User:The Gates Assassin/Saying testing is needed

If you have been directed here then you have made the comment that testing is needed to see the true power behind your build. Here is why you are completely wrong.

What testing does
Testing is only needed if you don't know what is going to happen. With scientists, testing or experiments are done because they only have an idea of what is going to happen, so they test to see if they are right. In sports, a short geeky looking kid could be the star quarterback since you can't really tell by looking at people how good they are at certain things. People can surpise you. Unknown things can surprise you. Builds and guild wars cannot.

Guild Wars
Guild Wars is a computer, and pretty much the entire game has been documented and seen multiple times. If a skill says that it is going to deal 119 damage, it is going to deal 119 damage depending on buffs on that foe. It isn't magically going to deal extra damage to foes or ignore armor. We KNOW what the skills are going to do. We can figure out just about everything about your builds mathematically since almost everything in the game has been given a formula and figured out. We know how much damage your weapon will deal on average or critical, we know the effects of armor, and we know the effects of buffs. We know pretty much every skill in the game and even if we don't know one, *Click* Favorites *Click* GuildWiki *Types* Quicksand. Congrats to me, I now know just about everything about that skill. So in short, we know how a build will perform mathematically in every way.