Guild Wars 2

With Anet’s recent decision to add Cleansing Ire, I saw an opportunity for some synergy with an idea I’ve had floating around in my head lately.

This would be an f2 skill that reads:

Mind over Matter

Gain 25% of your Armor as Toughness and lose 3 adrenaline every 1 seconds. You cannot gain adrenaline. Using Burst skills ends the effect.

I think the merits of this idea are:

-It burns adrenaline, giving us a way to utilize Cleansing Ire defensively, as well as another tool for managing our adrenaline pool.

-Although it isn’t as strong as Protection it has, at best, a 50% up-time and can’t be stripped.

The hole I see in this idea, and maybe someone can help me find a way around it, is that the way toughness scales, low toughness/hybrid builds will see a little more reduction because of the diminishing return per point of toughness. However, high toughness warriors should see total reductions around 60%, a very respectable amount, whereas full berserker builds will only be around 30%.

I know there are divides in the community when it comes to increased access to evades and protection. This could be an effective, unique method of mitigation as well as fit the warrior image of just being “tougher” than all the other classes.

If I have 3k armor and 25% (barley 900) would give me about 275ish armor… which is about 2.3% damage reduction since I already have so much armor.

Its not worth it unless you are in full berserker’s armor. It would be an ‘ok’ Minor Trait I guess?

Daecollo.9578:

If I have 3k armor and 25% (barley 900) would give me about 275ish armor… which is about 2.3% damage reduction since I already have so much armor.

Its not worth it unless you are in full berserker’s armor. It would be an ‘ok’ Minor Trait I guess?

1 point toughness = 1 point armor

It would give you 750 armor. Which would take you from 38% to 51%.

The toughness curve makes it hard for me to make a formula, so I did all my experimenting with this site

The same guy wrote this article. He’s a very sharp dude.

Veritas.6071:

Convert 25% of your Armor to Toughness

…But… Toughness adds to armor… They literally do the same thing… Is it because of Armored Attack converting 5% of your toughness into power? Cause that would be 5% of 25%… The end result would be incredibly meaningless. We have no other toughness-scaling trait or skill…

I am confused.

ProxyDamage.9826:

Veritas.6071:

Convert 25% of your Armor to Toughness

…But… Toughness adds to armor… They literally do the same thing… Is it because of Armored Attack converting 5% of your toughness into power? Cause that would be 5% of 25%… The end result would be incredibly meaningless. We have no other toughness-scaling trait or skill…

I am confused.

So let’s pretend you have 3000 armor like Daecollo. While the ability is active, you would have 3000×1.25= 3750 Armor. (3000 gear/trait armor and toughness + 750 toughness from the ability)

The ability basically reads, “Increase your Armor by 25%.” Having it convert to Toughness just sounds more “warrior-ish”

I also changed the skill wording. Now it is more clear:
Gain 25% of your Armor as Toughness

Increasing Toughness literally does so much less after 3000 due to diminishing returns.

As I said, it would be an ok minor.

However, Toughness and Armor are pretty much the same stat, it would be pretty much to code into one.

Did you check the site? 38 to 51% in your build without having to trait for it is nothing? This isn’t a trait. It’s an addition to the class mechanic.