Guild Wars 2

pure zerker got -10% damage decrease.

its power builds that got kittened hard, i lost over 30% crit dmg.

a t s e.9614:

…What do you mean dude, power build is zerker isint it? If you’re PVT or something your damage didint drop its just as weak as before…

I use PVT on my ranger with zerker trinkets, for my crit tank roaming build (that I play the most) my crit damage has gone down 43%. WTF. Nice build diversity.

i meant semi zerker builds

Semi zerkers were nerfed less than pure zerkers.

The changes to crit damage only affect crits. So, if you run something like Valkyrie, which crits less frequently, you received less of a nerf.

Semi-zerkers/power builds used the fact that crit rate of trinkets were higher than that of armor, so they often have PTV armor with zerker trinkets, which indeed is a 30-40% loss in DPS, while full zerk it’s less of a loss.

to make it clear :

helm, in zerk has 32 precision, had 2% crit damage, and is now 32 ferocity, so 2% crit+2 points
zerk earring had 40 precision and 3% crit damage
40 ferocity is not quite 3% (lack 5 points)

Some pieces of armor do have less crit damage, but overall, it’s the same.
Crit damage from trinkets are way less after update, so the loss.

Though keep in mind that unless someone had 100% crit chance, it is nos a 30%decrese in damage, but in crit damage. non-crit hits still hit as kittene still has the same chance to deal crit damage, but the crit damage itself is lowered.

so assuming a 50% crit chance and a 80% crit damage before / 50% after (shown as 200%), it is a 15% decrease in dps, not a 30% (30% decrease on half the hits = 15% decrease overall)

conditions r over powering my condition clears way to easy …
and i am not doing enough damage to end the fight before getting over powered with conditions.

lol r we getting a condition clear buff to go with the damage nerf