Guild Wars 2

Help me understand this spell.

I was just messing around on a hero challenge in Auric Basic
and I just let the #1 staff spell run its course for this challenge,
and I finished the fight pulsing around 36,000 per pulse.

So I have to ask if those numbers are real damage or what it going on here?

Yes Im a new player, trying to understand this spell.

Thanks for any feedback.

Channel spells add the damage they do till they finish it. If you very quickly ‘cast a channel again’, it may bug and add multiple channels endlessly, till you get a very high damage number.

It last about 2-3 sec one channel. If the damage keeps adding more, it’s a bug (it should have reset by then).

If it ticks for 2500, 3000, 3500 – you’re not doing that dmg every time, but rather the difference, so 500 per pulse. The numbers you see is the damage added up from the beginning of the cast.

that makes sense. but it should be reset. this is absolutely a bug. i cant recall any game I have played where a damage spell report is cumulative.

The damage from those kind of channelled spells adds up, at least for me on eles scepter aswell, as long as the break between the channels is short enough.

doesnt seem like a good design imo.

in any case, i want them to also change the spell name to Sonar Beam because of the sound effect.

Spatial Surge (Mesmer gs) and hundred blades (warrior gs) are two other notables.
I once had a warrior try to convince me his hundred blades always did 75k on the heavy golems on spvp isle.
As for its sound, I like that its unique. I don’t need or want it to sound like a laser sci-fi beam. Could it sound different? Ya I suppose.