Converting Effective Power

Converting Effective Power into actual damage is rather straight forward and should only take a couple of seconds, if you choose to do it at all. Effective Power does not necessarily need to be converted, as everything else in the calculation is a simple constant that stays the same between different builds. This means that a 10% increase in Effective Power will give you 10% more damage on a skill.

The formula for conversion can be found below, while the skill coefficients should be on the Guild Wars 2 Wiki. Keep in mind that utilities don’t use weapon strength: each one has their own number. However, utilities do still scale with Effective Power

Damage = Effective Power * skill coefficient * weapon strength / target armor

Be Aware!

A couple of things to note:

• Effective Power cannot be compared between different professions
• Effective Power cannot be compared between different weapons
• Sigils that activate on critical hits (like Fire and Air) are not displayed in the numbers, but you should be able to gauge their performance by the given critical chance and power

Effective Health CAN be compared between professions, however:

• It only represents the amount of burst damage you can take (100% to downed)
• It does not take healing into account: higher armor will give better sustain, which can be checked by adding healing in the advanced options

Hidden Calculator Features

There are a few semi-hidden features in the calculator which could enhance your experience:

• Press Tab to go to the next cell; the order is pre-defined in the code. This allows you to quickly fill in builds.
• The 'Damage Modifier' works like a calculator, so you don't have to use an external one. For Example, just fill in 1.05*1.1*1.2 and it will automatically calculate that into 1.386. Using spaces and commas(,) instead of periods(.) is allowed. You can even use the + operator instead of *, they will both give the same answer.
• With the Chrome and Opera webbrowsers, you can scroll to change the numbers of your input (with the exception of the damage modifier). This works for the Condition Calculator too and makes it a lot easier to quickly add or subtract a small amount.

Hello! I am Impie

I have been part of Team Aggression [TA] for over two years, a hardcore World vs. World guild that many of you will know.

The formulas and layouts used on GW2Power.com were originally compiled by me for use in Team Aggression, though they make up only a small part of the theorycrafting tools made available to that guild.

Why make this public?

Most highly competitive player and guilds already had mathematical models like this, although those were less intricate, harder to use and generally a lot less automated. With this website I hope to bring up the overall level of Guild Wars 2 builds, especially those of the less experienced players.

I study game design, for which both programming and design are essential skills. The intention of this project is to have it be an exercise for both of those, with code optimizations on the former and interface design (a part of ludology) on the latter.

Feedback

I have been working on this project devotedly and would appreciate your feedback on anything related to this website. Did you find a bug, does something about the layout or interface bother you or have you managed to break something? Let me know!

You can contact me in-game through my character name Impie Yay or use my account name instead: Luijtjuh.5964

Alternatively, you can also pass an E-mail to luijtjuh[at]gmail.com, although it might take me a while to respond.

Where are the ads?

What advertisements? At least for now, there won't be any ads and I will pay for the webhosting myself. Any donations are obviously appreciated, but will never required or asked for.