Guild Wars 2

Ghastly Claws 13k+ is possible, done 12,5k not fully buffed in a raid setting.
Seen Rending Claws hit 1,3k per hit.

Slagburst.5304:

My tooltip says the same, that was my fault. Tested it without 30% minion dmg it crit for 4300. WIth the 30% increase to damage it was 5500 on average. And this was an argument about axe’s pathetic vuln stacking, i was just stating that combined with other abilites it adds to the overall ability of vuln. I never said u cant stack it with a dagger and focus.

This is why I like reading your posts slag. Now if you learned better paragraph formatting on your longer reads it would be awesome :P.

You have to be careful when mentioning minions, some people are ready to jump all over it. Axe/Focus is very strong with different builds. Do you run full class cannon or the 30/10/0/0/30 build wiht it?

Slagburst.5304:

My tooltip says the same, that was my fault. Tested it without 30% minion dmg it crit for 4300. WIth the 30% increase to damage it was 5500 on average. And this was an argument about axe’s pathetic vuln stacking, i was just stating that combined with other abilites it adds to the overall ability of vuln. I never said u cant stack it with a dagger and focus.

So I am curious here, because after reading this I thought…. “I BET THIS WOULD EVEN BE GOOD WITH CONDITIONS!!!”.

So I went out to test what kind of crits I would get, since I run no power, but have lots of crit chance, and some crit damage.

The putrid explosion skill doesn’t crit. Like… presumably it cannot crit. I have no idea where you are getting your numbers from… or maybe it can crit in SPVP but not the PVE world… but I have it a good 50 tries, and no crit… always between 1500-1900 damage or so.

Can anyone help me out and confirm that my bone minions are broken and everyone else can get putrid explosion to crit?

Typo edit.

Khal Drogo.9631:

Axe + Skale Venom = more stacks of vulnerabilty + perma weakness if traited with http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Withering_Precision

Looks like I need to l2p axe too lol, how did this escape my attention? I totally overlooked it lolz.

Nay of the Ether.8913:

Khal Drogo.9631:

Axe + Skale Venom = more stacks of vulnerabilty + perma weakness if traited with http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Withering_Precision

Looks like I need to l2p axe too lol, how did this escape my attention? I totally overlooked it lolz.

Skale venom no longer works in RvR just an FYI.

The more I thought about this after I tested, I realized that nothing minions do ever crits…. which seems odd to me. I guess I never considered it, but since mobs don’t crit in the game, and minions are basically mobs, it makes sense.

I get that minions don’t scale at all, but you would think they would have some sort of base crit rate. Anyone know if the other summoned minons (like the flying weapons) are the same way?

Can i still submit mine ?… it’s nothing special since i wasn’t preparing / getting people help me achieve my maximum potential with coordinated buffs, but… you guys can still witness my power if you like

Rennoko.5731:

The more I thought about this after I tested, I realized that nothing minions do ever crits…. which seems odd to me. I guess I never considered it, but since mobs don’t crit in the game, and minions are basically mobs, it makes sense.

I get that minions don’t scale at all, but you would think they would have some sort of base crit rate. Anyone know if the other summoned minons (like the flying weapons) are the same way?

Minions do crit, but they seem to have a pretty low crit rate. They can recieve boons from things like shouts, ect and if they get fury you can actually see them crit more reliably. The bone fiend and flesh wurm seem to have the highest crit rate, can’t say I’ve ever seen the bone minions or shadow fiend crit much, rarely the flesh golem will. As far as the actual minion skills, I can’t say for sure, I seem to remember seeing putrid explosion critting, but it was hard to tell. There’s some independent variable to those skills we don’t know about, I do know they are not reliant upon the minion’s base stats themselves.

Nay of the Ether.8913:

Rennoko.5731:

The more I thought about this after I tested, I realized that nothing minions do ever crits…. which seems odd to me. I guess I never considered it, but since mobs don’t crit in the game, and minions are basically mobs, it makes sense.

I get that minions don’t scale at all, but you would think they would have some sort of base crit rate. Anyone know if the other summoned minons (like the flying weapons) are the same way?

Minions do crit, but they seem to have a pretty low crit rate. They can recieve boons from things like shouts, ect and if they get fury you can actually see them crit more reliably. The bone fiend and flesh wurm seem to have the highest crit rate, can’t say I’ve ever seen the bone minions or shadow fiend crit much, rarely the flesh golem will. As far as the actual minion skills, I can’t say for sure, I seem to remember seeing putrid explosion critting, but it was hard to tell. There’s some independent variable to those skills we don’t know about, I do know they are not reliant upon the minion’s base stats themselves.

I can tell you for a fact that the putrid explosion skill doesn’t crit just with the base minion…. now maybe if they had fury on them from a warriors AOE shout, they could crit? Possibly, but not without some sort of external buff. As far as regular minion attacks, just watching my worm it never seems to crit, but again, maybe it has a 0% crit rate and with fury it can crit?