Guild Wars 2

The Mesmer trait Malicious Sorcery (20% increased attack speed/20% CDR on Scepter) and the Warrior trait Dual Wielding (15% increased attack speed with axe/mace/sword OH) both have some interesting interactions in SPvP that i’m not sure are intentional.

With either of these traits equipped and the corresponding weapon set equipped the following actions are 20%/15% faster.

-Reviving allies
-Stomping downed foes
-Capturing interactable objectives, such as Stillness on Temple or Mist Champions on Stronghold

I spent over an hour today testing and confirming the interactions. I realize these traits aren’t used very often, but nowhere in the tooltip for these traits does it say that it influences the speeds of the actions listed above. Not sure if this interaction is intentional, or if it’s a tooltip error.

Link of aforementioned traits:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dual_Wielding
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Malicious_Sorcery

Thanks for your time.

I’ve seen people talk about the dual wielding before, but not on mesmer.

This is actually very interesting, because I’ve recently noticed that on my Mesmer, she’s gathering mats faster than my other characters. I wasn’t able to pin down what was the cause, but this post has made me think it might be linked to Malicious Sorcery. Tomorrow when I harvest my HI stuff I’ll deactivate the trait and see if it makes any difference.

I thought it was fixed on malicious sorcery some months back when they first introduced the changes to that trait?

Zaxares.5419:

This is actually very interesting, because I’ve recently noticed that on my Mesmer, she’s gathering mats faster than my other characters.

Was able to test this today on both my Mesmer and Warrior with and without the traits equipped. I can say with certainty these traits also influence gathering speeds in PvE.

Hindu.4602:

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With either of these traits equipped and the corresponding weapon set equipped the following actions are 20%/15% faster.

-Reviving allies
-Stomping downed foes
-Capturing interactable objectives, such as Stillness on Temple or Mist Champions on Stronghold

I spent over an hour today testing and confirming the interactions. I realize these traits aren’t used very often, but nowhere in the tooltip for these traits does it say that it influences the speeds of the actions listed above. Not sure if this interaction is intentional, or if it’s a tooltip error.

Link of aforementioned traits:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dual_Wielding
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Malicious_Sorcery

Confirmed; I’ve seen it happen and it’s currently being exploited by Mesmers who know about it.
(Edit: it might be a minor annoyance / edge in PvE/gathering, but in SPvP it’s causing the equivalent of quickness stomps and I thought those were done away with for a reason…?)

Either the tooltip is wrong and needs to be updated (in which case the trait is OP as kitten and needs to be scaled back anyway) or it is not working as intended.