Guild Wars 2

Ok, so I could be totally off on this and look stupid but here goes….

I have noticed that Condi skills are kind of “double dipping”, if it were on the damage they do.
Take Blowtorch for example…it hits for raw damage a certain amount but then it also hits with the burning for another amount.
Same with frag shot and I’m sure any condi skill in the game. So in essence isn’t condi stronger dps wise just based on the numbers?
Or….and now this is where I may be off, is the raw damage of a power build skill, i.e Blunderbuss, rolled up to match that of a condi skill? Looking at the numbers it doesn’t appear that way so again I ask if condi isn’t stronger due to the having x2 damage being done, the initial raw damage and then the condi dot?
Now, this is scary territory for me cuz I don’t do maths so just some simple explations would be fine if I am way off my thinking.
Feel free to break it all down if you must…lol…I’ll just read slower.
But yea, just seems a tad unbalanced and that’s why I think I am way off but had to ask anyways.
Cheers!

Nope it all depends whether you have gear with mainly power, or condi dmg. If you have power gear, it will increase the power dmg of that skill. And if u have condi dmg gear on it will increase the condi dmg of that skill, if it does condi dmg. So in general they are even it all depends on what gear you use.

And some skills are meant to be power based, and some condi based. For instance Hammer is a power weapon it does no condi dmg. And pistols mainly do condi dmg even though they also do some power dmg, but it’s low especially if u run with condi gear on,

Theonord.6359:

And some skills are meant to be power based, and some condi based. For instance Hammer is a power weapon it does no condi dmg. And pistols mainly do condi dmg even though they also do some power dmg, but it’s low especially if u run with condi gear on,

Pretty much, if you try to go berserker stats with pistols you will see it does scale very bad compared to rifle or hammer, becuase it was intended to be a condi weapon, the raw power damage is just a little bonus.

Ivantreil.3092:

Theonord.6359:

And some skills are meant to be power based, and some condi based. For instance Hammer is a power weapon it does no condi dmg. And pistols mainly do condi dmg even though they also do some power dmg, but it’s low especially if u run with condi gear on,

Pretty much, if you try to go berserker stats with pistols you will see it does scale very bad compared to rifle or hammer, becuase it was intended to be a condi weapon, the raw power damage is just a little bonus.

Exactly!