Guild Wars 2

Trade the +% Boon Duration in Acrobatics tree to -% Condition Duration.

Why: Thieves do not have very much access to any boons whatsoever compared to other classes, stealth is our major tool and its not effected by boon duration, meanwhile, Guardians/Elementalists/Many other classes survive with boons like regeneration/protection/swiftness, all of which thieves do not have access to in huge duration, 2-5-10 seconds seems silly.

-% Condition Duration would help us get out of conditions easier.

Weakness/Chill/Cripple would be less effective against thieves, and thats what acrobatics is all about, being able to get out of these situations faster, it makes sense all around.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrobatics
-30% Condition Duration would give us -30% Duration on Cripples/Weakness/Chill, it would make sense seeing as we are thieves, getting out of things faster would be common sense.

Does it make more sense? Perhaps.

It’d weaken most Acrobatics builds though, the current functionality creates nice Might synergy and also helps some of the other trait lines. Reduction in non-damaging conditions is not very useful in PvE in particular.

Tulisin.6945:

Does it make more sense? Perhaps.

It’d weaken most Acrobatics builds though, the current functionality creates nice Might synergy and also helps some of the other trait lines.

We already get huge durations of Might, but meanwhile other classes get access to Might/Fury/Swiftness/Protection/Retaliation/Other Boons.

Getting out of conditions faster would also help people who get might, because that means they can worry about just dodging things at the right time and not having to worry about so many other things.

If we had something that gave us for example: 30 seconds of swiftness or 30 seconds of fury, or 30 seconds of swiftness, boon duration is not only crucial, but amazing.

To thieves who have the movement signet, have 100% Critical Chance when stealth, have everything else, we really don’t need boon duration, we arn’t made like the other classes are, we have stealth.

-30% Condition Duration would help us in so many more ways, and makes sense since it deals with acrobatics.