Guild Wars 2

So, I’ve had this idea of chill procs bouncing around in my head for awhile, how I would love to be able to proc chill on my lb to finish off a fleeing enemy in PvP. Basically, I wanted frost arrows. Since then, I have been messing around with chill, seeing how high I can get the duration, etc. I’ve had some fun with frost trap getting over 3s per chill tick… but I hate the trap trait line. I messed around with scepter ele and glyph of renewal and was able to achieve perma chill (in PvP) but I’m just not that good at scepter ele (had to use scepter because melee perma chill just seems kinda silly). I also found I could get a pretty lengthy 6s or so chill on weapon swap with sigil of hydromancy and sigil of ice… but that wasn’t really what I wanted on a ranger…

Then it dawned on me. Food:
So hear it is:
Runes of the ice
Sigil of ice
Sigil of chilling
6 in marksmanship (duh)
Ghost Pepper Poppers

What that means is that you have +80% chill duration and every sigil of ice proc is a 3.6 second chill. During the night with the Ghost Pepper Poppers you have 40% chance on crit to proc chill for 1s on a 1s icd. With the duration its 1.8s. What ends up happening is once you start shooting someone… they end up chilled for a really long time. Try it out… it’s kind of fun. It’s also kind of not fun because once someone gets shot in the open they instantly become a sitting duck (even more so than normal power ranger makes them).

You could squeeze out a few more seconds with snow owl, which is already a great pet to bring regardless of the build.

Lol, this could almost be a new troll build. If you have another ranger to the party this could be pretty deadly.

I have tried theorycrafting with multiple people namely ZenoOsgorma, jcbroe, ItisFinished about a chill build, it is really great on paper but very hard to work with, but seeing at this is you playing, i believe you can make it work.

1st advice, there is no reason to go 30 in MM. Unless you are building with same trait spread. You can always use givers weapons, which affects all you conditions. Having 2 of those gives you 20% which gives you 4 trait points you can put elsewhere if you wanted.

2nd advice. If you add pets for more chill, you need to trait malicious training because %condi duration modifiers wont work with the pet. So using the normal double canine soft with hard cc is still better imo. Again frees you one more trait choice.

3rd advice. I would use frost trap for more chill and its AOE too, pulses so if you manage to keep them inside, that would net you a lot of chill and one more plus it gives you is it is a combo field too.

So all in all, the question is will you go power or condi. Hope this helps.

There are several people on this forum that use perma chill builds. I believe they use Grenth runes.

I stuck a sigil on my LB when they opened up the 2nd sigil spot and have been pretty happy with it. Not a ton of chill but man do I notice it when it procs.

Fluffball.8307:

There are several people on this forum that use perma chill builds. I believe they use Grenth runes.

I stuck a sigil on my LB when they opened up the 2nd sigil spot and have been pretty happy with it. Not a ton of chill but man do I notice it when it procs.

sigil of?

The one that chills on crit… ice? Sometimes I run with 100% crit chance just to take the guesswork out of when it triggers.

Edit: Oh it triggers on hit now. Shows how long it’s been since I played WvW a lot.

Fluffball.8307:

The one that chills on crit… ice? Sometimes I run with 100% crit chance just to take the guesswork out of when it triggers.

Edit: Oh it triggers on hit now. Shows how long it’s been since I played WvW a lot.

That’s why I asked lol.

Well, I did make a Chill build for StickerHappy, but never linked it to him because it wasn’t that great. I dedicated 100% of my stat setup to nothing but the Chill Condition with a Power setup. It didn’t work that well. I won’t get into my previous setup, but knowing what I know now I would run with this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNUQRAsf3YjEq0yaNL+rQ1aAAhaVA0OHa2Yw9RsDjdBPmA-TFSEABKoE8hnAge6HAw83RK/iZ/BMV/phTCApAgYsF-w

90% Overall Condition Duration
120% Total Chill Duration

You have 4.4 seconds of AOE chill alone from the Hydromancy Sigils and weapon swapping. You could swap out Sharpening Stone for Frost Trap but I think Pet’s F2 + Malicious Training + Winters Bite is all you need.

