Guild Wars 2

Howdy,

After much hesitation and theorycrafting, I’ve dipped into sPvP with a build I would enjoy. After a couple of rounds, I decided to mix up my runes on my armor pieces, only to see that they were not having the effect listed on the rune sets.

To test it, I used a thief with a main-hand pistol. The main autoattack has a weak 4 second bleed at base.

Two pieces of the “Afflicted” armor rune set have the description of “+15% Bleed Duration”, yet the autoattack still remains at a 4 second bleed. The same happens with two pieces of the “Lyssa” armor rune set (10% all condition duration) and the “Krait” armor rune set (15% bleed duration). None of these 2-piece duration set bonuses are being applied.

While the duration portion is not being applied, the 1-piece stat bonuses on these rune pieces (+condition damage or +precision) are being applied appropriately.

This extends past the main hand pistol autoattack to all of the thief condition skills. No durations seem to be extended on any bleed skills (Caltrops/Dagger Storm), and the Lyssa set does not seem to apply the bonuses to the other types of conditions either. This is odd, as the “Agony” weapon runes (+10% Bleed Duration) do appropriately change the tooltip on all bleed conditions by an increased 10% each (for example, two agony runes on weapons yields a 4 and 3/4 second bleed on pistol autoattack).

I am not sure whether this is specific to the thief class or whether it is a problem with the runes themselves. I am also not sure as to whether this is exclusive to PvP or whether it affects PvE as well. I’ll do some testing with other classes and post as I find out.

Thanks for your time.
Best wishes.

[EDIT] After testing on the dummies, the runes are functioning properly. The problem seems to be the tooltips not updating properly.

did you ACTUALLY test it, or just look at the tooltips, and assume those accurently reflect it?, casue it works fine on my thief with 2 afflicted, DB still says 11sec but the actually bleeding last 12 sec (15 on 11 sec is 12.65 but it only shows whole seconds thus 12sec)

GummiBear.2756:

did you ACTUALLY test it, or just look at the tooltips, and assume those accurently reflect it?, casue it works fine on my thief with 2 afflicted, DB still says 11sec but the actually bleeding last 12 sec (15 on 11 sec is 12.65 but it only shows whole seconds thus 12sec)

I did the latter, assuming the tooltip accurately reflected what the skill did. I’ll go in and test them a bit when I find some more time.

The game is not very consistent about updating tooltips. For example, the engineer trait which says +10% explosion damage does not increase the damage of grenades in the tooltip. However, the increased range for rifle is reflected in the rifle skill tooltips (1000 → 1200). This is an area that could certainly use some improvement.