Guild Wars 2

The discipline trait line for warriors should be changed.

Why?

Currently it gives +0.1% burst damage and 1% critical damage per point. Critical damage is most effectively gained by adding points to the corresponding trait line. If you use the conversion of 1% critical damage = 10 of stat, you will see that adding critical damage via gear or runes is not as effective. The only more efficient way of adding critical damage is through socketed gems.

This makes discipline a “good” tree to go with, attribute wise.

Wrong

For some reason warriors have a really bad class mechanic bonus of 0.1% extra burst skill damage per point. For this reason, when you put points into discipline, you are really paying 20 stat points for 1% critical damage, which isn’t very good at all.

I think the best solution is to let players allocate their stat points however they wish, but unfortunately that idea was rejected. This is likely because there are attributes that are more impacted than others, for example your base power at 80 is 916, so a 300 increase would only be a 33% gain. Whereas stats like condition damage or critical damage are at 0 and 50% respectively and would see a much larger percentage increase.

So I’m either missing your point or you are flat out wrong. Crit damage and burst damage are two separate things. By putting 20 points in discipline I get 20% extra crit damage and 2% extra burst damage. They are separate stacks. Burst skills will do more damage as you increase power and crit damage in general, now on top of that you are giving them added damage from the trait line.

Essentially if at 20 points in the trait and you have a burst skill (skill activated via f1) that does 100 damage, you will now do 102 damage base for that skill. Now if you crit that is extra damage added on top of that. This means you get more damage from the discipline trait, over just stacking it on the side.