Guild Wars 2

For dual Axe/Rifle warrior, at strength master tier. Both traits seem kind of weak, especially compared to others at the master tier, but I honestly don’t know what else to take at that level for my weapons setup: 5% base damage or 10% critical damage?

I take it if you crit chance is over 50% then the 10% crit damage starts to win out, unless there’s some other calculations I’m missing where the base damage comes out on top?

I think it was something like Axe mastery>dual wielding if Critchance>73%

Dual wielding is adept and axe mastery is master… Take them both for axe builds.

Even if I don’t know what you are using your build to, I doubt you would have better adept choice than dual wielding. If you do however need to decide between those 2, take dual wielding over axe mastery.

Assuming 100% crit chance and 50% crit dmg from equipment, axe mastery gives you 0,1/2=0,05 dmg increase, which is equal to dual wielding, so that is the break even point. Both lower crit chance and higher crit dmg value work in the favor of dual wielding over axe mastery. Depending on how the rest of your build is like, I would assume your crit chance isn’t even close to 100% and your crit dmg modifier is greater than 2 meaning dual wielding is most likely the superior choice as long as you use an offhand that triggers it.

I use both for my axe/mace build.