Guild Wars 2

On a thief:

I re-traited to test out a different build and didn’t like it. So, I switched back to 30 crit and full zerker gear (as high as I can afford to get it, which is 53% displayed).

I use sigil of accuracy (5% crit) and sigil of air (30% chance on crit), furious retaliation (20% crit for foes under 50%), side strike (+%crit chance from side or back), and hidden killer (100% crit in stealth).

First, compared to before I messed with my build, crit is going off VERY rarely, even though my % is the same.

Second, I’m not critting out of stealth with HC. I know I’m not because I’ve tested it every which way. In fact, I seem to do LESS damage on my first strike out of stealth than I do when I’m not stealthed (i.e. I’ve done heartseeker in and out of stealth on full health moas in WvW, about 50 each way, and I do about 2100 not stealthed and 2010 stealthed).

Now, I know that hodden killer was messed up, but it was posted on these forums that the last patch claimed to have fixed it (that is the most recent post about the issue).

Any ideas on what the issue may be?

Since I don’t know much about thiefs or even thiefs’ mechanics, I can only talkg about general things here.

• Sigil of accuracy doesn’t appear in the hero panel. The wiki says, that it’s still applied regularly, but I haven’t bothered to test its exact calculation. Especially with other secondary/ teritary effects.
• Sigil of air doesn’t affect your chance to crit at all.
• Crit chance doesn’t affect your crit damage