So I did a little WvW on my ranger today (I won’t go into detail about that experience. Let’s just say it won’t happen again for some time.) and I noticed in one particular situation that my burn actually ticked for 1660 on one person (unsure if multiple people, I just noticed the one) multiple times. At least, that was the displayed value. Some math tells me that to tick for 1660, I would need 5328 condition damage, which isn’t possible as far as I know. However, if you do 1660/2, you see the number 830, which is very likely what my burns were ticking for at the time with 2008 condition damage.
The skills I used that can cause burning are Torch off-hand (both 4 and 5) and Flame trap. I was wondering if anyone can reproduce this or if it was just a server fluke/display bug that arose during the insane lag in WvW. Sorry no screenshots, I wasn’t recording at the time, but I know what I saw because it occurred several times during this isolated instance.
If some combination of these skills does cause burning to stack, I think that would be interesting until it gets fixed. If it is just some display bug with the new floaters or lag issue, I’m not surprised. I’m just curious as to why this occurred.