Guild Wars 2

I made a warrior a while back and started to level him uuck I wanted to know if there are any good dual axe builds for the class. I read that dual axe sucks across the board but I dont know if there were any changes recently or if anyone has created a build that goes great with dual axes. The engineer posters tend to make interesting builds with weak weapons and tools so hopefully its the same with you guys. Thanks ^^

it’s mainly the axe off-hand that sucks, axe main hand is good for any game mode because it’s focus on raw damage, but if you don’t have anything to complement it (axe off-hand doesn’t complement it) then you’re really wasting an off-hand weapon slot.

Engineers are different because each weapon kit serves a niche at the very least, while axe off-hand for warrior does nothing that you can’t get passively, whirling axe actually decreases DPS (according to other people), and dual strike gives fury which warriors can maintain permanently already.

the cost of taking axe off-hand is already great (since you get nothing out of it), the opportunity costs are even greater, taking axe means you can’t take shield, mace, or warhorn, any of which would boost your characters prowess somehow and complement the axe very well.

And on that note, since the swirl finisher now sucks and basically does nothing. The powerful fire field swirl combo is gone, which just proves it further how useless of hand axe is.

Well that sucks. Hope Anet will buff the axe off hand sometime soon. I have been testing out dual axes in wvw and so far it doesnt look too bad. I know I tried whirling axe on the heavy armoured robots in pvp and at max, I gave over 10k damage . I dont know if thats good or not but Ive never did that much damage on my engineer!

lmaonade.9207:

it’s mainly the axe off-hand that sucks, axe main hand is good for any game mode because it’s focus on raw damage, but if you don’t have anything to complement it (axe off-hand doesn’t complement it) then you’re really wasting an off-hand weapon slot.

Recently, it is the opposite.

Axe off-hand is underrated. Axe main-hand is getting bad.

Whirling axe got a nice buff.

Axe main-hand stuck all of the damage at the last hit. Making it hard to deal the full damage.