Guild Wars 2

In Terms of Survivability/Evades in PvE Dungeons mainly, Who is king of the kill?

Personally I think greatsword takes the cake.

Greatsword[Does less damage Vs Sword/Dagger]
1. The evade spam every 3rd hit. [Can still move while evading]

2. #4 block can absorb an infinite amount of projectiles for its duration + A kick in their face if its in melee range [Can still move while blocking + Rooted when performing the knockdown kick]

3. #5 Stun [Root Attack]
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Sword/Dagger [Does More damage Vs. Greatsword + Perma-Poison attacks]
1. #2 Dodge flips around and adds poison [Root Attack]

2. #4 Dagger evade steps forward slightly then stabs with poison [Root Attack]

3. #2 Backflip (Counts as evade) can dodge and jump a great distance then close back in with a leap finisher (Does not count as evade). [Root Attack]
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My only irritation is that the 1-handed sword roots you and you can’t dodge on demand mid attack which destroys the survivability in dungeons.

Many times I would try to dagger through attacks only to get locked on the target with #1 auto attack in melee and go down.

Greatsword you can dodge/block whenever you want between #1 attack animations.

It seems like Sword/Dagger is a PvP Skill set, the poisons and bleeds are nasty when fighting other players. Greatsword Rangers in PvP Get laughed at and stomped lol

If they changed Sword/Dagger’s inability to dodge between #1 attack animations I would S/D more but until then Greatsword is King of the kill in PvE for survivability.

This disscussion has been done to death just to let you know, no offense though.

Sword has more dps but pvp oriented auto attack.

The biggest thing the Sword Dagger combo gives you is more leap finishers for Healing Spring.

Greatsword auto-attack combo has you evading for 42.85% of the auto-attack chain (0.5 + 0.5 + 0.75 = 1.75 sec attack chain … 0.75 / 1.75 = .4285…)

So you’re invulnerable for almost half of the auto-attack chain; assuming that you don’t miss any of the attacks.