Guild Wars 2

hey guys

Im scared about the crit dmg nerf and also about crafting ascended weapons or buying zerker acessiore (already have zerker rings)

so is it worth to craft ascended zerker stuff? I wanna do a lotf of fractals (already fractal lvl30) and I need more AR so i have to decide soon :/

Even after the nerf, zerker will still be the best dps set, just not by such a margin anymore.

After the nerf Knight’s or Rabid will likely be the overall best stat for DPS and survivability.

Knight’s is currently:
Toughness
Power
Precision

Knight’s after the patch:
Toughness
Power
Ferocity (BOTH precision and crit damage)

The popularity of Zerkers comes down to game-design issues, not the actual gear itself. So despite the nerf, nothing has actually changes about the attractiveness of building for max. DPS.

And Zerker is still going to offer that regardless of the change.

The only thing it might change, is if survivability is actually a concern to you. Then it might be more attractive now to switch out the odd Zerker piece in favor of a Soldier item.

Probably not because it will still do the most damage, just less~ people will just do the same thing or use even more zerker and whaever they’re trying to fix won’t work because they’re targeting the wrong thing anyways.

As for the Knights~ Zerker isn’t about survivability anyways and will still be best DPS for non condition. No one really needs anything beyond it the way the games designed, especially Heavys being the main class in the game and don’t need toughness because they get huge defense naturally and Thief is pretty much built to require full Zerker to not suck so I don’t see anything to regret in my full ascended armor. Maybe weak squishy Ele will be the most effected if anyone should care to consider something else?

Justice.3608:

After the nerf Knight’s or Rabid will likely be the overall best stat for DPS and survivability.

Knight’s is currently:
Toughness
Power
Precision

Knight’s after the patch:
Toughness
Power
Ferocity (BOTH precision and crit damage)

Ferocity is not both. This is misinformation.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Justice.3608:

After the nerf Knight’s or Rabid will likely be the overall best stat for DPS and survivability.

Knight’s is currently:
Toughness
Power
Precision

Knight’s after the patch:
Toughness
Power
Ferocity (BOTH precision and crit damage)

Ferocity is not both. This is misinformation.

I didn’t notice people thought that~ It’s same thing as crit damage just by a confusing stat number instead with 10% less overall damage and easier to scale down in maps.

God the nerf has enterd gw2.

Justice.3608:

After the nerf Knight’s or Rabid will likely be the overall best stat for DPS and survivability.

Knight’s is currently:
Toughness
Power
Precision

Knight’s after the patch:
Toughness
Power
Ferocity (BOTH precision and crit damage)

You got it all wrong.
Ferocity will replace ONLY crit damage, what probably mislead you is that Ferocity will work like precision, but for crit damage instead of crit rate.

Knight set won’t be changed at all.
Zerk will change from (Power/Precision/Crit Damage) to (Power/Precision/Ferocity)
Valk will change from (Power/Vit/Crit damage) to (Power/Vit/Ferocity)

See the difference?

@OP: Zerker will still be the top DPS set, the only difference is that a full zerker build will have a 10% less crit damage than our current one, but if you don’t have full zerker set the difference in the damage will be even lower.

Redbear.5910:

God the nerf has enterd gw2.

The Nerf has been here so long he’s set up residence, raised a bunch a little nerfs, and sent them off to other games.