Guild Wars 2

“We at the Hub took the time to document all the changes we could find about Trait lines during the Press Preview. All of this is provided by us and is subject to change at ArenaNet’s discretion. By no means are these Official.”

Warrior:

1. Strength

- “Dual Wielding” was moved to Adept Trait.
– “Phyiscal Training” was moved to Master Trait.
– “Berserker’s Power” was moved to Grandmaster Trait with a adjustments of bonus damage of 5% at Stage 1, 10% at Stage 2, 15% at Stage 3.
– “Berserker’s Might” has been changed to: Generate two strikes of adrenaline every three seconds while in combat.

2. Arms

- “Furious Speed” has been changed to: Gain 10 seconds of swiftness on critical hits. This effect can only occur once every 15 seconds.
- “Furious” has been changed to: Critical hits grant triple adrenaline.
- “Last Chance” has had it’s cooldown reduced to 45 seconds.

3. Defence

- “Embrace the Pain” has been removed.
– “Shield Master” has been moved to Adept Trait.
– “Vigorous Return” has been changed to: Increases health by 35% and endurance by 100% on rally.
– New Master Trait “Cleansing Ire”: Gain adrenaline when hit. Remove a condition for every bar of adrenaline spent.

4. Tactics

- “Empower Allies” now increases power of nearby allies by +150.
– “Desperate Power” now gives 20% additional damage while below 50% maximum health.

5. Discipline

- Adept Minor trait “Versatile Rage” now only triggers once every 5 seconds.
– “Vigorous Focus” has been moved to Adept Trait.
– “Destruction of the Empowered” has been moved to Master Trait.
– “Sharpened Axes” now reduce axe skill recharge time by 20% in addition to what it already does.
– “Burst Mastery” has been changed to: Burst skills deal more damage and cost less.
– “Heightened Focus” has been moved to Grandmaster Trait XII and has been changed to: Gain 5% critical-hit chance for 1 stage of adrenaline, 10% for 2 stages and 15% for 3 stages.

lol so they are moving BP and HF to grandmaster slots? And only improving them by 3% at max adrenaline and no secondary effects?

How phucking lazy are the Devs that work on warriors wow

“We are frustrated with the number of people that ignore their incredibly useless F1 skills so we will now remove any reason for you to want to keep adrenaline.”

Seems kinda silly that adrenaline is now so much a defensive thing for condition removal instead of an offensive thing because keeping it is worth so much less and the skills themselves are pretty awful.

– “Burst Mastery” has been changed to: Burst skills deal more damage and cost less.

^^^I don’t want to get too excited, but this could definitely be a change to set up getting rid of Brawn in favor of CD reduction for our class stat.

They should have left HF and BP numbers the same and combined them as a Grandmaster trait under Strength.

They either need to reduce the burst cd overall or make more traits better depending on adren. Cause at this rate, im going to always have a full bar, that the grandmaster crit and power traits are even moreso critical to have.

From what I can see, it looks like they are nerfing the PvE zerker builds with this. I haven’t seen what changes were brought to other classes yet but I don’t think anything here helps us in PvP much. They take away a lot of DPS but add very little sustainability to make up for it.

Veritas.6071:

– “Burst Mastery” has been changed to: Burst skills deal more damage and cost less.

^^^I don’t want to get too excited, but this could definitely be a change to set up getting rid of Brawn in favor of CD reduction for our class stat.

I was thinking that too. Have to wait until tomorrow…

AlBundy.7851:

lol so they are moving BP and HF to grandmaster slots? And only improving them by 3% at max adrenaline and no secondary effects?

How phucking lazy are the Devs that work on warriors wow

just from that i know you never focused on a warrior, HF gave 9% not 12.
im more then happy about the changes atleast its way better then the older version.

no leg specialist nerf, so we can still have it to land our damage, 100% swiftness on crit hit for 10 sec with 15 sec icd is awesome, you can make up that 5 sec with Sor too. from what i remember, when i cant get to an enemy and can’t get any from enemy to reset either because enemy moving too fast or we get cc. swiftness is awesome, not to mention its 10 point arm trait, which can be used really commonly. yea sure we might lose alot on both hf and bp both being on 30 point, maybe make the bp back to 10 point and keep the hf at 30 would be great. but ill see how constant swiftness will work out.

Exedore.6320:

Veritas.6071:

– “Burst Mastery” has been changed to: Burst skills deal more damage and cost less.

^^^I don’t want to get too excited, but this could definitely be a change to set up getting rid of Brawn in favor of CD reduction for our class stat.

I was thinking that too. Have to wait until tomorrow…

I was thinking that….but then I remembered this was the “big” trait patch. If they were ever going to do that, it should have been now and not later.

oops I made a mistake. Still doesn’t change the fact it’s another lazy stat increase.