Guild Wars 2

Just a complaint…it really irks me that conditions can be applied in this game when you are not targeted by an opposing player, and/or when you are not even standing in their aoe.

Ex. Standing off to the side during a zerg on zerg at a point and still being inflicted with conditions but not even being targeted by anyone.

So annoying!

Epidemic aside, do you mean random aoe’s or something?

The fact that it’s so unclear as to what’s causing it is defiantely one of the problems with the game.

The game needs to be more intuitive so people can actually learn from their mistakes and improve, it’s really hard to do that in this game.

I am interested in what specifically has brought this to light.

I know that there are some rune sets outside of the sPvP area that can proc damage and conditions under some circumstances but I am not sure of any presently in sPvP that would cause this.

Is this what you experienced or is this related to a skill set or class specific feature?

Some skills bounce to multiple targets. Necros have a couple of skills that will do this like the off hand dagger blind and the the focus has an invulnerability that can bounce as well.

As Knote mentioned Epidemic also can hit players that are not targeted if they are in range.

I don’t know mesmers, eles, or engis well enough to know if they have skills that bounce or affect players that are not targeted.

The combat log at present does not offer easy ways to narrow down the source of condition damage which is in my opinion a poor design feature. I like to know what killed me, how, and where it came from so I can be better prepared in the future. I do not enjoy guessing at the source of some damage types.