Guild Wars 2

So I was looking in the wvw forums and people have indicated that Retal is bugged there, and I was hitting very hard with my retal so I figured I’d check it out in pvp. Lo and behold, retal is doing more damage than it should in pvp (explaining why medi guards are even stronger than just their healing buff).

Retal is supposed to do (according to the wiki):

(1-0.33)(198+0.075power)

Where the factor (1-0.33) is because of a 33% reduction in retal in PvP/WvW. Well my cele ele in pvp is hitting for 286-303 (while testing ele contingency) in pvp for each retal tick, which corresponds to power levels of 3051-3390, which are unattainable with even a full 25 might stacks. I was unable to see my exact might, but I tried to just sit in fire and not might stack, so my might was less than 5 stacks.

Is anyone else noticing this discrepancy?

Edit: Fixed the formula to have “198 + 0.075*power” rather than “198+0.75*power”

Yes. it is also happening in WvWvW as well. Retaliation damage is about 25% stronger than it was before the patch. And the new light aura is strong as hell.

It seems the programmer screwed up the formula and it is now:
198 + 0.75*power*0.66
instead of
(198+0.75*power)*0.66
like it should be.

This should be very easy to fix by Arenanet!

Tbh. Nerf duration not damage.. I feel more punishment is in order when attacking something with that obvious boon.

I say ramp up damage to 50%

Ah this explains the number of death’s I’ve had with 8k retal on on the breakdown xD

Can anyone else confirm if this is intentional, or a bug?

Explains why I win duels and 10kd myself with 1 whirling wrath on 2 people

Merlin Dyfed Avalon.5046:

Tbh. Nerf duration not damage.. I feel more punishment is in order when attacking something with that obvious boon.

I say ramp up damage to 50%

I agree!! Less duration, more damage.