Guild Wars 2

Plain an simple, which one is better for Staff ele. We’re assuming full buff setup (fury, spotter and banner). Of course, in case of no sigil of accuracy enough assassín gear to reach the 65% crit chance without the buffs.

And yes, I know its a power loss, but I wanna know if someone did make a comparison between the damage output of Air vs the power gain of Accuracy + full berserker.

7 crit = 147 precision, so you need to convert about that much power to precision to swap from accuracy to air (slightly less because full asc zerker only needs 6.5% crit to cap with full buffs. seems to be about 136). Fully buffed and in optimal gear, this is a 3.5% dps loss before the sigil. So does the sigil do more or less than 3.5% dps?

With 3760 power (the most you can get and have 100% crit without sigil of accuracy), the proc should do about 2.2k, every 3 seconds, for 750 dps. That’s 3.5% of 21.5k.

Fully buffed dps output is higher than 21k, so sigil of accuracy is better.

reikken.4961:

7 crit = 147 precision, so you need to convert about that much power to precision to swap from accuracy to air (slightly less because full asc zerker only needs 6.5% crit to cap with full buffs. seems to be about 136). Fully buffed and in optimal gear, this is a 3.5% dps loss before the sigil. So does the sigil do more or less than 3.5% dps?

With 3760 power (the most you can get and have 100% crit without sigil of accuracy), the proc should do about 2.2k, every 3 seconds, for 750 dps. That’s 3.5% of 21.5k.

Fully buffed dps output is higher than 21k, so sigil of accuracy is better.

To nitpick a bit, the math isn’t exactly correct since using sigil of accuracy causes you to go over 100% crit and waste some power even with full zerker gear. However, you don’t go over by very much and sigil of accuracy is still the far better option.

Also it is less clear cut when playing fresh air, since you can no longer run sigil of accuracy and fire signet at the same time. I’m pretty sure that sigil of air with fire signet is better DPS than sigil of accuracy + any elementalist skill you can take (besides maybe arcane blast with alacrity). But having a third skill slot for utility has a lot of value in most raid fights, so unless you have some extra ascended warhorns lying around I would probably still just use accuracy.

Accuracy for staff because you don’t sit in air(or use aeromancer’s training) and thus have 190 less precision and need the 7% crit to reach 100% in raids.

Air is the better choice, but I would say take neither if it is for WvW. WvW would be better as Bloodlust and Energy, Renewal or Draining in my opinion.