Guild Wars 2

Sometimes when I look at certain trait I go “man would I love to have that,” here’s some of my top choices. Please note that these changes focus on PvP, not WvW or PvE.

Evasive Purity: This Ranger trait removes poison and blind when you dodge. I have this first because it is the trait I most want as a warrior. The most important part of this one is the blind removal, because post patch I can’t find a good reason to put points into strength so that I can cleanse blind with a dodge roll. Even with that minor trait it often doesn’t remove blinds often enough. Now I don’t want a carbon copy of this skill so it would need to be made more for warrior, perhaps remove blind and gain adrenaline when dodging would fit the class.

Purity: This Guardian skill removes simply removes a condition every 10 seconds. Cleansing Ire is probably intended to be the warrior version of this skill but because of the current meta it still isn’t enough to stop conditions from overwhelming us. Perhaps rather than just removing a condition it could reduce certain conditions duration like bleed and poison by 33% similar to dogged march. Of course the problem is with Mel runes and Lemon Grass I’m sure some people would consider this OP in WvW. In anticipation of that perhaps it should be placed in the Masters slot of Tactics or be made the minor grandmaster trait so that to get the effects from both you would need heavy investment in both defense and tactics. With a Hammer and Mace/Shield it might actually make Warrior bunker a possibility, sitting on point with a banner providing regen. Its killing power would be low as a result making it similar to a mid point Guardian Bunker.

Static Discharge: Calm down, I know Warriors don’t have tool kits. The idea behind this trait is giving a bonus for using your class mechanic. I’d would like to see some sort of offensive bonus effect when I use my Burst skills in order to discourage sitting on the adrenaline. What kind of bonus I’m not sure yet, I’ll keep thinking about it.

As a side note, having mending be similar to Consume conditions where you get extra healing for each condition removed would be amazing.

I’ll update this later, just got off a midnight and I have to get some sleep.

To be fair, if we got “dodge rolls are guaranteed to remove blind” then cleansing ire would actually function properly, so we wouldn’t need something like Purity other than variety.

Definitely agreed on the encouraging us to use our profession mechanic though, there needs to be more traits like Cleansing Ire and Building Momentum.

I don’t play my warrior anymore but I think this trait would be extremely useful:

Stop Drop and Roll
Dodge rolling removes burning and chilled. (Cooldown: 10 seconds)

Changed to:

Dodge rolling removes crippled and chilled. (Cooldown: 10 seconds)

=> Warriors aren’t as vulnerable to kiting anymore. Simply dodge and you’re able to move properly again.

=> Hit your opponent

=> Sustain traits are better since you hit the opponent more often

As to the Static Discharge benefit, I propose gaining the Quickness boon upon using an adrenal skill. Depending how many levels of adrenaline you’ve built up gives you more Quickness. This way the warrior can act like a someone drunk on bloodlust, they’re fighting and fighting, use the adrenaline skill and quickly follow up with a burst of attacks

I would simply just like more short blocks (similar to Aegis) that make the warrior play style more skilled, in the sense that if you block at the right time then you gain a big advantage.

BurrTheKing.8571:

Evasive Purity: This Ranger trait removes poison and blind when you dodge. I have this first because it is the trait I most want as a warrior. The most important part of this one is the blind removal, because post patch I can’t find a good reason to put points into strength so that I can cleanse blind with a dodge roll. Even with that minor trait it often doesn’t remove blinds often enough. Now I don’t want a carbon copy of this skill so it would need to be made more for warrior, perhaps remove blind and gain adrenaline when dodging would fit the class.

You can have it, it hasn’t worked since it was dropped a tier.

Gregorius.1024:

As to the Static Discharge benefit, I propose gaining the Quickness boon upon using an adrenal skill. Depending how many levels of adrenaline you’ve built up gives you more Quickness. This way the warrior can act like a someone drunk on bloodlust, they’re fighting and fighting, use the adrenaline skill and quickly follow up with a burst of attacks

That would probably prove overpowered.

Think Earthshaker, Skull Crack or Flurry. Skull Crack/Flurry>100B/Final Thrust.

Heck, it would result in a ridiculous boost in PvE for Axe. Eviscerate>Auto-attack.

Gregorius.1024:

As to the Static Discharge benefit, I propose gaining the Quickness boon upon using an adrenal skill. Depending how many levels of adrenaline you’ve built up gives you more Quickness. This way the warrior can act like a someone drunk on bloodlust, they’re fighting and fighting, use the adrenaline skill and quickly follow up with a burst of attacks

i actually like this idea alot since warriors are suppose to be YOLO kind of dpser, just chop and mince everything up while be able to heal and back off(not asking for op sustain though)

There should be a trait (adept or master) that removes blind and torment when dodging on a 25~ sec cooldown, purity in unnecessary. And an arms master trait that yields 7-10 seconds or so of fury upon using a burst skill on a 20 secs cooldown.

Vigorous Precision/Critical Infusion minor traits make me drool.

Written in stone.

Solo.9027:

Written in stone.

That’s certainly a good one, maybe replace it with Deep Strike because that trait isn’t seeing much use anymore.