Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone,

so I was just wondering what you guys would think about the idea to make the elite-skill “Head Butt” a Rage/Physical skill to be able to use it in combination with the “Peak Performance” trait in the strength trait-line.

Do you think it would be to OP then? Or it would actually help the warrior to get into a high-level competition level again, using this barely ever used trait except when you maybe play with "Rampage"or “Bulls Charge”.

In my opinion all the Rage skills could actually also be Physical skills since they pretty much behave like the current physical skills we currently have as warriors, so it would kind of make sense to be able to use them with the “Peak Performance” trait.

Maybe just remove the 20% cooldown reduction for Physical skills from the trait, otherwise you could really insta spam “Head Butt” all the time.

There’s already a trait for Rage skills, and Head Butt is already a Rage Skill. Also, even if Head Butt were a Physical skill, it wouldn’t really make sense to use it with the current iteration of Peak Performance, because the latter gives additional damage based on adrenaline level whereas Head Butt fills adrenaline upon hitting (and thus you wouldn’t want to use it when you’re already full adrenaline).

The other part of the trait, 20% reduced cooldown, probably shouldn’t apply to Head Butt either considering that ArenaNet already nerfed the skill’s cooldown from 20 to 25 seconds in PvP. Although I understand wanting to maintain thematic consistency, when the entirety of a trait isn’t suitable for a skill it’s probably best not to alter it. I’d rather they didn’t nerf Peak Performance’s cooldown reduction since it’s the only thing keeping some of the comparatively weak Physical skills (aforementioned Bull’s Charge, Rampage, etc.) semi-useful.