Guild Wars 2

Winter’s bite lasts 3.5 seconds.

Major Rune of grenth x2: 15% frozen duration
Major Rune of Ice x2: 15% frozen duration

Major sigil of chilling: 20% frozen duration
Major sigil of chilling: 20% frozen duration

So I’ve got 4 runes for 30% duration, and sigils on both my weapons for an extra 40%. With 70%, winter’s bite should last just under 6 seconds. However, it doesn’t. I hope it doesn’t have anything to do with the discrepancy between “chilled” & “frozen.”

I sent an in-game bug report about this quite a while back, but I still haven’t seen any updates for it. Hopefully they get it with the next one but I’m not sure. There doesn’t seem to be anyone else reporting this online anywhere, from what I can see. I did, however, see a thread where someone reported that frost trap also cannot be extended.

I’m basically completely wasting my ability to use runes/sigils because of this, it’s pretty disappointing. If this was not meant to be extended this far or the effects aren’t meant to stack, please let us know.

I’ve noticed this too. Also on a related topic, skill tooltips need to be updated to show new stats based on modifiers like this. So if a person has sigils of chilling like this, the tool tip for the skill should show an updated chill duration to let the player know how long the chilled condition will now be.

I have recently tested this. The problem is not the sigil and rune duration, which work correctly, but the initial chill duration of Winter’s Bite.

I’ve tested this with a stop watch and that length is approximately 1.8 seconds. With +100% chill duration, the length is approximately 3.6 seconds.

Please fix this, Anet.