Guild Wars 2

Currently playing an Engineer and was thinking of boosting my condition damage with the help of the sigil (since I use the trait that grants condition damage based on precision). Naturally when it did that I expected to see the value of precision go up as well (makes sense), but it doesn’t, so the sigil increases crit. chance but not precision (the attribute directly connected to it), which doesn’t make any sense.

By definition, the 7% I just added to critical chance converts to 128.3 points of precision on my current level = 137 points should go to condition damage after basic conversion.

Or, does ANet try to tell us, that precision and critical hit chance aren’t the same? afaik when you increase precision your critical hit chance goes up, so why not the other way around?

Works as intended. Criticil chance depends not only on precision, but some other modificators, like acc sigil, fury buff, etc. They do not affect precision.