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Johngo0036 wrote: »

I have had a heavy attack hit me for more than 20k,

I think these figures you are quoting are normal however i dont get anywhere near them,

some builds focus on boosting heavy dmg etc...

The only way someone is going to hit for 13k on light attack is via the Sorcerer ultimate overload. It will appear on your death recap as "Overload Light Attack". Overload is an ultimate that transforms your weapon into two fists of lightning, and you can light attack for massive single target damage, or you can heavy attack for massive AoE damage in a cone. Every attack launched will consume some ultimate.

Heavy attacks however, it's perfectly possible for those to hit 13k out of stealth, thanks to sets/buffs like Molten Armaments, Undaunted Infilitrator/Unweaver and Bound Armaments. If you want to factor in stealth, the stealthed multiplier for a heavy attack far exceeds the multiplier of a regular ability, and values of 20k+ stealthed heavy attacks are not uncommon.

On top of all these ways to boost light/heavy attack damage, there is finally the Champion System, which has a whole tree (Atronarch) dedicated to boosting the damage of light/heavy attacks, in addition to the respective +damage type passives, namely Elemental Expert for Destuction Staves, Thaumaturge for the Restoration Staff and Mighty for all other weapons.