Guild Wars 2

The Fear aspect of Terror damages break bars. The condition damage aspect does not. Fear duration is the only way to increase the effect on break bars. No other stat’s like power or condition damage come into play.

Yes. Terror does damage based on fearing a target, and while Breakbars mean the target doesn’t actually suffer from Fear, Fear is still applied and breaks the bar slowly over time, meaning any accompanying effects also occur, such as Shivers of Dread and Terror.

These effects would, I think, completely ignore breakbars either one way or the other.

While the target’s breakbar is up, they are not ‘feared’ in the sense of ‘they are running away’; but once the bar is broken, they’re also not ‘feared’, they’re stunned.

Check the Wiki for break bar. DoTs do not affect the bar but control effects do, including soft CC like chill and fear.

Your DoTs are generally not wasted, though, as they do some physical damage. The condition damage on Terror works on the boss’s health, just not on the break bar.

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Zero Solstice.9754:

Yes. Terror does damage based on fearing a target, and while Breakbars mean the target doesn’t actually suffer from Fear, Fear is still applied and breaks the bar slowly over time, meaning any accompanying effects also occur, such as Shivers of Dread and Terror.

Oh ok. So it’s worth it to run deathly chill against enemies with breakbars if I’m a condi build? Just making sure :P

So, yes it’s worth running because it does a lot of damage, however be aware that if anyone overwrites the chill that you put on an enemy, then your chill will no longer do damage.