Guild Wars 2

I’m running MH sword with Leg Specialist and Bolas. Tonight, I noticed when I landed Bolas and closed with Savage Leap, the Leg Specialist proc reset the Immobilize to 1 second… it didn’t add to the duration like I expected it should. Can someone else give this a test to make sure I’m not crazy? Bug reproduction is easy. Just Bola a target then Savage Leap into it with your Leg Specialist proc ready to go.

No immobilize durations stack. Each one overwrites the previous like a stun.

Edit: You can check this by using throw bolas/pin down.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Immobilize Wiki claims it stacks in duration. Obviously the wiki is not 100% accurate, but it seems counter-intuitive to have a weapon capable of negating large portions of your own CC.

Savage leap you can control, the much bigger issue is your auto attack will break bolas too. It’s like dodge rolls triggering confusion.

Try again and mouse over the condition. Even the in-game tooltip says it stacks in duration.

Well… they haven’t since launch… dunno what to tell you lol

Ya, I’d love to be able to point to a tooltip and say, “Hey look! A bug!”

Been there, done that.
https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/85592/BowBug.JPG

Yea, Anet really needs to get on the tooltip fixing. Guardian’s Zealot Defence still says “blocks projectiles” and it doesn’t proc block-themed traits.

Veritas.6071:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Immobilize Wiki claims it stacks in duration. Obviously the wiki is not 100% accurate, but it seems counter-intuitive to have a weapon capable of negating large portions of your own CC.

The wiki doesn’t claim it stacks in duration. In fact it says the contrary. The part at the top of the page is a direct quote from the game signed “In-game description”. The bug section of the page mentions the effect.

I’m amazed though that you can overwrite a long duration immobilize with a shorter duration one :/

Ah yes, I see that now. I didn’t scroll all the way down. So we know we have some kind of bug haha… I can believe they don’t want immobilize to stack, which is fine, but that makes leg specialist in some situations a self sabotaging trait. The difference isn’t so extreme between Throw Bolas and Pin Down, but when you are dropping a 3-5 second Immobilize down to 1.X seconds, that’s a significant loss. I think a system where, if the remaining duration exceeds the incoming duration, the effect is ignored, and if the incoming duration exceeds the remaining duration, the remaining duration is overwritten, would be much better.

stof.9341:

I’m amazed though that you can overwrite a long duration immobilize with a shorter duration one :/

The same problem makes the gsword might stacking trait counterproductive in organized groups. It also makes any warrior with 5 points in arms completely ruin the bleed dps of others in their party.

Interesting thread. Does this apply to buffs as well? If I have 1200 healing with my regen and it stacks duration (it does actually stack duration) and someone adds 5 seconds of healing but with a healing power of 200. Will my regeneration just have time added at 1200 healing power?

I asked someone and they said it takes the highest, but I’d love a second opinion.