Guild Wars 2

Greetings and a sad hello … again …

Today I was testing the viability of condi Chrono and I noticed something fishy about Duelist’s Discipline.

In this vid you can see that the duration of Duelist’s Discipline is supposed to be 12s. However, the conditions applied never go over 9.9s wich is the duration of Sharper Images.

This means Duelist’s Discipline is actually missing 20% duration as stated in the tooltip.

I’ve also tested plenty of variations with or without food, Signet of Midnight, gear, so it’s not the case that phantasms combined with this trait wouldn’t inherit any condition duration we have. It’s simply the base duration of the trait that is shorter than stated in the tooltip.

Greez!
- Xyonon

Oh man… nice catch. I hope ArenaNet does something about it. Have you submitted it as a bug report?

Inb4 next patch: “The duration of the Duelist’s Discipline trait has been altered to 10 seconds to resemble Sharper Images”.

Assuming that the total damage dealt by a stack of Duelist’s Discipline bleed is still the same, doesn’t shorter duration only mean that the build becomes more burst-y? This is more desirable, yes?

I couldn’t conclude whether my Assumption is true based on your video – you see, I’m not really good at calculating damage

You can’t assume that. Bleeding always deals the same damage, wich is 0.06 * condition damage + 22 (at lv80). So it’s not more bursty, it’s just less damage over a shorter period of time :/