Guild Wars 2

Previous patches:
Anet- “Let’s buff axes to make people want to use them.”
Me- “Sweet, I’ve always wanted a secondary choice for primary weapons on power warrior/berserker.”

August patch:
Anet- “Let’s ruin axe/axe by moving a condi trait choice into a power based tree and put a pure power based weapon into the mobility tree.”
Me – “These axe skins are tempting, but the build is ruined. Guess I’ll just go back to greatsword.”

But in all seriousness, can anyone explain to me why this change was positive for duel axes, or was this trait swap to just give a second trait choice to gs+axe/shield? Strength/Defence/Berserker allowed axe/axe to force a lot of burst through block and still have a skill based way to sustain with rousing resiliance and outrage. Now the build is being forced to either kitten damage or kitten durability for 25% movement speed and a faster weapon swap. axe/axe played like a slow moving juggernaught intended to power down guards, reapers, and other block based professions, now it’s back to it’s old gimmicky self.

And pls no respond with “It’s not greatsword and we all know greatsword is best primary weapon” I was looking forward to axe/axe being a lower mobility, more reliable damage version of greatsword until this grandmaster trait swap.

whenever I played a dual wield build it really hurt being forced to drop berserkers power. I wonder if it would be a bit more feasible now that bulls charge can be used twice… nope lol.

I thought the Axe trait would be baseline or be given to Arms.

I would’ve merged axe and GS traits together. Both giving might and giving 20% reduce cd.

I miss the good ol days when you could dodge while casting axe 5 and eviscerate did not share cd’s with other eviscerates… oh the good ol days

also when 90% of the players had no clue what they were doing XD

RIP Triple Axe Builds

Axe/axe is just a bad weapon set for PvP. It’s way too one dimensional. You could probably make Axe/shield mace/axe work though. Another problem with axe/axe is quickness overwrites the dual wielding attack speed.

power war in all of its forms is dead now, Anet has killed it.
Berserkers power damage bonus during berserker went from 20% to 7%…
freaking ridiculous.