Guild Wars 2

Couple of questions about the math.

1. Sometimes a condition will say stacks duration. If its a poison for example, which damage number gets stacked. The first one? cause not all poisons of course are equal.

2. If i have an effect thats +15% damage, and a +5% damage in my dagger, how do they stack.
a). I do 100 damage unbuffed, now do i do 120.
or
b) I do 100 damage unbuffed, +15% =115. And then 5% on top of the 115.

Im presuming A).
just would like to know to work out my specs a lil bit thanks.

I’m sure there are lots of bugs in the system with these, despite how they want them to work.
one easy example is swiftness. +33% is the same everywhere, and it says it stacks duration. But if someone gives you 10s of swiftness, then you immediately give yourself 20s of swiftness, I always end up with 20s of swiftness.

So , what its doing is taking the original swiftness buff and stacking. Rather than adding the duration of the new buff to the old.

Honestly they should have seriously considered just standarizing all effects of the same type.

1. I just wrote a post about it.

Can’t help you with 2, sorry.