Guild Wars 2

What is better on my bow …..
2% crit or 26 precision ???

its not 2% crit, its 2% critical damage increase. precision gives you increased critical hit chance

i would say depends on the rest of your stats right now and what you’re planning to achieve. hmm in general, you want a strong balance between crit hit chance and crit damage. if you’ve no crit chance, crit dmg rarely procs. if you’ve no crit dmg, your crit chance isn’t getting the most out of it. though, i don’t number test and haven’t really seen a guide out there…

but if early on, i’d focus on precision over crit damage.

I think my crit change was around 56% so should I go for the bow with 2% then. My crit chance is 1 in 2 so that good ????

Basically you need to understand the way the two interact with each other in terms of total average damage increase. Basically, increasing either one will increase your overall damage output over time, but which one will give the greatest increase depends on your full stats.

If you really want to know, then you have to know exactly what your current crit chance and crit damage values are (check your Hero screen), then crunch the numbers. Or you could check out the table at http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Critical for some pre-calculated numbers at 5-point intervals.

Let’s take, for example, a crit chance of 56% and a crit damage bonus of 48% (total crit damage of 198%). That means that your average damage over time vs. non-criticals is equal to 0.56*1.98=1.1088, in other words +11% average damage over time. If you then add +26 Precision, that will change your crit chance rating. If your crit chance would increase by 2%, then you would have 58% chance and 48% damage, results in 0.58*1.98=1.1484, or +15% damage, which means you would get a total of +4% damage increase by upgrading Precision (assuming you would get a 2% crit chance boost, which depends on your level). If you instead take the +2% crit damage then you would have 56% and 50%, resulting in 0.56*2=1.12, or 12% damage increase over baseline, for a total of +1% vs what you had before the upgrade.

Anyway, that’s the comparison you need to make in order to determine which is better to increase.