Guild Wars 2

The point of chilling an opponent is to decrease movement spreed and increase skill cooldown time.

Movement piece aside, how does chill affect thieves? Initiative allows them to rapid fire skills with no worry for cool downs, so no effect there. Does it slow down initiative regeneration?

Initiative only affects weapon skills. Chill will affect speed and utilities.

Initiative has it’s own drawbacks, namely that you can’t swap to another weapon set for fresh CDs, as you’re still at the mercy of your ini regen. Assuming you’re chilling at the right time, you’ve robbed them of Shadow Step or Refuge, and getting that Infiltrator’s Strike or CnD to clear Chill could be that much harder.

PsionicDingo.2065:

Initiative only affects weapon skills. Chill will affect speed and utilities.

Initiative has it’s own drawbacks, namely that you can’t swap to another weapon set for fresh CDs, as you’re still at the mercy of your ini regen. Assuming you’re chilling at the right time, you’ve robbed them of Shadow Step or Refuge, and getting that Infiltrator’s Strike or CnD to clear Chill could be that much harder.

Ah. Thank you kindly.

PsionicDingo.2065:

Initiative only affects weapon skills. Chill will affect speed and utilities.

Initiative has it’s own drawbacks, namely that you can’t swap to another weapon set for fresh CDs, as you’re still at the mercy of your ini regen. Assuming you’re chilling at the right time, you’ve robbed them of Shadow Step or Refuge, and getting that Infiltrator’s Strike or CnD to clear Chill could be that much harder.

Truth be told, Infiltrators Strike has such a low initiative cost that it can practically be spammed.