Guild Wars 2

I’d like to know how everyone else feels about this but it’s a major gripe for me:

Why are so many of the skill descriptions, boons and conditions, traits and general character stats so vague?

As a fairly casual GW2 player having a bunch of numbers which I can directly compare would help a LOT when setting up builds or testing out equipment without actually having to head out and kill some stuff. Weapons and armor are exceptions with their damage and secondary stats listed but until I test out both weapons I can’t tell whether the sword with more damage or the one with more precision will give me better DPS.

That would be nice, hopefully they add in a base damage tooltip soon!

its been like that since beta weekends.

As someone who does DPS-math as a hobby, I’m naturally biased against it.

For me personally, if the game offered a straight-up DPS number, I’d be bored. There would be no mystery. No fiddling with equations, tweaking things around. I’d be utterly bored with the mechanics of the game.

And I’ll be honest, the calculations that Guild Wars 2 BuildCraft does for you are exactly what you’re looking for. The Effective Power is as close as you’re ever going to get to a universal DPS figure. Any deeper and you run into having to factor in skill coefficients, in which case Guild Wars 2 Skills Build Editor is your best choice. It doesn’t give you straight up DPS numbers, but it gives you the actual tooltips with a lot of room to adjust.

So use GW2 Buildcraft to figure out the damage and the GW2 Skills editor to compare the skills directly.

Olba.5376:

As someone who does DPS-math as a hobby, I’m naturally biased against it.

For me personally, if the game offered a straight-up DPS number, I’d be bored. There would be no mystery. No fiddling with equations, tweaking things around. I’d be utterly bored with the mechanics of the game.

And I’ll be honest, the calculations that Guild Wars 2 BuildCraft does for you are exactly what you’re looking for. The Effective Power is as close as you’re ever going to get to a universal DPS figure. Any deeper and you run into having to factor in skill coefficients, in which case Guild Wars 2 Skills Build Editor is your best choice. It doesn’t give you straight up DPS numbers, but it gives you the actual tooltips with a lot of room to adjust.

So use GW2 Buildcraft to figure out the damage and the GW2 Skills editor to compare the skills directly.

I’d never heard about GW2 Buildcraft. Thanks!