Guild Wars 2

My fern hound’s bite ability tool tip says he should be doing 36 damage with it, yet in
the field my fern hound is only doing 7 damage with the bite ability, against any type
of monster.

Anyone know why this is?

you proberly want to look up something called (skill-specific coefficient)

Skill coefficient: Every skill has a unique coefficient used to calculate damage inflicted. Listed by the () after tool tip listed on wiki pages, not shown in-game however.

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The damage actually done will not correspond to the tooltip damage, since it depends on your opponents Armor value and other factors listed above

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Damage have a look at this page it will help explain

^^^^^^^^^Is not the answer

There is a bug that uses your stats to calculate damage shown on pet-skill tooltip

solrik.6028:

^^^^^^^^^Is not the answer

There is a bug that uses your stats to calculate damage shown on pet-skill tooltip

Well both anwsers are right no physical damage skill will do what it say on the tooltip for players either since they are all affected by your opponents armor etc.