Guild Wars 2

So now that we know that we do around 10/13k dps i have a question for you guys, im not a raid player i really enjoy fractals/dungeon with my mesmer but since we do 10k less dps than most class is the alacrity / quickness buff worth our dps loss in 5 man pve content?

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: Yeeeeeesssssss.

Alright! Thanks hahaha not good in dmg calculation n everything xD just wanted to hear it from someone hahahha

So if you’re playing well, you put permanent quickness and alacrity on 5 other members of your raid group. Let’s call it 4 though, and assume only 3 of them are Eles.

Quickness = 1.5x action speed
Alacrity = 25% CDR

Eles do a good mix of autoattacking and skill usage, so we can reasonably approximate the overall damage boost as about 1.3x-1.4×.

If each ele is doing 35k dps after all buffs, then without quickness and alacrity they’re doing 25-27k. Worst case scenario this is a boost of 8k dps per ele. Even if you’re only applying this boost to 3 people (in reality 5), you still have an effective dps of at least 24k on top of your personal dps. Since you’ll realistically be boosting 5 people, your effective dps modifier is going to look more like +35k, so you could be doing literally zero personal dps and still be worth it.

Edit: For 5-man content it’s basically the same situation but all the numbers will be a bit lower. Alacrity won’t have as much of an effect while quickness will have a stronger effect, so it ends up much the same. The main issue is that people in 5-man groups tend to be really stupid, so they run away from my combo and stand in a corner autoattacking or something. Barring that, it’ll work fine.

Okay that was a nice answer haha thanks! I didnt tought we could boost that much dmg definetly worth playing mesmer. Im getting pretty good at the combo rotation so ill jhst hope people will stay withing range haha i modtly play with pugs

Fay.2357:

Since you’ll realistically be boosting 5 people, your effective dps modifier is going to look more like +35k, so you could be doing literally zero personal dps and still be worth it.

I actually just pushed a new feature to the gw2dps specifically to aid us in answering questions like OPs – the thing will now show Personal and Party DPS values side by side.

Stand to the side, watch party dps. Join in and see by how much it increased. That will show you how much “personal” dps you are doing as well as how much is your contribution is, personal dps + party increase.

Time to brush off my rusty chrono skills and make some ele friends