Guild Wars 2

My group has been rushing through VG and Gorseval easily for the past three weeks.

Today we actually quit on Gorseval because we were all struggling to stay alive, because we were all taking so much damage from something called “Haunting Aura”, especially the tempests had no chance at staying alive.

Thing is, I have never noticed this DoT before, I’ve never had problems staying alive.

I’m being hit for ~1400 damage on average 14 times a minute, is this a bug?

I’m pretty sure the haunting aura was there from day 1.

Molch.2078:

I’m pretty sure the haunting aura was there from day 1.

I know he’s always had the aura, but has it always hit this hard? I’ve never had any problems staying alive on Gorseval previously…

I haven’t experienced any change in Gorseval’s behavior or damage, and I run this fight almost daily. My best guess is that for whatever reason your group is now doing poorly with killing the spirits that he consumes that boost his damage. Each one he eats will increase both his personal damage as well as the environment damage (aka “haunting aura”). So check if you guys are actually dealing with the spirits, maybe you have a different comp/teammates and no one is focused on killing them anymore or something.

Dinosaurs.8674:

I haven’t experienced any change in Gorseval’s behavior or damage, and I run this fight almost daily. My best guess is that for whatever reason your group is now doing poorly with killing the spirits that he consumes that boost his damage. Each one he eats will increase both his personal damage as well as the environment damage (aka “haunting aura”). So check if you guys are actually dealing with the spirits, maybe you have a different comp/teammates and no one is focused on killing them anymore or something.

You see the screenshot? That’s taken from the start of the fight, with no orbs or spirits present. I went in and aggroed Gorseval, then ran around until I died. There doesn’t seem to be any mechanic tied to this damage.

I’m pretty convinced that this is a bug, as I’ve heard from others that they didn’t notice any changes this week.

It always hit for that amount.

All the bosses have had a ticking aura since release…

The fact that you only noticed it now is probably an indication that your healer started slacking or something.

Or they sucked at avoiding non-environmental damage and the healer was breaking his back in an attempt to compensate, overhealing and getting stuck in CA while he shouldn’t so he doesn’t have it ready for when he SHOULD heal.
Heh <.<

deSade.9437:

Or they sucked at avoiding non-environmental damage and the healer was breaking his back in an attempt to compensate, overhealing and getting stuck in CA while he shouldn’t so he doesn’t have it ready for when he SHOULD heal.
Heh <.<

Or this. :>