Quick question about conditions

Quick question about conditions

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Posted by: baukbauk.8567

baukbauk.8567

Hey everyone, somewhat new player curious about how condition stacking works. In particular, I was playing on my Dragonhunter and noticed that the tooltip and wiki page for Symbol of Energy say that it applies 2 stacks of burning for 5 seconds and pulses 5 times. Since it pulses once on application and once per second for 4 seconds thereafter, it seems to me that if i use Symbol of Energy on an enemy and they stand in it for the entire duration the stacks of burning should show up as 2 4 6 8 10 8 6 4 2. However when i tested it out in game on enemies it always seemed to stack 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3. Sometimes it would stack up to 4 or 5, but wasnt consistent. Probably a stupid question but what am I missing here? Curing condition? And if thats the case is there somewhere that I can test stuff like this out without running into this problem? Thanks in advance.

Quick question about conditions

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Posted by: Serval.6458

Serval.6458

Bear in mind that I haven’t played guardian since HoT launched, but I’d guess that the burning is applied when the attack hits and the pulses are just for vigor and/or direct damage.

If you’ve traited into Zeal then the symbol has a chance to apply burning on each pulse so that could be averaging out at 1 stack from symbolic power and the initial 2 stacks from the skill.

Quick question about conditions

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Posted by: baukbauk.8567

baukbauk.8567

That makes a lot of sense thanks for clearing that up