Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone, fairly new warrior here (currently lv20) and I’ve been tinkering around with weapons recently. I wanted some input on which weapons are most effective. I’m currently using Axe/Mace and Hammer (generally using hammer for cc and abusing knockdown+stun in general), but in the past I’ve been using GS+Hammer, and Sword/Mace+GS. Obviously GW is fantastic, 100b spam, etc etc and I’m probably gonna go back to it instead of hammer once I pick up a decent GS again, but what I’m really curious about is Sword/Mace and how it stacks up to Axe/Mace. I found the mace’s offhand skills a useful addition to the sword, but it suffers for DPS against axe/mace- Though that may well be because my gear had absolutely no bonuses to condition damage (i generally go for power and toughness since i mostly used GS in the past).

I got a little rambly there, but. Any input? I haven’t seen anything about sword/mace as a valid combination before and I’m curious.

I think you already have a good sense of it, but yeah sword shouldn’t really be used for dps without a condi build. The exception would be if you want to use it specifically for the leap (which is fantastic), or the immob.

Hammer DPS is not awful so you can use it as your main dps, then use sw/mace for the utility and extra stun, which should be fun.

Yeah, I’m mostly just wondering if there’s anything sword/mace does that axe/mace can’t. Sword/mace has a cripple, leap and burst immob and bleed; ace/mace has vulnerability (which hits everything close enough), ranged cripple and burst leap (though the axe burst’s range leaves much to be desired). And superior dps.
…Actually, it’s becoming a bit obvious to me now why sword/mace isn’t seen all that much.
Hammer vs GS then? I understand they’re both useful in different situations but at this point in the game it’s pretty much straight-up PvE for me. The hammer’s CC is extremely useful but the GS obviously has the highest DPS for warriors thanks to 100b.

With sword mace you can Leap + knockdown, followed by a immob if you hit. Although doing that is kinda useless unless..

If you’re serious about pve, yeah you should really just go GS. PVE damage is one of warriors greatest strengths, and you should play to it imo.

Axe can arguably be used as an alternative to a GS build because it can reach similar dps, but GS is usually the first choice.