Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone,

I’m sorry if this is common knowledge – I’ve been trying to find out but had no luck.

I want to understand what stats (power or condition damage) I want to stack for what weapons/weapon kits. This is my understanding as of present:

Power
Rifle
Grenade Kit
Bomb Kit
Flamethrower
Turrets
Mine

Condition Damage
Pistols
Elixir Gun

This may be too crude a way to look at things, but does the above look accurate? Should an engineer go for 1 set of damage stats over another or should they balance them out? I assume stack 1 over the other and choosing a weapon set would be more effective, but I’d like to get some opinions.

Additionally, could somebody please explain how precision affects each of the above? For example, can grenades and bombs miss, or is precision only for ‘guns’?

I’d be hugely grateful for any advice on this.

Many thanks!

I see it like this:

Power- Bombs, Grenades, Tool kit, Rifle
Conditions- Pistol, Elixir Gun
Mix of the two- Flamethrower
Doesn’t even matter- Turrets

Turrets don’t notice your stats, turrets are always the same so, any build will have a turret be equally useful.

Precision is the stat that increases your critical strike rate. I think the only way to ‘miss’ in this game is having your attack evaded/blocked/blinded/reflected, or just plain not aimed right in the case of target AOE effects (such as grenades).

Both Power and Condition builds can utilize Precision. For power is gives bigger crits, for condition damage it can proc a variety effects on crit if you are traited like that.

Thagyr.4136:

Precision is the stat that increases your critical strike rate. I think the only way to ‘miss’ in this game is having your attack evaded/blocked/blinded/reflected, or just plain not aimed right in the case of target AOE effects (such as grenades).

Both Power and Condition builds can utilize Precision. For power is gives bigger crits, for condition damage it can proc a variety effects on crit if you are traited like that.

To add to that: The base crit damage is 50% so a crit= 150% of your normal damage.

This makes the stat “crit damage” important for getting big crits. Its often not enough to simply get crits, big crits matter too.

Thanks guys. Useful stuff.