Guild Wars 2

I’m looking at things that increase condition duration. It occurred to me that conditions tick once every second (am I right?).

So if I have something that burns for 4 seconds and I add a 20% duration increase, that would be 4.8 seconds. Sounds like that’s not enough to get to the next full second for a burning tick, so it’s useless.

Do burning and bleeding work on a strict tick system like this, or are they actually continuous, only reporting damage once a second for simplicity?

They work on a tick system. However, it is a bit more complicated than that.

For bleeding, torment, and confusion, the fractional seconds don’t matter. For burning and poison, they do. The reason why is because for burning and poison, they stack in duration. So if you apply two 4.5 second burns, you get a total of 9 seconds of burning and it gets an extra tick.

Then you have immobolize, chilled, crippled, vulnerability, weakness and blind.
Condition duration isn’t just for damage.

Right, I like condition duriation on the ones you mentioned, because obviously, every little additional fraction of a second, it’s still being effective. What I was wondering about, which Arachnid clears up, are things that tick. For bleeding and torment, if the +cond dur isn’t taking me all the way to the next full second, it’s not getting me anything at all.

Thanks for the responses.