Guild Wars 2

what is the hardest single hit to come from a ranger weapon? GS4? would GS2 be the hardest ability that you can hit with consistently?

can we judge purely from tooltip damage values, or do coefficients for final damage change depending on the skill?

4900 with Longbow

i’m not talking about attack chains like Rapid Fire, just 1 single hit.

i see that Swoop ( GS3 ) has the highest tooltip damage possibly.

Raven F2 Attack, none of the Ranger Attacks himself deal high numbers.

GS #2 probably is the highest hitting single skill we have, birds/cats can also pop big numbers if you use every single pet buff reaching 6k+ crits easily.

I know you wasn’t talking about Rapid Fire but I was hitting 6k easily with it last night.

Sleepy.2647:

GS #2 probably is the highest hitting single skill we have, birds/cats can also pop big numbers if you use every single pet buff reaching 6k+ crits easily.

GS#2 is the highest hitter we have I think. With a crit I have made it hit 5k on an 80 in WvWvW. I could boost that more with SotW or SotH (assuming they fixed the bug where it didn’t apply to your character when traited), but the damage with it is already spectacular and I want to maintain some survivability. Pets hit high if ignored. First thing I do when I fight another ranger is check out their buffs to determine their build. If they seem to be geared toward conditions or pet damage, I burst the pet down first and then the ranger is an easy kill.

5k+ crit #1 longbow
6k+ #2 greatsword

Pvp.2758:

5k+ crit #1 longbow
6k+ #2 greatsword

Ummmmmmm….no…I would love to see proof of 5k hits from lb #1

crebosh.3548:

Pvp.2758:

5k+ crit #1 longbow
6k+ #2 greatsword

Ummmmmmm….no…I would love to see proof of 5k hits from lb #1

easy, you kill a lvl 1 in WvWvW………

Rocklin.4106:

Raven F2 Attack, none of the Ranger Attacks himself deal high numbers.

Yea, pet burst easily blows anything our weapons can do out of the water.

Cutsu you beast

I have seen maul do some good damage, and one thing I have noticed in general in this game is that the party attacks hit really hard. Guardians mace 3 hits hard as a parry, and same as the warriors sword parry.

They really need to fix Swoop. It should do more damage then maul but it doesn’t. Instead it does the same damage as crippling throw which it shouldn’t. Since the Swoop skill consists out of pure damage and doesn’t provide any condition or boon it should be our highest damaging greatsword skill just as the tooltip describes.

24k …on a bunny. He put up a good fight after that though.

Blazinflames.8415:

They really need to fix Swoop. It should do more damage then maul but it doesn’t. Instead it does the same damage as crippling throw which it shouldn’t. Since the Swoop skill consists out of pure damage and doesn’t provide any condition or boon it should be our highest damaging greatsword skill just as the tooltip describes.

On tooltip, the swoop coeff is 1.4, maybe it’s a lil too high. 1.2 to Swoop (it’s 1.0 in game), but a better one for the #1 could be nice.

Blazinflames.8415:

They really need to fix Swoop. It should do more damage then maul but it doesn’t. Instead it does the same damage as crippling throw which it shouldn’t. Since the Swoop skill consists out of pure damage and doesn’t provide any condition or boon it should be our highest damaging greatsword skill just as the tooltip describes.

it’s also a leap finisher. if you play trap ranger it’s basically an easy combo field and fire aura.