Guild Wars 2

I’m a Axe/Axe and GS Warrior made purely for PvP.

I’m spread out pretty evenly between
Power ~1892
Precision ~1474 (31% crit no buff)
Toughness ~ 1486
Vitality ~ 1558
Crit Damage – 66%

10/0/10/20/30

I got 30 points in Discipline for the new boon hate trait
However, I’ve thought of changing a few things, I’d like your advice on them.

Choice 1
Take out 10 from discipline (lose 10% crit dmg and boon hate)
put it into precision and get 5% crit chance (36% flat crit chance – keeping in mind I ‘basically’ have 56% crit at least at all times thru fury)
take either the 33% chance for vulnerability – more damage
or 10% chance for swiftness – more sticking to foe ability
also, my Eviscerate NEVER seems to crit when I need it to… which I’m kinda tired of so I’d like to prop up my crit % a bit so that my Eviscerate actually crits when I need it to.

Choice 2
Take out 10 from discipline
put 10 into power – flat increase of 100 in power and still retain 10% crit damage thru Axe Mastery trait
however, the only issue I have is when does 100 become become less effective than boon hate (ie how many boons = 100 power worth of extra damage?)

• PS I’m thinking of replacing my Power/Tough/Vit Chestplate for a Zerker kit, so that way I’ll get more precision and crit dmg at the loss of about 1k HP. But I’m okay with it, I think the trade off is worth it.

So Choice 1 or Choice 2?

I think you’ll see most damage gain if you take your 20 tactics and put them in either power or precision trait line.

peter.9024:

I think you’ll see most damage gain if you take your 20 tactics and put them in either power or precision trait line.

nah, leg specialist is such a life saver, I don’t wanna lose it.

If you insist on keeping leg specialist then take 10 out of tactics and put it in Strength or Arms.

Julie Yann.5379:

If you insist on keeping leg specialist then take 10 out of tactics and put it in Strength or Arms.

I’ll try not to sound snarky (as much as one can in a situation like this) but did you actually even read my original post???

For Choice 2, you also have to consider Discipline’s horrible stats it gives and the major Strength trait, which is your choice between a flat +10% GS damage or axe (which I suggest you grab GS because this build is not speccing into Arms and you won’t benefit from crit as much).

Also since you’re not speccing into Arms, the crit damage bonus from Discipline is of less use to you. And so, -10 points from Discipline and +10 to Strength will be better dps.

From the boonhate you would need 4+ boons on the opponent at all times to give more dps with your greatsword.

Also, you may want to consider replacing the axe offhand with a mace or shield. Axe 5 does less dps than the autoattack, except it doesn’t have the hit limit of 3. A block skill/interrupt or a ranged AoE knockdown with a shorter cooldown than Backbreaker may better suit small-scale PvP.

Bushido.2184:

For Choice 2, you also have to consider Discipline’s horrible stats it gives and the major Strength trait, which is your choice between a flat +10% GS damage or axe (which I suggest you grab GS because this build is not speccing into Arms and you won’t benefit from crit as much).

Also since you’re not speccing into Arms, the crit damage bonus from Discipline is of less use to you. And so, -10 points from Discipline and +10 to Strength will be better dps.

From the boonhate you would need 4+ boons on the opponent at all times to give more dps with your greatsword.

Also, you may want to consider replacing the axe offhand with a mace or shield. Axe 5 does less dps than the autoattack, except it doesn’t have the hit limit of 3. A block skill/interrupt or a ranged AoE knockdown with a shorter cooldown than Backbreaker may better suit small-scale PvP.

I get where y our coming from but my take on this build was build up adrenaline fast and often in order to spam eviscerate as much as possible. GS was more of a mobility weapon.

I tried not speccing into arms in order to get more survivability and I assumed 50% crit was a pretty decent crit chance. What sort of crit chance would I need to benefit from the +10% crit damage more so than the +100 strength?

Mattidore.3482:

Julie Yann.5379:

If you insist on keeping leg specialist then take 10 out of tactics and put it in Strength or Arms.

I’ll try not to sound snarky (as much as one can in a situation like this) but did you actually even read my original post???

I did read your or original post. Just don’t understand why you need 20 in tactics for a A/A-GS build. Taking 10 out of tactics and putting into strength or arms would be the better way to go. Personally I would put it in strength and get axe mastery cause it is 10% damage on all your strikes, even your crits.

10 in arms to get a 5% crit chance and rending strikes sounds appealing but an extra 5% is barely noticeable. 33% chance to cause vulnerability on a 56% crit chance means that approx. 2 out of 10 hits will cause vulnerability and that can easily be removed.