Guild Wars 2

Sir Mad.1092:

We’re talking about DPS, not just Power

Right, which is why I used “effective power” which takes into account crit (try changing the crit values in the effective power calculator I linked). Since damage is based linearly on effective power, a percentage increase/decrease in effective power equates to the same percentage change in DPS.

Don’t misunderstand me though, I’d love to be proved wrong

Ensign.2189:

The DPS to survivability trade-off you get is fantastic – you can increase your health by over 50% for roughly a 3% DPS loss.

This sounds fantastic so I tried to qualify it and I was unable to do so. I’m no theorycrafting expert, but I took the the build from dulfy and modified it to use some Marauder and compared the stats. According to this comparison the effective power went from 4891 to 4587 for a 6% decrease while the effective health went from 13,361 to 19,270 for a 44% increase. While that’s still not a terrible tradeoff IMO, it’s not quite the 3% decrease for 50% increase you mentioned. Is there something I’m doing wrong in these calculations? Thanks!