I'm looking to add either onto a weapon I plan to make for my tank (blackwall) but I don't really understand how either works. Which is better? Or is attack percent which seems similar to armor penetration better?
And weapons for rouges - would just strictly dex make the most amount of sense?
Guard damage bonus is the increased amount of damage you can inflict when attacking an enemy with a guard. (That's my understanding)
Examples are: Templars who got guard
Dragons
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While Armor Penetration is I think you can increase your damage to an enemy who doesn't have any guard.... (Feel free to correct me though)
I don't really think that either is that good. Can't you put on something else? Attack % is good.
Guard damage bonus increases damage vs. guard. Armor penetration makes it so that your attacks ignore a certain % of enemy armor (so it's only useful vs. enemies with high armor values).
Attack% increases damage of all attacks and is not conditional on anything, and in the vast majority of cases is better than either guard damage bonus or armor penetration.
Thanks I was going to waste it on penetration.
For rouges, what's recommended for the weapon upgrades?
Thanks I was going to waste it on penetration.
For rouges, what's recommended for the weapon upgrades?
dex dex dex crit damage
In my opinion barrier damage is useless because I have a mage with dispel. Using dispel also grants me other bonuses after each cast. The hardest enemy on the game are the dragons and they use guard, so I would focus more on guard damage.
In my opinion barrier damage is useless because I have a mage with dispel. Using dispel also grants me other bonuses after each cast. The hardest enemy on the game are the dragons and they use guard, so I would focus more on guard damage.
JaegerBane,
I like Crit Damage and Flank damage, actually. The thing to remember about conditional modifiers is that they multiply with your other damage. You do need to stack attack % up to a point, but once you get 20-30% it's worth looking at other options. If your weapon has 100 base damage, and you have 20% attack, you'll do 120 damage. If you flank, you'll get +25% of your modified damage, so you'll hit for 150. Suppose you have the choice to craft attack% or flank% (obviously within the same recipe you never do). If you add +10% attack, you now hit for 130 normally or 163 on a flank. If you craft +20% flank, you still hit for 120 on a regular hit but now your flank attacks do 174!. If you make just half of your auto-attacks from flanking, you break even. Now consider your activated abilities -- If you make sure to always use them from behind, you're going to get huge value from the flank mods. Flank mods are a no-brainer for dagger rogues, who have stealth and flank attack to get behind and already need to flank to exploit twin fang. If I ran with two warriors and no Varric, I would put flank bonus in all my leather slots on my off-tank, and use charging bull.
Crit damage is harder to value. For pure DPS, it's better to build crit damage than crit chance whenever crit chance is >1/2 of crit damage. Base damage is only 40%. Base crit is 5%, maybe +5% from Varric, plus incidental cunning bonuses. Hitting 20% is virtually guaranteed for rogues and happens surprisingly often for warriors. The hard part is that crits aren't all about damage. Warriors usually care more about activating passives than multiplying damage. The crit-linked debuffs last so long 20% crit is plenty, but the CDR stays good until you run out of stamina or animation time. A 2-handed battlemaster warrior would probably never build crit damage. On the other hand, rogues have various passives that can give auto-crits or massive crit chance in the right conditions. If you're team is set up to rely on those, then crit damage is great.
TLDR: Flank damage and crit damage get better the more attack% you already have (and crit damage also gets better the more crit chance you have). Most rogue builds should consider crafting one or both of these stats.
I'm looking to add either onto a weapon I plan to make for my tank (blackwall) but I don't really understand how either works. Which is better? Or is attack percent which seems similar to armor penetration better?
As other folks said, Attack is better than either one, in general.
And weapons for rouges - would just strictly dex make the most amount of sense?
Dex is by far the best IF your crit chance is already decent. Of course, crit chance is capped at 100% (which you can achieve with Sneak Attack), so after that, Dex Dex Dex.
TLDR: Flank damage and crit damage get better the more attack% you already have (and crit damage also gets better the more crit chance you have). Most rogue builds should consider crafting one or both of these stats.
This is true in general, but it also implies that Dex is very, very strong for Rogues only (+0.5% Attack and +1% Crit Damage per point above 10). They're the only class for which a Utility slot is likely to be better than an Offense slot for DPS.
TLDR: Flank damage and crit damage get better the more attack% you already have (and crit damage also gets better the more crit chance you have). Most rogue builds should consider crafting one or both of these stats.
How much crit chance should I aim for? I have no idea. And should I increase the crit chance via weapon + armor upgrades?
Are you talking about a rogue or non-rogue?
DW rogues should take Sneak Attack and aim for 50% crit. For non-rogues, a decent rule of thumb is: if Attack is less than (Crit Chance x Crit Damage), increase Attack; otherwise, increase either Crit Chance or Crit Damage. But a lot depends on your build (e.g., if crits give you other bonuses). And Utility is usually worse than Offense for non-rogues (for DPS; if you consider defenses, it depends).
For archers, it's tough to come up with a general rule.
Are you talking about a rogue or non-rogue?
DW rogues should take Sneak Attack and aim for 50% crit. For non-rogues, a decent rule of thumb is: if Attack is less than (Crit Chance x Crit Damage), increase Attack; otherwise, increase either Crit Chance or Crit Damage. But a lot depends on your build (e.g., if crits give you other bonuses). And Utility is usually worse than Offense for non-rogues (for DPS; if you consider defenses, it depends).
For archers, it's tough to come up with a general rule.
or if you are assassin 25% crit + sneak attack
you will be critting 100% of the time
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