Guild Wars 2

The skill tip seems to follow what was said about buffing the skill’s strength by 150%, but the actual damage seems to be much, much lower. Like instead of increasing strength by 150%, it actually got cut to 50%.

It wouldn’t be surprising that they got the numbers wrong, but the damage was always pathetic. Fiery Greatsword is not a damaging elite anymore.

Melancholia.8123:

Fiery Greatsword is not a damaging elite anymore.

No, it’s always been a damaging elite, even without taking wallrush into account. I keep hearing otherwise from other players, but my experience has always been seeing a significant burst DPS increase.

It was a good DPS increase for semi support staff ele of mine at least.

Also yes, it seems the rush end hit is bugged. The tooltip showed me roughly 2400 damage while it actually hits roughly around 1000. I suppose they updated tooltip but not the actual skill ^^

Oh well, maybe they fix it quickly, it’s kinda big flaw.

Can confirm, FGS rush now hits for MUCH less than a regular auto-attack.

Please keep it this way and reduce the cooldown to 90s for the skill.

Tried fiery rush on the Bloodstone in Arah pt4 last night. With ~20 stack mights, solo build full zerk warrior, I got 3 ticks each dealing ~400 damage. I think I can just as well fight naked.

winterchillz.2564:

Tried fiery rush on the Bloodstone in Arah pt4 last night. With ~20 stack mights, solo build full zerk warrior, I got 3 ticks each dealing ~400 damage. I think I can just as well fight naked.

We aren’t talking about the trails, but the actual impact was supposed to be increased by 140% MORE damage (so 2.4x its previous damage). However, it seems the hit does about 50% of the previous damage.

In this state, and with the anti-cripple/chill effects, FGS is ONLY a mobility weapon.

Sorry, I meant to make the post as in relation to FGS being a significant damage increase for elementalists.

Yeah, Fiery Rush is indeed bugged / only got a tooltip update in regards to the single target damage buff. The ability does less than half the damage it displays on the tooltip. I was actually looking forward to trying out the new leap. Hopefully they will fix it very soon, because I am extremely disappointed in the elemental elite activation skill and actually think FGS might be viable for more than mobility if they manage to get this fix in.

The treb in pvp battle of khylo is a good damage indicator. And Yup you are right. I do 745 damage with leap now (end of leap). While auto attack (triple chain) does 1500 damage. I also think it’s lower then before patch.

So it’s both lower and the 140% boost didnt get calculated in, lame.

i hope this is a bug

Mejiora.9584:

Yeah, Fiery Rush is indeed bugged / only got a tooltip update in regards to the single target damage buff. The ability does less than half the damage it displays on the tooltip. I was actually looking forward to trying out the new leap. Hopefully they will fix it very soon, because I am extremely disappointed in the elemental elite activation skill and actually think FGS might be viable for more than mobility if they manage to get this fix in.

Well stated! I agree completely.

Give damage or riot!

Avead.5760:

i hope this is a bug

Its for sure buged the number reading much higher then its hitting for. Anet is weird about things they tend to fix things to do what they read not re-wright what they do. So i think Fiery Rush leap will do the number that they are saying it will but i am not sure how soon they will do this.

As things stand if the number do what they say they are going to do for the preview then the leap may be one of the better single target dmg ability ele has. Its on the lines of war axe evisceration. We may start to see all in gank eles run this say a s/d or s/f fresh air build.

If you have any more details, please add them to the bug thread:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Elementalist-Fiery-Rush-damage-bugged