Guild Wars 2

I was interesting if whether or not Compounding Power in the Illusion tree affects shatter damage. I ran some parsing tests on dummies.

My Stats:
3116 Attack (Zerker Gear, Knight’s Trinkets, Zerker GS, Rare Cavalier Backslot with Exquisite Ruby)
Crit Chance: 61%
Crit Damage Modifier: 59

Without compounding power (Triple Shatter using Wrack):

1017 x3
1017 x3
1069 x3
1069 x3
1050 x3
1012 x3

With compounding power (Triple Shatter using Wrack):

1212, 1152, 1048
1215, 1117, 1086
1215, 1117, 1086

Conclusion:

Compounding Power awards damage as follows in 3 clone shatter:

9% damage for the first clone
6% for the second
3% for the third

Interestingly enough Compounding Power still counts clones that are shattered and running at the target when calculating damage.

Thanks for this. Good info

What if you launch your MWx3 and immediately hit Mirror Image + Decoy. Do you get 3% * 6?

Edit: Your results don’t show clean +9%, +6%, and +3% damage bonuses.

It’s possible that vulnerability and some other lingering effects may have had something to do with the skewed numbers but the important thing I saw was the cascade in damage from the shatter as in:

First clone doing the most damage, second doing the third, and third doing the least. This shows me that there is indeed a damage cascade associated with Compounding Power, otherwise all the numbers would be identical like they are without the trait.

9%, 6%, 3% is a logical conclusion due to the cascading damage seen through the triple clone wrack.

I’m interested to see if you can get more than 9% from Compounding Power if you spawn more than 3 clones through buffering. This would be useful for spiking.

I think that makes alot of sense. I’ll have to confirm it to myself.

Good post but this was already known and is one of the reasons why Compounding Power is used in the standard shatter builds. See Osicats thread.

Great job in providing more details and re-verifying the mechanic.