Guild Wars 2

Part one: Mind wrack boggles me.

Ok, so I always notice that mind wracks damage per explosion goes down as the number of illusions increases. So this prompted me to jump into the heart of the mists for some testing.

The tooltip doesn’t clarify whether the damage indicated is meant to be per explosion, or if that is what the combined explosion damage is supposed to be. Either way, the tooltip is WAY off. Here are some observations on mind wrack.

1. Mind wrack’s damage goes up when you equip a weapon, but the tooltip doesn’t change. Definite bug.
2. Mind wrack’s damage goes up when you add power gear. The tooltip shows this increase in power.
3. Mind wrack’s damage decreases per explosion but increases in total damage (providing all illusions make it there and blow up successfully) as the number of illusions increases. However, I couldn’t make anything fit the tooltip.

These examples were done naked with no weapon equipped and the illusions were made from mirror images or decoy. Target used was light target dummy. No traits were used (all lines left at 0).

1 illusion tooltip: 280 damage, hit for 326 (indicates power scaling or base damage of tooltip vs actual is off)
2 illusions tooltip: 378 damage, each hit for 263.
3 illusions tooltip: 492 damage, each hit 216.

I have a feeling the damage indicated in the tooltip is meant to represent the total damage the combined explosions will do, however the tooltip obviously is lower than what actually happens, and is WAY off when you consider putting a weapon on does not change the tooltip at all.

Part two: Mantra of pain bug.

While I conducted these tests I noticed mantra of pains tooltip also did not increase in damage when I put on or took off my weapon. I thought “oh hey, must be just like mind wrack and doesn’t show the increase in the tooltip”. I testsed it anyway, and to my surprise my weapon had 0 effect on mantra of pains damage. This leads me to believe this is a bug, as weapon strength adds directly to the total attack stat just like power does, and should have an impact on mantra of pain’s damage, just like it affects mind wrack.

Anyone else can test this too so we can find out what the bugs exactly are?

The tooltips are horrible, do not expect the damage numbers and duration numbers to update properly.

I understand the tooltip bugs, but as noted in the post mantra of pain doesn’t get any benefit from the attack boost from weapons at all. It’s not just the tooltip. Is this intended?