Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone, having some hard time against bunker eles i run into the “chill them!” approach. But there’s one thing i don’t know about chilled and need verified.

When a person is chilled their skill cooldown goes up by 66%. But how does that work?
If a chilled character uses a skill that has 10 seconds cooldown, then cleanses the chilling off after one second, will he still have to wait 15.66 more seconds for next cast?

Or will it only affect the first second of cooldown when chill was actually applied and after cleansing it’ll be 9.66 seconds more?

Chill only affects CDs while it’s active, so for every 1 second of Chilled, the CD takes an extra 2 secs to tick. It doesn’t just directly change the numbers like your first question implies. Also, note that it is very strong against mobility too. Chilled+a bit of ‘AoE bait’ is a great way to force dodges to setup for a burst. Chilled will also slow down the Ele’s attunement recharges. Try to survive one ‘rotation’ until they leave water, then hit them with it and cover it asap. A DD Ele would probably rather have to deal with any other condition (or even a couple) in the game besides Chilled. It’s a huge pita for them. Access to it isn’t super common though so use it wisely. Hope this helps.