Guild Wars 2

Hey guys
once i’ve seen a post stating that the quality of your weapon doesn’t influence your stats while in a kit or something like that.
Question being, I’ve got a berserker rifle right now but for Precision’s sake I plan on getting it ascended, with Assassin’s stats.
a) Will the ascended part make a difference while in a kit?
b) Will the extra precision of Assassin’s instead of Berserkers also show while in a kit?

Thx in advance

Hi!

The stats will change but the weapon damage itself will not affect kits. BUT if you have an ascended weapon equipped, you get a 5% dmg bonus on kits! It’s also 5% weapon damage increase from exotic to ascended. This has been patched since quite a long time now, to make engineers balance with the ascended weapons update, since they were the only class that couldn’t benefit from 5% more weapon damage.

Mesmer phantasms also get a dmg bonus, but I guess it was only 2% (someone here made once some tests with it, idk exactly anymore, but I’m 100% sure about the engi part of my post).

TL;DR: “~Yes~” you get 5% more damage with ascended weapons.

Greez Ziggy!

The stats of the ascended Item still stay when you swap to a kit, but i am not sure about the Damage of the weapon, cause every Kit has its own base damage, but i am not sure on this.

The precision will, the weapon damage will not.

alright thx everyone, gonna go for that then!

this thread pops up fairly often and the only response i can ever think of for it is “yes, cuz some people complained about it not happening, but it was all balanced around top gear anyways so why do/did you care?”

>_<

Kits were balanced for exotic gear. By the introduction of ascended gear it was like a 5% overall dmg nerf to engi. After a few weeks-months they gave them the ascended bonus.

it didnt matter

it’s fairness – fairness does matter

is it fair that the levelling experience received a nerf because exotics arent accessible until level 60?

meh, kits were balanced before the change, and it didnt change any play patterns at all, so its purpose was to let anet say hey look we listen to the community. which isnt really game changing, but at the time they were in sore need of ears.

Kits were balanced before the introduction of the ascended gear. they were balanced to exotic gear. When there was a global +5% dmg buff, it would be unfair if the engi wouldn’t recive it. Why do you hate so much against kits? Is it either because you hate to use them and are a pve-SD-belever? Or do you simply hate engis? Your arguments – if one even can call them so – flaw and are just stupid.

no, im just tired of seeing this thread pop up again and again when it never mattered

plus idk how youre reading “kit hate” in “pointless change was pointless”

Nevermind – forget it. TO is happy, so am I.

engineer kits are the same as elementlist attunements. not affected by weapon dmg but affected by weapon quality.

now with engineer kits and the nature of them (the kits have no cooldown only the skills they give access to have cd apart from #1 obv).

our dmg comes from multiple sources and not 1 big massive attack like warrior gs or axe. so weapon dmg is not the concern.

so if you wanted to make an ascended weapon for your kit. yes do it. u get benefits from the extra stats and a 5% dmg buff to all kit skills + in fractals u gain the AR aswell so its win all round.

also if it seems like a poster is stupid or making stupid comments or asking for stupid nerfs. its safe to assume they are stupid !