Guild Wars 2

I was in CS after a dungeon run and went to kill the champion gladiator before I leave. After dodging out of some little AOE circles, I notice that I’m taking pretty heavy damage… from something I can’t see. Dodged away from him into the open… still can’t see anything happening to me, but I get downed all the same, and killed even as someone runs to me.

So I checked the combat log. It was so useful, I decided to include it here.

Yep… yet more poorly (or non?) telegraphed high damage attacks. I bet if I looked really closely, maybe squinted a bit, and peeled away layers of effects from the target, I’d see some tiny red bubbles from life leeching or something. Maybe it would even look at me funny before I took damage, like a sideways glance or angry glare. That approach should be perfectly functional, right?

He might have had Retaliation.

Balth’s Gladiator is one of the only Champs I refuse to fight.
I’m pretty sure he doesn’t even drop a Coffer :p

Christos de Soufre.3802:

He might have had Retaliation.

That would be a pretty impressive amount of power. Since I stopped attacking in downed state though (all of those are SB #1) and still got finished off with nothing appearing in the combat log, I have doubts.

Also don’t_its damage numbers with their reddish aura thing appear over your character if the damage is incoming? I could be getting that backwards, but either way I usually find retal pretty obvious.

ilr.9675:

Balth’s Gladiator is one of the only Champs I refuse to fight.
I’m pretty sure he doesn’t even drop a Coffer :p

He doesn’t AFAIK, I’m just used to doing the event when it’s up for the hell of it. No great loss ignoring it now, but the cheap junk they seem to think of as ‘challenge’ when messing with events in Orr gets bloody tedious.

Yeah, I wasn’t sure if he did or not. I just know that some people miss it sometimes. Retal hurts when it’s tacked onto Champions and Legenadries.

some mobs use 10 skills in a burst damage which instantly kills you. this is worse.