Guild Wars 2

Does anyone know if its still possible to extend the duration on tactical strikes daze? I used to play S/D very frequently before they gave the daze duration a 0.5 second nerf, which doesn’t seem like much, but I also heard rumors about them also making the runes of the mesmer (33% daze duration) and the sigil of paralyzation (15% stun duration which also affected daze) not effecting the duration anymore. I tried it out on the armor dummies but seeing a difference is pretty hard for me due to it being over such a short period of time.

Does any1 know for sure if either of these methods work?

I’ve heard rumors that the change to the mesmer runes was reversed…..still think paralyzation won’t, though as it’s a “stun” sigil while mesmer is specifically “daze”

Guild Wars 2 tends to round down for things, if you don’t have condition duration enough to add a full second you get nothing, if you don’t have enough precision to add 1% crit chance its dead stats. I would guess it prolly does a whole lot of nothing.

Adaneshade.2409:

I’ve heard rumors that the change to the mesmer runes was reversed…..still think paralyzation won’t, though as it’s a “stun” sigil while mesmer is specifically “daze”

Well after a short while testing, I can personally see no difference using mesmer runes or the sigil, the sigil I’m not too bothered about (was most likely a bug when it did used to work) but the mesmer rune 33% to me seems bugged and is not applied.

Would be quite helpful to have a dev could perhaps explain the mechanics and whether it does work or not

IIRC before the nerf the sigils etc. were used to extend the duration of daze from 2 seconds to 3. To extend 1.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds would require +66% duration, you need to be a full second or you get nothing.

Loopy Larry.9486:

Adaneshade.2409:

I’ve heard rumors that the change to the mesmer runes was reversed…..still think paralyzation won’t, though as it’s a “stun” sigil while mesmer is specifically “daze”

Well after a short while testing, I can personally see no difference using mesmer runes or the sigil, the sigil I’m not too bothered about (was most likely a bug when it did used to work) but the mesmer rune 33% to me seems bugged and is not applied.

Would be quite helpful to have a dev could perhaps explain the mechanics and whether it does work or not

I asked similar question on guildwars2guru.com last week, few people confirmed that Rune of Mesmer does increase the duration. I am not sure I can post a link here, but if you go to the pvp thief section of the forum, you will find the 2 threads about it…

Jinkuro.5163:

To extend 1.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds would require +66% duration, you need to be a full second or you get nothing.

Are you sure? I was under the impression that control-based boons/conditions ran the full duration even with fractional seconds, while damage-based boons/conditions only took effect on a per-second basis. PW’s stun is 0.5 seconds, for instance, and 3.5 seconds of swiftness will indeed give swiftness for that last half-second.

Tulisin.6945:

Jinkuro.5163:

To extend 1.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds would require +66% duration, you need to be a full second or you get nothing.

Are you sure? I was under the impression that control-based boons/conditions ran the full duration even with fractional seconds, while damage-based boons/conditions only took effect on a per-second basis. PW’s stun is 0.5 seconds, for instance, and 3.5 seconds of swiftness will indeed give swiftness for that last half-second.

Correct. All effects actually last the full duration, but damage only occurs per second tick.