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[Nezix]

Let's say I have an Engineer and I have abilities that puts on:
a 4 second Bleed
a 3 second Bleed
a 2 second Bleed

How does the duration change as I apply more?

Lets say I have the 2 second bleed on someone, and then I add the 4 second bleed.
So now there are 2 stacks (lets assume for simplicities sake they all each stack 1), but what is the duration?

I'm hoping the duration just keeps getting refreshed when a new stack is added, and lasts as long as the longest bleed applied.

Or, it could be that 1 bleed will expire in 2 seconds and the other will in 4 seconds, but I have no way of visually knowing that (except to watch the stack shrink without disappearing in 2 seconds).

Thanks!

[Reticuli]

The first stack will end after two seconds and the second one will end in 4 seconds.

[frags]

Ret is spot on, but keep in mind duration buffs will round up any default duration time.

Example: Thief's Vital Shot = 4s bleed. 20% of 4 = .8 = a 5 sec bleed. Anything .5+ is rounded up.

[Nezix]

frags, on 06 August 2012 - 01:35 AM, said:

Ret is spot on, but keep in mind duration buffs will round up any default duration time.

Example: Thief's Vital Shot = 4s bleed. 20% of 4 = .8 = a 5 sec bleed. Anything .5+ is rounded up.

Are you sure about anything .5+ rounding up? I have been hearing the opposite, that if you get a 2 second poison up to say, 2.9 seconds, it won't tick that extra time.

[frags]

As far as I have heard from a few people on here and my own testing with a few conditions it rounds up on any condition/buff.

[Nezix]

frags, on 06 August 2012 - 01:51 AM, said:

As far as I have heard from a few people on here and my own testing with a few conditions it rounds up on any condition/buff.

Good to know, I looked a little farther and found a few people saying it did and a few saying it didn't. I'll just have to test it myself I guess.

[Ksielvin]

I believe the duration stacking and intensity stacking effects work differently with +duration.

Regarding the original question, the bleed icon will show the longest duration one and yes, for others you only see the stack size decrease when they end.

[Ee O]

http://wiki.guildwar...Effect_stacking

[Nezix]

Ee O, on 06 August 2012 - 01:43 PM, said:

http://wiki.guildwar...Effect_stacking

^^
"It is currently unknown if or how duration is rounded when stacked (or otherwise modified), neither if the remainder value is used as a prorata on the intensity for the last split second."

I've now found 1/2 a dozen sources claiming that they round and that they don't round. I wish I had thought to test this last week.

[addis]

hmm still a little confused