Guild Wars 2

I notice how my damage keep going up by just auto attacking w/ greatsword. Over 100000+ damage in Boss Blitz

It’s just a glitch with the numbers. Your damage isn’t actually increasing.

RoseofGilead.8907:

It’s just a glitch with the numbers. Your damage isn’t actually increasing.

Unclear if it’s a glitch even, could be an intended undocumented change with 4/15. Never given any indication either way.

Happens on Spatial Surge, Arc Lightning, Flame Jet, Unload – just about any skill that ticks multiple times during cast and can be chained repeatedly.

forgot where i read it, but it could be the total dmg dealt, not the dmg per hit/tick.

dagrdagaz.4913:

forgot where i read it, but it could be the total dmg dealt, not the dmg per hit/tick.

Correct. It’s an annoying change because it makes it very difficult to tell how much damage you are actually doing; and makes the variable distance damage even more annoying and stupid.

dagrdagaz.4913:

forgot where i read it, but it could be the total dmg dealt, not the dmg per hit/tick.

Yes, that.

I didn’t see numbers like they were reporting (because I have auto-attack disabled?), but if you turn on the Combat option in any chat window you can see actual damage done by each attack and when I checked there it is adding them up. As someone else posted, all single skill with multiple attacks do this, but it should end after the combo is done. If you’re seeing 10000+ it sounds like a (minor) bug.

Bug or not, it’s still nice to have a gauge of how much damage you’re doing over time, even if it is just auto attacking.

I probably would have gotten closer to the 125k mark with flame jet if I stayed around longer.

I didn’t feel like getting squashed though.