Guild Wars 2

Ok, as silly as it may seem, I thought getting 2 second procs from Virtue of Justice passive would be cool. To do this I needed +100% burn duration.

Now, to my understanding condition durations stack multiplicatively.

I have +30% from my traits.
I have 3 different runes – Balefire, Balthazar, and Flame Legion. all give +15%
I have two green Giver’s weapons with major rune of smoldering, 17% each.

Now, multiplicatively I should have: ~270%
If I simply add the durations I still should have over 100%.

Yet, I only get 1 tick of burn from virtue of justice.
WHAT AM I UNDERSTANDING WRONG?

For one thing i think the 2 runes that add 17% dont work that way. I remember some were they said it would be .17 + .085 (half the other value for duplicate sigil) Giving you a chance of 25.5% which is not the 100% needed to get double duration.

Destac.2064:

For one thing i think the 2 runes that add 17% dont work that way. I remember some were they said it would be .17 + .085 (half the other value for duplicate sigil) Giving you a chance of 25.5% which is not the 100% needed to get double duration.

Hm now thats the first I’ve heard of that. Sigh, I dont know if i should fork out the cash to test this on 2 rare giver’s weapons so that I can use the superior sigils. Some people report it to work additively, but:

4x Rune of nightmare, 2x Rune of Lyssa, 20% trait duration and the trait that gives +50% fear duration for necromancers, can cause a 1 second fear to extend to 2 seconds, and additively, thats only 90%.

khefka.2804:

The fear duration is probably only 1.9 seconds then. Burning does damage at the beginning of each second, so you’d have to hit the full 100% +duration to get the second tick. The easiest way to test if you can get the 2 second burn since you already have all the gear is to eat the food that gives +40% condition duration. That should take you over 100%. If that does it, then it is probably the 2 giver’s weapons not stacking fully like Destac says.

Nope, the fear is 2 seconds because of the trait that adds damage/tick to fear, we get 2 ticks from the fear. I’ll give your method a test, though with reference to other similar stacking situations that do work, I’m more inclined to think one of the runes are bugged.

Eat pizzas? Or if they don’t effect burning meat chilli does.

Identical sigil effects don’t stack as far as I know. I’m pretty sure durations stack additively, somebody had posted about this a while ago and had come to the same conclusion.

Silver.8023:

Identical sigil effects don’t stack as far as I know. I’m pretty sure durations stack additively, somebody had posted about this a while ago and had come to the same conclusion.

blahhhhhhhh….

But even so, if you take away one of the 7% from the burn sigil, i’m still 2% over 100% =(. Does giver’s prefix not work now?

Giver’s does boon duration, not condition duration, from what I’ve seen.

The armor gives boon, the weapons give condition

AFAIK, giver’s weapons don’t work currently.

The sigils do stack, but without the giver’s suffix working you are at only 89% with your current setup.

30% traits,
45% runes,
14% sigils.

Try some buff food , that should do the trick for now.

Berengar.6951:

The armor gives boon, the weapons give condition

I wasn’t aware of that! Thanks.