Guild Wars 2

A couple of things I noticed from the beta:

1) You remember the July 7th notes where it was said that chill stacks up to five times? I didn’t see it stack once even in world boss fights.

The first point under balance

2) Robert Gee said something before about chill damage scaling with condition damage. Unfortunately I don’t see any chill damage seeing how chill is so low currently. Luckily that should be changed in the next BW2 so this point is subject to change.

Got a little confused by myself at this 2 things, but i try to answer (english isn’t my native language – so i hope i didn’t confuse you more):

1) It’s not about getting 5 stacks of chill, it’s about 5 stacks of chill duration.

2) the chill damage isn’t a condition like bleeding. the trait says that a chilled enemy gets x damage per second, not that chill deals x damage per tick. this damage scales with condition damage but you will not see it at your screen with an icon like bleeding/burning/poison. but you can see it in your combat log. TBH – i have no clue if the chill damage can be reduced by protection and traits, because it’s no regular condition.

at least that’s my conclusion after the bwe.

Jaya got it pretty much perfect there. Chill only will deal damage if traited, just like Fear. Deathly Chill and Terror both work the same way: both traits deal true damage that scales off your condition damage stat once/second while an opponent is suffering the related condition from you.

I hope it does get a icon to show it’s taking effect, Fear has one and it works the same way as Fear so… =/=

Treise.6958:

I hope it does get a icon to show it’s taking effect, Fear has one and it works the same way as Fear so… =/=

I used this trait alot during the the beta weekend. You could actually see it tick off the other character but it did not have an icon with it. IT did however show as a number ticking per second. So im going to assume at some point it will be updated to show like other conditions.

CodeHavoc.7926:

A couple of things I noticed from the beta:

1) You remember the July 7th notes where it was said that chill stacks up to five times? I didn’t see it stack once even in world boss fights.

The first point under balance

2) [b}Robert Gee said something before about chill damage scaling with condition damage. Unfortunately I don’t see any chill damage seeing how chill is so low currently. Luckily that should be changed in the next BW2 so this point is subject to change.[/b}

Mr Ghee said many many falsehoods about the reaper during his livestream, and ill leave it at that.

Chill damage is PATHETHIC.
using carrian amulet my BASE CHILL damage of 140 went up to 320-340ish. That baloney trait isn’t even worth investing in as the damage is a slap in the face and the fact that CHILL was NERFED before the reaper even came out—- and that again is a slap in the face as that livesteam TOUTED the reaper as being the master of CHILLS…..

punahou.3986:

CodeHavoc.7926:

A couple of things I noticed from the beta:

1) You remember the July 7th notes where it was said that chill stacks up to five times? I didn’t see it stack once even in world boss fights.

The first point under balance

2) [b}Robert Gee said something before about chill damage scaling with condition damage. Unfortunately I don’t see any chill damage seeing how chill is so low currently. Luckily that should be changed in the next BW2 so this point is subject to change.[/b}

Mr Ghee said many many falsehoods about the reaper during his livestream, and ill leave it at that.

Chill damage is PATHETHIC.
using carrian amulet my BASE CHILL damage of 140 went up to 320-340ish. That baloney trait isn’t even worth investing in as the damage is a slap in the face and the fact that CHILL was NERFED before the reaper even came out—- and that again is a slap in the face as that livesteam TOUTED the reaper as being the master of CHILLS…..

Well when he showed the reaper in the stream, the chill numbers were actually much higher then in the bwe. And he even admitted that they overnerfed the chilldurations in the feedback post. And the changes he gave us after the bwe actually look quite good.