Guild Wars 2

From what i heard/read burning will stack. Right now burning already ticks for around 700ish dmg and is already in most cases cause of death, at least for my characters. Let’s say you have 5 stacks of burning, it would be 3500 dmg per tick.

Certanly, some direct dmg do as much if not more dmg but they are not as easily applied as burning (see warrior LB, IP from engis that triggers from any fart engi does, ele….). As example: imagine a thief could place huge aoe circle on point that pulses for backstab dmg.

My concern is, that this is what will happen to burning. I hope i am wrong and the dmg calculation will be changed.

Cynz.9437:

From what i heard/read burning will stack. Right now burning already ticks for around 700ish dmg and is already in most cases cause of death, at least for my characters. Let’s say you have 5 stacks of burning, it would be 3500 dmg per tick.

Certanly, some direct dmg do as much if not more dmg but they are not as easily applied as burning (see warrior LB, IP from engis that triggers from any fart engi does, ele….). As example: imagine a thief could place huge aoe circle on point that pulses for backstab dmg.

My concern is, that this is what will happen to burning. I hope i am wrong and the dmg calculation will be changed.

Concern eased :)

Burns in the AMA Trait videos showed Burns having a base damage of 131. We’re not sure how this will scale with amulets, nor if certain skills (most likely so) will have multiple stacks of Burns instead of the usual 1.

What’s been hinted in the video: 1:23:45
“If poison and burning were to stack you would think damage would lower on both of them.”
“That would be like a logical.. thing.. to happen… " – Karl’s subtle hint.

tbh…im kinda tired of constant changes in base mechanics…add new things, stop changing base mechanics over and over and over

Darksteel.8412:

tbh…im kinda tired of constant changes in base mechanics…add new things, stop changing base mechanics over and over and over

Can’t keep up with what to blame and QQ about?

Saiyan.1704:

“That would be like a logical.. thing.. to happen… " – Karl’s subtle hint.

It’s also logical for tanky builds to do less damage and to balance more often and to not complete destroy builds under the guise of balance and whatever I don’t care.

Wahoo! Bye frands!

I feel the new burning will have a very big impact on the game .It will shake a lot of 1vs1s and teamfights right now and i think there is nothing they can do ,by balancing the stacks skills apply that would prevent that.
Its one of the things i am really afraid about elementalist as well.
If skills cause aoe burning they ll have to keep the stacks very low to balance for tfs..
If that happens 1v1s across the board for ele will drop massively right as the hit to support comes .. fun times!

4.3k burn 2.5k bleed ticks from hybrid on stream… GG

Darksteel.8412:

tbh…im kinda tired of constant changes in base mechanics…add new things, stop changing base mechanics over and over and over

Wow. There actually exists one person in the game who thinks ANET makes too many balance related changes.

*claps

Cynz.9437:

4.3k burn 2.5k bleed ticks from hybrid on stream… GG

a carrion guardian is not a hybrid.

Get ready for insane Guardian and Elementalist burn damage!

Burning that ticks for 4k on a short duration caused by a series of abilities that need to be set and succesfully land doesnt fall into the same category as what conditions are now
This isn’t some op dhumfire dot on a passive proc..this is called “burst” as far as i know.
So relax a bit..hes not gonna perma burn you for 4k just as a thief cant backstab every second

Also he pretty much blew everything :P

Jekkt.6045:

Cynz.9437:

4.3k burn 2.5k bleed ticks from hybrid on stream… GG

a carrion guardian is not a hybrid.

Semantics. The point is the damage it’s doing.