Thread: Weird Heartseeker Problem

I wonder if anyone has the sam problem.First of all i havent changed gear or traits for along time now.
And usually Burn hot and Heartseeker did the most damage.But recently my Heartseeker barely reaches the numbers it should...
It's the same on lower level mobs and on-level mobs.
I do far more damage with swift bow and spamming my Quickshot.
Today i had a heartseeker doing 500 damage while my quickshot pumped out 2k on nearly every shot.
Any Ideas?

Phantom Heart Seeker nerf that the Creeps have been crying about finally happened?

What kind of mob was it? Were they normal, sig, elite, etc? Were you using any oils, normal damage, or some type of scroll damage? Many mobs have higher resistances to certain damages.

Originally Posted by Ayrolen

What kind of mob was it? Were they normal, sig, elite, etc? Were you using any oils, normal damage, or some type of scroll damage? Many mobs have higher resistances to certain damages.

Today it happened while helping a kinmember in Dol Dinen.The trolls in the back of it.
I barely use oils.Damage is normal.Only use Dev Pots sometimes.
But it's the same on all types of enemies.And it's the same in Instances,Skirms,PvE and PvP.
To give you a better idea...Let's take the Dwarves in Sarnur(not the buffed one's in the keep).
I often One-shot them with quickshot.And with swiftbow they fall before they know what hit them.
Heartseeker barely takes off half of their morale.
On level it's the same...only that my heartseeker has no chance of doing more than 1,5 k damage recently.
Couple weeks ago i often critted HS up to 5k or more.
Only thing that has changed is that i raised my virtues

Not sure the problem your having.. I used to have this problem, but as i have geared up slightly and changed to a 75 SA weapon. I use Burn Hot and HS, just about every 1 minute.. averages are around 2500-4000.. High ends hit around 8-10k. Hope that helps a little.

Originally Posted by Hallachil

Today it happened while helping a kinmember in Dol Dinen.The trolls in the back of it.
I barely use oils.Damage is normal.Only use Dev Pots sometimes.
But it's the same on all types of enemies.And it's the same in Instances,Skirms,PvE and PvP.
To give you a better idea...Let's take the Dwarves in Sarnur(not the buffed one's in the keep).
I often One-shot them with quickshot.And with swiftbow they fall before they know what hit them.
Heartseeker barely takes off half of their morale.
On level it's the same...only that my heartseeker has no chance of doing more than 1,5 k damage recently.
Couple weeks ago i often critted HS up to 5k or more.
Only thing that has changed is that i raised my virtues

The only thing I could think of, was that the dwarves in Sarnur are only affected by one damage type, and I think it was Ancient-Dwarf (Might be wrong, but I haven't returned there in years)? But as you said with regular mobs, it looks confusing since Heartseeker should deal at least 2,000 on a normal mob. Perhaps some of the mobs in Dol Dinen had an immediate effect to reduce the first hit by 60%? Although I don't remember ever seeing that.

I thought perhaps you were using light oil in Sarnur (heart seeker isn't affected by oils) but you said it's happening to you everywhere and you weren't using oil? /baffled

Check your heart seeker tooltip and see what kind of damage it says. Maybe it's bugged and only doing common damage.

screenshot of combat log please

Originally Posted by melyjely

I thought perhaps you were using light oil in Sarnur (heart seeker isn't affected by oils) but you said it's happening to you everywhere and you weren't using oil? /baffled

Check your heart seeker tooltip and see what kind of damage it says. Maybe it's bugged and only doing common damage.

Thanks.That got me to finding the answer.Unequipped traits,virtues,gear and logged off.Logged back in and reequipped all the stuff and the numbers are now normal.Guess it must have happened while adding virtues.

Much thanks and rep+