Guild Wars 2

Since the latest patch the dmg output of the laser barrage skill (Called missile barrage but clearly are lasers fired), Skill 3 has dropped by 90%. What was easily tens of thousands of dps is now less than 1 strike from skill 1 or the rocket punch of skill 2. This must be an error!

So we had the Asura Golem doing crazy projectile damage weeks before and now you’ve done the other extreme in breaking another asura elite skill…. No good!

Not really, no elite skill is supposed to do massive damage like that. It was a bug, it got abused, it got fixed.

No the damage is incorrect, why on earth would you have a skill that hits that often to do LESS damage than a standard attack, the range of the barrage is not great and there is a fairly long cool down for any utility. If the one two punches did 5000 dps and the rocket punch a bit less, the barrage should certainly be several times these as it has a long cool down and is 20 hits! Why on earth have it at all for 2-3k dmg now?! If you think that’s unfair damage NOT at all, think how much damage the Meteor storm does to a target that doesn’t evade it, a 30second cool down vs an Elite skill that takes a few mins to cool down as well as to mount, also prone to being interrupted.

As said, it was abused and was nerfed. It should never have done the amount of damage you mention. Perhaps it should do a bit more, but they had to take quick action on it and that is the consequence.

I think you’re mixing up what was abused badly, the series 8 golem or whatever it’s named, the pink one was doing massive damage vs gates during the wvw tourney, that I accept. The Hazmat suit however was doing the damage I stated for a very long time and considering the cool down and fact you can’t move AND the skill can be interrupted, doing 10k+ dmg really is reasonable for an elite skill. As said my meteor shower does way more than 10k to a big target. Doing the same as a basic hit or less even when it’s a rooted skill beggars belief. The rocket punch will do similar damage now in a fraction of the time and with a faster recharge, very badly thought out if this isn’t a bug.