Guild Wars 2

45 seconds of cripple with trait from pet alone, is this ok?

Considering perma-cripple is really easy to obtain as a Ranger anyway, I’d say it’s fine.

I’d be less concerned about a long cripple on a 4s cast with a 30s cooldown and more worried about the constant cripple from an Eagle / Hawk on a 0.5s cast with a 6s cooldown … that also puts 2 stacks of a decent length bleed on you.

But hey, we’re paying 4 trait points to cripple. Warriors bloody love it since it means we’re just giving them regen and they largely don’t care due to -cond duration from trait and/or runes … food as well if in WvW.

The trait effect is supposed to occur once per target hitten when skill used. Do you tried it before flaming this forum?

Dadnir – its been working this way since forever.

It activates once per F2, not per attack.

So spiders, depending on # venom uses could get from 1 to 3 applications of cripple. Devourers can get even more then that. HOWEVER, devourers are horrible pets, their F2 is weak and does little damage. There is 3-4 pets which fully utilizes this trait. Its the chill and AOE effect pets. That would be snow leopard, owl, krytan drakehound, alpine wolf, black bear, polar bear…. these pets are truly strong with that trait, because they apply 2x CC rather then just 1x cripple. Meaning an owl will give you maximum negative movement (i think the cap for max negative movement is -75 to -80%, Cripple + chill seem to slightly stack, but not all the way up to -116% as one may think)

Prysin.8542:

Dadnir – its been working this way since forever.

It activates once per F2, not per attack.

So spiders, depending on # venom uses could get from 1 to 3 applications of cripple. Devourers can get even more then that. HOWEVER, devourers are horrible pets, their F2 is weak and does little damage. There is 3-4 pets which fully utilizes this trait. Its the chill and AOE effect pets. That would be snow leopard, owl, krytan drakehound, alpine wolf, black bear, polar bear…. these pets are truly strong with that trait, because they apply 2x CC rather then just 1x cripple. Meaning an owl will give you maximum negative movement (i think the cap for max negative movement is -75 to -80%, Cripple + chill seem to slightly stack, but not all the way up to -116% as one may think)

Cripple’s effect is completely overridden by Chill. For both speed bonuses and speed penalties, only the highest applies.