Guild Wars 2

Is anybody noticing Honorable Staff does not seem to be increasing Boon Duration time when Staff is equipped or is it just me?

Staff skills timers are reduced but boons are not increasing.

I have swapped from staff to hammer and tested my boons, as well as removed staff and re-equipped and tested my boons. No difference.

Anybody else notice this or am I missing something?

It increases boon duration when you equip a staff AND are using the staff. It doesn’t increase your boon duration when you’re using your other weapon set.

The tooltips are bugged. You get the boon duration but the tooltips don’t update.

Kaim.5483:

It increases boon duration when you equip a staff AND are using the staff. It doesn’t increase your boon duration when you’re using your other weapon set.

Understand that.

Fjaeldmark.9043:

The tooltips are bugged. You get the boon duration but the tooltips don’t update.

Hmm, but when I cast a boon it doesn’t cast for the extended time, unless the tooltips are bugged to showed the increased time continuously. But that wouldn’t make sense as I have unequipped the staff as well as changed out the Trait to check my castings.

Not sure in PvP because I don’t use staff on that mode, but it does increases Boon Duration on PvE and WvW, but there’s a tool tip bug and you wont see the added boon duration on your hero stats window.

(p.s 11 months issue already and they did nothing in fixing the tool tip / hero stats window bug on this, oh well they did not fix our mixed up traits and useless utilities after June 2015 patch and other succeeding patches prior to that either)

Versuvious.2568:

Not sure in PvP because I don’t use staff on that mode, but it does increases Boon Duration on PvE and WvW, but there’s a tool tip bug and you wont see the added boon duration on your hero stats window.

(p.s 11 months issue already and they did nothing in fixing the tool tip / hero stats window bug on this, oh well they did not fix our mixed up traits and useless utilities after June 2015 patch and other succeeding patches prior to that either)

Is it a tooltip bug if when I cast my boons the countdown timers when mousing over the boons do not increase when cast with a staff rather than a Hammer in hand?

To me this is a trait that is not working. If I cast Stand your Ground I should be having over 10 seconds of Stability yet I am getting 9 currently. If I cast Might I should be getting 17 seconds on my stacks, yet I am getting 15. This tells me that Honorable Staf is not increasing my boon duration.

Now the time is minimal at the moment but I am gathering and crafting gear to boost Concentration and get boon duration close to 100% but if Honorable Staff isn’t working on the boon duration like it is suppose to then it won’t be quite as worth it.
That’s a 20% cut I will be taking in boon duration.

Now again, the staff recharge is working correctly. The countdown timer and the skill tooltip are adjusting correctly when I add or remove the talent. My Shouts and Concentration Tooltips and timers do not adjust.

This is beyond the Hero Stat window.

It isn’t working. I tested both in combat and out and neither the tool tips the boon icons or the hero stats screen show any effect from this. I thought maybe the boon was lasting longer then the icon shows, so I tried giving myself fury and watched my crit go up in the hero stats screen for exactly the amount of time the fury would last without the 20% from honorable staff. I’m not sure how to test this any further but it seems clear that it isn’t giving any benefit.

Staff is now providing the 20% boon duration again today. It seems like it isn’t as simple as working or not working. There is some other factor I’m missing.