For crit chance I went with rampager amulet, 30 in arms, 1 sigil of accuracy, deep strikes with 5 signets (inc. signet of fury for an additional 180 pre), 30 in discipline ofc for HF and ended up with 86% (no fury) and the supposedly 15% from HF = 101%.
Result: a few non-crits on the golem
Next test: activated SoR and swapped HF for something unrelated. Total crit rate should be 84+20=104%
Result: still a few non-crits
I did some testing with Berserker’s Power this morning and can confirm that in The Mists, the 15% damage bonus is not correctly applied. The easiest weapon to see this on is the Sword because all three hits of the chain hit for the exact same amount. Damage dealt was 122 and 137 with and without Berserker’s Power, respectively (and ignoring critical hits). That represents a 12% delta.
I did some further tests against target dummies in Lion’s Arch (to do a PvE test) but given the RNG nature of attacks without a Steady Weapon, the results were not conclusive. My first round with a Longbow and about only 20 samples each with and without Berserker’s Power showed a 14.5% damage delta. However, with a Sword I had one test find only a 9% damage delta. I would like to try a larger sample size as well as a few other tweaks and will try and report back. The hardest part is that target dummies don’t register in the combat log for easy review and as such, requires trying to track the damage numbers in real time.
UPDATE/EDIT: Just finished gathering 100 samples each with and without Berserker’s Power. This time, was stripped down, no trinkets, and only 30pts in Strength. Damage delta between the average damage for each set of samples was 11.3%. So, still not conclusive. Ugh… if only we had steady weapons in PvE. Trying to detect a damage delta bonus that is smaller than what naturally occurs with a weapon’s attack range is quite annoying.
