Guild Wars 2

Just some comments on the traits, mostly in an spvp perspective:
Strenght

Minor:
Reckless Dodge
- Fun Strong trait
Building Momentum (needs tweak)
- Interesting mechanic, but the amount of endurance restored makes it negligible.
Stick and Move
- Finaly bumped up to be on par with the other similar minor traits.
Adept:
Death From Above
- Niche trait
Restorative Strenght (Needs Rework)
- This trait could look interesting if the other heals became relevant.
- Will not be picked for healing signet, as the active will still be bad.
- Will not be picked for Mending, as it’s competing with physical Training
- Will not be picked with Healing Surge, because shoutbuilds will not invest in this traitline.
Physical Training
- Overall very strong trait, with interesting mechanics
Master:
Body Blow
- Good choice for mace- or hammer hybrid builds
Forcefull Greatsword
- Much QoL for greatsword warrior’s, condenses two important traits and opens up options.
Great Fortitude
- Conversion trait, okay.
Grandmaster:
Berserker’s Power
- Good change, promotes using the class mechanic as opposed to not.
Distracting Strikes
- Good choice for mace- or hammer hybrid builds
Axe Mastery (Needs Rework)
-This will never be picked over Berserker’s Power for Axe builds. Looks very
weak in general.

Arms

Minor:
Precise Strikes
- Bleed on crit, fine.
Unsuspecting Foe (Needs to be in Strenght line, or rework)
- Good trait, but sadly the placement in the Arms traitline makes it unobtainable for
hammer/mace builds, as they will rather go into the Strenght line.
Attack of opportunity
- Very strong for hybrid sword users.
Adept:
Berserker’s Fury
- Good mechanics, gives both adrenalin and fury. Health treshol might need tweaking.
Signet Mastery
- Interesting idea for both activation of signets and proc, doubtfull that this will
makes signets see any use in any sort of enviornment.
Deep Strike
- Not very interesting, seems kinda weak. Does atleast synergize with other traits in
traitline.
Master:
Rending Strikes
- Strong choice for builds lacking in swiftness,
Opportunist
- Might get picked for Rifle Warriors, still looks a bit weak compared to the other
two traits.
Blademaster
- This looks extremely strong, as you will constantly apply bleeds with sword
and Recharge Reduction might push sword/sword hybrid builds to a good position.
Grandmaster:
Burst Precision (Place elsewhere)
- Odd placement, doesn’t have any synergy with sword.
Furious
- Good synergy with sword skillset, might even make the burst skill worthwhile.
Dual Wielding
- Good synergy with sword/sword

Defense:

Minor:
Thick Skin
- Uninteresting and weak
Adrenal Health
- Nice trait, always was.
Spiked Armor
- The move to minor makes it look better and the toughness bonus while affected by retaliation looks interesting. Good changes.
Adept:
Shield Master
- Three traits in one? Makes traiting for shield much less of a hassle. Much wanted and much needed change.
- So strong it competes quite well with Dogged March.
Dogged March
- Good as always
Armored Attack
- Uninteresting, outshined by the other choices
Master:
Last Stand (move this or Cleansing Ire to Grandmaster)
- Pvp oriented trait competing with Cleansing Ire does not makes sense
Cull the Weak
- Might see play in pve? Interesting mechanic, but since it’s competing with cleansing Ire
it’s kind of pointless.
Cleansing Ire
- So strong it is a must pick in every spvp build there is.
Grandmaster:
All of these are weaker than Cleansing Ire..
Sundering Mace
- Good trait, looks fun for mace builds
Endure Pain and Rousing Resilience
- Both look like good picks

Tactics:

Minor:
Determined Revival
- Ok
Reviver’s Might (change please)
- Can we get our revive speed back please? This trait is trash.
Inspiring Presense
- Good trait, in spirit with the traitline.
Adept:
Leg Specialist
- Might see use for Hammer Shout builds
Quick Breathing
- Very strong trait
Empowered
- Will get used in Phalanx pve builds
Master
Shrug it Off
- Extra shout for them shoutbuilds, looks like an obvious pick.
Burning Arrows
- Depending on how strong the Burning will be, this might be a good contender for
Shrug it off even in shoutbuilds.
Empowered Allies
- Mostly relevant in pve
Grandmaster:
Powerful Synergy
- Love the idea, sadly warrior lacks combofields and the other traits will probably outperform
Vigorous Shouts
- Another three in one, very strong
Phalanx Strenght
- Pve go-to

Discipline:

Versatile Rage, Fast hands!, Verstatile Power (Maybe make Fast Hands baseline?)
- All of these, especially Fast Hands, makes Disciplin a must pick for Warrior in Spvp.
Adept:
Crack Shot
-Rifle warrior’s..
Warrior’s Sprint
-Strong trait, made stronger very good pick
Vengefull Return
-Ok trait, good pick for non rifle war’s with high swiftness uptime (shoutbow)
Master:
So many good choices :o
Merciless Hammer
- Must have for hammer builds.
Burst Mastery
- Good for adrenalin management
Heightened Focus
- Very, very strong. Will lead to alot of quickness Stomps

tl;dr:

Alot of very good changes, some traits still look too weak to ever get picked (restorative strenght, Reviver’s Might(it’s a minor but yeah..), Axe Mastery) and some traits are placed very awkwardly ( Last Stand, Burst Precition, Unsuspecting Foe). As long as Fast hands and Cleansing Ire are what they are, warrior’s will have to pick Disciplin and Defence, aswell as use Longbow for Spvp.
These changes does make Mace/shield or sword, Hammer, Sword/Sword and Greatsword more attractive though.

nicknamenick.2437:

What i didnt agree:
Burst Precision (Place elsewhere)
- Odd placement, doesn’t have any synergy with sword.

this trait gives ALL you sword burst strikes a crit! think about how much Extra bleeding you can can by that :-)
Arms is nothing more then condi traitline now…

The problem is, it get’s outperformed by the other two by quite alot with sword. I feel it’s way more suited for axe and hammer build’s.

axe mastery is +150 ferocity for each axe you wield. so that’s +300 if you go duel axe. pretty gnarly if you ask me. 66006 quickness axe axe is something I will be trying, for the gnar factor.

choovanski.5462:

axe mastery is +150 ferocity for each axe you wield. so that’s +300 if you go duel axe. pretty gnarly if you ask me. 66006 quickness axe axe is something I will be trying, for the gnar factor.

300 Ferocity equates to 20% crit damage, so even for an Axe/axe pve build Berserker’s Power would give you more damage.

Cant wait to use interrupting strikes with phalanx strength. Interrupt hybrid might stacking warrior, anyone? (Pvp ofcourse)

FalconBeta.9185:

Cant wait to use interrupting strikes with phalanx strength. Interrupt hybrid might stacking warrior, anyone? (Pvp ofcourse)

You would lose either fast hands or cleansing Ire though, but yeah that’s a cool synergy.