Guild Wars 2

I am losing about 230 power when I switch from rifle to a weapon kit.

Can someone please explain this to me?

Thanks.

You actually are not losing 200 power, you are losing 236 attack….it seems the weapon kits have a lower weapon strength than that of an exotic weapon.
edit: I am fairly certain it has always been this way, both before the sigil fix and after. They have a scaling weapon strength that changes as you level it just seems to fall short of the exotic weapon strength at 80. I am not sure how much potential damage is lost from 236 attack and perhaps they feel it is needed to balance the kits. At 80 and well geared it is certainly a loss, but replace even just the weapon with a rare and you actually pull ahead of attack value of the weapon by using the kits.

I think they were based on pistols as well.

You can easily test this. Get a weapon with condition damage on it.

Equip grenade kit, and hit mob with shrapnel grenade. Watch the bleed tick, drop grenade kit so you got your cond.dmg weapon out now. Notice if the damage of the bleed ticks change.

It doesnt. I used to, but not anymore.

I’ve noticed a huge drop in EG damage ouput since the patch. The last we were told in a previous balance patch, kits were scaled to same level exotic. This seems to have change without warning, so I’m thinking bug.

Any official response to this?