Guild Wars 2

So I’m tweeking…I currently run a build with PVT armour, scholar Runes and a mixture of zerk / Cleric trinkets, mainly for PvE / Fractals but I’m branching out with a new computer coming to WvW.

So I’m thinking I need to toughen up a bit, I’ll swap some cleric (vitality seems more or less useless) in, maybe run some Divinity Runes and all stat trinkets, for a blanket improvement.

My only issue is as I do this I lose Power…a considerable amount, I can counter this with increasing crit chance / Dmg but it pains me to see that Attack Number dropping….So just wanted to hear how much Power, people think 1% Crit Dmg is “worth”

Trying to optimise I’m sure other people have had this dilemma, thanks

Mmm well attack is kind of a crap stat really but it does relate to elementalist a bit more than most classes. Attack is you power and condition damage but in order to really gauge it you have to be applying conditions and direct dmg pretty consistently.

Anyways Power is the best offensive stat.

1% crit dmg really isnt worth much tbh.

I run boon duration runes, all stat trinkets 3 pieces of PVT and 3 Pieces of knights gear.

I don’t know what weapon you run but I guess I’ll assume D/D. You can run a hybrid style build which is kind of what it seems your running now.

For power you have to think about the fact that you can stack might pretty easily. You will also have perma fury so you dont have to go deep for precision.

My best advice is to take your fractal build go into wvw with it then tweak from there before taking the plunge on divinity.

My friend runs them and I asked him yesterday if I should drop my boon duration for divinity he said the difference is extremely small. I have 1838 power with food on my ele I have no problem killing anything outside of a super bunker guardian running with something else healing it.

Good Eles run full zerker in PVE.

Worse Eles add some PVT or Knights for survivability

Terrible Eles stack healing power or go full PVT/Knights.

I will not be replying to people who go BUT ELE HAS GREAT HEALING SCALING because it doesn’t change anything. PVE is about damage.

and then zerker warriors who don’t know their dodge button.

oh, pve is easy where mobs maybe attack once every 10 seconds. mobs stand in full 100blade channel, aoe stealth, reflection, ect..

It depends on a lot of factors.

1. How efficient is your source of crit damage? Bad sources are helms, rings and legs (sacrifice 16 stat points for 1% crit). Good sources are exquisite ruby jewels and divinity runes (5 points for 1% crit) or traits (10 points for 1% crit).

2. How high is your precision? Having high crit damage when you never crit is worthless.

If you’re being efficient with your crit damage, power is worth 1.5x the stat point value of your crit damage. If you’re being inefficient with low precision, power can be worth 4x as much or even more.

Hamartia.3421:

Good Eles run full zerker in PVE.

Worse Eles add some PVT or Knights for survivability

Terrible Eles stack healing power or go full PVT/Knights.

I will not be replying to people who go BUT ELE HAS GREAT HEALING SCALING because it doesn’t change anything. PVE is about damage.

Kniphis.9725:

So I’m tweeking…I currently run a build with PVT armour, scholar Runes and a mixture of zerk / Cleric trinkets, mainly for PvE / Fractals but I’m branching out with a new computer coming to WvW.

Hmm this looks like advice for WvW

Also looking at his first sentence it seems he is a bit more Dps focus for PvE? Sooooo you felt like ranting kthxbye rofl.

A PvE thread is —-—> that way.

Kniphis.9725:

So I’m tweeking…I currently run a build with PVT armour, scholar Runes and a mixture of zerk / Cleric trinkets, mainly for PvE / Fractals but I’m branching out with a new computer coming to WvW.

So I’m thinking I need to toughen up a bit, I’ll swap some cleric (vitality seems more or less useless) in, maybe run some Divinity Runes and all stat trinkets, for a blanket improvement.

My only issue is as I do this I lose Power…a considerable amount, I can counter this with increasing crit chance / Dmg but it pains me to see that Attack Number dropping….So just wanted to hear how much Power, people think 1% Crit Dmg is “worth”

Trying to optimise I’m sure other people have had this dilemma, thanks

In terms of stat importance (offensively): Power and Critical damage are equal. You want a decent amount of power and at the same time have high critical damage. If you are low in one or the other it isn’t good. Like if you have 2300 power but like base critical damage I would decrease power and up critical damage. If you have say 1500 power but 120% critical damage then I would decrease critical damage and up my power stat. I find it reasonable to have like 1700-1800 power with 60-75% critical damage.

Hamartia.3421:

Good Eles run full zerker in PVE.

Worse Eles add some PVT or Knights for survivability

Terrible Eles stack healing power or go full PVT/Knights.

I will not be replying to people who go BUT ELE HAS GREAT HEALING SCALING because it doesn’t change anything. PVE is about damage.

That’s what I thought for a while too but having some healing power for long pve solo fights to outheal the opponnents dps is somewhat nice. That way you don’t need to constantly dodge thus gimping your dps.