Guild Wars 2

There is something broken with this skill. For some reason the pierce damage hits you more than once. I understand it should hit you twice for going in and out of you. But hitting for 6 times? Add the explosion damage to that and you have highest hitting skill in the game. Isn’t this utterly broken?

Example:
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It is supposed to hit you 6 times if played correctly.

From your log Phoenix hit you 7459 in total, which is a normal number of backstab on a squishy class. Is that utterly broken, too? I’m not saying it doesn’t hit hard but landing Phoenix is not always easy and it’s the only high damage skill scepter has. Dragon’s tooth is good, but you will never land it.

phoenix is a very inconsistent skill… sometimes it hits 6 times, sometimes 3 times on a stationary target. getting a 6 hit phoenix on somebody who is moving is close to impossible. even under the same circumstances phoenix hits can vary and to get the most out of a phoenix some people even use lightning flash, throwing your escape away for it.

After the update though you will get a 13% shorter cd on it and it should trigger fresh air a few times in the hands of a truly skilled player.

Laraley.7695:

It is supposed to hit you 6 times if played correctly.

From your log Phoenix hit you 7459 in total, which is a normal number of backstab on a squishy class. Is that utterly broken, too? I’m not saying it doesn’t hit hard but landing Phoenix is not always easy and it’s the only high damage skill scepter has. Dragon’s tooth is good, but you will never land it.

He hit me 7 times and only 1 critted so it can easily go more than 10k damage. Which is still a lot of damage to hit against a tanky engineer. Why are you bringing backstab to this? Irrelevant. Also backstab couldn’t hit that much. Its scaling is 2.4 while this 7 hit phoenix is a kittening 6.2!!! Even hundred blades has 5.31 scaling this is ridiculous. Also half of the skills in the game are hard to land but none of them hits this hard. If it would only hit 3 times as it should I wouldn’t say anything about it. But 7 times.. it’s just crazy.

Jekkt.6045:

phoenix is a very inconsistent skill… sometimes it hits 6 times, sometimes 3 times on a stationary target. getting a 6 hit phoenix on somebody who is moving is close to impossible. even under the same circumstances phoenix hits can vary and to get the most out of a phoenix some people even use lightning flash, throwing your escape away for it.

Thats what i am talking about. It should be fixed to a certain number of hits. Even 3 hits do amazing damage it should not be able to hit 7 times.

3 hits is around 4,5k, that’s lousy for a spec that dies when you look at it.

The max number of times a phoenix can hit while solo is 8, but that’s in an ideal situation. With a mesmer it can reach 10+ afaik (by using portal)