Guild Wars 2

Quick question, what do people think about using this and getting the 80% crit chance (100% with fury) type build for WvW.

Would it be worth it, or is it still better to stack power, and when you do crit it hits harder?

Would just like some feedback from better Mesmers.

Thanks

Since precise wrack gives you another 10%, i use berserker armor and i stack perception. Even then, bloodlust would probably do more damage. No real maths there, it’s just feeling, but i’m under the impression more than 70% crit chance is too much. If all your shatter crit, but for the same amount that a non crit from a full power char, it’s pretty useless. I think Bamf Joe uses all berserker with 3 assassin pieces, that would be the best mix imo. Precision is far more useful in pve where a good part of your damage is from reflects.

i am not sure if u mean the feedback skill or u want some feedback of us (not the skill)

Berserker > Assassin for normal damage with attacks you do or your phantasms do. They anyway scale better with more power than with more precision.

However since your own power does not affect reflected attacks, a higher crit ratio is better there.

Overall a full berserker Mesmer deals the highest amount of damage. PvE – Zerk, allways. You got bufffood, warrior and ranger + fury for your almost 100% crit chance. Don’t get over 60%, general rule.

It’s actually the exact opposite. Precision > Power up to 100% crit. When fully buffed, Assassins will out dps Berserker both in direct damage and reflects. Berserker is better than assassins only when you have no offensive buffs like might/fury/banners/etc.

frifox.5283:

It’s actually the exact opposite. Precision > Power up to 100% crit. When fully buffed, Assassins will out dps Berserker both in direct damage and reflects. Berserker is better than assassins only when you have no offensive buffs like might/fury/banners/etc.

So Assassin with buffs > Berserkers without.
And Berserker without buffs better than Assassins without buffs

What’s the difference in Shatter damage?

EnderzShadow.2506:

frifox.5283:

It’s actually the exact opposite. Precision > Power up to 100% crit. When fully buffed, Assassins will out dps Berserker both in direct damage and reflects. Berserker is better than assassins only when you have no offensive buffs like might/fury/banners/etc.

So Assassin with buffs > Berserkers without.

No, frifox was saying Assassin with buffs > Berserker with buffs. But yes for both without buffs. I imagine shatter’s the same, except that it can hit 100% crit chance earlier with precise wrack.

What frifox said. Mighted Assassin > Mighted Berserker, but unmighted Assassin < unmighted Berserker. Needless to say on uncrittable targets, Berserker is better, and on reflection, Assassin is better. The main reason why full zerk is so useful for thieves and warriors is that they have methods of achieving 80% unfuried crit via traits in full berserker, and any more precision is wasted on beyond-100% critrate. Mesmers don’t have these to nearly the same extent.

Survivability can be increased by spiking healrate with heal-on-crit traits on 100% critrate mesmers and/or using Knight instead of Berserker for the other pieces for which it is not critical that they be Assassin specced, but both cost dps. From a WvW standpoint Knight+Assassin will often work better than Zerk+Assassin, which will work better than Zerk only. Toughness from Knight scales up mesmer healing/mantra healing/crit food or rune healing, as the case may be.

Mesmers tend to reach full potential when used against crittable, reflectable targets, between long and short range. If intending to attack uncrittable, unreflectable targets entirely in melee range, they will lose out to thieves, warriors and engineers who are better specced for this purpose.

Oh I kinda missed the WvW part :x Sry for my wrong infos I’m not really into WvW stuff >.<

Shatter is direct damage so it scales same as all other mesmer skills. When in WvW I doubt you’ll be at 25 might when shattering so I would suggest going with 100% Berserker gear for most optimal burst.