Guild Wars 2

Is it a feature or is it a bug?
If it is a feature, why does it arbitrarily scales with condition damage when the sieges are balanced around their base damage, that doesn’t scale with power?
If it is a bug, why it hasn’t been fixed in the past 3,5 years?

Also Venoms being applied to Cannons Anet fix TY

Yea it’s a bit crazy. I always like to cannon with condi reaper for the crazy op chill ticks. 2500+ condi dmg behind a cannon will mess a small group up really quick.

I’ll cry when they fix it but it should probably get fixed.

And the burn of the mortar is too OP.

casantis.3106:

And the burn of the mortar is too OP.

We had an ANET Dev run with us a couple of weeks ago when he got roasted by a mortar he was like WTF was that. We were like welcome to your creation.

I agree, the mortar is an absolute monster, especially since the damage ring is bugged invisible 90% of the time so you have no idea where the 4k burn ticks are coming from.

It would be okay if the AoE for the mortar flame round was representative of the actual range at which you take damage. Currently, people walk right through it and accumulate large stack of burning because the animation for the mortar impact site is so much smaller than the radius of effect. I don’t understand why this was changed – the old animation was far better.

I see so many players confused by seemingly random burning application. I wish Anet would remember the importance of skill and animation effects and how they inform the playerbase.

Got fixed with todays update.
“•Fixed a bug in which siege weapons that applied condition damage were scaling based on the player’s condition damage.”

Amazing!
/15char

amazing patch notes

So what are the siege weapons using for condi damage scaling now? Does it assume 0 condi damage (in which case the condi skills are useless)? Or does it use like 1000 condi damage for something in the middle?

What a load of tosh, so not only can condi classes not destroy siege they no longer have a benefit when using it?

The siege with the op damage was the mortar, and maybe cannons. If is YB the ac´s.

Dal.5872:

What a load of tosh, so not only can condi classes not destroy siege they no longer have a benefit when using it?

Condi class destroy players. Good riddance.

Dal.5872:

What a load of tosh, so not only can condi classes not destroy siege they no longer have a benefit when using it?

These two things are not to cancel eachother out. I dont find dealing more damage with some siege attacks a valueable trade-off to sucking against constructs.

They fixed this, finally, as they should have. Now they need to fix conditions working against structures. Not just in WvW but in pve as well.

Terrahero.9358:

They fixed this, finally, as they should have. Now they need to fix conditions working against structures. Not just in WvW but in pve as well.

They did this in fractals already.