Guild Wars 2

I have switched between 6x soldier runes and our trait Pure of Voice with all our shouts. The only one that seems to remove fear is Hold the Line. None of the other shouts appear work. I thought it was just my lag, but after some testing I am not so sure. Does the fear condition follow different rules?

Fear is a condition, but works differently from the rest.

It works like a stun, so you can’t remove it like normal conditions.
And that’s excluding all the presumed issues with the functionality of Pure of Voice.

Use stun break against fear.

Pure of Voice is very bugged.

Judges Intervention works nicely, and you can get an extra stun break from Virtue of Courage if you trait deep into virtues (Shielded Mind – not worth the points though imho), or remove condition from Virtue of Resolve with Absolute Resolution

From a group support build perspective, switching to Save Yourselves to suck all the fear onto yourself and the clense with Virtue of Resolve or Contemplation of Purity ( works a treat against Jormag for instance )

Hmmmm you should be able to condition cure out of Fear. Supposedly they fixed the Pure of Voice bug, but before-hand Hold the Line was one of the only shouts it worked with (I think).

Hold the Line and Save Yourselves are the shouts that don’t work. Sometimes they remove a condition, but never grant the corresponding boon.

/edit: SY will help against fear but only because it’s a stunbreak.

Pure of Voice is still not fixed since reset (or maybe even longer, haven’t played during beta).

As far as I can tell, in terms of condi removal, fear is more of a crowd control that is removed via stun break. It’s pretty weird, since it is labeled specifically as a “condition”, but instead, behaves like a stun/daze/etc.

Shielded Mind should be a Group Stun Break.

imho

According to wiki, it is, at least for nearby allies.

“Stand Your Ground” will remove fear, and the resulting stability will prevent you from being feared again for 5+ seconds. If you have runes of the soldier, “Stand Your Ground” will remove fear plus one additional condition.

I use it against the dragons to great effect.

DreamOfACure.4382:

Fear is a condition, but works differently from the rest.

It works like a stun, so you can’t remove it like normal conditions.
And that’s excluding all the presumed issues with the functionality of Pure of Voice.

Passive condition removal will remove fear. The guardian trait “Purity” will remove fear if it triggers at the right moment.

While I do use Purity, I also rely on my soldier runes and shouts for on-demand removal.

DreamOfACure.4382:

Fear is a condition, but works differently from the rest.

It works like a stun, so you can’t remove it like normal conditions.
And that’s excluding all the presumed issues with the functionality of Pure of Voice.

Thanks for the inforomation. I am still wondering if Fear is supposed to work this way or is it a bug. Does Fear benefit from condition duration bonus?