Guild Wars 2

Hey Last Stand and Defy pain from the defense traits number VIII and XI don’t seem to be working for me. Are they working for you? Am I doing something wrong?

I’ve speced defy pain as well, and have tested it. It does work, but the duration of the boon is so low (about 1 second) that it’s really easy to miss.

To be honest I’m thinking of changing that to something else.

Edit: Just tested last stand as well, and that is working too. The boon lasts 7 seconds for me, but does seem to have an (undocumented) cooldown. Once it fires it won’t fire again for a while.

Defy pain is your anti-burst weapon, practically always available in WvW engagements. Esssentially, it buys you time for an evasive dodge, popping the actual defy pain or swapping weapons and entering shield stance. Same with automated balanced stance, it prevents hard CC if you let your guard slip and didn’t proc the balanced stance skill on time. These two traits combined really make a difference.

It works (defy pain auto activate) but the internal cooldown is long, i’m not quite sure how long it is. I also feel like the duration is a little shorter than normal but i might be paranoid; usually when im low and it triggers, i’m already rolling away and/or mashing my block button to survive.

The last stand auto activate is not very noticeable tbh. Most of the time when your knocked down and it triggers, you won’t get say knocked down again. I stopped using it myself.

last stand and defy pain have a internal cooldown of 90s.
if you use balance stance before last stand is triggered, last stand gets a 90s cooldown, too!! i dont know if this is intended.
maybe same for defy pain and endure pain? i have to test it.