Guild Wars 2

Let say I have 70% crit chance, and I have 10 trait points to allocate. Which one would produce better damage output ? 10 in power or 10 in discipline ?

Power is generally better for sustained damage, whereas crit boosts burst. Take your pick.

Cygnus.6903:

Power is generally better for sustained damage, whereas crit boosts burst. Take your pick.

That’s only circumstancially true. 1 pt of precision will trumpt 1 point of power after 100% crit damage while under the crit cap, and 80% if you have a good fury uptime.

Dragonax.6487:

Let say I have 70% crit chance, and I have 10 trait points to allocate. Which one would produce better damage output ? 10 in power or 10 in discipline ?

Indefinite.

The answer depends on your current power and crit damage%.

The highter power u have, the better crit damage u does.

Power>prec>crit dmg

Howered its not always true.

Rifle 1 does definitely better with crit dmg than power due to poor scaling after xx amount of power. Probably the same can be told about sword 1

Anyways theres a reason why zerk gear has load of power packed in

With 70% crit chance crit damage would benifit you more. You will be critting more often
If you had around 50% power would be much better.

It is not really a matter of critical rate, it’s more a matter of how much Power you have and number of Might stacks.
If you have 2000 Power and you have to choose between 200 Power and 10% Critical Damage, then obviously 200 Power is better (in this case it is a 10% damage increase, regardless of criticals).
But in real-case scenario you will reach higher values of Power, especially with a lot of Might stacks, so the percentage of damage output increase due to Power will be lower than Critical Damage’s.

If we are talking about PVE then you should go for a full DPS build (like this one), if it’s PVP then it’s more a matter of traits than stats.
If it’s WVW then I can’t help you, have no experience at all in that field.

How is it not a matter of crit rate?

Effective = Base * (1 + Crit Chance * (Crit Dmg Stat + 0.5))

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Damage-Power-Precision-and-Golden-Ratios/first#post2041178

Scroll up and read that

Sigils that proc on crit have CD. If crit chance is so high you are critting w/o proc’ing, it is more effective to trait more power, or something else. Forget high crit rate. It is only really good with sigils. Might is much better. I play Necro and War. Love both professions.

You truly cannot base this off just Power vs Critical Damage. You must take several things into account.

1: What weapons are you using?
2: What traits did you choose.
3: What Sigils do you have.

All three of these can make drastic differences to determine which is more effective.