Various questions about AA and stacking

[Zebsen]

<div>A few unrelated questions here. </div><div> </div><div>I have the AAs chronomotion and chronology and they are listed as passive abilities.  It doesn't mention needing to have the off-hand empty in the description of the AA ability (although other abilities like chronosiphoning specifically state it).  The post in the forums say that the off hand must be empty for abilities 2-5 to work.  So, which is it?  The easiest way to tell would probably be for me to unequip my offhand item and see if my defense goes up or down (see if chronology turns off and on).  I've been assuming these abilities have already been working and haven't tried unequipping my offhand item.</div><div> </div><div>On another topic, I was raiding last night with 2 other illusionists.  We were talking about our extensive line of debuffs - both of them - and were curious as to whether or not the effects stacked?  We noted that if one of us had tribulation up, the others also were showing that their spell was up.  There is no easy way to tell if this is really working though.  Mine was master 1, so I thought mine might overwrite the other illusionist ones.  Does anyone have any experiences here?  Hex dolls would be a similiar question.</div><div> </div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Zebsen</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div>

[Barobra]

<div></div>My understanding was that only the second ability had some sort of restriction with equipment.

[Manyak]

<div>1 - I believe skills 2 & 5 need an empty offhand, but not skills 3 & 4.</div><div>2 - If 2 or more people have the same debuff up, only the highest quiality one is really in effect. So if u have tribulation master and the others only have adept 3, then only u need to be casting it. Hex dolls don't work like this though. If u have a hex doll casted, and some1 casts the same hex doll, it completely cancels urs and becomes the other person's buff.</div>