Guild Wars 2

Galsia.4102:

Belzebu.3912:

Just to complement, interrupt also barely affect thieves, since the skill have no cooldown and the initiative isn’t used if interrupted, so they can recast immediately.

Not necessarily true. Thieves just don’t happen to have a whole lot of long channeled skills that are easily interrupted, and the ones that do have evade frames added to them; Pistolwhip/Disabling Shot.

For example, say you’re fighting a D/P Thief. He’s dropped his Black Powder and is next going to Heartseeker to combo stealth. The stealth combo won’t take effect until they’ve finished the leap. If you interrupt after they’ve started the Heartseeker channel you’ll have cause them to waste 9 initiative.

It all comes down to reflexes. Will you be able to cast your interrupting skill fast enough before he goes to stealth ? Do you have lots of interrupting skills ? how fast do your interrupting skill recharge ? 30 secs cool down to interrupt that combo isn’t really worth it for me.

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t affect thief weapon skills or evade on use skills. You can chill them as much as you like. It will only affect their movement speed and utilities that are already on cool down.

That’s interesting. No wonder my necromancer chill build is useless against thief. Thank you.

i don’t play thief so i don’t know if chilled affects initiative regen but from the gw2 wiki it only affects “Movement speed decreased by 66%; skill cooldown increased by 66%; stacks duration”. Can anyone clarify this ?