Guild Wars 2

Ok, so, I’m playing GW2 with my girlfriend. We are both hammer warriors (I’m Norn and she’s Asura) with fairly similar builds. Her toon is level 65 with gear of varying levels, but the average is about 55. My toon is only level 28 with an average of level 20 on gear. We are both currently exploring Snowden Drifts so we have been downscaled to the 15-25 range.

What seems to be happening is that I am doing an ABSURD amount more damage than she is. We looked at our stats and I’m consistently about 100 points higher in everything (even armor, when she has 20 points into the Defense line and ~level 55 gear). We even did an experiment killing the same mobs; I finished mine off while she was still about half way through hers.

How can this be? Her level, gear, traits, and bonuses are leagues higher than mine yet I am still dishing out way more hurt than she is without even trying.

My guess would be that she is alot higher than that area and has more abiltys and passive effects to utilise therefore she may have alot more stats reduced because of this see how it is in a higher lvl area you may end up seeing this happend to you and not her.

Scaling (both up and down) just seems to apply a simple multiplier to your stats. The algorithms for scaling is going to assume level appropriate gear. If you aren’t then you will be significantly weaker. Additional issue that is relevant here is that starting from lv65, gear switches from 2 stats to 3. The game is going to assume you have the stat points from that 3rd stat. If you don’t that is going to be a big chunk of missing stats.

See attachment for an example of going in the opposite direction(due to a bug).

Assuming simmilar builds,skill and gear stat distribution, I think (not sure on this) that it has to do with the equivalent level quality of the gear depending on level.

For example, at level 28 the best gear quality you have access to is masterwork (green), so if you have all green gear you already have the best quality you can get. Your girlfriend, at level 65 has access to rare (yellow) gear, so greens are a step below of the best gear she can get. I think the downscale system takes that into account.