Guild Wars 2

As we’re all familiar with, Chilled has two primary effects:

• Movement speed decreased by 66%
• Skill cooldown increased by 66%

This is a really nice debuff; however the Thief profession feels much less pain due to skills #2, #3, #4 and #5 having no cooldowns.

I think a 66% debuff to initiative regen would be overkill; but is there some non-zero number that would give the condition a more interesting role against Thieves?

This has already been brought up. If i recall, poster responded that dev’s specifically mentioned “Different conditions will have lesser and greater effects by class, for example, thieves do not suffer the cooldown increase portion of the chill effect”… so it is by design.

Trust me, a melee thief will definitely feel the pain of a 66% movement decrease.
Should it affect Initiative recharge? Eh, I don’t know.

Can’t a melee thief teleport to and away from their target with the right abilities? So chill does little to prevent their burst or help you escape them.

Chill annihilates thieves. They absolutely rely on mobility and once you shut that down, they become considerably weaker.

Things like shadowstep and infiltrator’s strike won’t help you when you’re perma chilled.

I think heart strike also moves a lesser distance whilst chilled and their uitil and elite are still effected I believe.

Does Chill affect the CD of Weapon Switching?