Guild Wars 2

Ok, thus far I’ve been running a Thief build based on Condition and Power as my main damage sources (with Toughness as my defensive stat).

This was under the assumption that Power increases the damage of all my attacks, including Condition based ones (similar to Spellpower in WoW). Now however, I’m not sure that’s the case.

As far as I know, Precision scales with Power.

A Critical hit is 150% (+X) of a regular hit. Thus, increasing your Power also increases the size of your Critical Hits.

However I’m not sure this applies to Condition damage as well.

I assumed Condition damage too was based off Power, then multiplied by your Condition modificator. But this may not be the case. I have a feeling that Condition damage may merely be based on a flat damage number, regardless of your Power.

TL;DR: How does Power affect you other damage stats and how does each scale?

PS: I’ve read the wiki on damage calculation http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Damage but it wasn’t very revealing).

PSS: I just tested it by using the +Power Singet. As expected, the Power Singet did not increase the damage of my bleeds. If this is indeed the case, this would imply a fundamental flaw in the game’s scaling mechanics.

If power did affect condition damage, then everyone would just stack as much power as possible and probably ignore condition damage modifiers altogether since power would have double benefit.

As far as scaling goes, are you sure that weapon strength doesn’t affect condition damage?

1.Power DOES increase condition damage.I am condition thief,and i can tell this for sure.
It doesn’t increase it as good as you may hope thou.I mean if you replace condition amulet with power,hoping both direct damage and bleeds to rock,you will fail.
2.Precision has nothing to do with condition damage whatsoever,because dot’s don’t crit.
3.Toughness doesn’t affect conditions.You will bleed with the same amount the squishiest elementalist as well the toughest guardian.
Hope that this helps.

Power absolutely DOES NOT affect how much damage your conditions do whatsoever. The ONLY stat that affects how much damage your conditions do is condition damage.

For example, the formula for bleeding damage is

2.5 + (0.5 * Level) + (0.05 * Condition Damage)= per stack per second

for poison

Level + 0.1 * Condition Damage per second

Links to the wiki:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bleeding

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Poison

It is true that conditions are not mitigated by toughness or armor.

Brogin,while i respect your scientific aproach,i see it every day in practice that
stacks of might(which are pure power boons in essence) which i get increase the bleed
ticks damage EVEN after the bleeds was applied.

Do this simple test:
1.Get the trait which you get might after dodging.
2.Go to the test golems and spam 2-3 Leaping Death Blossoms
3.Start dodging and observe already apllied bleeds getting BIGGER.

ZLE.8293:

Brogin,while i respect your scientific aproach,i see it every day in practice that
stacks of might(which are pure power boons in essence) which i get increase the bleed
ticks damage EVEN after the bleeds was applied.

Do this simple test:
1.Get the trait which you get might after dodging.
2.Go to the test golems and spam 2-3 Leaping Death Blossoms
3.Start dodging and observe already apllied bleeds getting BIGGER.

Yea, might sure does increase the damage of your conditions but it’s not because of the power it gives you, it’s because of the condition damage it gives you. Since launch might has given condition damage in addition to power.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Might

Might is a boon which increases power and condition damage and stacks in intensity. The effect of might is determined by the following formula:

0.375 * Level + 5 Power/Condition Damage per stack

Fair enough, Science vs Shallow Observation 1:0

It should not. The trickery skill path are what boost your condition damage. Power is all about the physical damage your daggers/arrows/sword/bullets inflict.

I’m pretty sure Condition Damage increases condition damage.

So Power will increase the primary damage of say…Leaping Death Blossom, but won’t increase the Condition damage aspect.

I guess that makes sense.

However, has anyone tested how Power scales with Precision?

Because if it does indeed scale off of each other, then we have a glaring imbalance.