Guild Wars 2

Let’s say the skills that come with my mainhand weapon of choice (#1, 2, 3) do a lot of condition damage. So I have a mainhand weapon with +condition damage. But the skills that come with my offhand weapon of choice (#4 & 5) do not do any condition damage. Is there any benefit to having an offhand weapon with +condition damage? Will it increase the damage that my mainhand skills do? Or should I tailor the stats of my offhand weapon to just what skills #4 & 5 do?

It doesn’t matter where the stats are coming from. They all count to your “global character stats”. When pressing “h” you can see your condition-dmg. This number is beeing used to calculate the dmg all your weapon skills do.

The only OH weapon stat that does not apply globally is the weapon’s damage.

MH base damage is used in the direct damage calculation for skills in the 1-3 slots. OH base damage is used in the calculation for the 4 and 5 slots. 2H base damage is used for all 5 slots… utility skills generally don’t use weapon damage at all, if they deal damage.

Weapon base damage doesn’t affect the damage dealt by conditions – condition damage is purely calculated based on the condition damage stat, and your character’s level.

The additional stats past the weapon’s base damage (power, condition damage, etc) are simply added into a cumulative total that’s used in all relevant calculations. Only the stats from your currently active weapon set are added (if you have weapon swapping available, the weapon(s) you’re not using aren’t added to your stats; when you swap they are, but the ones that you’ve stopped using aren’t)

Additionally for conditions/any attack that’s persistent, the damage is calculated by your current stats at the moment each damage tick occurs, not when you used the attack. If your stats change, the damage changes on the fly (so for example gaining might will cause your bleeds to magically deal more damage per tick even after you’ve applied them; swapping to a weapon set with less condition damage would make them start to deal less damage)

TY all. That was very helpful.

hmm I thought the weapon damage was an average of both hands?