Guild Wars 2

I’m starting to consider my eventual end-build for my ranger and thought it might be a good idea to canvass the opinions on the forums regarding melee weapon loadouts.

I should preface this by saying that, except on the (currently) rare occasions that I run dungeons or enter PvP, I rarely play with others. Usually I’m soloing the PvE worldspace. Suggested loadouts for PvP or WvW will be flat-out ignored in this post, as will dual-bow sets.

A lot of people I’ve seen on build threads and such seem to like using sword/horn or sword/torch. I have no problem with sword, but honestly I’m not a fan of torch and I’d only use horn if I was (a) in a group setting or (b) if it was honestly the best off-hand weapon I had. My preferred dual-wield setup is sword/dagger or sword/axe; I think that the skills that dagger and axe provide me with are more useful, even if Dagger-4 is a bit redundant with all of the poison moves that Sword has. If someone can convert me, then all well and good, but I’m just not impressed with it.

Personally my favorite so far has been Greatsword, which honestly gives me the best damage for melee and lets me take on 4-5 enemies at once no problem. But I’ve noticed a bit of GW hate too, and I’m not sure why. Same goes here; if someone can explain (with numbers) why GW’s are ill-favored, that’d be nice.

So: what do your guys like to use in PvE & dungeons?