June 27: Update traits and skills

[hobinjk]

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/2023-06-27

Not too happy with the big block of herald facet passives, ideas for improvement welcome

• Tempestous Aria:
  10% all damage needs uptime

• Kinetic Accelerators:
  10% -> 13% power to conc conversion in pve only

• Septic Corruption:
  0.5% -> 0.25% in pve only

• Farsighted:
  Increased the minimum damage bonus from 5% to 10% and increased
  the maximum damage bonus from 10% to 15% in PvE only.

• Strider's Strength:
  Gain power, gain additional power when wielding a sword
  120, 120, pet also gains it

• Herald facet buff changes

• Endless Stamina -> Fluid Strikes
  10% strike damage with uptime

• Second Opinion:
  Grants condition damage when equipped and while wielding a cepter
  90, +90, 7% condi convert to healing power

• Warrior's Cunning:
  Reduced the damage increase against high-health foes from 25% to
  7% and the damage increase vs. foes with barrier from 50% to 10%
  in WvW only.

• Blood Reaction:
  Increased the base precision-to-ferocity conversion to 10%. This
  trait now converts 10% of power to condition damage. These bonuses
  are still doubled in berserk mode.

• Bloody Roar:
  25% -> 20% in PvE only

[marcustyphoon]

• Tempestuous Aria: so far condi seems to all be add; I haven't fixed the default for unknown to be add yet but maybe we should just do add and add a note that it's unconfirmed
• Farsighted: looks like a typo, 25 instead of 15? unless this is intentional/I misread
• Strider's Strength: "pet also gains it" wait what's this
• Draconic Echo skill bonuses: are these 5% or 10%?

[hobinjk]

Thanks for the info! Updated Tempestuous Aria accordingly.

Farsighted is a bit confusingly worded. It was 5% always + 10% over threshold previously (for the maximum modifier of 15%), now it's 10% always + 15% over threshold.

Strider's Strength's in-game description (not yet on wiki) is "You and your pet gain power. Gain additional power while wielding a sword. Successfully evading an attack grants might." Funnily enough now that I'm testing this out in game it doesn't appear to actually apply to the pet so...¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Draconic echo is my mistake: skill bonuses are 10% in PvE, 5% in competitive, updated accordingly

[marcustyphoon]

Awesome! Have you tried strider's strength on a merged soulbeast yet? It might be broken in one way but not another. I'll get around to taking a look at some point possibly maybe.

[hobinjk]

Did a quick test just now and it works as expected with the base +120 sword +another 120 and no difference merged vs unmerged

[marcustyphoon]

Ah, anet.