Guild Wars 2

Thanks Turamath. Your explanation makes sense. Good to know.

Here’s a screenshot.

I could be missing something, but this seems like a bug to me. I first noticed this several days ago when I was trying to kill a veteran in Malchor’s Leap near a skill point. Though I had just done the same skill point with my mesmer, I just couldn’t do enough damage to defeat the veteran. I just moved onto something else that day.
I was clearing the map in Mount Maelstrom today and though he’s at level 80, the regular enemies were just going down really slow.
Eventually I noticed that the on-screen damage numbers weren’t matching the numbers in the combat log in the chat window. Where the on-screen damage would indicate I was doing 100-800 damage per hit, the combat log was rarely exceeding 100.
I thought that I might not understand how the two displays work, so I switched to my thief in Iron Marches. I auto-attacked an enemy and watched both numbers and they matched.

Am I missing something? Any ideas on something I can try?

I tried 3 times, each time with other party members leaving shortly after we defeated Toxx and they got their chest items. After reading about people getting it solo I tried that. I got Smash the Town fairly easily that time, I just had to be thorough. I didn’t feel that there was anything that had to be smashed that wasn’t clearly something to smash. No incredibly small trees, no invisible items, no things in walls, no houses that looked like snow or rocks, no items anywhere but the main area. The one thing I almost missed was the bench, which I had got once before and looked for the other two times but couldn’t find (leading me to conclude that it had already been smashed when I went looking for it). Now that I got it, I honestly can’t believe that I could have missed anything being as thorough as I was previous times. It’s just my personal opinion, but I firmly believe that there’s a bug with party members leaving early.