Guild Wars 2

My question is about what weapon damage affects. I know that if for example I am using a sword in my main hand weapon damage will affect auto-attack and blurred frenzy, while iLeap has no damage component to be affected (right?).

What about if I have a focus in the offhand? The focus skills are temporal curtain (no damage component) and iWarden. Does the offhand weapon damage affect the iWarden’s damage?

Also, I noticed a main hand weapon’s damage is less than a 2-hand weapon’s damage. Does the offhand damage affect main hand skills as well then (and vice versa)? So, you add the main hand damage and the offhand damage together for that skill bar? So, iWarden would be affected by the sword’s damage too (if affected by weapon damage at all)?

This is how it is:

the damage of the focus will affect the warden; not the sword skills
the damage of the sword will affect 1&2, not the warden
other stats, i.e. power, will affect both

weapon damage = straight up attack

Main hand and off-hand are added together. Also note that it seems 2 handed weapons are counted twice, once for main hand and once for off hand. (If you watch your weapon damage stat on the hero screen you can verify that swapping to a two handed does not halve the damage when you have 2 similarily statted weapons in each hand.

I think the damage done by phanatasms is affected by power rating if they do straight up damage. I think this vecause when I trait for straight up power bulid my iberserker does way more damage than when I have, for instance, a condition damage build, even though weapon damage is the same.

dandamanno.4136:

Main hand and off-hand are added together. Also note that it seems 2 handed weapons are counted twice, once for main hand and once for off hand. (If you watch your weapon damage stat on the hero screen you can verify that swapping to a two handed does not halve the damage when you have 2 similarily statted weapons in each hand.

I think the damage done by phanatasms is affected by power rating if they do straight up damage. I think this vecause when I trait for straight up power bulid my iberserker does way more damage than when I have, for instance, a condition damage build, even though weapon damage is the same.

Damage on MH does not apply to OF and vice versa.

So does the weapon damage on the focus for example affect the warden? If it does not then… does the focus’ weapon damage do anything at all?

I know that power affects phantasms, don’t know how the weapon damage does. If I pick up a spare focus with different weapon damage I’ll test it out.

Aimeryan.1247:

So does the weapon damage on the focus for example affect the warden? If it does not then… does the focus’ weapon damage do anything at all?

I know that power affects phantasms, don’t know how the weapon damage does. If I pick up a spare focus with different weapon damage I’ll test it out.

i’ve already told you weapon damage = attack

looks like i’m wrong in saying that oh weapon damage = attack power (just tested) but even still, weapon damage grants attack

Thanks Zid, I’ll probably do my own testing to make sure but that is the kind of answer I was looking for – straight up what-affects-what.

Interesting that some people thought that the offhand weapon damage and mainhand weapon damage just went into a global attack rating that affected everything.

It’s interesting. For some reason the “Weapon Damage” stat on the hero screen listed on mouse over under “Attack” is averaged between both main hand and off hand weapon. However I can confirm with the rest of you that off hand seems to have no affect on the “damage” component of an attack on the main hand, and vice versa.

This is why I thought the two weapons were added together to get a final “Weapon damage” that would affect both main and OH, but this is evidently wrong.

Indeed, that is the reason I asked because I didn’t feel it was made all that evident. I knew that the attack rating was made up of weapon damage (and power) but that wasn’t that helpful for what I was asking.