Guild Wars 2

I while ago I made a warrior, I use axe/warhorn, and since a short while ago it seems my
mainhand axe damage seems to have lowered by about 15%. At lower level a while ago,
with the same gear, I was doing significantly higher damage than I do now at a higher
level.

The mainhand axe damage seems to have gone down by something between 10% and
20%. Did anyone else notice something like this, especially in mainhand axe autoattack
damage?

It’s possible I am just being paranoid, but it really feels like I am doing significantly less
damage with the mainhand axe as a warrior. I didn’t see anything about this on any of
the patch notes, or did I miss something?

If someone can tell me that I am definitely wrong about this, then that would be very
good. It just reminds me a bit of the feeling I got as a ranger after the shortbow change,
and that wasn’t a very nice feeling. It’s not like axe was overpowered in any way, since
eviscerate got nerfed so badly after they made the burst trait line totally useless.

Anyway, if someone can do some kind of test and tell me I am totally wrong, I would be
very grateful.

I found another weird problem.

At level1, my axe auto attack does 40 damage.
At level7, with the same gear, my axe auto attack still does 40 damage.

Depending on where you are at you may have been downleveled.

My axe is doing the same damage as it has been.

ya, same damage here as always…

damage is more gear based than level based and if u in same area you get down leveled…

In fact when I get downleveled from lvl7 to lvl6, my damage actually gets lower than it is at lvl1.

At lvl1 my damage is 40.

At lvl7, downleveled to lvl6, my damage is 38.

So when I get downleveled from level 7 to level 6, my damage drops below to where it
was at lvl1. And as I level up, my damage stays the same despite my power increasing.

How can that be right?

They tweaked downleveling in the update today.

I just went to WvW, and as my power went to 2200, my damage only went up to 93.

At 50 power, I get 40 damage.
At 2200 power, I get 93 damage.

???

fellyn.5083:

They tweaked downleveling in the update today.

That really doesn’t explain what’s going on, getting downleveled from lvl7 to lvl6,
should not drop my damage below to that when I was lvl1.

When I got downleveled to lvl2, I only did like 3 damage per hit anymore. At level 1
I did 40, yet when I get downleveled from 7 to 2, I do 3 damage instead of 40.

And increasing power from leveling, should increase damage too, right now it just
stays the same, the power gained from leveling has no effect on damage right now.

Well yeah, that seems really broken. Your first post didn’t really describe the issue adequately.

eviscerate still hitting hard for me in wvw the only high damage skill on the axe.

it is possible to notice lower damage since this last update, because in the update notes it is specified that:

“Attribute calculations for dynamic level scaling have been rebalanced. In general, this means weaker when adjusted down, stronger when adjusted up. Rewards when adjusted down have been increased to compensate. It is now possible to receive your own level of loot from any level of enemy. "

apocalyps.7106:

it is possible to notice lower damage since this last update, because in the update notes it is specified that:

“Attribute calculations for dynamic level scaling have been rebalanced. In general, this means weaker when adjusted down, stronger when adjusted up. Rewards when adjusted down have been increased to compensate. It is now possible to receive your own level of loot from any level of enemy. "

ah that explains a lot =D

Your base damage decrease because it should be compensated by your gear.

Played the whole morning with an axe, no problem whatsoever. fractal or level 25 map. I clearly damaged less in the level 25 map than before, which is just fine to me because I didn’t like 2 shoting things.