Guild Wars 2

Hello all, so I am trying to make my build crit more often. I am running the standard Read the Wind Power Ranger off of Metabattle
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Ranger_-_Read_the_Wind_Power_Ranger
I do indeed like this build, but I was looking and saw that Assassin’s would give me about 70% (69% specifically) crit chance with 213% crit damage. I found those numbers via http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQJATRjEq0yaDLWsQ1aA9gadAcApdrfgdIUCjQBbqA-TpQSABAs/wnlBAA
Is the crit worth the power drop? More importantly, is it worth it to drop 10 gold on this amulet? (I am poor, so it does hurt me a bit)
Thanks in advance!

i know some people that take sigil of perception over fire and your crit chance goes way up. I would always take zerker over assassin. If you dont want perception sigil you could take accuracy sigil. you shouldnt have a problem on how often you crit with that build tho

A 1% power increase is worth 1% damage (1000 -> 2000 power = 200% damage / an additional 100% damage increase)

1% crit = 1% damage at 200% crit damage (50% crit @ 250% crit damage = 62.5% damage increase)

You can do the math yourself using that as a baseline. Generally power > precision, which is why Zerker > Assassin, but in PvP Zerker has vit and Assassin is pure offense so it could go either way. Keep in mind Precision soft caps at 80% and you shouldn’t consider any further precision after that point as far as stat weights go.

As far as sigil of perception goes, never take it over Bloodlust on a power ranger. 1:1 Power > Precision (> Ferocity, but that’s never a decision you need to make), and that’s not even considering the opportunity cost of not using air/fire in its place. There’s probably a ferocity breakpoint where precision > power, but it does not exist in PvP.

I haven’t done the math myself, but if I had to guess, I’d say for pure damage Assassins is better than Berserker, but Berserker has a slightly higher stat budget 2364 versus 2232, therefore it might be more useful for the already very squishy power ranger. Keep in mind, many popular variants of power don’t go full damage (which would likely look like 6/6/0/2/0 + Ranger Runes and QZ). Eurantien ran 6/6/2/0/0 with Traveler runes, and purely defensive utilities, and another common variant is 6 in Nature’s Magic. From this it is safe to conclude that damage is not the end-all be-all of Power Ranger, or that it already has enough damage innately that any more starts to give some diminishing returns. Haven’t done any actual theorycrafting though, this is just speculation.

I’d say play it safe and stick with Berserker. There’s probably a reason why people use it even with Assassin’s as an option, and if you’re short on gold you shouldn’t waste it.

I haven’t done any math since steady weapons were removed. I just go by what feels right.