Guild Wars 2

You guys think that Arcing Slice -50hp will hit like Final Thrust or Evisc?

It crit for about 7k in the video demonstration we saw. I imagine it will do quite nicely. A 7k crit with a single hit is not bad. 15k with eviscerate is better, obviously, but considering it does AoE damage and able to hit 5 targets, 7k is not bad. The damage taken away from Hundred Blades was simply moved to Arcing Slice. As it stands now, Rush hits harder than Arcing slice. With this update, Arcing slice should hit on par with Final Thrust, but not Eviscerate. Either way, I like the idea of critting for 7k+ on 5 targets at once, and the animation looks somewhat quick. I for one welcome the change, because let’s face it you almost never hit with all of Hundred Blades against another player.

Eviscerate and FT have a co-efficient (what defines the damage each skill does) of 3.0 at maximum effectiveness.

AS will be 2.6

AS should do around 90% of the damage an Eviscerate, except in full AoE.

I could potentially hit harder than them based on Weapon Strength (GS is higher than axe and sword), however I haven’t done those calculations.

Think of AS like a 5 target Final Thrust with a bigger AoE or an Eviscerate that doesn’t require more than 1 bar of adrenaline to deal max damage.

The vid is not representative fo the damage you will actually do. I doubt the guy in the vid was using glass cannon gear.

So yeah, It will be good. Very good I believe.

mexay.3902:

AS will be 2.6

AS should do around 90% of the damage an Eviscerate, except in full AoE.

I could potentially hit harder than them based on Weapon Strength (GS is higher than axe and sword), however I haven’t done those calculations.

Think of AS like a 5 target Final Thrust with a bigger AoE or an Eviscerate that doesn’t require more than 1 bar of adrenaline to deal max damage.

It will hit almost exactly as hard as Eviscerate. Greatsword has a higher weapon strength and with Slashing Power vs Dual Wielding it will have an additional 5% dps advantage. When I calculated the damage of the two skills the differences were less than 100 total damage.

The big advantage of arcing slice is that it doesn’t require full adrenaline to be effective. Meaning you can potentially spam it on cool down for better dps than if you spammed Eviscerate on cool down.

Gs would it be viable in tpvp?