Guild Wars 2

today when I running WvW fighting a group of ppl, I turned to plague form, running around, then died almost instantly from like 1/2 HP.
I checked combat log and saw some crazy numbers —- necrotic slash 3.7k, necrotic stab 3.3k, necrotic bite 5.6k… while at the same time, meter shower hit me only 600, hammer slash about 400……
I have 5.7k armor while in plague form and most likely that necro is in weakness (coz I am using #3), even I have 25 stack of vul it will still be counted as 4.3k armor, that necro hit me about 12k in like 1 sec (most likely with weakness), which means he can hit someone with 3k armor for about 30k in 1 sec —-—- how can a necro hit that hard >?????
Is there any trick/build I don’t know?

The scaling on dagger#1 is impressive. With sigils, might and other fluff it hits like a truck on steroids. Being a fast animation (almost 2s for full chain) its like a mini burst.
The only thing that explains this, that you got blinded and the weakness didn’t applied to that necro. Maybe you had vulnerability on you too.

He may have just been lucky and not recieved any glancing blows when attacking. Although it does seem strange that he hit you that hard while you were in plague form. My full ascended beserker necro only hits 5k on the final hit on trash mobs when unbuffed. So i guess its possible if he was a fully buffed up necro but thats rare in wvw.

Yeah damage reduction on weakness is random, that’s why Plague 2 is better. In wvw, full zerker with food and consumable buffs and 25 stacks of bloodlust/perception, that sortn of damage is attainable.

Are you certain that the damage was dealt after you were in plague form?
If you died almost immediately it could be that the Necro had hit you before you entered plague but the damage only registered afterwards due to connection issues or lag.

It would require a ludicrous amount of buffs to allow a necrotic bite to hit 5k damage on a 5700 armor target.

Kiriakulos.1690:

Are you certain that the damage was dealt after you were in plague form?
If you died almost immediately it could be that the Necro had hit you before you entered plague but the damage only registered afterwards due to connection issues or lag.

It would require a ludicrous amount of buffs to allow a necrotic bite to hit 5k damage on a 5700 armor target.

This…. Those numbers don’t reflect reality. I am not saying it isn’t possible under the most extreme of circumstances, but to be clear, in those circumstances any heavy DPS class would have hit you that hard. Not a “OMG Necro DPS so amazing!”. I would have loved to see an eviserate hit if a necro auto attacked you for 5.7k.

Yes I am sure it’s under plague form, if I was not in plague I won’t be that surprised since I have get some 4k+ dagger on lv80 mobs when I ran zerk gears in PVE.
I poped up plague with about full HP, then I think I was focused by the group, then my HP get down slowly as usual, after 5+ sec I have about 1/2 left, I am expecting to last another 5-10 seconds but I died instantly. This is in-normal to me, so I checked combat log to see who give me the deadly strike then I found these crazy numbers. A ele hit me 600 with meter shower right before that, and a warrior hit me 400 with hammer smash right after that and of coz there were some other small damages, but the main part is the necro dagger. I just don’t understand how a necro can hit that hard even with the extreme boon stacks.

Kiriakulos.1690:

Are you certain that the damage was dealt after you were in plague form?
If you died almost immediately it could be that the Necro had hit you before you entered plague but the damage only registered afterwards due to connection issues or lag.

It would require a ludicrous amount of buffs to allow a necrotic bite to hit 5k damage on a 5700 armor target.