Guild Wars 2

Hello folks,

My first post here. I am lvling up my ranger, now at 63, loving the style play and diversity of attacks with trap build, and was wondering, since damage base with shortbow is so low, if I should aim for more than 30% crit damage once at lvl 80.

In your experience, or for those strong in maths, is it better to have crit damage at 40% with less condition damage? Runes of the Afflicted seem interesting for this build but maybe runes of Rage are better.

Thanks,

If most of your damage is from conditions, you won’t really gain much benefit from stacking precision or critical damage, since conditions can’t crit.

I understand, it is just that we already have to invest 30 in Precision for traps, which is nonsensical IMO but hey, that is the way Anet built the trait lines… Furthermore, I prefer to invest 10 in Vit and 5 in Healing/Pet attributes, so my only source of damage will be precision (0-30-25-10-5), hence my question. Thx

Your build is extremely similar to mine. I’ve been having great sucuess with rabid (cond/prec/tough) gear and a mix of rampager (prec/con/pwr) and carrion (cond/pwr/ vit) jewelry. As long as I can keep my precision high enough to get a crit rate between 50 and 60% (for extra bleeding from sharpened edges and sigil of earth) I dump everything I can into condition damage and don’t worry much about power or crit damage. Flame/spike traps and constant short bow bleed/poison is enough to tick down thousands of damage a second consistently.