critickitten, can you show the math that supports your overpowered theory?
No, you can’t.
Um, I just did prove it in my last post, which you obviously didn’t read very well.
It would only take five people running at 25 stacks of bleed to quintuple the amount of bleed damage a world boss is sustaining at a given time, which in turn means it will die at a SIGNIFICANTLY faster rate.
Supposing we have a world boss taking 10k damage per second from direct sources and only the 1062 from bleed that I previously mentioned, if you remove the hard cap and instead set things up so that each player can stack bleed up to 25 times, the boss just went from taking ~11062 DpS to about 15312 DpS. In case you’re not mathematically inclined, that means he’s taking damage at approximately 138% of the previous rate, meaning his health will be dropping MUCH faster per second than it was before. And that’s with only five players stacking 25 stacks of bleeding at once. What if it’s ten? Or twenty? You make it sound like there are “so many” players getting ripped off by this cap, but fail to realize that if indeed there are “so many” people being ripped off by this cap, its removal would exponentially increase the amount of damage a world boss is sustaining per second. That will undoubtably lead to a nerf to condition damage, because I rather doubt the ANet staff will be all that keen on seeing their giant world bosses go down that quickly.
You keep insisting it won’t be overpowered, but you have to know that the devs won’t just allow players to stack hundreds of bleeds onto a boss at once unless they decrease the power of those bleeds. They put the cap into the game to keep players from stacking bleeds that high, it’s simple logic that if they remove the cap, they’re probably going to reduce the damage at the same time. Because why would they have the cap at all if not to keep a hard limit on the power of conditions? A limit which is quickly exceeded by your idea to remove the cap?
As for your “arguments”, both of them are dismissed merely by reality:
1) It’s true that bleed stacks “fall off” after a given period of time, but that doesn’t mean they do LESS damage once a stack falls off because bleed damage is not calculated based on the number of stacks currently active. Each stack is calculated individually. Thus each stack will still inflict the full amount of damage before it falls off.
2) You assert that condition removal fixes the problem, but exactly how often do you see world bosses using condition removal in great enough quantities to get rid of the conditions inflicted on them? Because I’ll tell you how many times I’ve seen it happen: ZERO. Many world bosses don’t appear to have condition removal at all. So it’s safe to say that a condition, once inflicted, will stay for the entire duration. And if condition removal were added, you’d be among the first to complain that you’re being “nerfed” again.
I do so love that my opinion is “uninformed” simply because it disagrees with yours, though. Or maybe I have a pretty decent idea what I’m talking about, and you’re the one not comprehending. The only way you’ll convince them to remove the cap is to somehow convince them that there’s nothing overpowered about a world boss having hundreds of bleed stacks on it. And I think we both know that you’re not up to that task, since your core arguments revolve around things which don’t actually occur in the game.
