Guild Wars 2

It activates balanced stance even if you already have stability..

Try it out for yourself, this has been there forever.
made a topic about this a long time ago, thats the biggest reason i DONT use this trait.
(and ofc i still prefer CI)

That’s a terrible reason to not use it. When I learned of the issue, I just adjusted my playstyle accordingly. If you pay attention, you know when it procs, and if you have a general sense of the passing of time, you know when it’s available. Or you could just wait till you’re actually stunned before using the stability on your bar.

And now with the lowered CD, you could probably get away with not putting Balanced on your utility bar anyway. So there’s no conflict.

I’ve never found myself using both last stand and other balanced stance / dolyak signet.

This is why you make use of Last stand BEFORE your utility stabi.

i just use frenzy as a stunbreak, last stand is my pressure stability, not for bursting.

people think they knocked u down and can land a huge burst on you? pop frenzy, gain 5 might and whirlwind their butts.

I don’t use Balanced Stance anymore. Why? because the ICD on the trait is the same as the regular CD. You’re better off with Frenzy, or Shake It Off.

@ choppy

uhm yeah ofc you let last stand proc first before using the utilitie balanced stance..
But it DID happend sometimes that i had popped balanced stance and 8sec later Last stand triggerd (while i still had 2 sec stability left..)

Sure this issnt happening allot, but i find this pretty bad design
Just wanted to share this info with the rest of you ppl.. knowing how this trait work.

So another tip:
this trait WILL proc in berserker mode if you have the stability pulsing trait.. :-)
Good design or bad design? you deside..

nicknamenick.2437:

@ choppy

uhm yeah ofc you let last stand proc first before using the utilitie balanced stance..
But it DID happend sometimes that i had popped balanced stance and 8sec later Last stand triggerd (while i still had 2 sec stability left..)

Sure this issnt happening allot, but i find this pretty bad design
Just wanted to share this info with the rest of you ppl.. knowing how this trait work.

So another tip:
this trait WILL proc in berserker mode if you have the stability pulsing trait.. :-)
Good design or bad design? you deside..

Bad design or not, your original post had you telling people to stay away from a very good trait for an issue that’s almost completely avoidable except in a few rare circumstances and with virtually no effect.

Why no effect? Because Balanced Stance gives you 10s of stability when you have the trait, and even if Last Stand gets procced while Balanced Stance is active, you’re looking at only a few seconds less stability on a 40s cool down. If you’re traiting Last Stand, you almost certainly have double Endure Pain going, so you have two other stun breakers right there. The vigor to stances that LS gives will still stack, as will the swiftness from the two activations of Balanced Stance.

And, as a couple of us have said, with the shorter CD you can easily slot in Frenzy now (another stun break) instead of Balanced Stance, so there’s absolutely no conflict.