Guild Wars 2

Sorry if this has been brought up before but I couldn’t find it through Google and the forum search function isn’t working.

Rune of the Forge 2-piece bonus isn’t adding 15% Burning Duration like the tooltip ascribes.

Here is a short video showcasing the fault:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcGuWkX5JTs&feature=youtu.be

As many of you likely know, Conditions round off to the nearest quarter of a second.
@ +48% Burn duration, the base 2 second Burn on Flame Turret should have increased to 3 seconds ((133% + 15%) * 2 seconds = 2.96 seconds).

I test my Burn duration again after increasing it by an additional 5%.
Assuming the Rune bonus is without effect, Flame Turret Burn duration would be (133% + 5%) * 2 seconds = 2.76 seconds, which isn’t enough to produce a third Burning tick.

This means that Rune of the Forge adds at least 5.75% to make it above 2.865 seconds to round it up to 3 seconds, but less than 10.25% to account for falling short of 3 seconds (stacking only with Napalm Specialist).

Thank you.

- The game does not round.
- The tooltips are rounded for displaying purposes (or would you rather see your burn duration as 2.9632257893 seconds ?
- Tooltips are not evidences, but for helping purposes. They are not definite.
- (Assuming there are not other effects present, ) Condition durations are not rounded (up) and they only tick on full seconds, making 2.99998 seconds of bruning ticking twice.

@OP
I don’t know if the burning duration is actually applied or if even the general opinion of additive stacking of condition duration is true. Just, your reasonings are wrong.

Hello Nretep,

Nretep.2564:

- (Assuming there are not other effects present, ) Condition durations are not rounded (up) and they only tick on full seconds, making 2.99998 seconds of bruning ticking twice.

I suggest you test this.

e.g. +30% Condition duration increases a 3 second condition to 4 seconds despite the sum falling short of the 4 second mark (130% * 3 seconds = 3.9).
Damaging Conditions tick 4 times.