Guild Wars 2

Chilling is completely random. Sometimes it will chill sometimes it is as if it has no sigil whatsoever.

This has nothing to do with its extremely long (IMHO) cool down, it just does not work anymore. I can have my swap weapon put away for an hour and switch and….nothing.

Hour long or more cool down? I don’t think so. I call bug.

Freeze nearby foes for 3 seconds when you swap to this weapon while in combat.
(Cooldown: 9 seconds)

This is not a bug, just logic!
You must start the attack with the weapon with secrecy, change and return the gun again, the effect happens!

I too am having this problem, sometimes it works sometimes it does not, there seems to be no specific reasoning for when it does not work compared to when it does work. I have tested getting hit first, doing it while striking, etc, etc but sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. This is definately a bug, please fix as originally asked. And the cooldown rate should have no impact as switching weapons takes just as long more or less and this problem will happen with the first switch anyways.

right, i figured it out, if ANY other sigil has activated on any other weapon, you must wait until THAT sigil has run out its timer before switching will grant the effect. Is this a bug or normal?