Guild Wars 2

1. Honed Axes does not decrease the cooldowns of the offhand axe skills, only the mainhand.

2. Not necessarily a bug, but definitely unintended functionality. Quick Draw does not work with the fifth axe skill Whirling Defense, because the reduced recharge effect procs on the resolution of the skill, and Whirling Defense takes longer to resolve than quick draws window of availability.

3. Light on your feet’s condition duration increase doesn’t work, period, not sure how no one has noticed this. It does not update your stats or the skill facts for your conditions, which made it confusing at first, but my testing shows that all condition durations are true to the skill facts, so it isn’t just failing to update the skill facts with the 10% increase, it is failing to give the increase at all.

Also posting this in the bugs forum, figured people would want to know so they don’t use these traits expecting output they won’t give.

Just tested these in-game.

1. Can confirm that Honed Axes does decrease cooldowns of Off-Hand Axe skills.

2. Previously noted by others. The only way to get Whirling Defense to work with Quick Draw is to cancel it before the Quick Draw buff wears off.

3. Light On Your Feet condition duration increase does work. It does not apply this on skill tooltip descriptions but it works. I used Stalker’s Strike, Rune of Orr, and Sigil of Venom to conduct the duration test.

Edit: Keep typing “Whirling Axes” instead of “Whirling Defense.”

Can you use WD with quickness to get it to work with QD?

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Can you use WD with quickness to get it to work with QD?

Unfortunately, no. I have tried casting Quickening Zephyr both before weapon swapping to an off-hand axe and during but the after-cast of Whirling Defense holds it back from obtaining Quick Draw’s bonus.