Guild Wars 2

I was doing some experiments to test damage when I noticed that Chaos Storm appears to do its damage not just once but on some sort of a timer (assuming the mob stays inside it). The combat logs are… challenging… but it seems like maybe it procs every half a second or so.

The wiki simply says “6 hits”.

Also, the damage in the combat log doesn’t match the tooltip – and sometimes it doesn’t match the calculation for crit damage above the base listed on the tooltip.

Anyone done some deep digging into how chaos storm’s damage really works? Also, is this behavior true for all AOE fields that cause damage (that they have a built-in period proc rate?)

Thx

the variance between the tooltip and the actual damage is because your weapon damage has a range.

not all aoe fields work the same way, chaos storm pulses once a second for the base damage + 1 random effect per ally and enemy each pulse.

Thx very much.

Do you know if it figures out a crit chance for each separate target in the field when it pulses? I didn’t do any testing with two targets that I tried to keep in the field.

it rolls separately for each target. so you can crit on one target and not another.

Also tooltip damages are based of a calculation against a set armor value. I think it’s 2800, which is higher than many players run in WvW.