Level syncing formulas?

[Geryth]

This is all extremely useful stuff - once I get VIT on all of my accessories, and add some food into the mix, I'll increase my HP by at least 1k which is a huge boost that will have little to no affect on my damage. That's without getting the PvP VIT traits or moving my character bonus points. I can take a melee LB to the face and survive with ease and almost have enough to take two cometeors without a heal in between.

[Geryth]

So I traded all of my accessories for VIT accessories and made a bunch of HQ buttons in a blanket for some maximum HP. I'm running at 5650 HP now with a tank in my party, opposed to 4450, and is in range to take two cometeors without dying. My damage is actually noticeably less - I took a 56 hit in STR but I gained 26 crit and 21 DET, and I don't remember how much skill speed I lost, but I can feel the difference in my pace of play that my GCD is longer. My food gives me 10 more crit and 16 DET, but even with +36 crit and +35 DET, I think my damage is still lower because of the -56 STR.

Either way, it's not much lower, and I believe it's definitely worth the +1200 HP (cause you know - the whole argument of damage that I get to do for not being dead).

Do potions work in PvP? I could make some X-potions of strength and pop em every 5 minutes for +69 STR and then I'll be rocking a solid punch with a wall of HP.

[CeveArthu]

yes potions work, although i dont really see why you aren't using SOME str crit det accessories as a melee dps, you are pretty much cutting off your nose to spite your face if you use all vit accs

[Geryth]

yes potions work, although i dont really see why you aren't using SOME str crit det accessories as a melee dps, you are pretty much cutting off your nose to spite your face if you use all vit accs

I'll keep trying it out to see how my overall performance is affected. Right now I only have a sample size of 5 games played with the new setup, but so far I feel like the change has been positive - my overall damage dealt per match seems about the same but I might not be securing kills as easily which could result in lost points - I think I definitely am dying less with such a huge increase in HP so at the very least that's points taken away from the other GC's. And recuperate restores HP based on % so that also is a big boon to my survivability. It definitely is a balancing act to fine tune survivability vs. damage - I can only go by anecdotal evidence until someone who has the time and skills to crunch the numbers. I have a looooong way to go before rank 45 so I'll have lots of time to swap stuff around and see what works best (again, anecdotally)