Guild Wars 2

Arcane wave should be hitting for 1/3 more than arcane blast but its not

It may be just that the skill is bugged or that its not being affected by the critical damage

Can anyone else confirm this?

tested with 3k attackpower and 5% critical dmg.. on light golem
arcane wave 1355 dmg
arcane blast 1359 dmg

well… clearly something is wrong since the description says 1100 for arcane blast and 1700 for arcane wave… meaning you should see a nice difference between them… no difference to see here.. so i think the numbers in the coding (coding, not description) are yust not as they should be

Next patch notes:
Fixed the damage description in the arcane wave tool tip to properly reflect the actual damage it is doing.

Well I always saw that as a bug to the description. No reason for an AoE skill to hit for more damage than a single target one, even considering the range differences.

Anyways, this damage bug is happening since when I first created my elementalist… Its not new as far as I know.

deriver.5381:

Well I always saw that as a bug to the description. No reason for an AoE skill to hit for more damage than a single target one, even considering the range differences.

Anyways, this damage bug is happening since when I first created my elementalist… Its not new as far as I know.

Yes, it has been this way since I first created an ele in one of the beta weekends.