Guild Wars 2

I would like some feed back from you great people on two pve greatsword meditation builds.

At first I went:
10 II
25 VI / IV
30 I / X / XII
0
5

The damage boost from fiery wrath 10% andradiant power 10%:

a) 1000 hit x 10% x 10% = 1210
b) 1000 hit x 20% = 1200

Do these stack like a) or are they added together as a fixed damage multiplier like b)?

These DPS boosts only work in a specific situation (target on fire etc) therefore I thought about an alternative.

As meditation 95% of our DPS is from our weapon, therefore I looked at the following build:
0
15 VI
30 I / X / XII
20 III / IX
5

Compared to the first build you loose the following:

100 power
100 precision
Zealot’s Speed (meh)
Radiance master trait (meh)
10% damage on fire
10% damage on condition

But you gain the following:

200 Vitality
dodge roll heal (which is nice)
50% up time in vigor (after next patch)
larger symbols (useful for tagging targets)
20% rate of fire boost to your weapon

The first build is about 3% more DPS than the second, but it looses 200 vitality, vigor and a heal roll…. but will it be worth it?

Please no posting “Go Warrior” or non constructive chritisism like a child!

Regards

CyrixBlack

Damage modifiers stack multiplicatively, so 2 +10% modifiers are applied as:

damage * 1.1 * 1.1

not:

damage * 1.2

Tarsius.3170:

Damage modifiers stack multiplicatively, so 2 +10% modifiers are applied as:

damage * 1.1 * 1.1

not:

damage * 1.2

In that case the damage multipliers are 3% less dps than -20% rate of fire:

1000 damage x 1.1 × 1.1 every 1 second = 1210 dps
1000 damage every 0.8 second = 1250 dps

The two builds side by side with full gear have quality same health, precision, crit chance and damage, first has 2% more attack, second has 3% more dps due to the ROF increase.

This would mean the heal roll and vigor (second build) actually out preforms the first.

There’s no trait to make you hit faster, it’s all -20% cooldown, which means #2-5 recharge faster on that weapon type.
You’re also losing 100power, 100prec comparing b1 to b2. On top targets always (more or less) burn in pve.

I roll 10/0/30/25/5 to grab 2 damage mods back and some power. You miss the blind and reset to virtue, but in PvP situations you won’t be resetting it too much. Also the trait to have aegis heal on removal can be used to add some extra sustain. Another popular build is 10/5/30/5/20 to help manage condi better.