Guild Wars 2

Sooo, i was boored yesterday and decided to read some random kitten on my charachter screen and i noticed that the tool-tip for critical damage said “percentage of additional damage inflicted by dealing a critical hit”

As a person who knows his ways around maths pretty well this is confusing since it is the multiplayer that is listed under critical damage and not the additional damage…

My character have 225.1% additional damage on critical hit which would suggest a multiplier of 325.1% which isn’t the case…

would be nice to have this cleared up.

The critical hit damage on the character tab tells you how hard a hit will be as a percentage of a normal hit, not as additional damage.

For Example:

A normal attack hits for 1000.
A critical hit with no ferocity hits for 1500, 150% damage on crit
A critical hit with 200% critical damage hits for 2000, 200% critical damage.

In other words, if you remove the percentage of damage of your normal hit, 100%, then the additional damage you do per critical hit would be 125.1%

As you stated, it is confusing.

either

A: change the stat tool tip to something like “percentage of the multiplyer on the damage inflicted by dealing a critical hit”

or

B: modify the stat with -100 percentage units. (meaning u start with 50% and a normal zerker build will have around 120-130%

A is less coding required but less clear while B is more coding required (depending on their code) but a lot clearer imo.

Agreed. .