Guild Wars 2

Doing Vic the Iron today showed me how absolutely broken scaling for newbie maps is.

My healing skill (Wash the Pain Away) would barely heal enough to heal up one – ONE – of Vic’s 6 stacks of bleeding ticks. Overload water not even close.

Wash the Pain Away -> 211 healing done in three waves
Bleeding tick -> 200

Also, instead of healing skill healing up roughly 50% of my health pool as is normal with that skill, it barely makes a dent.

Health -> 1087
Healing done -> 20%

It feels like playing with 80% reduced healing challenge.

Not to mention… if you solo or duo Vic, he constantly, really CONSTANTLY uses his whirl skill, making this fight just hugely annoying.

DPS is way below my usual also, the whole fight took forever even though its a champ of same level, which I usually can kill before my earth elemental dies. But not in tier1 maps.

The issue isn’t scaling in low level maps, but that champ specifically. It’s a special event that got added recently and it’s supposed to be done in group (that’s why soloing it may be a pain). However, it feels like its damage is too high for its level and area. Curiously, the event info says it’s level 8, but the mob is level 10.

Just the 2 level difference would make him tankier and deadlier at the same time.

he’s a foe designed for higher level maps — i can’t imagine tackling him on a queensdale-level character. For L80 toons, though, he seems fine (to me, anyhow).