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[[File:2009-04-24-dumpstat 141.png|thumb|350px|Who needs Charisma for smashing orcs?]] |
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* Vitality and Healing in ''[[Guild Wars 2]]'' are very niche stats that only see use in specific builds due to how the game works: everyone can heal, then investing in Toughness to reduce direct damage taken is often a better idea than increasing health, and the scaling of healing abilities with the Healing stat isn't always good enough to justify investing in it except for heavily healing-oriented builds. Only classes with very low base heatlth benefit substantially from Vitality if the player doesn't want to go full [[Glass Cannon]], and the Necromancer is a particular case due to its Death Shroud mechanic scaling with maximum health and being generated in percentage amounts. Vitality even becomes detrimental in the Fractals of the Mists due to the Agony debuff that deals unmitigated damage based on maximum health, then investing in any other stat becomes mandatory to succeed. |
* Vitality and Healing in ''[[Guild Wars 2]]'' are very niche stats that only see use in specific builds due to how the game works: everyone can heal, then investing in Toughness to reduce direct damage taken is often a better idea than increasing health, and the scaling of healing abilities with the Healing stat isn't always good enough to justify investing in it except for heavily healing-oriented builds. Only classes with very low base heatlth benefit substantially from Vitality if the player doesn't want to go full [[Glass Cannon]], and the Necromancer is a particular case due to its Death Shroud mechanic scaling with maximum health and being generated in percentage amounts. Vitality even becomes detrimental in the Fractals of the Mists due to the Agony debuff that deals unmitigated damage based on maximum health, then investing in any other stat becomes mandatory to succeed. |
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* [[Word of God|Alt-text]] in ''[[Rusty and Co.|Rusty and Co]]'' suggests Madeline the Paladin's [http://rustyandco.com/comic/level2/level-2-3/ choice of dump stat] has made her... [[Cloudcuckoolander|a little gullible]]. |
* [[Word of God|Alt-text]] in ''[[Rusty and Co.|Rusty and Co]]'' suggests Madeline the Paladin's [http://rustyandco.com/comic/level2/level-2-3/ choice of dump stat] has made her... [[Cloudcuckoolander|a little gullible]]. |
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* As the characters in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' are in a [[RPG Mechanics Verse]], they sometimes go as far as explicitly referring to Dump Stats. |
* As the characters in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' are in a [[RPG Mechanics Verse]], they sometimes go as far as explicitly referring to Dump Stats. |
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