Be clear faytte. Why you telling that using axe/warhorn in Pve dungeons isn’t good? Do you prefer longbow over axe?
Axe/warhorn isn’t a DPS set. Even if you want to do damage to multiple targets you are far better off going with a shortbow and bringing the piercing arrows traits from marksmanship. I still run axe/warhorn in dungeons as my secondary set, but only because I need a mainhand weapon if I bring warhorn and sword auto-attack/self stun-lock is a deal breaker in dungeons where positioning is important and the issues with sword skill 1 aren’t fixed. I bring out warhorn for 5, usually to run somewhere in the dungeon, sometimes to buff people (the slow attacks speed and low damage of the axe compared with the shortbow makes me feel like every second I spend using it is wasted) and then I change back to shortbow when the cooldown is finished.
As an AoE weapon the axe sucks for dungeons, it does weak damage, it’s slow and it doesn’t hit enough targets. When you need an AoE in dungeons it’s usually because there are a large number of easy to kill mobs (nightmare pups, graveling hatchlings) and the axe only hits three of them. It’s really painful. The shortbow with piercing arrows can hit multiple targets if you are positioned correctly and will do a lot more damage. It also has better positioning skills on it, which are very important in dungeons.
Post patch I still run shortbow. I have 20 in marksmanship taking the piercing arrows (the first tier of power traits is shockingly awful and I don’t care for any of them, it’s either fury and might when pets die – it never seems to work at the stated , I always end up either swapping them with no buff or having to wait for them to be downed to get the buff, or I bring sharpening stone at 75), 15 in skirmishing for crit chance and bleeds on crit, 20 in wilderness survival for toughness for dungeons and hide in plain site, with a 30 second cool down it can save your life multiple times in dungeons when you would otherwise be stunned/immobilised, I also bring the 20% cooldown on survival skills – with quickening zephyr and entangle this can be the most valuable trait in the build. I also swap this out for the regeneration trait for fights like Vevina where conditions are common and regen is important. I really want to bring nature magic for the vitality but the traits are so terrible in my experience I can’t justify investing in it. I’d love for these to get a look at, for as long as spirits suck I can’t support this line – the other traits are boring or simply not worth it. I put 15 in beast mastery for the pet swap cooldown (important in dungeons where the pet will lose health often, it’s utility can save lives) and I alternate between pet F2 cooldowns and shout cooldowns – despite being buggy, search and rescue is actually pretty good.
I run full precision/power/condition damage armour. I get a little bit of toughness from my traits and I tried to focus my jewellery on vitality healing and toughness because that’s what I’m lacking everywhere else. My runes are of the pack but the shared internal cooldown which is invisible and a mystery to me atm seems to be kittening up any value I might get from my sigils and runes.
I alternate with my utilities. If I run TA I bring search and rescue, signet of renewal (even with purity sigils this is invaluable) and quickening zephyr or the charr battle roar. My elite almost always changes based on the situation. I get a lot of use out of entangle, especially on the tough melee mobs, but I also bring out the spirit when I know we will need more healing and roots will be useless (so Vevina and usually the tree fight). In AC I will flame trap sometimes, but without the ranged trap skill, traps are a lot harder to work with in some cases.
