Tank Damage

[Argyle_Darkheart]

No. War is slightly behind because their damage scales stupidly well with greater and greater amounts of Crit due to their auto Direct Crits. Come 5.55 War should have the highest dps even without any potency changes.

No. CHR actually scales worse on WAR than the other tanks, insofar as the scaling growing at a lesser rate. Automatic critical hits mean that WAR is further ahead on the scaling curve, but it also means the scaling curve is flatter.

To put it simply, the other tanks are catching up to WAR when it comes to CHR scaling; it's not a case of WAR pulling further and further ahead. Come 5.55, WAR should be even further behind the other tanks, if nothing changes.

[BarretOblivion]

No. CHR actually scales worse on WAR than the other tanks, insofar as the scaling growing at a lesser rate. Automatic critical hits mean that WAR is further ahead on the scaling curve, but it also means the scaling curve is flatter.

To put it simply, the other tanks are catching up to WAR when it comes to CHR scaling; it's not a case of WAR pulling further and further ahead. Come 5.55, WAR should be even further behind the other tanks, if nothing changes.

OMG I think your right.... it actually makes sense what you are saying. Everyone has been saying WAR is going to get better as crit scales but I always have been thinking 'but so are all the tanks as thier crit % are going to up and their crits are going to hit as hard as WAR, plus they can meld DH while WAR doesn't.

[Kabooa]

No. CHR actually scales worse on WAR than the other tanks, insofar as the scaling growing at a lesser rate. Automatic critical hits mean that WAR is further ahead on the scaling curve, but it also means the scaling curve is flatter.

To put it simply, the other tanks are catching up to WAR when it comes to CHR scaling; it's not a case of WAR pulling further and further ahead. Come 5.55, WAR should be even further behind the other tanks, if nothing changes.

Can you link the math on this?

Every time it comes up it bothers me because at a surface level it doesn't make sense.

Auto critting means that section of your damage always gets the crit bonus. It greatly inflates the bonus you get, and a fair portion of Warriors damage is auto crit.

This effectively means a portion of Warrior's damage scales normally as the other tanks, but the other portion of it is -heavily inflated- because it automatically crits. There should be no point where other tanks approach Warrior's critical scaling, only baseline potency discrepancies that prevent it from being horribly stupid.

Edit: There should be no sane point where they approach critical scaling. We're talking like baseline 50-60% chance, and seeing as we're barely peaking into 25% this tier...