Guild Wars 2

I just upgraded to 2 Superior Runes of the Earth(+20% Protection duration), these do not increase the Protection duration of “Hold the Line” or “Symbol of Protection” .

Major Runes of Dwayna (+15% Regeneration Duration) do NOT work either.

Superior Rune of the Water(+15% Boon duration) works fine.

Seems to be a problem with specific duration increase.
I assume this rune worked before the latest patch?

Best regards,

EDIT: Tested it with +20% Boon duration Bufffood with and without Superior Rune of Earth . Yep it is a tooltip bug, the actual durations are fine!

Thanks Kruunch!
and thank you Turtle for the long answer and the testing

The best way to try out if a specific Boon duration(such as +20% Might Duration) works without a stopwatch is using “Save Yourselves”. It grants you every boon for 10seconds.

Tested:
If you have 2 superior runes of earth (at 0 virtues and no other +boon duration)
your skillbar STILL says 10seconds on the tooltip
but when you actually use Save Yourselves, protection lingers a bit longer(2s) than the rest of the boons(which means it works as intended).
However, if you are using 2 superior runes of water, your tooltip itself will show an increase in every boon to 11.5 seconds on Save Yourselves.

Are you sure about this? How did you test this exactly? In any case, this thread would be better suited for the bug report forum.

Check to make sure that it isn’t just a display bug. That would be a bit harder to do with Protection, but you should notice it with Regeneration.

Karez.1375:

EDIT: Tested it with +20% Boon duration Bufffood with and without Superior Rune of Earth . Yep it is a tooltip bug, the actual durations are fine!

Thanks Kruunch!

My pleasure. I noticed that there have been a number of tool tip inconsistencies that way to date. Tends to happen in all early MMOs where traits/specs effect base skills/effects’ CDs.