Guild Wars 2

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Rotation – the most efficient order of using abilities.
Min-Max – doing everything to maximize whatever is important, in this game, it’s damage. So in this case, it would refer to using all consumable items, all buff’s ect. to do the most damage possible.

Arrk.4102:

Rotation – the most efficient order of using abilities.
Min-Max – doing everything to maximize whatever is important, in this game, it’s damage. So in this case, it would refer to using all consumable items, all buff’s ect. to do the most damage possible.

I personally find marauders + zealot to be a potent combination. You sacrifice a little damage in order to reset faster. Even if you’re daredevil those three dodges still need proper management and you will need to tank some smaller hits. Staff 5 is good for damage and dodging, but it costs a nice bit of initiative so a good rotation involves mostly autoattacking, staff 2 for weakness, more autoattack, staff 5 for big attack evade +damage, and staff 4 for strategic blinds. Base heals tend to be weak and all you do with zealot is sacrifice a bit of fercoity, which only comes into play during critical hits anyway and with four pieces of marauder armor plus five pieces of marauder jewelry (trinkets, one ring, amulet, and zealot ring) you’re still going to have lots of ferocity to boost your bonus damage when it procs.

Arrk.4102:

Rotation – the most efficient order of using abilities.
Min-Max – doing everything to maximize whatever is important, in this game, it’s damage. So in this case, it would refer to using all consumable items, all buff’s ect. to do the most damage possible.

Thanks.

Agemnon.4608:

Arrk.4102:

Rotation – the most efficient order of using abilities.
Min-Max – doing everything to maximize whatever is important, in this game, it’s damage. So in this case, it would refer to using all consumable items, all buff’s ect. to do the most damage possible.

I personally find marauders + zealot to be a potent combination. You sacrifice a little damage in order to reset faster. Even if you’re daredevil those three dodges still need proper management and you will need to tank some smaller hits. Staff 5 is good for damage and dodging, but it costs a nice bit of initiative so a good rotation involves mostly autoattacking, staff 2 for weakness, more autoattack, staff 5 for big attack evade +damage, and staff 4 for strategic blinds. Base heals tend to be weak and all you do with zealot is sacrifice a bit of fercoity, which only comes into play during critical hits anyway and with four pieces of marauder armor plus five pieces of marauder jewelry (trinkets, one ring, amulet, and zealot ring) you’re still going to have lots of ferocity to boost your bonus damage when it procs.

Wrong thread???

I think Agemnon was taking issue with the statement that damage is the most important thing so you’d min-max to get the most damage output. Arrk’s definitions were spot on as an answer, even if the example used is not necessarily completely accurate once one gets into the theory of things.

rotation is using a set of specific skills in a specific order so you get the most damage per second with your specific build.

Min/maxing is using specific gear, food,utilities, sigils and other things in order to boost your stats to the absolute maximum

Specifically it’s called min-maxing because all stat combinations are a tradeoff. You can’t have the maximum number of points in everything at once so you either spread them somewhat evenly or you maximise a few by minimising how many points you put into others.

Because all level 80 equipment boosts 3 or 4 stats min-maxing in this game usually refers to using a set with complimentary stats, like berserkers which has all direct damage boosting stats, as opposed to something like Knights or soldiers which is more evenly split between offense and defence.

Which approach is best is often debatable, not just in this game either, in some it can be very controversial.

Skill rotation: similar to skill combo in arcade fighting game in which press the keys in certain sequences give you extra benefits or effects.

Min max: minimum efforts/time maximum returns.