Guild Wars 2

Possible Bug: Burning Speed doesn’t take into account critical chance boosters. For example, my 12% critical chance boosted to 37% thanks to signet of fire and fury still feels like B.S. is critting 12% of the time after 15-20 tests.

If you have the time I ask you to test this.

Major bug that greatly reduces the damage of builds that get a large chunk of damage from critical chance boosting.

Futher testing reveals that having 39% base critical chance in reality crits much closer to 39%….. than having 12% boosted to 37% in reality crits to 37%.

So I should being seeing nearly identical experimental crit chances between the two set ups, but im seeing much lower crit rates on the boosted crit chance of 37% versus the base crit chance of 39%

FINAL EDIT: After some further testing and input from others, it seems I was mistaken. Probably had some really bad luck in the 15 or so tests. No biggie. Probably should have gotten more test results before making a thread.

I play with a base crit of 40-50% and with fury + stacking sigil’s 32% bonus crit I would say I notice the higher crit rate on burning speed.

Cosmic Teapot.9162:

I play with a base crit of 40-50% and with fury + stacking sigil’s 32% bonus crit I would say I notice the higher crit rate on burning speed.

Thank you for your input but I also thought that the critical chance bonus I was getting counted until I took it to the mists dummes. If you have the time, I ask you to test it in the mists dummies

Also, I’m confused on your stats. You say 40-50% base crit which is impossible since you can only have 1 base crit, let alone a range of 10%. and I don’t see where you got the 32% bonus crit from. 20% from fury but where did you get the other 12%? Please help me clear my confusion.

Turbo Whale.1738:

Cosmic Teapot.9162:

I play with a base crit of 40-50% and with fury + stacking sigil’s 32% bonus crit I would say I notice the higher crit rate on burning speed.

Thank you for your input but I also thought that the critical chance bonus I was getting counted until I took it to the mists dummes. If you have the time, I ask you to test it in the mists dummies

Also, I’m confused on your stats. You say 40-50% base crit which is impossible since you can only have 1 base crit, let alone a range of 10%. and I don’t see where you got the 32% bonus crit from. 20% from fury but where did you get the other 12%? Please help me clear my confusion.

The extra 12% probably comes from a sigil of minor accuracy (aka signet of perception in PVE). And I guess that when he refers to 40-50% base crit he’s referring to the crit that comes from his equipment without any active buffs.

I was testing in the mists. I said 40-50% crit cause I change my build occasionally. The 12% crit comes from sigil of minor accuracy after getting 5 kills. Burning speed is D/D ele’s 3rd hardest hitting ability so I do pay attention to how often it crits and It seems to accurately reflect my boosted crit rate.

So I did some testing on the aoe target golems with 42% crit with +20% from fury. First one was 4 out of 5 crits, second one was 2 out of 5, third one was 5 out of 5, fourth one was 4 out of 5.

The odds of getting 5 out of 5 crits with only 42% crit rate are pretty low. To me it looks like it is definitely counting the boosted crit rate.