Guild Wars 2

It seems that after the latest patch, all damage numbers on a dragon are located in the same place even if the dragon is hit at several locations. Can anyone else confirm that this is the case?

It has created a sort of luxury problem or minor inconvenience for me, nothing big really. I play ranger and use piercing arrows to shoot through several hit locations in order to boost my damage against dragons. On claw of jormag I have managed to find a position where I can hit both arms and the head with the same shot. Now, the way I had of spotting if I was in that sweet spot before was by looking at the damage numbers. Now when they’re all jumbled together (and not even in a spot that you’d intuitively look at while fighting the dragon) I have a harder time knowing which locations I’m actually hitting.

As I said, this is a luxury issue. You could even argue that I shouldn’t have been doing this in the first place (although to me it is something that makes rangers rather good in dragon fights, one of the class’ few perks imo). But even when focusing on only one location, due to the lag and weird positioning of the floaty numbers, it’s a bit difficult to tell if I’m even hitting anything at all. I just don’t see the point of making damage indication less clear that it was before.

So, anyone else noticing this?

It’s a bug, since it’s happening to most world bosses as well.

It doesn’t look like a bug, it looks like an intentional change. The damage of multi hit attacks is summed now, rather than showing separate numbers for the hands and head.

For example, on the claw of jormag, using a fiery great sword, I used to see it doing ~6k damage per attack on both claws and the head. Now it does ~20k damage per attack in the middle.

On the second stage though, it is bugged, since I see nothing.

I’ve noticed this as well and it’s rather frustrating actually. Especially with the wonky hitboxes of some mobs when you’re a melee class. Tequatl for example now has the damage numbers show off to the rear left of him, in the water it seems, where a claw is. I thought the pre-patch way damage was displayed was much more convenient and less irritating when melee.

I don’t think the hidden damage numbers on the last phase of Claw of Jormag is intentional.