faster.

AlexRD.7914:

5 points is almost mandatory
its a 10% damage increase for all times, and even works to kill downed players or revive faster.

I second this. I lost count of how many times I saved an entire group in a dungeon by quick-ressing a downed party member.

The quickness is also pretty amazing with the Greatsword. Against enemies with slow attacks, the auto-attack evade pretty much makes you invulnerable.

Solid Gold.9310:

Don’t matter where I put my trait point, nothing seems to make any difference to anything.

I know some will disagree. But I will agree with this because no matter how many different setups I try, I’m always left with a feeling of emptiness inside. Like, it made a difference, but I feel like there’s a huge lack of synergy. Every build feels odd, like we’re forcing broken things to try and work together.