Guild Wars 2

I have a level 26 thief now and for the past 10 or so levels my critical chance has been steadily decreasing every level by at least 2 percent each level

I wasn’t able to post the other screenshot but here it is with my critical chance reduced by 6% even though my precision has actually increased over the course of the levels

The critical chance is calculated by the additional precision compared to a certain (level based) value. Thus your critical chance decreases if you keep the same precision value while leveling. In your case you gained some precision, but not enough to compensate that.

The scaling mechanism happily assumes that the instant you level up, you’ve suddenly upgraded all of your gear. Thus, as you level up in a lower level area without upgrading your gear stats, your various numbers will slowly be ground down, down, down….

I’d prefer something more sophisticated that actually scales you based on your ACTUAL stats rather than just some arbitrary level number. The people who are least affected are the L80s in maxed gear, since that would be the functionally highest possible base numbers the scaling would have to work with.

Wow, it suddenly all makes sense! Thanks for your replies I appreciate it~