Stealth Damage Nerf in the Patch?

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Posted by: Dredlord.8076

Dredlord.8076

I run power build and last week I was hitting for consistent 4.5 k lifeblast crits with highs of 6k

dagger auto chains up to 8k

I log in after the patch and I am lucky to be hitting for 3.5 k lifeblasts and I havent seen a dagger auto chain add up to much more than 5 k

has anyone else running a glass canon build noticed a damage reduction?

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Posted by: LameFox.6349

LameFox.6349

Short of having tested before & after in PvP with steady weapons it’s pretty hard to say. Players are the least consistent things ever, mobs vary, and if you attack the same mob a lot the thing itself could have become tougher (edit: well in that case you might notice with other classes though if you do the same things with them often).

Would be funny if they buffed the golems in the lobby sometime though to throw everyone off…

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Posted by: XiL.4318

XiL.4318

Yeah they nerfed Necro Damage across the board.

You know this whole, “Lets make this an Esport” thing, will never happen if they can’t support every class with at least one competitive player that can be in every meeting working to address balance issues. That just simply is not the case currently for Necro. The only people at Anet playing Necro are the poor bottom rung QA people who have no interest whatsoever in the class and are just forced to run it through the testing paces.

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Posted by: Nuhj.8372

Nuhj.8372

Neither weapon damage nor power coefficients for Daggers seem to have changed as far as i can tell. Under which conditions do you run those tests?

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Posted by: Sekundes.2376

Sekundes.2376

maybe you were in a downscaled state??

why would they do that to us… we are the communities favorite class after all =)

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Posted by: Nilgoow.1037

Nilgoow.1037

Short of having tested before & after in PvP with steady weapons it’s pretty hard to say.

By chance, I had done this exact thing to test the force/accuracy sigils in a different thread…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/First-to-answer-this-question-gets-100g/first#post966116

Today, under the same conditions, I’m getting roughly the same numbers.

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Posted by: Dredlord.8076

Dredlord.8076

Short of having tested before & after in PvP with steady weapons it’s pretty hard to say.

By chance, I had done this exact thing to test the force/accuracy sigils in a different thread…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/First-to-answer-this-question-gets-100g/first#post966116

Today, under the same conditions, I’m getting roughly the same numbers.

are you a pure damage build?

I suspect they may have capped some of the damage like they have with the lich #1 skill.

I stopped using lich because of this. At a certain point I noticed my lifeblast started to outdamage the lich nuke when I got more power, crit and crit damage gear.