Guild Wars 2

Is Fear affected by condition duration? Stun duration? Nothing apart from specifically fear duration?

I was unable to find any indication of what applies to it.

Thanks!

yertle.5837:

Is Fear affected by condition duration? Stun duration? Nothing apart from specifically fear duration?

I was unable to find any indication of what applies to it.

Thanks!

Nothing. If you want longer fears, trait for it or play a Thief/warrior.

Really?
That’s surprising.
I always thought that it’d gain duration from Condition Duration.

Not that adding a few percents to a 1sec Fear would do much anyway…

In PvP, there’s a runeset (of the Necromancer) that increases fear duration by 20%

There’s a trait in Soul Reaping that increases fear duration by 50%

There’s also the passive duration boosts from spite.

All being said and done though, it’s impossible to get a fear that lasts for 2 seconds.

actually i think u just explained how to get a 2 second fear +30% from spite +20% from the runes then 50% from the trait i think thats +100% duration turning the 1 sec fear into a 2 sec fear

edit: not that is by any means worth it

@ UncannierYames

And that of course depends on if it is additive or multiplicative.

well if your going to that effort i assumed you would also want the fear on down and fear on disable and probably fear does damage and then doesn’t lich form have a fear? but i think at that point you just used all your traits…. and that warriors fear me is still a lot more appealing to me

edit: lich form does not have one

I’ve done the 2 second fear build before.

It’s quite similar to a regular condition build, but with the Fear does Dmg trait (which is condition dmg) you have some nice dmg, as each fear will do 1500 dmg.

And btw you only need 20 in spite + 20% runes (with 50% fear trait) for 2 tics.

UncannierYames.6598:

actually i think u just explained how to get a 2 second fear +30% from spite +20% from the runes then 50% from the trait i think thats +100% duration turning the 1 sec fear into a 2 sec fear

edit: not that is by any means worth it

I know it looks that way, but I tested it in heart of the mists before actually posting.

They don’t stack the way you expect them to.

All being said and done, the fear lasted approx 1.25-50 seconds, exactly like the tooltip indicates. So I don’t know whether the durations are all based off of the initial value, or what.

To the dude above me, I only saw the fear tick once with all duration traits and runes stacked. It doesn’t even show in the combat log.

EDIT: I say 1.25-50 because the skill tooltip doesn’t actually update beyond 1 1/4 seconds. So it could last 1.50 but I don’t have any way of verifying for sure. What I do know though, is that it does not last as long as the weapon sigil that gives a 2 second chill on critical hits, which is why I say that’s it’s shorter than 2 seconds.

Tooltips generally only reflect the condtion duration from your Power trait line. I can assure you 20% + 20% + 50% trait will give you 2 second fears, and 2 tics.