Guild Wars 2

And make armor/toughness a better stat to stack.

You want to make the already squishy classes more squishy with no adjustments to enemy or player damage?

Seems legit.

Just make armor work like weapon damage. A separate multiplier. I’m not sure why weapon damage works one way and armor a different way.

I personally believe that ANet really didn’t do a very good job thinking through their game mechanics. Stuff like condition duration’s additive stacking is just ridiculously bad design.

Yaki.9563:

Just make armor work like weapon damage. A separate multiplier. I’m not sure why weapon damage works one way and armor a different way.

I personally believe that ANet really didn’t do a very good job thinking through their game mechanics. Stuff like condition duration’s additive stacking is just ridiculously bad design.

Armor is a separate multiplier.

Damage dealt is: ([Skill Base Damage + (Power * Weapon Damage * Skill Co-efficient)] * Modifiers) / (Toughness + Defense)

Toughness is an excellent stat to stack.

Esplen.3940:

Yaki.9563:

Just make armor work like weapon damage. A separate multiplier. I’m not sure why weapon damage works one way and armor a different way.

I personally believe that ANet really didn’t do a very good job thinking through their game mechanics. Stuff like condition duration’s additive stacking is just ridiculously bad design.

Armor is a separate multiplier.

Damage dealt is: ([Skill Base Damage + (Power * Weapon Damage * Skill Co-efficient)] * Modifiers) / (Toughness + Defense)

Wrong.

There is no “Skill Base Damage”. Not in that sense, anyway.

And besides, I think that he meant to change the damage formula from:

• (Power x Weapon Damage x Skill Coefficient) / (Toughness + Defense)

to

• (Power x Weapon Damage x Skill Coefficient) / (Toughness x Defense)

That would be rather insane, though, since that would change the divisor from something like 1800-4000 to 809,744 – 2,268,203. The amount of Defense your armor gives is slightly less than the common amounts of Weapon Damage. The end result? If Toughness = Power, then your damage is Skill Coefficient, and that would be <10 for all skills in the game.