Guild Wars 2

I want to know what is a good treshold for critical dmg with ~2600 power.

Atm I’m trying to rework my stats for thief as it did not really survived trough the last feature patch before HoT.

Use case: -solo roaming S/D + Shortbow.
My future build critical dmg for the moment: 192% (sacrified for better survivability).

Link to the build if any want to do change: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAsYFWgJMv0QcoNM/BLhtQtEQAY3A-TFjFABFqSRSKxGUdFjUeclSQAeAAorJ4hDBgAnAgZ2fIhjAAa6BIDQ5WA-w

80% crit is best, cuz then you fury and its all red numbers.

^ He says “critical damage treshold”.

If you don’t mind costly food for WvW, you could make use of the Furious Sharpening Stone (+100 toughness & + ferocity for 10% of your total toughness). This gives A LOT of crit dmg , and compensates for the loss of power. This should get you to at least 200 crit dmg, which I think is a sweet spot.

On a side note, I would definitely lower some toughness if I were you. You have too much of it and you’re still very susceptible to condition damage as toughness does nothing to counter it.

Just replace your trinkets to be berserker, replace some gear into Valkyrie and try to get toughness through the food I recommended. ~2200/2300 armor is what you want. More is a big damage/HP sacrifice.

Updated to this.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAsYVn0MBFmiFOBWOB8PhFYCzLNEHaDzfwSYLULBEA2NA-TVjFABFqSxgqqYkyjrUCCwDAAdNBHpEjQ1Ae4QAIwJAYm9HS4IAgmeAyAUuFA-w

I really like to not rely on Shadow Refuge. And I feel like at the moment everything 2 shot me with 2.2k and 2.3k toughness.

Everything will two-shot you unless you go well over 3k armor and maintain high health (I.E., nomad’s). Of course, you’re then not killing anything, either.

WvW’s pretty broken right now because ANet forgot PvP was imbalanced because of trinkets causing low damage instead of ratios, so now a lot of skills are wildly overtuned in their damage. Frankly, I think it’s best to still be in primarily Valkyrie gear. Forget Berserker.

If you’re intent on being durable, I’d probably suggest something like this

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAW8Yn0MBFmiFOBmOB8PhFYCzLNEHaDzfwS4KULBEA2NA-TVCEAB1v/wTK/UU9HEeAAVcBAA4gA8wRAwQlgupbgUACq1C-w

Because you’re not in sPvP, the shortbow isn’t necessary. S/D gives you the movement, cleansing and engage/disengage you need while maintaining lots of evasion, boon-stripping, and stealth, and the staff lets you bomb players for massive damage and maintain weakness while also providing solid mobility. Shadowstep swapped in for IS because you shouldn’t need the stunbreak often with how durable you are and how much you should be evading CC; it lets you recover better from condition bombs without blowing unnecessary cooldowns and lets you really run/reset hard if necessary in place of the shortbow. Bound is preferable to UC in this build because you’re using Withdraw. You could likely afford to switch to UC if you make the move to Channeled Vigor for your heal, instead.

You’re dealing less damage obviously, but the damage gained from the bonuses from Bounding Dodge and the staff in general with reliable crit vaults put you in a position of potentially out-bursting your other build despite the lower ferocity and power.