Guild Wars 2

Master of Terror trait – wiki and in-game tooltips say it should increase Fear durations by 50%.

This is the first I’ve used the Trait so I don’t know if my expectations are off, or what. But the trait appears to do nothing for my Fear durations. Without the trait, (standing in Lion’s arch) my Staff #5 tooltip shows a Fear duration of 1 1/4 seconds. I equip the trait and the tooltip does not change.

In WvW last night, I had a combination of Runes, food, 30 spite, and this trait which should have put me well over 100% duration (or AT 100% if it is capped there) for my Fears, yet my tooltip was showing only 1 3/4 sec for Fears. And it was ticking damage only once in combat.

Am I doing something wrong? Anyone else notice this?

Yes I re-spec’d to condition fear build last night… I confirm there’s evidently a problem with Fear duration in WvW as well. I had:

• the +50% Fear Duration trait,
• 30 points into Spite (+30% condi dur),
• 2 Major runes of Lyssa (+7% condi dur) (yes ghetto gear)
• SuperVeggie Pizza (+36% condi dur)

Yet my tooltip for my Staff #5 Fear was showing duration to be 1 3/4 secs. Same for the DS #3 Fear—1 3/4 secs. I only looked at it since I noticed it was ticking damage just one time during fights.