Guild Wars 2

If you go to the raid test golem, and give yourself the vampiric aura buff via the console, then begin attacking the golem, you will not actually do any extra damage via the buff.

Just to point it out, during this year of necro’s buff being broken, pin point distribution was added to the golem, and actually works.

I’ve tried reporting this bug, but considering we are probably getting the last patch for a long time next week. I wanted to try to raise awareness and push for a fix, as I literally have never seen vampiric aura working at the test golem, and so it has been broken at least a year at this point as best I can remember.

Curious behavior: If you go into the testing area as a necro, turn on the actual trait via blood magic, enter combat, turn the trait off, give yourself the trait via the console, and then enter combat with the golem, it will be fixed.

ps: Its not related to raids/dung/fractals but reporting a bug crashes the game.

I’m not surprised this doesn’t work, since the damage and healing values scale with the power and healing power of the Necromancer, and it’s likely that the source of the buff in the raid training arena doesn’t even have those stats. This also likely explains the curious behavior you pointed out.

Oh that’s interesting. I didn’t know it scaled with necro’s stats. So I guess group’s would get more dps from the buff on a power necro opposed to a condi necro, but more healing from a magi necro (lol).

This also explains a situation I encountered, where a power necro was practicing on the golem with me, and I was impressed by how much of a difference the buff made. I was playing a d/d fresh air ele, and the dps from the aura scales with attacks per second (no-internal cool down).

The scaling isn’t particularly amazing, as you can see here, but it could definitely be the cause of the issue you’re describing.

I see, so even max buffing your aura is only like 25% stronger max. Sure would be nice to test how much dps a group gains from it.

I guess they could just make the base buff with no scaling at the golem. Absolute best case you buff a class that does 10 hits per second, which would be 400 dps, 2k dps for the group max. Definitely not good =/