Guild Wars 2

OriOri.8724:

Assuming he was full ascended, berserkers armor and assassins trinkets, with full +5 infusions, and scholar runes (since this build would rely on bursting you down quick), that would bring him up to 2627 power and 220% crit damage. Then, they would have taken domination, which has mental anguish, so another 30% damage increase (combat log shows you doing nothing) on top of the 10% damage increase from scholar runes. Then he probably had illusions line, taking compounding power, which would be another 9% damage increase (1 illusion from mirror blade, 2 more from mirror images). So, 30% damage increase, 10% damage increase, 9% damage increase.

After accounting for those damage increases, the base damage per illusion is pretty low. 4,000 / 1.3 = ~3,000 damage. 3,000 / 1.1 = ~2730 damage. 2730 / 1.09 = ~2,500 damage per illusion. Now accounting for the critical damage (220%), the damage per illusion would have been around 1,136. That’s actually doable. The coefficient per illusion for a 3 illusion shatter is about 0.78, ascended GS has an average weapon strength of 1,100, and we know that he had at least 2627 power (haven’t accounted for utility yet).

He was almost certainly taking Rending Shatter in the domination line, which coupled with fragility explains the rising damage you see in the combat log. He was also probably taking shattered strength, that would give him 4 might, he could get another 3 might from Bountiful Disillusionment in the Chaos line for 7 might total. I can definitely see how he could reach such damage numbers, but everything would have to have lined up to do so. He might have had an extra stack of might from SoI, he could have had up to 200 extra power from a writ of masterful strength, I have no idea what consumable he used, but it probably gave him extra power as well. This damage is doable, but not easy to achieve. Plus, he could have just as easily been running full berserkers for the extra power and just got a lucky crit hit on mind wrack, which would definitely put this in the realm of possibilities.

Good guess, but I am not taking illusion, and I take confounding on the domination line. I run full zerk + scholar dom/duel/chrono.

I’m glad someone made another post about my brust damage tho.

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I’m glad my build is OP enough for someone to complain about it in WvW forum.