Guild Wars 2

Hey fellow warriors!

While leveling my warrior alt I came across something I couldn’t explain and decided to ask some more experienced warrior players for an explanation.

Note: my warrior is currently lvl 48

When testing with the hundred blades skill i noticed something odd. The damage numbers are very high, but they seem to do a less portion of the enemies health then they should.

When looking at howmuch health a normal mob has with my auto attacks i calculated that a normal mob around my level has ~5000 health. My auto attack deals around 250 each hit, which is about 5% of the mobs health, the final blow of my hundred blades deals about 1800 damage, which should be 36% of the mobs health bar, however it looks more like 10 to 15% of the health bar when it hits. My total hundred blades damage is around 5500 to 7000 damage, which in theory should kill the mob by itself, however when i use the ability it only deals around 50% of the mobs health.

Anyone noticed this aswell and/or has an explanation?

Greetz,
Seneth

Numbers add up instead of showing different numbers if one skill deals damage fast enough.

So that 5500 – 7000 is the total damage dealt by the skill.

I believe what the OP means to say is that the final number that pops up at the end of 100 blades is 1800. In that case, 1800 is the total dmg the skill did over its 3sec (or however long it lasts) cast not just what the final strike did. I believe you can open the combat log to see how much dmg each individual hit of the skill did (in the chat box go to the little gear thing and check the box next to ‘combat’ iirc)

Yea I always wondered this too. Seems like my A/M kills mobs faster even though GS puts up big numbers.

In general, any channeled ability will display the total damage across all hits of the ability, not the individual damage of each hit. So with the auto-attack chain, the abilities are not part of one single channeled attack, so it displays them all seperately. Since 100 blades is a single channeled attack (i.e. you can see its cast bar while using it on your screen), you instead get the total cumulative damage the ability has dished out.

Also keep in mind that there’s this weird bug where the added totals don’t reset, and you can end up seeing gigantic numbers like 30k+ and such. I don’t think any warrior abilities really experience this though. You usually see it on things like mesmer greatsword and engineer flamethrower.

Totally unrelated but 250 damage per hit on a GS warrior at level 48 is pretty bad. You should probably upgrade your gear some.