Afaik is tactical strike a 1.5sec daze in pvp (which automatically rounds up to 2sec). So para sig will Not increase it anymore, also Not mesmer runes and Even no 3sec daze with both.
And i think i read it somewhere that sigils/runes that increase daze duration Do Not any longer affect stuns (that was thought as a hambow nerf but Hit s/p much harder). So anet decreased delay between stun and flurry. But im Not 100% sure about this
I don’t believe this is accurate information.
Tactical strike normally inflicts a 2 second daze, but in sPvP I believe the duration is reduced to 1.5 seconds to prevent the daze locking you were talking about.
The durations are also not rounded for partial seconds, or at least they shouldn’t be. A 2 second daze should last precisely 0.5 seconds longer than a 1.5 second daze.
Additionally, anything that increases daze/stun duration will simply increase it. It used to be a case that durations were rounded (at least in regards to stun), but they corrected that a while back.
So if you use 6 runes of the mesmer, tactical strike should result in a 2 second daze (1.5 * 1.33 ~= 2.0). I have not tested this to verify, but I believe this is how it should work.
Keep in mind that in game tooltips can only display durations with a 0.25 second precision (i.e. 1/4s, 1/2s, 3/4s, 1s, 1 1/4s, &c.), although whether or not the game actually rounds the durations to quarter second values is something I don’t know. It may just be that the tooltips only display those values when the actual durations are in fact somewhere in between (i.e. 1/3s or 5/6s).
Similarly, the sigil of paralyzation will increase any stun durations by 15%. As mentioned before, it used to be the case that durations were rounded, which made it possible to get a 4s stun off of a warrior’s skull crack ability. However, they changed it so that the durations were no longer rounded, so it should just apply an additional 15% stun duration now.
As such, pistol whip should stun the target for 0.575 seconds (0.5 * 1.15 = 0.575), so the duration increase should not be very noticeable. It’s still possible that the game may round to a certain number of partial seconds, but we don’t know for sure.
As far as I know, basilisk venom has never been affected by the sigil of paralyzation since it is not a stun in a conventional sense. Sigil of paralyzation should also not have any effects on dazes, fears, &c., although I believe it may have used to before a previous patch.
As for the pistol whip having it’s delay decreased, this was just to clean up the ability. There used to be a very long aftercast delay in between stunning the foe and executing the attack, meaning the thief had to stay stationary longer and the opponent had more time to react or be released from the stun. I don’t believe that change really had anything to do with the sigil of paralyzation fixes back in October. I don’t believe the wiki has been appropriately updated since that time.
So in sPvP, the runes and sigils should still function and are thus not useless, although whether or not they are of any worth is another matter.
