Guild Wars 2

I’m aware of the data floating around that GS is 17% less dps then sword. My question is; if you are running with casuals/non hardcore people who don’t pre-might stack or run the optimal builds, does this change the damage difference between the two weapons? Lets so only ever like 10 vuln stacks too which is high from what I usually see?

I’m perfectly happy using GS but I was curious if that 17% came from optimal everything from all parties involved.

Also if using Greatsword, is going 5/5/0/4/0 better than going 6/5/0/3/0 for picking up the two handed training for 5% GS damage or is the extra 5 points for more power and the occasional increase in damage from when the enemy might have chill/cripple still better?

Thanks

The build for optimal GS is 4/5/0/5/0.

The 17% assumes Max might, vulnerability, fury, etc.

That being the case the gap would be slightly smaller thanks to the vuln from maul…but its not going to be much. Only a few percent.

Sword is still the best by far.

If you’re using the GS, because your PUG can’t proper blind/aegis/etc, 6/5/0/3/0 would still be the optimal build.

Predator’s Onslaught is too good of a DPS increase to drop it. Just make sure, you open the fight with Barrage.
Even the “casualest” of PUGs should keep soft-CC’s up 99% of the time.

Also, if taken an off-hand-Axe into consideration, Maul (and it’s vuln.) isn’t such a great DPS-gap closer to a Sword anymore.

Sube Dai.8496:

The build for optimal GS is 4/5/0/5/0.

The 17% assumes Max might, vulnerability, fury, etc.

That being the case the gap would be slightly smaller thanks to the vuln from maul…but its not going to be much. Only a few percent.

Sword is still the best by far.

I don’t see fury uptime anywhere near 100% anyway so that works out too. If the damage difference is still like 12% I’m ok with that. Thanks for the info.