Guild Wars 2

The title of this thread may at first seem pretty stupid, but hear me out.

As a Ranger there are many traits and skills that have a bonus to “An attack” or “Next strike” What I’d like to know is why an attack that hits many targets at once or even pierces many targets, the bonus only ever hits one target.

Now some might say this is simply balance, so Rangers aren’t overpowered. And I’m fine if that’s the case (Although I still think Rangers deserve a bit of a buff). I would just like some clarification in the form of a tooltip for instance.

Some examples in case you can’t think of any:

Opening Strike + Barrage: 5 targets hit but only 1 of them is a Crit and only 1 target gets vulnerability.

Spider Venom + Path of Scars: Many targets hit and pulled but the venom is only applied once (and sometimes not at all. I think this may be buggy or the tooltip is wrong)

Attack of Opportunity + Longbow with Piercing Arrows: The damage increase is only counted once. (As far as I can tell)

So there you have it. Where is the line drawn? What counts as an attack and could we please have more info.

procs like this works only on 1 attack/dmg so for barrage only on the first hit, like rapidfire, parth of scars..

I know with attack of opportunity you have to connect with something.

IF you swing and miss you will still have the buff.

Bambula.3649:

procs like this works only on 1 attack/dmg so for barrage only on the first hit, like rapidfire, parth of scars..

First hit yes, but that’s 5 targets. So why not have the bonus to all 5 OR in the name of balance split the effect so it’s 1 crit plus say 1 stack of vuln to 5 targets instead of 5 stacks to one, it is an AoE attack after all.