Guild Wars 2

Hammer’s 3rd 1 spam combo says it drops a symbol that hits four times.

Well, it actually only hits three times which severely weakens its dmg.

Was this intentional? Did it actually hit 4x in the past but got nerfed or something and its just the text is wrong?

I’m assuming it counts the hammer hit itself.

That’s separate as it gives a number for the damage the hammer hit does and the damage symbol does which says it hits four times.

I’m guessing this is a bug, and a pretty big one since its dropping guardian’s overall 1 spam combo by 13.5% ish damage.

Don’t hope too much. You’ll soon see “fixed tooltip that stated incorrect duration”

First tick is when the hammer connects and then three more ticks after that. You can check this fairly easily in the mists.

Wrong. There’s only 2 ticks after the hammer hits. You must be confusing burn damage as one of the ticks.

It seems that the hammer damage is converted into symbol damage (4 stacks of vulerability with the trait for symbol→vulnerability)

Also combat chat indicates that Symbol of Protection is hitting four times when it should be hitting five times (hammer hit, +4 ticks from symbol)

I see why this is happening. They named the hammer hit and the symbol with the same name: Symbol of Protection. That’s why they couldn’t get them to hit separately and hammer loses out on 1 tick.