Guild Wars 2

I got several 80s (manually leveled) but i was curious about the warrior. So i used my test 80 boost to have an equipped warrior in the silverwastes. I tried all the weapon combination on different mobs to see the damage numbers.

I have to say that Greatsword (and the famous 100 blades) was damage wise awful. I dont get why it is described often kitten good.

Longbow also very slow and low numbers. Takes ages to kill something.

Rifle is surprisingly good, i kill faster than with melee.

Axe is great and fast to kill something. Actually i found it the only good melee weapon.

Hammer is bad and slow. The cc is neat but thats it.

Sword is second to axe decent in damage and conditions are nice.

Mace is meh.

Am i doing something wrong? I mean i already got Power and crit. Please advice what to do to make those weapons work.

No, 100b used to be much stronger, but a lot of whining led to pretty severe nerfs over the years. It’s even worse against real people who’ll just move out of the way. The best gs skill by a mile is #3, and it’s not OP. The bursts are also decent.

People tend to complain about warrior damage because the hit numbers can be big, but dps isn’t actually that good and we’ve got slow and obvious animations.

Still, I wouldn’t say it’s a garbage class or anything, it’s just not what most people imagine it to be.

I have to agree with the OP. The axe easily has the most damage, and the GS does suck. However, I only do pve, I can’t speak for the other 2 play modes.

I would highly suggest you implement the strength trait line into ur build if you are going to use Gs. Gs just doesn’t feel right without the endurance gain, dodge roll damage, might on crit, and the +20% dmg increase upon landing ur burst. I can understand you feeling it lackluster compared to rifle without the strength line (infact I agree it is lackluster compared to my rifle if I don’t run that traitline lol). Which means removing defense line or removing ur fasthands…..or just remove them both like I do and run tactics, strength, zerker.

I love greatsword. I think its by far the best warrior weapon and one of the best in the game if not the best IMO.

Damage wise its geared exclusively for power users so there’s no confusion on what kinda gear is viable to be used for it.

The thing thats great about the weapon is the synergy between damage, mobility, and sustain that it offers. Its really all these things together in a single weapon that is what makes it so great.

not only do u have alot of control, the greatsword feels like a solid extension of ur own body. That said…its balance due to its damage and utility nerfs.

Gs1 is just a basic cleave….it doesn’t offer much in the way of damage and the vulnerability it applies is rather worthless, its just there as a way to attack while the other skills are on cooldown.
Gs2….okay damage if u can keep the chain going till the end, otherwise its prettylimited
G3…..amazing damage, amazing sutain since its an amazing dodge. Unfortunately it is prong to lagg delay ALOT and it has a large activation delay taht you can get cc’d during
Gs4……great since it boomerangs backwards……it just loooks coool and feels amazing when you throw the gs4 and ur enemy dodges….only for you to use gs5 and get right in their face for a good hit and the gs4 comes back from behind lolol taht damage can be stellar since it can hit them all at once to beat their healing.

gs5…also great assuming it targets properly. great way to get away from people, its not the fastest way to get away from people tho and pretty much every class that ‘saves’ their mobility skills can easily be ontop of you again. Its really a middle ground in terms of mobility skills….its not the best or the worst but it does what is needed for the weapon to function.
f1……its….what it is. its not really a damage skill on its own which is kinda cool, it basically is a boon skill that gives you endurance, might, fury, +20%dmg, adrenal health. Thats what it is
f2……same as above except it give you damage as well….but teh damage is only good forpeople under 50% hp, otherwise its just setting up the boons that f1 is.

I think axe sucks compared to gs since it ONLY has the damage part and not the other parts a gs has. The damage is better on axe? Maybe…..but that doesnt make it a betteer weapon at all for me. I like axe on vanilla warrior, I just hate the f2 on axe soooooooooo much that I can’t even use it. Berserker really killed my love for melee warrrior overnight haha.