Guild Wars 2

I will try to explain as well as possible.

on my guardian I use a greatsword when I use skill #2 and have critical hits upto 3-4k range on the screen, But the combat log doesn’t show that damage only the base damage around 260-700

now when I just let skill 1 autoattack the correct damage is used in the combat log including the critical hits.

now I’ve been watching the mobs health bar while attacking with skill 2 and skill 1 and I am convinced the critical hits with skill 2 are not actually doing critical damage, 1 critical hit with skill 1 drops the mobs health a heckuva lot more than with a full skill 2 round with crits.

anyone else wanna check this out?

guardian greatsword #2 is multiple hit skill
that 3-4k damage on screen, is sum of all #2 skill hits
in chat log you see individual hits

i hope that explains what you missunderstood

It would explain it, except I already thought of that while I was doing the testing, you should check this out in real time.

when I start whirl it hits at let’s say 1k then 2.3k, 2.9k, 3.1k, 3.5k, as I am watching the health bar of the mob and watching the log, the log is saying 237, 239 ,348, 723, 740.

now while i’m watching the mob’s health bar it goes down about 15% during the cycle of Whirl, and then I start over with new mob using skill 1 until it crits on the first shot, it crits for 3k and the mobs health bar drops about 20% on just 1 strike.

then I found one of those unexploded mortar shells in Cursed Shore, I threw it at a mob and it hit for 5k and dropped it’s health a good 30%

according to the critical hits displayed on the screen my Whirl should have that health bar down to less than half at least.

I need to use a video capture prog to go hit by hit and dissect this even more

You had understood that wrong m8
The numbers you see above the enemy while using whirl is a cumulative number of the whole dmg which that one activation of the skill does, it’s the same for some other skills in-game (like warriors 100b, Thiefs Pistol Whip and I believe that the Rangers Rapid fire does the same), but the combat log shows every hit by the ability separately.

So an example:

Let’s say that the ability does 300 dmg with every hit (to preserve the simplicity of an example), then:
1) the dmg above the enemy would be like 300 → 600 → 900 →1200 etc etc (adding every hit to the whole skill dmg.
2) combat log would show 300, 300, 300, 300 showing every hit separately.

Is that clarification enough for you?

not sure how to say this, I crit for 5K and the mobs healthbar moves down a 1/6th with skill 2 Whirl and then on the same mob after he heals completely I hit him for 5K on skill 1 and his bar goes down 1/3rd something is wrong.

both hits are 5K yet only 1 is actually doing 5k Damage as tested by a unexploded shell as a reference.

try it out you’ll see that not all critical hits are doing critical damage.

I mean kill 1 mob over and over and over and over and over to see what is happening with the damage.

Can you post a video?