Tiered Traits

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ANet has decided to implement tiered traits for the next BWE on 8 June. The first trait slot will allow you to choose from traits 1-6 (6), the second slot 7-10 (4) and the third 11-12 (2).

You can see on this French site what the order of the traits are and their corresponding numbers. Whether this is subject to change before launch remains to be seen.

For those that think this won't affect their PvP builds, think again. As certain traits are only available in the 3rd slot, you will be forced into spending 30 points into the line in order to access them.

Currently, there are a number of traits that are simply useless and offer nothing in the way of synergy imo. Hopefully, these are revised before launch, however after this change I'm extremely dubious this will be the case, as they should have tried this avenue before tiered traits imo.

This has already had a detrimental affect on several builds I had planned for the weekend. While I agree that classes needed to be balanced more, I would have preferred a different method.

Either way, start checking your builds...