Guild Wars 2

This is something that came to my mind yesterday while running some high scale fractals.

As we know, everything gets stupidly high toughness at some point, which makes power-based builds perform less well; those usually run on direct damage-buffing food like Truffle Steak. We also have lifesteal food though, which, while not necessarily being as strong as its own, ignores armor whenever it triggers. So I’ve been curious as to what is actually better for Berserkers in high scales; do you still get a decent boost from, lets say 100 power from a Truffle Steak, over the 325 Life Leech from an Omnomberry Pie (Both give 70 bonus precision), which can also help in keeping scholar bonus up? I sadly suck horribly at calculating/finding this out, but I know there’s some people here who love doing this.

So what I want to know is: Would normal stat increasing food (Truffle Steak, Butternut Squash…) be the better dps increase or would Lifesteal food win? I personally tend to move towards Lifesteal because it helps with Scholar, but I have no idea how much of a dps increase the foods actually end up being, especially not when confronted with a cubic ton of toughness. I’m also aware that this (probably) can’t easily be answered, but imo it would be something interesting to find out.

Oh and yes, seaweed salad would obviously win, but that stuff hurts your wallet badly if you’re poor like me.

Why does everyone refuse to learn about the Experimental Remnant?https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Experimental_Remnant It’s such a good food and I never see build crafters even mention it

Attribute based food would still win.

The reason being is due to the ICD on the lifesteal food. Regardless of how many attacks you can pull off in one second the lifesteal food will only proc one time assuming you land a crit. On top of that lifesteal food will only proc on one target within that ICD. All in all you will only ever get an extra splash of damage on one target. Given that you’re fighting a lot of mobs in fractals and quickness is more readily available more and more every day (boosting your actions per second) the cooldown on the lifesteal is what kills its damage potential

Attribute food affects every single strike on every single target so you gain the advantage by having a potential of more damage overall. So while individual hits may be doing less damage you’re still better off with attribute boosting food since you will more often than not be hitting multiple times in one second (be it from multiple targets or multiple attacks).

Stambogalizi beat me to the link for a very economically priced version of “Seaweed Salad”

stambogalizi.8356:

Why does everyone refuse to learn about the Experimental Remnant?https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Experimental_Remnant It’s such a good food and I never see build crafters even mention it

I think that food is great, but people don’t move when they are lawlhundredbladesfacerolling mobs and/or stacking.

Drath.9702:

I think that food is great, but people don’t move when they are lawlhundredbladesfacerolling mobs and/or stacking

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Oh and yes, seaweed salad would obviously win, but that stuff hurts your wallet badly if you’re poor like me.

^ Only reason I mentioned this. I see all the time on metabattle or buildcrafter’s videos them mentioning the Seaweed salad instead of the Exp Remnant and people don’t even know this exists.

Stambogalizi, I don’t think it’s “refusing to learn”, more like “forget about it because it’s only part of that one event chain” – That really looks like a good food, though.

Savacli, right, I completely forgot there’s an ICD of 1s, but I always thought it’s per target for some reason I myself don’t really know now that I think about it. lol

Thanks for the responses you two.

I’m pretty sure all ICDs are applied directly to you unless it says otherwise in the description itself, or it’s bugged somehow. So no, you can’t cleave 5 mobs and heal 1.5k per swing.

Wasn’t the ICD changed to 2 seconds?

Wethospu.6437:

Wasn’t the ICD changed to 2 seconds?

Wiki still says 1s, I’m not sure how updated that is, though.