Guild Wars 2

As far as I am aware, vulnerability is supposed to increase “incoming” damage.

I just noticed today that if you apply burning to an enemy dealing 500dmg per tick and then apply 10 stacks vulnerability to the target while the target continues to burn… the burn DoT does NOT increase.

However…

If you burn a target when they already have 10 stacks vulnerability, THEN your burn will do its [base DoT + 10%] for the rest of the burn duration.

So my question is…

If vulnerability increases all “incoming” damage… shouldn’t the burn damage adjust according to how many stacks of vulnerability there are on a target at any given time?

Direct damage only.

In that case, I feel like the elementalist loses synergy.

I guess we cant have everything…