Guild Wars 2

Chill causes every other class to wait 66% longer to use their cooldown skills.

The thief has very little in the way of cooldown skills compared to every other class

Chill should reduce initiative gain on thieves to balance this ability’s effect more between thieves and non-thieves.

You must not know how this already affects thieves. Please do your research before calling for nerfs.

Chill a thief whos spamming heartseeker into you and lol your behind off..

That’s one skill and I’m sure it’s funny, but would it affect Steal or Unload for instance? Or Cluster bomb blast stacking? It’s a question I’ve been asking myself recently but haven’t had the opportunity to test.

I remember seeing a dev message that chill slows ini regen so it does affect the thieves CD although less directly.

Well a thief can still get a full combo rotation off without chill doing anything. It has little affect on a decent thief as they will stealth and move away if the first combo does not kill a target anyway.

It has little affect on a burst glass thief but does slow down a balanced or condition based thief.

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Well a thief can still get a full combo rotation off without chill doing anything. It has little affect on a decent thief as they will stealth and move away if the first combo does not kill a target anyway.

It has little affect on a burst glass thief but does slow down a balanced or condition based thief.

Quite a large effect I would say, barely being able to move will significantly reduce their dps (heartseeker can be strafed away from), and it is much easier to kill them when they are busy being sitting ducks.