Guild Wars 2

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Guy didn’t use whirlwind attack. He also didn’t go dual gs for that odd signet of battle swapping. I would like to have another offset Ty. The mobility/evade gs offers still makes it better in my eyes.

Is this for PvE or PvP?

TBH the builds are very close to each other in terms of DPS. Maybe if the GS would have crit more it would of been closer. That being said there were a few Axe hits that did not crit as well. This is spvp mind you.

Its close enough that it really doesn’t make a difference. However I beleive that if the Axe had the same 10 stacks of vuln generated from other party members there would be no question which one is faster.

There is no point in Dual GS for battle swapping since GS gets might on crit. Whirlwind attack does super nice damage. However I feel that unless you are whirl winding into a wall or whirl winding while chasin to generate extra hits Its not worth it as you will spend a couple seconds just getting back into positions to resume AA Time lost.

The Axes use might on Crit sigil and sigil of battle. And use Versatile power minor trait as well.

The reason why I didn’t test the other GS camping build is becasue I don’t see how it has more DPS than this one I could be wrong about that. And if so in that case I need to do another test. Mainly because I dont see how the 6 crit damage of the 0/6/0/6/2
equated into more DPS than 200 power. But if that is true I don’t se how 0/6/0/6/2 would be better than 0/5/0/6/3

It also wouldn’t be a fair comparison since the 0/5 0/6 builds require bleeding for their 10% damage and warrior precise strikes is not reliable enough to keep a constant bleed on the target.

Regardless of that The Axe build has more power and crit damage than both of those builds with a difference of what 5% damage. from attack of oppertunity=10% /Dual wield passive =5%

So a couple of things here.

What is the goal of your PS build? I presume it’s providing your party with a lot of might.
You should have had someone in your party standing next to you and watch the amount of might he gets. FGJ, SoR, SoStrength, SoBattle and versatile power all provide long duration might to you(upwards of 10 seconds base), but still only 6 seconds base to your allies.

Of course GS camping is inferior to Axe camping. Especially if you only use 100b and auto attacks. You can cancel the WA animation by weaponswaping, this will net you more attacks than just autoattacking with GS; Rush is a DPS increase (the tooltip, like every other tooltip in this game is completely off the mark, this skill does not have an activation time of 2 seconds).

Regarding the builds, I think 0/5/0/6/3 Axe/any+Gs with SoStrength+SoBattle and SoS+SoForce (SoBattle still has an internal cooldown of 9 seconds) will do a lot better than the GS camping build. You will lose 5% damage from DW for Axe and 10% damage for GS from SP, but gain a 10% from Attack of oportunity. Regarding the requirement, bleeding will be up in pretty much any party, there are very few targets that are imune to bleeds in this game anyway.

Also showing one test on a single golem with a fight of ~30 seconds proves absolutely nothing. Statistically speaking your sample size is way too small to be considered genuine in the slightest.

what horrible rotations. this is in no way a good example of a comparison between an axe ps build vs a greatsword ps build.