Guild Wars 2

1. Ranger
2. Necromancer
3. Elementalist

Holland.9351:

One of the major issues with Longbow is it requiring 50 trait points to grab its traits:
30 in Marksmanship for Piercing Arrows and Eagle Eye
20 in Skirmishing for Quick Draw

The Shortbow has the same problem:
20 in Marksmanship for Piercing Arrows
20 in Skirmishing for Quick Draw

Both Quick Draw and Piercing Arrows only affect the Longbow and the Shortbow. So both the Longbow and the Shortbow need to spend at least 40 trait points to get their relevant traits.

The solution is quite obvious if you see it:

Longbow Mastery (replaces Piercing Arrows – 20 point into Marksmanship)
Longbow arrows pierce and Longbow skills have 20% less cooldown

Shortbow Mastery (replaces Quick Draw – 20 points into Skirmishing)
Shortbow arrows pierce and Shortbow skills have 20% less cooldown

With this both the Shortbow and the Longbow only need 20 points to get piercing arrows and less cooldown on their skills instead of 40. Talk about improving build diversity!

With this change, If you still want to use both Longbow AND Shortbow together and want both to pierce AND have 20% less cooldown, then it’ll cost you 40 points. Which is exactly the same amount as before the change.

Currently the game basically tells you to go dual bow with how the Piercing Arrows and Quick Draw are set up.

Would love to see this change, also please don’t nerf GS by removing the evade.

Dardamaniac.1295:

The Malicious Training doesnt work on every pet..In some pets increases the cond duration in some others it doesnt…
The pets that doesnt increase are
Krytan Drakehound
Marsh Drake
Murellow
Cave Spider(only F2)

Been testing this in the mists a bit, and it doesn’t seem to work on any pets. I didn’t test all pets, but on most of the pets I tested it increased the tooltip duration but not the actual duration. I only tested the duration of f2 skills.

Edit: Did some more testing and it seems the trait at least half works for most pets. The duration bonus is only applied if the pet itself is in combat.

I support account bound ranks too, but as others have said it’s probably not going to happen.

No to stat bonus for me as well.

+1 for toggle option.

This is happening to me too.

Very disappointing news, hope they change their minds and go with account bound.

The only time anet comes to the war section is to delete topics like this.

Warhorn charge: quick breathing trait will not take effect if conditions removed are chilled, crippled, or immobilized.

Same here, running nvidia card.