Guild Wars 2

Hello,

the warriors stenght traits need to be changed. Currently the “Tier 1-Traits” you can choose are all useless if you play the warrior like it should be played.

Option 1: “Death from above” – Just usefull if you fall down a cliff. -> Usefull for JPs, not needed in PvE and WvW for 99,9% of time.

Option 2: “Restorvative Stenght” – “Using a healing skill deals might” – Nice skill, unfortunately nearly every warrior (in WvW and PvP) runs the healing signet which is not meant to be activated for most of the time, so this skill is also useless.

Option 3: “Peak Performance” – Physical Attacks deal more damage. Only usefull if you use rampage. Since rampage is OP atm no decent warrior would pick it in WvW.

I agree with this. Our current adept or tier 1 traits for strength are all incredibly situational, first one for jps, second for stacking night in pve perhaps, and third for wvw and spvp rampage and bulls charge. The problem with the line is that the master and grandmaster lines are too good to miss out on, forcing us to use a sub-par adept trait.

Speaking from a wvw perspective, I rather not take bulls charge since it seems to miss 90% of the time by overshooting and whatever other bugs you ca think of; and rampage is pretty strong especially in team fights with the cleave it provides, but I prefer sor in solo roaming. But in order to make full use of my traits, I would usually end up having to slot one of the two skills.

In general the adept traits just feel like some dev just threw all the leftover traits they couldn’t find a place for in here. Perhaps restorative strength could be swapped with empowered (if I remember correctly it’s the trait in tactics that grants 1% more damage for each boon on you).

Not to take away from the post, but don’t discount Death from Above in Wvw too much. Beyond trolling people to follow you over cliffs they probably shouldn’t, you can jump from the top of gates onto siegers for all sorts of hilarity and jump on them from cliffs too.

I once heard in Ts of someone that was stalking a newer player on our server, I went to the cliff above them where this was happening, DfA’d them into the base of the cliff, stun locked them with a hammer before they could recover, then 100b, whirlwind, and AS ftw.

Setting those things up isn’t as hard as you might think, bit I understand if people don’t want the trait.