Guild Wars 2

A grandmaster trait in skirmishing:

• Remove 3 conditions when you gain quickness.

Pros:

• Active condi clear on QZ.
• When traited x/30/x/x/30 you get 12 condi clears/min with pet swap. Empathic bond is 18 per minute but you cannot control it).
• Sigil of rage proc 3 condis (45 sec cd)
• Orrian/balthazar runes 3 conditions cleared under 25% health.

Cons:

• Might just be pigeon-holing rangers in a different way than we currently are.

Question: would this just pigeon-hole power rangers into x/30/x/x/30 or do you think it would open up more build diversity?

It’s an interesting idea and it would certainly force Rangers into a 30/30/10 build if they planned to play power. I can’t imagine anyone getting 30 nm just for shouts or 30 bm for swapping pets. I also think it would be wildly overpowered.

We’d get a condi cleanse on horn use, on swapping weapons, on activating QZ, using shortbow, using an elite, using birds.. did I catch them all?

Now while it’s certainly thematic for the Ranger to cleanse conditions easily the above could be considered excessive

Quickness not swiftness. We’re talking about two different things.

Eurantien.4632:

Quickness not swiftness. We’re talking about two different things.

Ahh you’re right. In that case it could be entertaining.

No, it wouldn’t. Hardly anyone uses Zephyr now, IMO if ypu don’t plqy in zerg or PvE it’s just to little and you socket your utility slot.
So we’re left with quickness on swap which requires us to go 30 BM. It could be good for that traitline, indeed.
Nice little trait, but not Grandmaster – Master instead.
Overall, kind of cool, but doesn’t fix Power builds anyhow

The only thing that would actually ‘fix’ power builds is if our weapon scaling was brought up to snuff.

Though I would not cry if we got a little more condition removal ;P

We do not lack in DPS when going 30/30/10 we lack in locking down targets to land our DPS (mesmers get immob, thieves get basi, warriors get stuns/immobs) which would be greatly solved by giving us more control over our pets. So, i’m not talking about damage more on survivability.

Only thing I can see being a problem Eura is you can’t pick when you want to remove your conditions, it’s all chance based apart from the pet swap.

If we had better condition remove we would have better builds.