Guild Wars 2

First: everyone I’ve mentioned this to tells me “the tooltip is wrong, but the traits themselves are working properly.” But they’re not, and that bit of misinformation seems to be ubiquitous.

I’m talking about two traits in particular: “Illusionist’s Celerity”, the 5 point minor trait in the illusions line, has this text: “Illusion-summoning skills recharge 20% faster”

Then there are several traits that reduce cooldown times for particular weapons. For this example, I’ll use the sword one: “Blade Training: +50 precision while wielding a one-handed sword or spear. Reduces the recharge of sword and spear by 20%”"

I’ll run through several skills:

Illusionary Swordsman: if you take both of the above traits, the cooldown for this skill is 9, as it should be, but the tooltip says 12. This is a minor bug but should still be fixed. However this is mostly working properly.

Illusionary Riposte: if you take either of the above traits OR both of them, either way the tooltip says the cooldown is 12, but it’s actually 15. I tested this earlier today. It’s true whether you use either variant of the skill (the daze “counter blade” or if you actually block something). So this is the opposite of Illusionary Swordsman – neither trait is actually reducing the cooldown.

Illusionary Leap: If you take just one of the two traits, this is working correctly – it says the cooldown is 9.5 seconds and it is. But if you take both, the cooldown doesn’t actually go down – and it should, this is both a sword skill and an illusion-summoning skill.

I go through the skills in detail because it feels like the misconception that these traits are just bugged in the tooltip is stopping them from being actually fixed.

tl;dr: Illusionary Riposte and Illusionary Leap are NOT having their cooldowns properly reduced by traits. This is not just a tooltip problem! Illusionary Swordsman is working properly but the tooltip is wrong.