Guild Wars 2

Under a Guardian’s vengeful trait, it gives +25% retaliation duration according to the description.

I have the boon duration maxed at 30% for that trait.

My current runes that affect boon duration are superior rune of the monk (2) which gives +15%, major rune of the monk (2) which gives +10%.

That gives 55% boon duration in total.

With vengeful, I SHOULD get 55% + 25% = 80% boon duration, meaning “save yourselves!” SHOULD yield 18seconds (+80% of 10 seconds) boon duration. However, when I checked, it gave me 19.5 seconds of retaliation. When I took vengeful off, it gave me 15.5 seconds of retaliation.

19.5s – 15.5s = 4 seconds or 40%.

This means that vengeful is giving NOT giving 25% retaliation duration increase, but rather, 40% retaliation increase.

However, when I took off my boon duration set (-35% boon duration), it gave me 16.25s of retaliation with “save yourselves!”. This is from 30% trait and 25% vengeful.

Math:
10s x 55% = 15.5% retaliation boon duration.

WHERE IS THE 1.25 COMING FROM?!

Anyone else can confirm this problem?

First of … better use Two Runes of Water to get more boon duration and heal power, than two major monk ones.

As for your problem:
10s base duration
+ 55% boon duration
—> 15.5s end duration

+ 25% reta duration
—> 19.375s end duration (19.5s shown)

With only + 30% boon duration, it’d be
10s * (1 + 30%) * (1 + 25%) = 16.25s

Not sure if Rune of water is working, since it is notoriously buggy.

lunyboy.8672:

Not sure if Rune of water is working, since it is notoriously buggy.

It was the 6th effect which suddenly broke at some update. But it’s been fixed for some time now. And they also fixed the ICD to actual 10s.

But I was talking about the first two runes anyways. We now have access to three different runesets with + 15% boon duration at the second piece. No need to use lower graded runes.

Nretep.2564:

First of … better use Two Runes of Water to get more boon duration and heal power, than two major monk ones.

As for your problem:
10s base duration
+ 55% boon duration
—> 15.5s end duration

+ 25% reta duration
—> 19.375s end duration (19.5s shown)

With only + 30% boon duration, it’d be
10s * (1 + 30%) * (1 + 25%) = 16.25s

Oh so the reta duration affects the boon duration AFTER the base rate additions.

I thought it was BEFORE base rate calculations, so it was (10s x 25% +55%) instead of (10s x 55%) x 125%.

Thank you for the explanation.

Hello,

As the problem here has been solved, and as requested by the author, this thread is now closed.

Thank you.