Guild Wars 2

When attacked by enemy players I checked my combat log only to discover that some players are hitting for 8,000 a hit against my maximum 800. I’m level 42 with rare yellow weapons and armour.
I checked all weapons stats and the weapon that makes the most damage in GW2 is 1,200 and even with many stacks that doesn’t add up to 8,000.
What are they doing to get such hits? Crits don’t add up to that either, it makes no sense..?

mightstacking, crit, and eviserate, against people with low toughness and armor.

im warrior with 2 axes, 80 with nearly full exotic gear. i love to crit people for 13.000 with Eviscerate (f1 attack)

In WvW you are auto leveled to 80, so that that into consideration as far as damage scaling goes…

My 80 elem with full exotic set got hit for 16k from a warriors rifle burst lawl

Suddle D.9412:

In WvW you are auto leveled to 80, so that that into consideration as far as damage scaling goes…

Your armor is scaled.

I’m not in full 80 exotics yet and my highest hit to date is 12.5k on a Thief that was trying to heart seeker spam me. Felt good. Lol

Toughness – it really is that simple, unless you are over 1500+ in toughness your going to get hit hard. You can tell within seconds if players are not level 80 (or have glass cannon builds) as their HP plummets fast as you get huge crits on them.

Draygo.9473:

Suddle D.9412:

In WvW you are auto leveled to 80, so that that into consideration as far as damage scaling goes…

Your armor is scaled.

I know, but my point is you will hit harder….of course you will take less damage and have more HP, but that could explain the higher hit numbers.

Its not that hard for a warior to hit that much with eviscerate particularly if his build is designed to go for big crits with that ability. Most other classes have some really hard hiting abilitys as well with the propper build. Also remember that while you are scaled up to 80 the difference in gear between an 80 and a 40 is significant. I can wade into 2-4 lower level players as an 80 and expect to kill more than one of them while a single barely damages me. 80 vs 80 tends to be a much more hardfought fight.

eladox.3457:

My 80 elem with full exotic set got hit for 16k from a warriors rifle burst lawl

arent we warriors lovely? :p

I get hit for 10 to 15k by thieves and warriors all the time on my elementalist.

full glass cannons are doing it wrong, unless you are just steam rolling the other side, in a even battle the team with the best balance of stats is going to come out on top every time, you are no good to your team if you get hit once and are running away for cover trying to heal

if you want to do big damage you have to be 80 its as simple as that, 80 armor sets are just ridicuously powerful compared to level 20 and 30 sets as they give twice as many unique stats per gear piece, and then there’s the matter of traits