Guild Wars 2

Hunter’s Determination and Retaliatory Subconscious both give aegis when you get CCed. If i trait in both of them, do they activate at the same time? If yes, then taking these two kinda makes you weaker than taking anything else, because aegis stacks by duration.

Yes, it’s pointless. The only benefit of taking both is that one has a shorter CD, so after the initial trigger the next time you have like a 5 second window to clear one CC and then another once the second stunbreak is off cool down.

It doesn’t necessarily make you weaker, because RS gives Retal while HD doesn’t, but yes, I think they could be slightly more different.

If I had my way, Retaliatory Subconscious would activate Virtue of Courage. That would internally synergize with Virtues better, and have the potential to be stronger than its current (comparatively) weak state.