Guild Wars 2

What is the optimal ratio of Crit chance to Crit damage? There is a trade off between choosing one to another so there must be a point where adding say 50 precision would become worse than adding 50 ferocity. I know there are variables but for simplicity lets assume only buff is fury (100% uptime). Is there already an article about this?

Edit: something like this break even chart would be immensely helpful but i couldnt find any http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1li5q3/breakeven_points_of_power_vs_precision_mathtable

You should check out this thread (especially cat’s and my python scripts, which could easily be modified to give you what you seek): http://www.dtguilds.com/forum/m/6563292/viewthread/18718546-post-patch-assassin-mix-ep-evaluation

If you were to actually do that for your constraints, I’d probably expect precision to pretty much always win out over ferocity for any realistic scenario. Especially for scenarios where your critical chance isn’t approaching 100%.

Afaik, as long as you don’t overcap on critchance with all the buffs from your party, precision is the stat you should look for before you build for ferocity.

IIRC, Ferocity is a pretty weak stat.

Cheers for the answers!

DeKeyz and I made an updated version of that old ratio chart. the big problem was it did crit chance by increments of 5% which is a huge gap and current theorycraft is about nailing builds down to less than 1% dps differences. So this new chart cuts out all the crit chances and ferocity levels that are irrelevant and expands the depth of the options for people wearing Berserker/Assassins gear.

Anyway, enjoy.

@hybrid I might be wrong but aren’t the ferocity numbers ordered as ascending while the calculations are done as descending? Because otherwise the table doesn’t make much sense to me (although I do admit I am not good at reading spreadsheets).

The way the chart works is you find your Ferocity. Then you find your Precision. The point where they meet gives a Power number. If that number is greater than your current Power, your build will get a better DPS result by adding additional Power. If the number is greater than your current Power, you would get better DPS results by adding either more Precision or more Ferocity (currently hard to do without Ferocity main stat gear).

Worth keeping in mind buffs from food, banners and Might when looking at the chart.

For example, fully buffed meta warrior build with Truffle Steaks has 91% crit chance, 1.28% crit damage and 3508 Power. Optimal Power is 3562. Therefore if you wanted to know what Infusions to put in your gear, the answer is 55 worth of Power infusions and 15 worth of Precision infusions.

The chart is slightly imperfect because it rounds crit chance to an even number and when we’re talking about less than 1% DPS differences the rounding of crit chance from an uneven Precision number is going to change the results. But for a casual min/maxer, it’s still pretty useful.

You are also missing 1.24% crit damage. Which is the standard for a 6/6/0/0/2 build with no ferocity food.