Guild Wars 2

I cant find the nerf on last patch notes, but im sure that i hit for 40-50% less damage with it.

Was nerfed or not??

Are you sure about that? Lets not make panic here, theres plenty of it already. What kind of damage did you deal with it pre patch? What gear did you use? Did you use it in a zerg? Maybe you need more might to make a comparison.

nagymbear.5280:

Are you sure about that? Lets not make panic here, theres plenty of it already. What kind of damage did you deal with it pre patch? What gear did you use? Did you use it in a zerg? Maybe you need more might to make a comparison.

same armor, same damage, same crit …….. i deal prepatch 1400-1500 to non heavy user armor, now 1100 or less.

No we’ve already had it mentioned in a few other threads that it was nerfed as well.
No PVE split there either even though it was already pretty anemic for anything besides “yellow” Objectives that had hitboxes large enough to be hit by multiple tics.

ilr.9675:

No we’ve already had it mentioned in a few other threads that it was nerfed as well.
No PVE split there either even though it was already pretty anemic for anything besides “yellow” Objectives that had hitboxes large enough to be hit by multiple tics.

Thank you good sir, you saved me from buying knights armor and berserker accesories!

I just tested the damage of the longbow in the mists, and this is what I came out with:

On heavy golems with a steady longbow (216 weapon str) and 916 power:
Long range shot 1,000+ range: 83 damage
Rapid fire: 34 damage per hit
Barrage: 36 damage per hit

Compared to the damage formula based on skill coefficients before the latest patch:
Long range shot: 262 × 916 x x 0.9 / 2600 = 83
Rapid fire: 262 × 916 × 0.375 / 2600 = 34.6
Barrage: 262 × 916 × 0.4 / 2600 = 36.9

Conclusion: None of these skills had their damage reduced in the latest patch, in SPvP at least. I may do a test in PvE to see if that format is affected, just to be sure.

EDIT: I just tested damage on dummies in lions arch. Critical hits aren’t a factor in this test as they don’t take critical hit damage, and I also used all longbow affecting traits to see if those were having an impact on the damage of barrage.

This one won’t be a completely accurate test as I don’t have the patience to get the minimum and max hit, or find the armor values of the dummies which a google and wiki search didn’t provide.

Instead i just used barrage and rapid fire 30 times and took the average:
30 rapid fires came to 539.73 per hit on average.
30 barrages came to 575.2 pet hit on average.

Barrage has a coefficient 6.25% higher than rapid fire, so if you boost rapid fires damage by 6.25% to try to make them equal, you come out with 573.463125 compared to 575.2 from barrage, which is within the expected margin of error.

Based on this, it is very unlikely that barrage has been affected in PvE, unless something wacky is going on with the critical hit modifier.

It’s possible this may be a bug in PvE. If we ask nicely, I’m sure ANET will consider fixing our build!

Perhaps barrage dealt more damage than it was supposed to and anet fixed it for us….