Guild Wars 2

This would be just a little buff to banners, but since the trait Powerful Banners currently makes banners deal damage when they’re summoned and nothing else, I thought that it should increase the auto-attack damage and the banner Sprint damage by a little (maybe increase the auto-attack damage by 30%? and the sprint damage by 25%) and also the new Powerful Banners trait would trigger a knock back or a small launch (same for the Plant Standard skill)

Im not suggesting at all that it’ll make banners viable or whatever, but to people who do run banners, it’ll be a little more situational to have that. Thoughts?

idk the solution but powerful banners is pretty underwhelming compared to pretty much anything else you can take instead

powerful banners doesn’t deserve its own trait. They need to either remove the trait or combine it with one of the other banner traits, since there is no advantage to using it over another trait with a banner build.

The only point to buffing it would to enable a banner build to function and it already does function well enough in a existing build. So the trait simply serves little purpose other than to be just there.

If i were going to buff it, it wouldn’t be a damage buff I would not add a damage buff i would add a non existing function like reduces the cast time of casting banners/banners can be cast further away.

It would be nice if Powerful Banners was changed to:

Powerful Banners:
Banners do damage when summoned and when Plant Standard is Used. [Blast Finisher]
Addtionally, picking up your own banners is now instantaneous. (Instead of that annoying 0.5-1 second delay.)

May need to shift it to master level though…