Guild Wars 2

Placing a banner creates the radius effect on you as well

Essentially, you become a walking banner, as well as having a banner down. Not sure where to place it in traits though. Just a thought to make banners better in PvP perhaps.

Nope, doubt you’ll ever see something like that. Goes against the whole point of banners.

Olba.5376:

Nope, doubt you’ll ever see something like that. Goes against the whole point of banners.

Point of banners: Buff allies. Trait, helps buffing allies? At least try make an argument, not just say no. It doesn’t have to be a cheap trait either.

Katsumoto.9452:

Olba.5376:

Nope, doubt you’ll ever see something like that. Goes against the whole point of banners.

Point of banners: Buff allies. Trait, helps buffing allies? At least try make an argument, not just say no. It doesn’t have to be a cheap trait either.

Did you really miss the fact that Banners are static and they’re environmental weapons that replace your weapon skills?

The payment you make for not losing your weapon skills is that the bonuses remain static. The payment you make for making them un-static is the loss of your weapon skills.

Taking away both of those aspects would make them, by definition, not be banners anymore. They’d just be glorified, party-wide signets. And we already have more than enough signets.

And it would create some funky issues in WvW. Imagine this: you have a group of say, 40 people. You split the group into 4 groups of 10. Now, you just have two warriors use their banners and have two of the 4 groups pick up those banners. Then you make each of those two warriors go with the other two groups. Now you have four groups that have all the benefits of a full banner warriors, all for the price of just 2 such warriors.

Naturally, that leads to the “solution” of making the range for the effect limited. But the only thing that it would do is extend the range of the banner. After all, the warrior will need to be in range of the banner to get the effect and he himself will only provide those effects onwards for some radius.

And I am pretty sure that extending the radius of the banners would cause some balancing issues. After all, if you lay out the banners with some thought, even a single warrior with 4 banners can almost cover a 2400-by-2400 square all by himself. Or make a line of 4,800 range.