Guild Wars 2

Good Day,

Quick question for anyone who might know.

On a staff necro, the 5th skill is a fear mark.

Does anyone know why, when my fear mark is triggered by an enemy, it only lasts for 1 second, whereas, when I get feared it sometimes up to 20 seconds?

Seems to be fairly imbalanced when I can only fear for 1 second and get feared for up to 20. Most of the time, I’m only feared for maybe 5 seconds, but there is still that imbalance.

Picture you are running around, and grab aggro of 5 mobs. You fear them all, and they soon run back. One of them fears you, and not only are you feared longer than they are, you have mokittengets attacking you. It’s almost as if these time should be reversed.

What on earth is fearing you for twenty seconds?

The 20 second fear is real. It’s an bug whenever two necromancers (and as far as I know can be both on the same side, if on any PvP) close to each other trigger Reaper’s Protection traits (by anyone). That trait would make an AoE fear which bounce several times retriggering Reaper’s Protection multiple times ignoring the cooldown until the fear cap (which is 20s, at least this is my theory). The bug should be fixed but well… we are not famous to have many bug fixed.
The other fear is a Thief using his profession skill Steal on any necromancer. When they do it they have a 3 seconds fear.
Or a Warrior with Fear me (up to 3s according to Wiki), Terrifyng Owl of Ranger’s Pet (2 secs), a Stability corrupted by Corrupt Boon or a fear reflected by Mesmer’s trait Mirror of Anguish.

Why we have the less powerful fear in the game?
Look up our whole forum section.

So thats what happened when I got hit by a 20s fear, kitten bugs

20s Fear bug? hmmm… might be time for necro’s to make their presence felt in tournies with an exploit of their own… <evil cackle>

hackks.3687:

20s Fear bug? hmmm… might be time for necro’s to make their presence felt in tournies with an exploit of their own… <evil cackle>

With an exploit where you fear yourself for 20 seconds?

I’m aware of the bug, but it only works on other necros when you both have the same trait.

well that kind of spoils the fun then doesn’t it…

so much for 20s fearing people off points for an easy cap…

It once happened to me when I was a thief, it got me and my warrior friend and we both walked calmly away from keep and into the wall for 20 seconds.