Guild Wars 2

I’m playing a Guardian at level 40 now, and when soloing I can pretty much burn enemies for the duration of the fight since burning keeps adding duration.

Now in events I noticed the burn doesn’t seem to do damage or tag mobs. I read on the forum that a mob can only have one stack of burning and all players add duration.

My question is, how is the damage prioritized and tagged?
- If I am the first to apply burning, do other players just extend my stack and not get credit?
- Does a new, stronger burn overwrite my burn or does it wait until mine runs out?

I’m basically wondering whether there’s any point to gearing for condition damage if I cannot get credit when A.) I’m not the first one to hit a mob or B.) a downscaled lvl 80 in Exotic gear arrives with higher CD and overwrites or delays my burning damage.

- skills that cause burning also have an upfront damage component to them.
- mob tagging is not about who hits it 1st rather how much damage you have done to qualify for the loot table. (not 100% sure as to the minimum dmg % needed to qualify for loot table though)
- say you have 20 burn dmg per tick and someone arrives with 40 dmg per tick what happens now is the burn duration of both is added but the dmg is not, your burn would continue to burn at 20 dmg per tick and transition into the 40dmg per tick obviously the higher dmg burn takes priority and would burn 1st, but yours is not lost at all well unless the mob died before yours was in effect, which still leaves the upfront damage from the skill to be counted towards the loot table anyway.

Hope that shines some light into it for you.

Didn’t they say that there is a limit of 25 stacks? So if 25 people apply bleads then the 26th person’s bleed is ignored?

Same with poison, etc.

Latinkuro.9420:

- skills that cause burning also have an upfront damage component to them.
- mob tagging is not about who hits it 1st rather how much damage you have done to qualify for the loot table. (not 100% sure as to the minimum dmg % needed to qualify for loot table though)
- say you have 20 burn dmg per tick and someone arrives with 40 dmg per tick what happens now is the burn duration of both is added but the dmg is not, your burn would continue to burn at 20 dmg per tick and transition into the 40dmg per tick obviously the higher dmg burn takes priority and would burn 1st, but yours is not lost at all well unless the mob died before yours was in effect, which still leaves the upfront damage from the skill to be counted towards the loot table anyway.

Hope that shines some light into it for you.

It does, thank you. If the 40 dmg in your example takes priority and a single guardian (or elementalist I’m sure) can keep it going indefinitely, my 20 dmg is never going to get processed before the mob dies. My burns would only ever apply the upfront damage, making a power/direct damage build more useful.