Guild Wars 2

What are the point of the skills that are available on 1hand weapons when there is no offhand weapon? Are there actually builds using only one one-handed weapon, so that the no offhand skills are used?

The developers stated those skills were only put on thief weapons so they’d have three skills in the tutorial like every other class, and that they’re not really intended for general use.

Basically, they’re there so you’re not stuck with two skills before you grab an offhand.

the no-offhand pistol #3 actually has better damage than p/p #3 (according to the wiki, no idea how it scales tho…)

Imperatora.7654:

the no-offhand pistol #3 actually has better damage than p/p #3 (according to the wiki, no idea how it scales tho…)

Unload is bad, but it isn’t that bad. Unlike most multi-hit skills, Unload actually lists its damage per hit instead of cumulative total. So on the wiki it hits 8 times for 101 damage per shot, whereas Repeater (pistol no-offhand) hits 5 times for a total of 405, or 81 damage per shot.