Guild Wars 2

I am curious about how the damage of arrow carts work. Do multiple carts stack damage, or merely expand the area of effect? See the attached image for a better idea of what I mean.

They stack. I’ve been mutilated many times by multiple arrow carts focus firing.

I too have been mutilated by them, but that doesn’t really answer the question. Would getting hit by 10x be an instagib, or just provide enough cover that I could not get away in time?

A better example would be if you have 4, 5, 8, whatever the magic number is inside a keep/tower could those people lay down a rain of death that was completely impenetrable without countering with other siege? ie. no zerg of any size would be able to overwhelm it, as they are all killed near instantly upon entering the area.

Yes, they stack. Last weekend I was one of 3 defenders holding a tower against a 20+ zerg. They were attacking the gate, trying to build a ram. We each fired an arrow cart at the same time and within 2 shots, most of the zerg was dead. I picked up 10-12 bags from around my feet

The damage does stack, but there are factors that limit the ability to “instagib” with a pile of arrow carts. Depending on the fortification, there are a lot of places that you can’t even place siege weapons. Mostly those are pieces of the wall that are destructible… areas such as the north inner gate of the Borderlands Hills Keep have an extremely limited amount of decent siege locations. You would be a fool to ever attack the front (western) gate for this reason.

To circumvent this issue you may decide to place a bunch of arrow carts right on top of eachother.. but then you risk losing all of those carts at the same time from a single coordinated attack or treb/catapult shot. Or even just one die-hard elementalist attacking you from the side.

The other limiting factor is coordination of said arrow carts. Unless you’re on teamspeak and/or marking targets, it’s tough to create an “instant kill field”.

Of course they stack. Would be strange if they didn’t. Two peoples damage stack as well?

It is possible to insta-kill with enough ACs, but that would require coordination and would only cover a small area each shot. Everyone you’re not hitting will be chucking AoEs onto the wall.

You’d need like 15 superior carts to instagib non squishies

But a few cripple+bleed shots stacked from like 3+ carts go a long way
Might not be instagib, but pretty much anything that stays in there for a bit goes down