Guild Wars 2

As the title states. We can see end results of our combined gear with health and toughness, but not when it comes to attack. Why do we have power and not the attack stat? It feels very uneven.

If there isn’t room in the UI for the stat, give us attack instead. When you highlight it, it can show the power stat seperately.

Am I the only one who’s surprised by this change?

well i think it is okay as it is now because in reality attack is a random number range from the weapon.

for example 950 – 1050 or something like that.
in the past, the interface only took the higher end and added it to the power stat.

Why would you need a stat that has no use whatsoever?

“Attack” is just a useless number which isn’t used in any calculatons whatsoever.

well, to be fair, the damages we do are based on
(skill coefficient) x (weapon attack strength) x (power) / (target’s armor)

skill coefficient varies, some skills are higher, some lower.
weapon attack has a min and max value, some rng there.
power can get higher with might stacking
armor is a combination of defense plus toughness

source:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Damage

Damage done = (Weapon strength) * Power * (skill-specific coefficient) / (target’s Armor)

Attack = Power + Average_Weapon_Damage

However, that was misleading, as every attack in game has a hidden power coefficient. So the Attack stat was never actually used and varied slightly by weapon type.

Give it a few weeks and you’ll get used to looking at Power values instead.

Yeah, I’ll get used to it. Just struck me as odd it was left out, but makes sense in the end.