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My problem with the system is that I can’t tweak my character as much. Its harder to see the benefits of secondary attributes and so being able to invest maybe a few points in a trait line to test them out was a boon. Now I automatically have to invest 5 points in a trait line! There is much less character customization in GW2 than there was in GW1 and now there is one less cool thing.
Its bad enough everyone is a DPS machine who has grown up with a big shiny trophy in their bedroom that says “You’re #1!” on it and has never had to struggle or become better through learning. There are no community determined standards of excellence and thus nothing to aspire to. So I made my own goals and pseudo-achievements and now the game is even less fun and fulfilling because now if I make a new character I <ins>HAVE TO</ins> to do these trait quests in order to unlock a trait because I’m not a GW millionaire.
If you absolutely have to make trait quests you could perhaps make the majority of them a part of a character’s personal story quests so they will complete the main storyline and have a mostly complete character by level 80. A character should get more powerful as the game goes on and not only sort of powerful and have to spend a ton of gold, skill points, and time at level 80 to catch up.
It depends on a lot of things. I solo exclusively and so being downed can be stressful but I have this trait ability that creates a Lava Font at my location when I’m downed. So unless its a ranged guy I generally rally before I can start spamming Discharge Lightning. My biggest gripe with downed is that there’s no AoE spell for Eles. Replace the second spell with an AoE that causes Weakness or Chilled and things would be about right.