Guild Wars 2

What are everyone’s critical ? I have mine at 25, now is that too low?

Depents on your build/weapons.

Do you use a mace or shield.. and hammer (or this in combination with GS) ? take unsuspected foe (+50% crit chance)
So yes the base 25% you have is enough.

Using longbow / rifle / sword / axe / Gs ? i would aim for 50% crit chance

If your going for conditions (longbow,sword) you dont need any crit.

Ow btw.. longbow,sword can been used for heavy burst also :-) (i prefer it over conditions)

Ok thanks for that. I’m currently using greatsword and sword/hammer.

greatsword + sword/mace you mean? i would go for 50% crit chance.

Also maby run greatsword + sword/shield..
Sigil of para on shield (use shield bash.. gives now 2 sec stun)
+ unsuspected foe
= ALWAYS do a high crit with Final thrust :-)

Mace 5 is a knockdown, so you dont benefit from unsuspected foe..
Mace 4 is meh.. not so good..

Shield 4.. sweet for landing a high final thrust crit.
Shield 5.. best skill! saved me soooo many times against heavy bursts.

Mine is somewhere in the 50s% base (60s% for sword thanks to the trait)

With ~60-75% fury uptime that goes (for the most part) to 70s% (80s%) crit

With burst skills having an extra 10% as well, and if I’m in a group I’ll usually throw on banner of discipline which can get me over 100% for most of a fight.

To be fair, I don’t do too much damage (my crit damage is crap), but I mostly use crits to build extra adrenaline and to help stack bleeds and set off runes.

Even your 25% base can be enough with fury or banner of dis.

For primarily WvW, 0% from gear, 9% from traits (10pts in Arms).

I put all my gear stat points into Health/Armor/Power/Crit Damage, then run Hammer/Mace/Shield stun builds, and get Crit Chance from traits:

Unsuspecting Foe: 50% Crit Chance vs stunned targets (Earthshaker stuns first, applies 50%, then damages; same with Mace & Shield stuns)

Heightened Focus: 5% Crit Chance per bar of Adrenaline. Cleansing Ire helps regen Adrenaline quickly.

Fury: 20%

Base: 9%

= 50% + 15% + 20% + 9% = 94% max potential crit chance.

Looks something like this.

For PvE, I have 72% from traits and equips. Fury (from SoR) bring it to 90. Fury(from FGJ or other source) brings it to 92. Banner I believe brings me to 99-100 ish. In pvp I have about 47% from traits and equips and fury and unsuspecting foe bring me to…oh gosh…117% crit chance…dang looks like ill be respec’ing soon xD anyway, 25 can or cannot be enough depending on your build. Conditions don’t need much crit but full zerk you will need more.

Between traits and eqps 60 % is the sweet spot. You dont need to really run more if you have decent furry up time.
Once you hit 60% id aim towards other stuff to buff