Edit: In fact, I think I’m going to try this out tonight. It looks like a lot of fun.

ITS: How to kitten off eles.

Let’s be honest, chill kittens off anyone. I mean that kitten is OP and kitten, and it’s actually something Rangers are remarkably good at.

Can’t comment overly ok the OP’s build.. but condi builds focused of chill can be hilarious.

I used something similar while dueling (shortbow, axe+dagger), it was good fun, super trolly, but it didn’t work in group roaming which is more important for me than 1vs1 stuff so I ended up abandoning it :<

Cufufalating.8479:

Let’s be honest, chill kittens off anyone. I mean that kitten is OP and kitten, and it’s actually something Rangers are remarkably good at.

Can’t comment overly ok the OP’s build.. but condi builds focused of chill can be hilarious.

Thieves say hi to chill

StickerHappy.8052:

Cufufalating.8479:

Let’s be honest, chill kittens off anyone. I mean that kitten is OP and kitten, and it’s actually something Rangers are remarkably good at.

Can’t comment overly ok the OP’s build.. but condi builds focused of chill can be hilarious.

Thieves say hi to chill

Just wanted to say I like your name Sticker.

Just because thieves have no CD on weapon skills doesn’t make chill any less effective on them. Making their utilities take that much longer to recharge and slow them down a lot is huge.

I hace said a couple times already how awesome Ghost pepper poppers are on longbow/shortbow. Glad someone else noticed (even if on their own). They don’t have an internal cooldown either as far as I can tell. And if its daytime you get might.

GPP’s have a 1s CD, apparently, but with some condi duration and decent crit chance, it can be (on paper) 100% up time. Pretty nice in the right situation. I’ve been playing with Power/Chill builds for a while and can’t find the sweet spot for dmg , mobility and sustain.

Needs some more condi removal imo… http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNAR8XjMqUva/KOsQ1aAAhadAkAZerag9DkvXwFXdUF-TVyFABJcEAK4iAskSPjUGknSwV2fwMdDGq+DAPAgAAIA38mZz2M4oH9oH9oHtbezbezbezSBwuuK-w

Crapgame.6519:

StickerHappy.8052:

Cufufalating.8479:

Let’s be honest, chill kittens off anyone. I mean that kitten is OP and kitten, and it’s actually something Rangers are remarkably good at.

Can’t comment overly ok the OP’s build.. but condi builds focused of chill can be hilarious.

Thieves say hi to chill

Just wanted to say I like your name Sticker.

Aww thanks.. You made me all warm and fuzzy inside…

@Thread;

I have never though to try chill on a ranger power build, and honestly don’t WvW enough to be able to have a strong opinion, but I have always loved the idea of an effective chill build.

@Chill build discussion;
Yes, as Fluffball mentioned, I personally used to run a chill build in PvP (typical Axe/Dagger Sword/Torch build but with grenth runes and hydromancy/geomancy sigils). However, ever since the update where hydromancy sigils were nerfed on duration and the PvP meta builds started running Hoelbrak runes and 50% duration reduction variants with traits (Warrior, Engi), I really haven’t bothered with it. When celestial was first buffed alongside sigil of Ice, I even ran spirits with an added frost spirit for perma-chill (snow own traited with Malicious Training helped a lot) for lols, but it just hasn’t ever been as good as the old hydromancy sigils let it be.

In both formats though, I’d imagine it’s still amazing at 1v1s and small scale fights against the right build (mostly a PvP comment since WvW has more build variation).

you used to rock a celestial short-bow beast-master build based on similar idea.

something like this

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQJAVRjEq0ya/KesQ1agDhiVA8uKW2r2972CVdBrOA-TFyFABEcIAQZ/B1uCA7pEMS1fmS5nd6CA4BAQKA2FGB-w

We had a discussion on chill builds back in “the old days” :-p

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Chilly-Ranger/first