Guild Wars 2

So, I haven’t had an extensive foray into dual wielding at level 80 though I primarily leveled as a dual wielder (the call of 100 blades was too hard to pass up when I had enough tokens for a GS soon as I hit 80). But now I’m considering going back to dual wielding.

From looking at things, my gut feeling is dual axes will give you the best damage, but I’m not entirely sure what dual swords and maces offer if anything, anyone care to enlighten me?

Mace off-hand has something vaguely similar (longer recharge?) to the axe thing that causes vulnerability iirc, and one surprisingly long ranged knockdown. Sword has a parry/attack and a single target ranged-ish attack (impale) that causes bleeding.

I would go with axe or mace personally. The knockdown is fun, but axe skills seem to be quicker.

Axe and mace are both solid. Axe for more aoe/adren building, and mace for cc. I use dual axes myself most of the time. Sword offhand is pretty bad.

Simply put: Axes = Damage, Maces = Control, Swords = Condition/mobility

For general pve I don’t see anything wrong with Dual Axe, but if you’re doing anything with any degree of difficulty/PvP, you can’t pass up the extra vuln and that amazing Ranged KD of Offhand mace.

You can really spike something with an Axe/Sword combo. If your adrenaline is full you can throw your axe, throw your sword, leap in with Eviscerate, then use Rip and do alot of damage

Sword/Axe is my favorite dual wield build. Sword in the main hand gives me cripple/bleeding along with a charge that I can use for keeping my enemies close at a low cool down and allows me to travel faster in wvw as well as help me escape tight situations most of the time. The off hand axe gives me a double strike which hits rather high in the scales and a powerful AoE for when I’m fighting groups.

Dual axes is really good as well.

Sword / Sword is good for bleed condition damage. My PvP build atm is axe / axe + sword / sword with sigil of earth and 70~% crit (90~% with high up time fury). 60% bleed chance on crit + 33% (trait) bleed chance on crit and you can apply up to 3 bleeds per auto attack and keep 6 stack with axes that have no bleed moves.