Guild Wars 2

I haven’t played GW2 for a long time. I remember when last I played, when I died there was a box that tell you what skills do what damage that ended up killing you. I don’t see the box anymore.

Is there a way to enable? I play Necro and sometimes I’ve no idea why I died. Like literally got bursted down in 2-3 secs.

Or is there a “damage meter” sort of? I have no idea if I should be spamming my weapon skills, swap then spam weapon skills again, or just autoattack #1 to deal the most damage (if I’m left unchecked).

Thanks!

You have a few tools.

In your chat box there is an option for a combat log, which will tell you every single thing that happens in combat, like healing and damage.

There is a DPS testing facility in Lion’s Arch.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Special_Forces_Training_Area

In PvP there is an option to review what killed you while you wait to respawn.

Yeah. I’be always been curious about how I died. The damage log in the chat doesn’t show everything and I always get confused by the rare times I go from full health to downed in a couple seconds and nothing indicated to show how.

meh … that is just how high the damage burst are in this game

I don’t think GW2 has ever had a system exactly like you’re describing. Elder Scrolls Online does and I think some other games do too, so maybe you’re thinking of a different game?

But in GW2 the info will be displayed in chat (if I remember correctly it defaults to a tab called Combat but you can customise it). You can also use the wiki to get descriptions of skills and how they work, and if you’re talking about PvP a site like Metabattle might be helpful because that will give you some ideas of the builds your opponents may be using.

Danikat.8537:

I don’t think GW2 has ever had a system exactly like you’re describing. Elder Scrolls Online does and I think some other games do too, so maybe you’re thinking of a different game?

But in GW2 the info will be displayed in chat (if I remember correctly it defaults to a tab called Combat but you can customise it). You can also use the wiki to get descriptions of skills and how they work, and if you’re talking about PvP a site like Metabattle might be helpful because that will give you some ideas of the builds your opponents may be using.

See image below. I can’t get into the game right now but I think that there’s a link on the pop up box that you get when you’re defeated.