Guild Wars 2

Yesterday I had back to back encounters with a Necro/2 Warrior trio. I was roaming solo in their borderland and once cornered, the outcome always was inevitable. However, both times they took me down in less than 3 seconds and the combat log doesn’t add up.

Necro casts doom, each warrior gets in one shot in the 1500 dmg range. I’m dead. Both times the combat log shows nothing but doom (78 dmg) and about 2-3K of warrior damage. That leaves them about 17K short of my 20K vitality. That’s it. Just those three lines on the combat log. It has to be the necro, but I don’t play one. What am I missing here? Life stealing? 17,000 damage worth?

I dont play a necro so I couldnt tell you much other than I know that conditions do not show up on the combat log. So there is all the condi dmg that happened to you within whatever amount of time you were alive that isnt accounted for.

if you really want to see how stunningly horrible the combat log is, roll a condition BM ranger

Could just be that instakill cheat that some people have been using. Wish I was joking about that. There really is an instakill cheat. Do any attack on you, and you instantly drop afterwards.

The combat log doesn’t register everything. In fact it doesn’t register most. I can see my damage versus some players, then against others my combat log doesn’t even register that I started attacking them, let alone kill them. At least this is what I’ve noticed….it could also be that insta skill hack, but I have yet to see that personally.

Conditions also rarely show up.

Nikkinella.8254:

Could just be that instakill cheat that some people have been using. Wish I was joking about that. There really is an instakill cheat. Do any attack on you, and you instantly drop afterwards.

Fought a warrior on my Ele, hit me once for 780 damage took 12k damage. Nothing in combat log, no conditions. I smell foul play!

meep.2601:

if you really want to see how stunningly horrible the combat log is, roll a condition BM ranger

Yeah, I feel you as heavy condition/trapping ranger. Best I can figure, the necro was in death shroud form and spammed 1) Dark path —- 2)Life Transfer —-3)Tainted shackles --- 4) Doom —- and then maybe signet of spite. Still, I didn’t exaggerate on the time. 19,800 dmg in 3 seconds. The doom hadn’t even worn off and the warriors whiffed on most of their auto-attacks because I was speeding away involuntarily. The numbers don’t even come close to adding up. The description for tainted shackles is a little vague. Is it possible to generate 10 stacks of torment in 2-3 seconds (assuming 1200 condition damage)?

Earlier this Summer, I remember seeing complaints about Fear and necros for PvP, but as a non PvP player I didn’t read them. I am curious if this is the complaint. 20K in condition spike damage. Three backstabbing thieves couldn’t have killed me any faster, even if I had been afk making a sandwich.

Tbh.. I’ve been once shotted by necros, Completely 1 shotted. No down state either, Just straight dead. I dont know if this is a bug or what, Anyone have any ideas on that?

^I told you, its the instakill cheat. It straight up kills you. Don’t go into downstate, just dead from full health.

Banzie.5248:

Tbh.. I’ve been once shotted by necros, Completely 1 shotted. No down state either, Just straight dead. I dont know if this is a bug or what, Anyone have any ideas on that?

yeah happened to me a couple of times. i didnt get a downstate either…maybe its a bug. but also necros are over the top. so are certain warriors abilities that can almost 1 shot u.

Siege weapons dont show up in the combat log.

re: earlier post, 12k in damage is suspiciously close to a Superior Ballista #3 with +25% mastery.

Siege is far more likely than hax, though i wont deny the possibility.

Sometimes server lag also causes a rapid spike of attacks/damage.

My first thought was server lag, especially considering the empty log. That’s why I deliberately ran back after them for a second encounter and just stood there with troll U active. I hoped that might prolong the encounter to see what they did. Nope. Still just 2 warrior hits and doom show up in the log. I am not sure why we can’t get some sort of log feedback for those types of skills. Obviously the game is tracking the data. It doesn’t have to be in real time, but it would be nice to see where my other 17K health went.

I am assuming the siege weapons comment was directed at another post. I was way out in the middle of nowhere, underneath the centaur camp. That wasn’t in play in this case. Hopefully that shows up in the combat log as well.

More and more people seem to be complaining about his in map chat now. There seems to be a lot more people doing this now. Get hit once by some minor damage, then dead. Seems to happen most often when fighting necros. One of my guildmates was just fighting this necro. the necro stood there laughing over and over again while he was stabbing away at him. didn’t bother attacking, just laughed and when he got near death hit him ONCE instantly killing him. We came back looking for this guy again thinking it was just a fluke or something. Again, the dude laughs, 1 hit, then dead. How do you even deal with this kind of crap? They’re obviously cheating somehow. Doing a minor hit of a few hundred against someone with over 3k armor should not instantly kill them. And its not like Anet even does anything about it if you report them. Apparently we aren’t specific enough in our reports according to them. Look how long it finally took them to realize there was a problem with people being able to walk through the doors of certain towers despite the numerous reports about it since the beginning of the game.

Direct siege damage does show up in the logs. Park yourself in an arrow cart rain and you’ll see it.

Mattargul.9235:

Direct siege damage does show up in the logs. Park yourself in an arrow cart rain and you’ll see it.

Not sure all siege shows up. I have been hit by a treb numerous times and never seen anything in the combat log.