Certain bosses doing 2x damage in factions

While walking around Cantha I've noticed that several bosses have been doing double the damage with a single attack. For example one mesmer boss used Cry of Frustration for 88 damage. Now at 16 domination the max damage is 44. Another example occured as you killed an afflicted boss his death aura did over 200 damage. Has anyone else run into this?

Stop using Frenzy!

Whats your AL? if you have lower armor (say 40 from seitung harbor) the you'll take double damage from attacks.

And heal sig!

60 al mesmer

The op is right. Besides, using frenzy, healsig, or bad armor would up damage from everything...not just bosses.

the 200+ damage spirit rifts hurt.

Yes bosses now do double damage. It's not a bug it's an in game mechanic. Makes it a little more difficult on you.

I've noticed this too. Monk boss in the 15 attribute quest used balthazars aura and kirins wrath (factions version of holy wrath) they both did double damage. I had 70al armor when that happened and my guildie saw it too. :<

It's not a bad feature in my opinion, bosses should be strong, not just have some different skills. Bosses are special, and this makes them special.

Okay that makes sense then, 150 point Signet of Judgement caught me offguard.

quoted for posterity.

If I recall Holy Damage ignores armor (true HD, not Judge's Insight), and does double damage to undead. Maybe you are truly a vampire and we must watch out for your likes in the future.

Me and my friend calculated the boss in the second to last mission has 30 Fire magic as he does insane damage with his Star burst spell. He's still EXTREMELY easy

There's a dredge fire elementalist boss in Ferndale that's simply retarded. I was unfortunate enough to run into him with most henches at around 30DP and having 5 of them drop, including both tanks, from tenai's heat (~110 damage per hit) followed by fireball (380 damage) was NOT pretty.

Needless to say I walked around him next time and not planning to touch him without prot spirit again.

now i understand why i almost got my arse fried, trying to get this damn old chest in the middle of the nagas .. 200 dmg from spirit rift dammit

is this applied to all factions bosses? specific ones? quest bosses only? or all bosses even in Tyria

I dislike this intensely. I always liked the fact that in Guild Wars, the bosses tended to fight at your level - the player and the bosses were on a similar playing field.

All bosses do double damage from what I understand.

i like the idea but not the way i discovered this

Quoted for truth. *holds out cross and garlic*

I wonder if this is retroactive, has anyone tried to kill glint since this?

Glint's 200-someodd damage is now 400-someodd

"Alesia, could you scrape me off the floor? Kthx."

On the up side, hexes now last the correct length on bosses, unlike back in Tyria.

Also, bosses activate skills a bit faster than normal.