Guild Wars 2

I’m currently Level 45. My Lightning Hammer is superior for 1v1 melee and my Fiery Greatsword destroys everything in its path. They’re excellent skills which I make use of frequently. (Mostly PvE, but the Greatsword still does some nice damage in PvP)

I was just having a conversation and a good point was brought up to me—how do these weapons scale? Will they get far worse in their damage/use the higher I get in level? I’m assuming they don’t benefit from sigils or anything.

Does anyone have some solid percentages and numbers, too? That’d be excellent.

They’ll always be around the point of 2-handed Rares for your level, and with two +stats (regular weapons give three, but the conjure stats are ever-so-slightly higher with exception to Flame Axe, which is slightly lower). They start falling off at lv80 due to exotics/legendary/ascended (no ascended weapons yet, though).

They’ll receive benefits from Stack-on-kill sigils that are already earned, but you are correct in that they have no sigil use on their own. Granted, dunno why you’d be running something that isn’t stack & swap on ele unless you have a crit-based build…

Flame Axe is high mobility (and a burn when traited) but otherwise not worth a slot.
EDIT: Keep on forgetting about the Fire Field, but it still isn’t that great.

Frost Bow has a rather painful AoE Bleed and a five-second stun with a pulse of chilled afterward.

Magnetic Shield is nice for pulling people off of walls and initiation.

Lightning Hammer is an AoE blind and blast finisher, three times in five seconds. Amazing for PvE.

Fiery Greatsword is just great for boss fights of near any size (It’s only failed at Jormag for me, and even then a FS user should be clearing mobs during the event anyway)

speaking for flame axe scaling…
in spvp it hits hard compared to most ele attacks when comboed with auras.

From 40 to 60 i feel it has stayed pretty consistently damaging in pve but i have no numbers on it.

just made 60 in wvw last night. been playing mostly spvp with the ele.