Guild Wars 2

not long ago someone from A-Net said, that to beat the Raid you need full ascended gear.

But if i have a ascended weapon and switch to a kit the damage goes back to exotic gear damage (about 5% less).

So now my question to the devs.

Will the damage from kits be increased to ascended damage, to not penalize engis in Raids?

The damage from kits is already based on the rarity of the weapon you have equipped.

Source: “Player bundles (kits, conjured weapons, banners, etc.) will now scale damage based on the rarity of the player’s equipped weapon.”
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/2014-04-15#General_3

Furthermore, someone did a few tests after the patch to confirm whether it scaled correctly:

Foefaller.1082:

Foefaller.1082:

Kit damage automatically scales to your level, and to the highest rarity available for your actual character level, capping at exotic… I think. Your own weapon rarity has nothing to do with it, only the stats it gives you.

Even just tested this, swapped my dual ascended Rabid pistols for a couple of white zerkers from a weapon vendor. Damage went UP, because of the +power on those pistols, even though my ascended pistols have almost twice the base damage range of the vendor trash.

So no, having two weapons of different rarities won’t affect your kit damage, other than the fact that the higher rarity weapon would have a higher stat bonus than the other one.

That is a really poor method of testing.

What I did was test a white bersker rifle along with bomb kit. My white bomb hits where in the neighborhood of 600-700 damage.

I then tested bomb kit with an ascended weapon, using the same gear minus one ascended trinket to give me the exact same stats as having only a white bersker rifle. If your theory of weapon rarity not mattering is true, I should still see 600-700 damage. Instead I was getting around 1200-1400 white damage. This is consistent with the weapon damage increase of going from white to ascended, ie 2x more damage.

So in conclusion, weapon rarity matters when it comes to kits.

Here are some screenshots to prove my point.

http://imgur.com/vGeGaF5

http://imgur.com/FfTHoF0

Beside Moon Of Despair’s great answer,

not long ago someone from A-Net said, that to beat the Raid you need full ascended gear.

they just said, it is balanced around ascended gear, there will not be an actual gate for it, you might just have a harder time to stay alive or to kill bosses within the timer.

kitten ..i think my last gear update was 2.5 years ago;) about 3mnts after launch;)