Guild Wars 2

it deals 650 damage at 5 stacks, no buff. This seems like PVP number to me. The tooltip still says 1450. Am I missing something or it’s really broken?

downscaling ? you are in lvl 80 zone ?

Pet’s have 0 condition damage no matter what, except for a few traits giving minimal condition damage boost (like +350 one).

Basically it’s the damage it does with a power build. I must admit though even with that reef drake always felt lacking. I sometimes buffed it with full might, and it will did laughable damage, so i wouldn’t put it past anet for having pvp damage on the pet.

It;s not a matter of high or low damage. It’s a matter of damage not calculated correctly. The reef drake deals 650 dmg for 5 stacks of confusion while the tooltip says 1450. It is very likely that the 650 is the PVP damage version. The PVE of that is supposed to be 1300. Add another recent 33% buff, 1450 is about the right number, except that it really does not do that damage.

This is definitely broken.

The tooltip is wrong but not in the way you think.

The formula for Confusion damage in PvE is “130 + (0.2 * Condition Damage) per stack”.

At 0 Condition Damage that is just 130 per stack or 650 for 5 stacks. Since the duration for that skill is 5 seconds that is a total of 650 * 5 = 3250 damage.

The damage displayed for conditions in tooltips is for total damage not per tick damage.

Khisanth.2948:

The tooltip is wrong but not in the way you think.

The formula for Confusion damage in PvE is “130 + (0.2 * Condition Damage) per stack”.

At 0 Condition Damage that is just 130 per stack or 650 for 5 stacks. Since the duration for that skill is 5 seconds that is a total of 650 * 5 = 3250 damage.

The damage displayed for conditions in tooltips is for total damage not per tick damage.

I see, thanks for clarification. Still have no idea what the 1450 dmg in the tooltip is supposed to represent though because normally when confusion are displayed as stacks in the tooltip, it’s supposed to show the damage per tick at those maximum stack (like mesmer scepter#3) in which case it should be 650 not 1450.

Actually I am wrong here. Confusion has to display the per tick damage since it will only do damage if the target does uses a skill.

This might just be an issue with the ranger F2. When I was checking I noticed that it doesn’t update when you put might on the pet. I only checked with a reef drake and a river drake but that covers both direct and condition damage.

Maybe the 1450 is assuming some sort of average attack speed.