Mechanical Genius/history
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This page contains information about a Guild Wars 2 trait that has been updated since its introduction. Some of the information on this page no longer applies to the game as it currently exists. For the current version of this trait, see Mechanical Genius. |
March 19, 2024
- Mechanical Genius: Reduced the recharge penalty for Mech Command skills when far away from the mech from 50% to 20%.
“Mechanical GeniusThrough your mechanical genius, you have utilized Canthan jade technology to build a customized battle mech that will fight at your side.
Your mech inherits a percentage of all of your combat attributes except precision, which is added to its own.
Your tool belt skills are replaced with Mech Commands, customized by your trait choices.
Mech Commands take longer to recharge when using them far away from your mech.
Gain access to signet utility skills.
All Stats Inherited by Mech: 50%
Recharge Increase: 20%
— In-game description
November 28, 2023
- Mechanical Genius: For a short period of time, the effect will remain active even after the mech moves out of range of the engineer.
“Mechanical GeniusThrough your mechanical genius, you have utilized Canthan jade technology to build a customized battle mech that will fight at your side.
Your mech inherits a percentage of all of your combat attributes except precision, which is added to its own.
Your tool belt skills are replaced with Mech Commands, customized by your trait choices.
Mech Commands take longer to recharge when using them far away from your mech.
Gain access to signet utility skills.
— In-game description
June 27, 2023
- Mechanical Genius: This trait has been reworked. Instead of the mech incurring a stat-reduction penalty, command skills now take longer to recharge if activated while the mech is farther than a range of 360 away from the engineer.
“Mechanical GeniusThrough your mechanical genius, you have utilized Canthan jade technology to build a customized battle mech that will fight at your side.
Your mech inherits a percentage of all of your combat attributes except precision, which is added to its own.
Your tool belt skills are replaced with Mech Commands, customized by your trait choices.
Mech Commands take longer to recharge when using them far away from your mech.
Gain access to signet utility skills.
— In-game description
February 14, 2023
- Mechanical Genius: Increased duration of the boon applied by Mechanical Genius from 6 seconds to 10 seconds.
December 13, 2022
- Mechanical Genius: Fixed an issue that caused this trait to provide more precision and ferocity to the mech than intended.
November 29, 2022
- Mechanical Genius: Combat attribute bonuses to the mech are now reduced by 50% if the engineer is more than a range of 360 away from the mech for a certain amount of time.
“Mechanical GeniusThrough your mechanical genius, you have utilized Canthan jade technology to build a customized battle mech that will fight at your side.
Your mech inherits a percentage of all of your combat attributes except precision, which is added to its own.This bonus is reduced if your mech moves too far away from you.
Your tool belt skills are replaced with mech commands, customized by your trait choices.
Gain access to signet utility skills.
Bonuses from Mech Frame traits are also affected by the out-of-range penalty.
— In-game description
March 29, 2022
- Mechanical Genius: Reduced jade mech stat inheritance by 20% for all stats in PvP only.
“Mechanical GeniusThrough your mechanical genius, you have utilized Canthan jade technology to build a customized battle mech that will fight at your side.
Your mech inherits a percentage of all of your combat attributes except precision, which is added to its own.
Your tool belt skills are replaced with mech commands, customized by your trait choices.
Gain access to signet utility skills.
— In-game description
Original version
“Mechanical GeniusThrough your mechanical genius, you have utilized Canthan jade technology to build a customized battle mech that will fight at your side.
Your mech inherits a percentage of all of your combat attributes except precision, which is added to its own.
Your tool belt skills are replaced with mech commands, customized by your trait choices.
Gain access to signet utility skills.
— In-game description
Beta event version: November 30, 2021
- Mechanical Genius was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 4.
“Mechanical GeniusThrough your mechanical genius, you have utilized Canthan jade technology to build a customized battle mech that will fight at your side.
Your mech inherits a percentage of all of your combat attributes except precision, which is added to its own.
Your tool belt skills are replaced with mech commands, customized by your trait choices.
Gain access to signet utility skills.
— In-game description
Beta event version: October 26, 2021
- Mechanical Genius was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 3.
“Mechanical GeniusThrough your mechanical genius, you have utilized Canthan jade technology to build a customized battle mech that will fight at your side.
Your mech inherits a percentage of all of your combat stats, which are added to its own.
Your tool belt skills are replaced with Mech Commands, customized by your trait choices.
Gain access to signet utility skills.
— In-game description
