Guild Wars 2

From October 22nd patch:
“Basilisk Venom: This skill’s buff now applies for the appropriate duration of 30 seconds.”

I realize that this is a fix for what the text read on the skill, but I can’t help but feel that Basilisk Venom should have stayed at it’s longer duration of lasting 45 seconds instead of the “corrected” 30 seconds. I’m not sure how many Thieves preferred Basilisk Venom, but the more I use it and the more they change it, I don’t see it being an “Elite” skill. Personally I think the best part of it WAS that with the 45 seconds duration, I could always have Basilisk Venom ready just in case I get caught in a Warrior or Thief burst move, I could steal and interrupt it. I’ll need to wait a bit to do some judging of how it affects my gameplay, so I’ll reserve my final thoughts until later. These are just my initial thoughts, though.

Any comments?

Im not sure if I understood the change correctly but if its as I think, they changed it to last 30 seconds while the skill CD was 45?

If thats the case I think it just means they dont want you to just run around with the venom precharged, and to be a bit more choosy about using it.

They don’t want double stuns (or quadruple stuns, actually) with the Venom Rechange trait to be possible.

Yes, that’s a fair assessment. I need to learn to adapt! Still going to use it though, I love it too much to walk away from it.

More likely, they forgot to change it when they moved all non elite venoms to 30s duration/45s CD.