Guild Wars 2

What’s your basic measurement of how well a certain item affects your ability to play?

Do you look at how much damage you take when killing a mob?
Do you dump the damage info and look at how long it takes to kill something?
Do you pour over combat logs?

I’m interested in how others test out their gear when they want to make a change.

For myself, I like to go to Southsun and look at time-to-kill and how much health I have left when taking on a Young Karka solo. Not to weak, not to tough, and possibility of decent loot.

What do you do?

I PUG some dungeons (AC, CM, CoE, CoF etc.)

I see how my damage goes up or down depending on either what I hit or how long it takes to kill a certain mob

depends. if i am making a tanky build I will agro as much as i can and see how long i can survive.

a damage build i will see how fast I can kill a vet/champ. or how fast i damage them. I don’t always expect to win against a champ.

how i measure my character all depends on what my character is going to be doing.

Fun.

Asura guardian using hammerjump and warrior using 100 blades = fun.

Mesmer shooting laser beams from greatsword = not fun.

tolunart.2095:

Fun.

Same, the only metrics I truly care about are my enjoyment and whether I feel effective.

When you start breaking your gaming experience down into a spreadsheet comparison exercise… you become much more likely to be frustrated by every small bug you find or game change they make.