Guild Wars 2

Hello fellow Necromancers! I posted this over in the Bugs forum but I figured it would be smart to run this problem by you guys first and see if there is a workaround or something I’m overlooking.

Alright, so here’s the deal: I have a Necromancer who is built for Chilling. I use:

2x Superior Runes of Svanir (+25 Toughness, +20% Frozen Duration)

2x Superior Runes of the Ice (+25 Vitality, +20% Frozen Duration)

2x Superior Runes of Grenth (+25 Condition Damage, +20% Frozen Duration)

along with a Focus and Dagger sometimes, both of which have:

Major Sigil of Chilling (+20% Frozen Duration – is this still applicable btw? I use it for that bug effect and realize that it’s meant to be 5% but the tooltip reports it as 20%…)

So altogether I should have stacked +80% Chill/Frozen Duration. I also have the Chilling Darkness trait. However, none of my Chills are lasting longer than a total of 30% or 40% which leads me to believe that only one of the Rune bonuses is stacking with my offhand Sigil. Spinal Shivers is lasting less than 7s, Well of Darkness Blind pulses are applying Chills that last hardly more than a second, and my Staff Slot 2 skill is applying chills that barely scrape by 5s. I realize that this last skill doesn’t benefit from the Focus Sigil but I should still be seeing at least a 60% improvement, right?

Is there something wrong with my setup or do these runes not stack anymore? I’ve tried removing my gear and reequipping it (as that is a bug I discovered with Boon Runes sometimes not working…) but the durations are the same. Also the tool tips for Chill abilities don’t change either. I imagine that’s a bug as well but who knows.

Should I use different runes or food for Condition Duration bonuses or is there some sort of bug with Chill Runes I’m unaware of that is hurting my build?

My Necromancer runs a 0/20/20/30/0 build with Staff, Wells, and Daggers/Dagger+Focus Offhand btw.

Thanks everyone.

I don’t know about Sigil of Chilling, but the runes worked the last time I tested. When you say the runes “don’t work”, are you basing it off actual skill use or just the tool tip?