Guild Wars 2

I’m trying to optimize my stat, on full ascended ecquipment.
I always been full berserker, but i saw metabattle says that at least 2 earrings should be assasins.
Since I dont have enough tokens for finish the collections to get them, I’m wondering:
Do will be worth if I change my berserker staff, and Dagger warhorn, to assasin?
Or, if it is not worth, how much dps I lose for be full zerk?
Is it negeglible?
Ty for answer

Have a look at this for power/precision/ferocity breakpoints. Simply find the cell that corresponds with your crit damage and power in a chosen scenario to find the optimal crit chance.
With revenants, ferocious winds and LH we are able to go beyond 244% but since no meta build uses LH it shouldn’t be an issue.

Assassin staff or assassin earrings have the exact same stat (1 power vs 1 precision on dual wields), so if only berserker earrings are available to you you can choose assassin’s weapon.

Note though that the precision balance will vary a bit depending on what build you go. Fresh air builds will have an additional 190 precision from Aeromancer’s Training, take spotter into the consideration and it’s very easy to overcap. In simple terms, this is what I usually go for. For infusions I have power.

Staff:

• Berserker with assassin earrings, maintenance oil and truffle steak = 98.4% crit chance

• With spotter: Berserker with assassin earrings, maintenance oil and Bowl of Curry Butternut Squash Soup= 99.8% crit chance

Fresh Air:

• Berserker with assassin earrings, Sharpening stones and seaweed sallad = 99.37% crit chance
• With Spotter: Berserker with berserk earrings, Sharpening stones and seaweed sallad = 100.7% crit chance

And yes, the difference you’d see from those few assassin pieces are in the 0.1% margin.

It depends on what your application is. The usefulness of capping crit is dependent on what other buffs you have. In raids where you always expect to have 25 might and various other power buffs, you will gain damage by going from 99% to 100% crit and dropping 21 power.

If you do not expect to have a lot of might and other group power buffs – for example if you are playing solo in open world – or often even in fractals and dungeons – then you should just stay full zerker, because in that situation points in power increase average dps more than points in precision.

So the short and unhelpful version is “the optimal crit chance depends on how much power you have”. I can say though that unless your application is raids you might as well just stay full zerker and use precision food. The amount of power required to make going from 99% to 100% crit worth it is very high.

Heh I actually didn’t know about that table, good to know my spreadsheet is accurate though lol. You actually do go off the table though and it is common in a raid scenario. With ferocity food (butternut squash), ferocious winds, banner of discipline, and assassin’s presence you have 250.46 crit multi. You actually go off without the food as well, but not by as much.

The power value at which the last point of precision is better than power with 250.46 crit multi is 3495, in case anyone cares =P

Ok thank much everybody

Parthrax.4812:

Snowball.3497:

Have a look at this for power/precision/ferocity breakpoints. Simply find the cell that corresponds with your crit damage and power in a chosen scenario to find the optimal crit chance.
With revenants, ferocious winds and LH we are able to go beyond 244% but since no meta build uses LH it shouldn’t be an issue.

Assassin staff or assassin earrings have the exact same stat (1 power vs 1 precision on dual wields), so if only berserker earrings are available to you you can choose assassin’s weapon.

Note though that the precision balance will vary a bit depending on what build you go. Fresh air builds will have an additional 190 precision from Aeromancer’s Training, take spotter into the consideration and it’s very easy to overcap. In simple terms, this is what I usually go for. For infusions I have power.

Staff:

• Berserker with assassin earrings, maintenance oil and truffle steak = 98.4% crit chance

• With spotter: Berserker with assassin earrings, maintenance oil and sweet & spicy butternut squash soup = 99.8% crit chance

Fresh Air:

• Berserker with assassin earrings, Sharpening stones and seaweed sallad = 99.37% crit chance
• With Spotter: Berserker with berserk earrings, Sharpening stones and seaweed sallad = 100.7% crit chance

And yes, the difference you’d see from those few assassin pieces are in the 0.1% margin.

So if I use staff and want to raid alot, I should go assassin staff and the rest of my gear full zerk including accessories? Also, What is spotter? (Gw2 Noob here =P)