Guild Wars 2

Currently dagger is pretty much break even when going into DS. All this does is encourage sitting on your LF for a rainy day, or just flashing into it for an on-DS effect or a quick Doom. Would it be out of the question to break the damage boost into 3 ranges? <200, <600 <1200 and add another 15% or so to the current <600 damage if within 200 range.

Thoughts?

Why would you want to make DS our primary dps source. Its a terrible idea. You would just pigeon hole everyone into the boring spam lifeblast build.

Draehl.2681:

Currently dagger is pretty much break even when going into DS. All this does is encourage sitting on your LF for a rainy day, or just flashing into it for an on-DS effect or a quick Doom. Would it be out of the question to break the damage boost into 3 ranges? <200, <600 <1200 and add another 15% or so to the current <600 damage if within 200 range.

Thoughts?

Death Shroud has different uses depending on your spec. While you might be breaking even in your dagger build, in my Axe build Life Blast does way more damage than my main Weapon and is my main source of burst. In a scepter//staff condition build Life Blast doesn’t do anything, and I only use Death Shroud for the condition skills.
In your case you can save up DS for a rainy day or use it when you need some breathing room by chilling them with DS#2 and then blasting from a distance.

I don’t think splitting LB into 3 different ranges would be that great an idea, honestly. Maybe it would be cool if the functionality of Life Blast changed depending on your current Weapon set, but maybe that’s needlessly complicated.