Guild Wars 2

Hi there,

i’ll make it short:

Engineer major adept trait (chemical rounds): +50% condi duration for pistols multiplicative

Poten Poison is grandmaster: +33% poison damageand +33% poison duration additive

Compare chemical rounds with potent poison:
(condiDuration+0.33)1.33 / (condiDuration1.5)

at 00% condi duration: 17.9% better
at 25% condi duration: 12.1% better
at 60% condi duration: 7% better

The higher the base condi duration is, the smaller the difference between the two traits gets.

Changing the duration stacking for this trait to multiplicative would help the current thief get closer to the dps of the engineer.
If you want to get to close to the dps of the engineer, the duration could be reduced to 30%. Anything lower wouldnt be enough to help the thief.

But i am sure there are many other ways to help the current thief.
Some might be more creative and fun, others might be easier or better.
What are your thoughts?

Chemical rounds is functionally multiplicitave because it changes the pistol skills themselves. The equivalent would be having potent poison increase poison duration on dagger skills, which would then multiply with extra duration, but do nothing for our utilities, steal, and combos, which is where we get most of our poison. I’m not sure if there’s a way to have it boost our poison baseline, but it would be cool.