Guild Wars 2

It doesn’t freaking work! I put 30 points into Tools trait, no recharge reduction on tool belt.

Playing pvp today messing around with builds and trait for gadgets for fun and I noticed this huge problem. How come this has not been fixed?

it does reduce skill on tool belt…..

I don’t think it shows the reduction on the tooltips, but as soon as you use it you will see that the countdown timer is shorter. I only have 10 points in it and it works for me.

It works, just not properly.

Example is bandage self – with 30 in tools, it should be a 14 second cooldown, instead it’s a 15-16 second cooldown.

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

How come this has not been fixed?

The Devs have a priority order:

1) Nerf grenades
2) Nerf every viable Engineer build
3) Nerf grenades again
4) World peace
5) Solve world hunger
6) Cure cancer
7) Fix Engineer bugs

you forgot

8) hide a grenade nerf inside an awkward turret buff.

Kamahl.3621:

It works, just not properly.

Example is bandage self – with 30 in tools, it should be a 14 second cooldown, instead it’s a 15-16 second cooldown.

I think it is probably working properly. This is my theory:
When says +30% recharge rate it means you can use them 30% more frequently, so the interval between each use (ie. the cooldown) will be 1/1.3 = 76.9% of the original. If something has 20s of cd untraited, it becomes 20/0.769=15.4 seconds.

I don’t think I’ve tested enough to prove it however…

Correct Wukunlin. There is a post about it in the big Bug report thread.