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Original article can be found here at Guild Wars Insider.
Beliasta’s Effect Stacking Breakdown
By: Beliasta | Mar 28, 2012 | Featured,GW2 News
So I did an effect breakdown, and people were coming up to me in the streets and were all like “So how do effects stack, Beliasta?” Alright, that didn’t actually happen, but here’s what I meant by stacks via Duration and stacks via Intensity.
In Guild Wars 2, you will never see multiple cases of an effect on a character. No matter how many times you set them on fire with a host of different abilities (I’m looking at you longbow Warrior), they will only ever have ONE burning condition. That way the UI doesn’t get cluttered to heck and you don’t need your significant other next to you counting how many poisons you’re suffering.
Okay…you look like you have 5 burns, 3 different regenerations and maybe 19 poisons? What the hell are you fighting?Just because the UI only shows one instance of each effect at a time, that doesn’t mean that’s all there is. There is a lot going on under the hood, which I’m here to breakdown(at least my understanding of it). This also means that if someone removes an effect…it removes all of it.
Stacks by Intensity
As a refresher, these are the effects that stack by intensity(rare and few in-between because of their power likely):
Might, Retaliation
Bleeding, Confusion, Vulnerability
And this is how they stack-: