Camping Greatsword was the best dps before the patch, now its even better. From what I’ve heard Reaper’s Onslaught is still a dps loss over Deathly chill. I’d stick to gs with axe as backup. I prefer focus since I only swap to axe for when I cannot melee and warhorn is a primarily melee offhand.
Personally I find dagger better in areas where you need more sustain, your foes are harder to hit and you need to keep them snared (aka wvw or pvp). Unless its preference, there’s no point running dagger mainhand in pve. Greatsword is just so much better.
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I just did the current event and got that free ascended weapon, as far as I could assume since I already have an ascended GS the best second option would be the dagger since I run a Power Reaper?
How does dagger fit into the Power play style and what should I grab for the offhand since I usually always camped the GS and swapped to Axe/WH if I needed some mobility and range?
Do I stick the Dagger in the off hand and keep the Axe in the main hand for the ranged while using the Dagger as a stat stick/speed boost with the Blood trait?
I personally run D/D + GS. I just love Dagger 4, never liked Warhorn since WH 4 is just a 2s Daze with a 30s CD while WH 5 is the only decent skill that gives you a damaging cloak for 10s, Switfness for 15. Just wasn’t worth it to me, plus with both Daggers I can capitalize off of Quickening Thirst more (doesn’t give double movement speed but all of my CDs are reduced). If you want to keep Axe MH, I’d suggest the same as Lahmia and go with Focus Off-Hand. If you do want to go with Dagger Off-Hand, you don’t necessarily have to Trait for it but you’d really only be getting it for the Condi-removal in my opinion. Of course, this all depends on your Traits as well, running Blood Magic (like I mentioned earlier) allows you to capitalize off of Dagger while running Spite allows you to capitalize off of Focus and Axe. It’s really about personal preference and your playstyle. Focus is good for Boon Corrupt if I remember correctly, haven’t used it in so long I can’t speak from experience.
WH is a good melee weapon, not very good with Axe since you have to be up in the enemy’s grill to fully utilize WH while Axe is about keeping your distance. So if you want to keep Axe, I’d suggest going for that one first (or whatever your MH is) since that’ll be the weapon your autos will be hitting with.
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Thanks guys I was checking out the Metabattle site and while it is outdated there is a Fractal build that utilizes GS/Dagger-WH.
No problem friend, good luck and have fun!
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The only problem with double melee is if you get into a situation where you have to range. Don’t be like the pug Rev I had the other day in lvl 100 Nightmare fractal, that was useless 50% of the time because he used sword and staff.
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The only problem with double melee is if you get into a situation where you have to range. Don’t be like the pug Rev I had the other day in lvl 100 Nightmare fractal, that was useless 50% of the time because he used sword and staff.
I had the same worry as well, but all of Dagger’s skills, along with Wells, provide me with enough range personally. If I absolutely have to get up in the enemy’s grill, but it’s too risky, I’ll typically go in with Shroud. I tried running Axe at one point, but I just didn’t like it personally. Rev’s Sword/Staff all require you to be up in the enemy’s grill, Dagger 2, 3 ,4 and 5 can all be used from a distance. Not as good as Axe or Staff for sure, but I don’t find it too debilitating. I honestly wish we had a ranged Power weapon that did what Axe does, but slightly quicker and a bit burstier (made up the word).
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just started back. what event is this with the free ascended?
Reforging Caladbolg. You need to have finished HoT story on a character to receive the mail needed to begin the quest.
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