Guild Wars 2

with the upcomeing patch there will be new stats called fortitute instead of crit dmg how will be celestial gear balanced will other stats be increased or something? beacose as current the ammount of crit dmg loss on celestial will be alot bigger than zerker or assassins or will anet let us switch stats on our acended celestial armors?

hmmmm, no the amount of loss on critical damage is not going to be a lot bigger then on zerker.
Ferocity will give about 10% less criticaldamage then the current critical damage itself. So both on celestial and beserker, the amount of loss on critical damage will be 10%. Cause critical damage relates a lot on power cause it is depending on that for the base damage that is multiplied by factor x (where x is depending on critical damage now and ferocity later). The amount of power on bezerker is a lot higher then on celestial, meaning that the amount of critical damage you can do on celestial is smaller then on bezerker (but you get many other interesting bonusses). A 10% reduction will not change that, and will mean that celestial is not hit as hard as beserker.

The concern has been put forward many, many times. We’re just in ‘wait and see’ mode until the patch arrives or someone there finally decides to spill the beans.

Next patch wont change crit damage to ferocity.

‘the patch’ not ‘next patch’

Nike.2631:

‘the patch’ not ‘next patch’

Topic states next patch, which is misleading.

I cant finde the exact quote atm.
But it was said that celestial is note supposed to be nerfed more than crti dmg in general.
So i suppose there will be fortitute on it?

Having a full celestial set and lots of crystals im also concerned.

mercury ranique.2170:

hmmmm, no the amount of loss on critical damage is not going to be a lot bigger then on zerker.
Ferocity will give about 10% less criticaldamage then the current critical damage itself. So both on celestial and beserker, the amount of loss on critical damage will be 10%.

Crit dmg on celestial is currently greater than on zerker. After the change it will be a secondary stat on zerker and a stat on celestial of the same amount as the other stats on celestial which is less than the secondary stats on other stat combinations. Therefore the loss of crit dmg on celestial will be far greater. They have said they will look at raising the level of all stats on celestial to compensate but it remains to be seen by how much.

Its clear that this has been mishandled by the balance team with the loss on celestial not having been considered until it was brought up on the forum.

morrolan.9608:

mercury ranique.2170:

hmmmm, no the amount of loss on critical damage is not going to be a lot bigger then on zerker.
Ferocity will give about 10% less criticaldamage then the current critical damage itself. So both on celestial and beserker, the amount of loss on critical damage will be 10%.

They have said they will look at raising the level of all stats on celestial to compensate but it remains to be seen by how much.

This particular part of the statement needs to be one of the red-announcements that plaster across the forum when you log in. Not enough people have heard this yet.