Noob Question About Gear Evaluation/Comparison

[rochambeaux]

It’s really only reliable when you want to compare auto-attack damage. For actual skill damage, it’s easier to put the skill on your right or left mouse button and then go to your second tab in your char-sheet. There you can mouse over said skill and see a detailed damage breakdown which should also reflect the weapon change in your example.

The weapon in your example will only change a very small part of physical damage of the 110% weapon damage part of primal strike so it won’t affect overall damage too much.

Generally you will want to focus on one or two damage types so the weapon should convert to one of these two types.

This helped a great deal - thanks. I totally forgot about assigning the “default” skill for the associated bonuses. If it’s not in a Noob guide there should be the first line in all caps: ASSIGN YOUR DEFAULT SKILL BEFORE HEADING OUT!

So now under combat stats my Primal Strike has a DPS rating of 2,157. If I mouse over a different weapon is the DPS change based on its impact to Primal Strike or just “base” weapon damage?

For “caster” skills like Lightning Storm which I cannot assign to L/R mouse, they would be impacted by %increase to Lightning/Electrocute damage mods only, correct?