Guild Wars 2

im not playing shatter build, im playing phantasms, but still, cant figure why is my shatter so low.

i even got sigil of int to proc them , still it hits around 700×3 on heavy gollem. when im hit by shatter, its around 5k or so.

Because you have 10% crit damage and 1700 power. If you want shatters to hit hard, you need to be using gear that is designed for power damage.

try berserkers amu, but u gonna die in few hits either

i see.

id rather not switch to zerker for now, ill keep it as it is.

In addition to the berserker’s amulet, it will also depend on your traits.

A lot of shatter-focused builds will run mental torment (domination I), precise wrack (illusions I), and illusionary persona (illusions XI), all of which help maximize the damage from mind wrack. Additionally, it’s common for shatter builds to have some form of vulnerability stacking, whether it be through more traits in domination or weapon attacks. This also results in higher damage from shatters.

They usually have at least 4 trait points assigned to the dueling line for deceptive evasion (dueling X), which means they’ll be able to pick up some extra crit damage from there (about 13%).

So if you aren’t using those traits, you might want to consider investing in them if you want to do high damage shatters.

You wanna know why your shatters aren’t hitting hard? It’s because you’re not running a shatter build. Imagine how OP it would be if shatters always hit hard.

Basically what these other posters have said. If you want hard hitting shatters, run zerker amulet, have shatter traits 4 4 0 0 6). You can’t expect knights to work well for shatters since they’re much more crit dmg focused.