Heavensward class Traits

[Nevaldus]

Thank you so much! I live in the middle of no where so I only have 2 MBps internet, it was taking 5+ minutes to load the page and after 120 seconds my browser would just stop responding and ask me to close it. It took me a bit to figure out what the issue was 'cause I just figured my 10 year old machine was just being cranky.

Not a problem at all

[Darkstride]

No new traits is a disappointment. They have the potential to be just as interesting as (or in some cases, more intetesting than) active abilities.

[Remus]

People keep saying there will be no new traits. Where is the source because I want to see it.

[Marxam]

Im sure some of the traits and skills for current jobs will be reworked. I can't imagine Holmgang being useful in HW with only a 6 second timer, while PLD HG is still op and DRK Living dead is almost 20 seconds. Here's hoping Berserk gets buffed to a 30 second timer lol.

[Niadissa]

My understanding from watching the videos on this, is that they stated "Traits/skills will not be gained by leveling up, only by doing job specific quests" This implies to me that one or more of our quests will also include a trait as well. I could be wrong or reading to much into it. Will try to find the exact video that said that and post it here.

[Greven]

I don't know where I heard/read it but I remember that there are no new traits nor class skills, only job skills learned every 2 levels. I think it was a Live Letter or something similar though..

And well they didn't say they removed the proshell trait, they just said that other healers will get the full protect, it could be done by adding a trait to every healer even if I'd love if they give WHM a trait to fix the MP regen of SoS.

[YISUG]

and i was hoping for a trait to make blood for blood last longer...

[silentwindfr]

a bit sad to not get new passive with 10 level added still.

[Lemuria]

There isn't really much wrong with the current set of abilities, except some few, like Tri-disaster, which they are fixing anyways.

Well, they're not so much fixing it as they are renaming it to Tri-Bind and hoping no one notices. It'll still see the same amount of use (that is to say, none) as post-nerf Blizzard II. The Tri-Disaster mentioned in the live letter will be a brand new post-50 skill.

Not getting any new traits though is a disappointment. At this stage there are several which really should have been considered. At the very least I would have liked to see another aetherflow stack added for Scholar and Summoner. It feels like they've given up on the class at this point and just thrown any old skills on it just to make it look like effort.

[Culfinrandir]

Even though they're not giving us new traits (boo-hiss) they must surely be tweaking those existing skills to ensure they're still relevant and compatible with 3.0. I noticed several posters have mentioned ProShell; this is one trait that will have to be replaced by something new given that ProShell is to be merged with the Protect ability.