Guild Wars 2

…for maximum damage?

Hey guys.

I’ve leveled up a pure Hammer-Guardian before and am currently leveling my 2nd Guard, this time with GS. I’m currently lvl 40 with her, but have yet to manage to actually hit a foe for the full, “advertised” damage of Whirling Wrath.

I know, turn off the melee attack assist and step inside the enemy. Thing is, it doesn’t work (aside from really big enemies like, for example, oakhearts – which only works if I don’t have aggro).

I usually step up to the enemy or just use Leap of Faith or Judge’s Intervention if I’m lazy, but as soon as I step inside the enemy and start Whirling Wrath, the enemy gets pushed back. Now I know that I can move while using WW, but still I can’t seem to get it right. My tooltip tells me that I can deal around 650 Damage with it, but I usually end up with something around 260 to 360 (the latter with crits) points of damage – which is, ofcourse, just a fraction of w hat this skill is capable of, as far as my tooltip goes.

May seem low for my lvl, but I’m completing the lvl 15-25 Zones right now, one after the other, as I aim to get 100% with this toon anyway, so what the heck.

So, what am I doing wrong? It’s really starting to get on my nerves but somehow I can’t seem to find anything on it, except for the above mentioned method.

Help me out here, guys

You are not doing anything wrong. Enemies in PvE do get pushed back by WW, but players don’t. I believe that’s the whole point of this trick; to be used in WvW or sPvP.

Well, that explains a lot, actually. Thanks

Here are some things to note:

First, the tooltip uses 2600 armor for its damage calculation. If the enemy has more, or less, than 2600 armor you will do damage that is not consistent with the tooltip.

Second, the tooltip erroneously lumps two projectile hits in with the damage numbers of the tooltip. In reality, the tooltip should read 7 hits + 7 hits to reflect the fact that there are 7 separate projectiles on top of the melee hits. The projectiles do about a third of the main hit damage. Therefore, the tooltip will again be erroneous depending on how many projectile impact the target.

In PvP/WvW Leap of faith or Binding blade. WW and when they dodge, JI.

I wish I could see their faces when they see that they’re still in my range

You can also use it in Purging Flames’ Fire field to add some extra damage!