Guild Wars 2

Now im not sure where to post this because i couldnt find a “game mechanics” section.

Anyway, what i want to know is relevant to elementalists. The question is, how does power increase your damage and at lvl 80 how much would getting 1 additional power increase your overall direct damage?

i wanna know this because im stuck between getting an ascended celestial stats ascessory or the karka shell earing with a crit dmg gem on it.

lemme explain. with the karka shell earing, i can get 7% crit dmg, which with at least 50% crit chance, is technically equivalent to a 3.5% increase in dmg. The ascended celestial stat earrings only give 6% crit dmg which means i lose 0.5% direct dmg. however you get a bit more POWER from it and i wanna know how to calculate whether or not its worth it.

ty in advance for anyone who knows

ok, this is very important thing, 10% increase in power is equivalent in 10% increase in crit damage. The math has been done on it, you can redo it yourself, but I double checked a couple of times and even tested myself, it works. Now do the same math on stats, put the current stats you have and the calculation, example, if you have 2000 power, and you add 100 power, that is 5% increase in damage, equivalent to 5% crit damage. Generally speaking, the higher the power you have, the harder it will be to boost its damage, since its exponential, therefore sometimes its better to go crit%

But here comes the flip side, though crit % usually pays off better, crit chance offsets this, especially if you have a slow hitting weapon such as staff where one missed crit means diminished damage overall. I would recommend Power, more reliable, less bursty but when you add up the math usually it pays off better. Now, if you have more specific question about scaling, you can go to wiki or do the math yourself for skills, the coefficient of each skill can be calculated by finding

skill damage/total power+weapon damage (its on champion panel)

Also there is a website which builds your character with different stats and you can see the stats on a generated panel; http://en.gw2skills.net/

thank you that statement at the top was enough xD