Guild Wars 2

Ok conducted a bit of an experiment between guardian and rev. used all berserker gear, trinkets and normal set up on guardian ..

on rev tried zerk, assassins, dire, all kinds of mixes
the rev didn’t come CLOSE to the damage out put i thought it felt really weak especially with the hammer. Axe /mace was marginally better but not by much.

I got curious and went through all my characters. all in zerk gear … and there seems to be a huge difference in dps. rev doesn’t come close to any of them.. What such a huge difference in damage output?

See one of the 100 other threads discussing this. Rev has not been updated since the core professions were given a huge dps boost.

Also, if you want to do DPS, put on a hammer, fire + air sigil, berserker amulet, and start doing 4-6k damage with hammer #2 from 1200 yards. Paired with the few dps traits available, you can still dish out some big hits. I’d estimate hammer needs maybe 10% boost to damage, but it’s pretty close to ranger LB.

i tried that and still couldn’t pull near that damage comparing the combat logs there was a huge difference in output both in base damage and crits

The damage is definitely lower since we don’t have access to the Shiro legend yet. You won’t be instantly 2-shotting people from 1200 yards, but you can put up a good fight.

Vengeful hammers is also quite strong. Make sure to toggle that on for close encounters.