Guild Wars 2

Luthan.5236:

I don’t think there is anything you can use against fear?

Fear can be removed by anything that breaks stun and it is prevented by stability. It’s also a condition, so condition cleansing effects can and will remove fear.

TLDR: If you double your Power, you double your damage. No other stat in the game scales this well. Power is overpowered.

Correct me if I did not get that right.

However, I do not quite follow you when you say that Power scales much much more for 2 handed weapons than 1 handed weapons. The same rule still applies when it comes to scaling: double your Power, double your damage, for both 1 handers and 2 handers. Yes, 2 handed weapons usually deal more damage, because of what they are: 2 handed weapons. The drawback is the loss of one sigil slot. Furthermore you are comparing rifles to pistols, from an engineer’s perspective I would assume, which is not a fair comparison in my opinion. Pistols are designed to deal a large share of their damage through Condition Damage, which scales less well then Power, as you indicated. This is what puts the pistols at a disadvantage compared to the rifle. If it were the other way around and the rifle’s damage output was largely based on conditions whilst the pistols did direct damage only, it would be the other way around and pistols would scale better than the rifle. It has nothing to do with the weapons being 1 or 2 handed.