Guild Wars 2

When I use Whirling Wrath in a group of enemies, it’s sweet to see all the numbers pop but I started wondering about this the other day. Is the damage output from Whirling Wrath calculated the same way as a Warrior’s HB? As in, for the final “hit” of WW, is it a single hit that’s showing for 5k+ at the end or is it added up like HB for Warriors?

Side question that just came to mind, is the damage from WW multiplied or compounded somehow depending on whether you’re hitting one target or multiple? (will your damage increase with WW against a specific target (maybe the ‘targeted’ one) in the group because you’re hitting multiple mobs/players?)

Hope those questions were clear. Let me know if I need to word it a different way.

all channeled skills are adding up the numbers to confuse you,

so each time you see this:
300,600,900,1200, 1500. your total damage is the LAST number.
that means you did overall 1500 damage and not 4500.

when you see this:
200, 220, 180, 200, 194 – these are individual hits like GS1 chain. your total damage is the sum of all numbers

it is also easy to know by the tooltip.

if you see in the tooltip something like that: damage (8x) 1500 that means you channel eight hits of a total sum 1500 (ofc modified by opponents armor, your crits etc…)
if you see “strike” 250 then it is a single hit.

on warrior HB tooltip you see:
damage (8x) 1500
final strike damage 300

that means you channel 8 hits of total 1500 (i.e. 8 hits of 187) and then one big hit of 300.

disclaimer:
the numbers that I used are for example only and they are not the “real” numbers on lvl 80 char etc…

Think of it as you would a blender. The longer some thing sits in there the more it’s cut up and turned into mush. I always try to picture a glass cannon thief in this scenario because it amuses me greatly :P

Ah I guess that makes sense. Slightly disappointing but I guess I should have figured that out just by reading the tool tip. Oh well, I still feel like a baller watching those numbers fly up.

Or for added amusement with regards to channel skill damage put up a wall of reflection in front of a gate that is under siege in WvW and watch all the wonderful hit marks fly up lol. Some sap did a bow channel that did 7k damage to himself since the wall reflected the entire channel! XD