Guild Wars 2

I’ve been testing on the Dummys in the training area and comparing the 2.

Builds arnt changed much at all, GS is the standard raiding build while im just changing Forceful Greatsword to Great Fortitude and Berserker’s power to Axe mastery, so not much fiddling involved.

I’ve been pulling around 1k more dps with A/A with a standard rotation of whatever comes of CD first. So I’m really not min/maxing as much as I could be aswell.

I get that Greatsword has more mobility, etc. But It’s so good to actually change to something else!

Go test it for yourself! Seems its roughly even or A/A is pulling ahead slightly!

I’ve also been pulling way to much adrenaline needed for Bserker so it gives us a chance to swap out our Elite skill to something else!

Is this with full might stacks being applied automatically?

I get the feeling that giving yourself forceful GS might stacks will still give you more damage while solo and giving others forceful GS might stacks will give everyone more damage when grouped.

Losing this ~1k dps to provide those might stacks is much less than what any other class would have to sacrifice for it, too.

Solo I could see how GS would be better.

I’m talking more of a raid environment where Rev and Others can supply the might while you still have PS to share your own might stacks that you can get from Signet of Rage (since you dont need headbutt anymore) Plus your healing skill giving 5 stacks of might also.

And also because of the Precision bonus from Axe Mastery, you could swap out Signet of Fury for something like “For great justice” to provide some more might too.

Still wondering how much more damage it would have to do in order to be viable in anything outside pve…

ALOT MORE

I mean even just mowing people down as a zerg in wvsw…..im thinking to myself whether hitting axe 5 while running through enemies would be effective (on both an individual and group scale) enough to compete with gs.

I’m more curious with offhand sword, and whether they going to make that more viable in the future. honestly id be more interested in seeing sword-sword buffs.

Cerby.1069:

I mean even just mowing people down as a zerg in wvsw…..im thinking to myself whether hitting axe 5 while running through enemies would be effective (on both an individual and group scale) enough to compete with gs.

The first time I blissfully did that in an enemy zerg, I received about 10k damage… when you can hit up to 5 targets 15 times, retaliation can hurt

Elegie.3620:

Cerby.1069:

I mean even just mowing people down as a zerg in wvsw…..im thinking to myself whether hitting axe 5 while running through enemies would be effective (on both an individual and group scale) enough to compete with gs.

The first time I blissfully did that in an enemy zerg, I received about 10k damage… when you can hit up to 5 targets 15 times, retaliation can hurt

Haha i never thought of that. Pro