Hey everyone, first time actually posting to this forum rather than just reading. But earlier today in WvW me and my friend got into a discussion over the sense of running sword for leg specialist in a ZergvZerg environment. he claimed that you could snare 5 people with the cleave all at once with leg specialist every 3 or so seconds with the swords crippling auto attack. After some very thorough testing in both WvW, and PvP, I had some facts to post about that a lot of people have different opinions on.
1: Leg specialist still has an internal cooldown of ~8 seconds (every 9 autoattacks with sword for the cripple.)
2. when hitting 5 enemies with cleave, it will only snare one of the targets, and it will snare the same target each time.
3. switching weapons to apply different cripples does not reset the internal cooldown on Leg Specialist.
4. The tooltip no longer displays internal cooldown on leg specialist (idk if this is for all traits or not, but i thought it was worth noting.)
Conclusion: there are a ton of theories around leg specialist about it being this hit-all snare-all that just isn’t true. Am I an idiot for posting about something that was discussed months ago or is this news to guys as well?
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