There may be those less common situations 20% of the time, probably in 1v1, where an enemy tries to finish you off with only primary attacks AND you're not CC locked, the gem will give you a chance to run away especially if you have a mobility/escape skill.

Even if the gem did help me survive, I'll likely continue to be CC locked then get killed eventually.

This made me realize that 80% of the time, I die because I get CC locked and then get spammed to death by skill attacks by one or more enemies. I did not notice an instance, after a handful of BG matches, where it saved me. From a glance, it seems like no, because I have around 40% beneficial effects duration buffs from items (13% after the nerf) and the duration countdown from the buff icon seems to show 4 seconds exactly.Īs for the effects, I would say that as a PvP only gem, it's not great. However, I will need to do more testing to see if the duration is extended by beneficial effects duration. Did a few BG with a rank 1, 2/5 Spiteful Blood Gem which was gifted from the fractured plane.įirst of all, the 4 second duration does not seem to be nerfed by the strife debuff.

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