Guild Wars 2

Hi there! I’m running a not full dps build for PVE (I like to support a little and not being glass cannon) with axe-mace / LB but I don’t really like a mace in o.h. (I like the skills but I feel awkward with such a heavy thing in the o.h. xD) Well, I’ve been trying axe, I like it but skills are not so useful I think (I have fury with FGJ and the banner and 5 doesn’t hit hard enough for being that long spinning around) and now I’m trying sword, 4 hit hard but just to 1 target and 5 is nice for a little extra defense. What do you think about sword in offhand? And, do you think it will work nice in a role mixed build?

(Sorry for my english, is not my mother language ^^U)

You should use a axe for main hand and war-horn for offhand or to get to place to place faster sword main hand and war-horn offhand, offhand sword is more for a condi build

sword offhand is less support than mace because of no vuln and knockdown, but the block is really good in some fights.

The improved block on offhand sword is alright, but the change to torment on offhand swd4 is a bust. Before you would use double sword to have bleeds of a really crazy intensity…. i tried it with all sauces and i still thkn swd offhand lost with that change to torment.

Kaga.7629:

The improved block on offhand sword is alright, but the change to torment on offhand swd4 is a bust. Before you would use double sword to have bleeds of a really crazy intensity…. i tried it with all sauces and i still thkn swd offhand lost with that change to torment.

Not at all, you can spike your damage higher even, the torment deals the same total dmg as the original bleed one. Meaning you can stack torment and 25 bleeds, highering your DPS. And you shouldn’t have a problem stacking 25 bleeds, so the original skill would have been overkill anyway.

But offhand sword is for condition builds and is real strong in those.

Yeah, I know Impale bigesst damage comes from torment, but after it, Rip deals a good amount of raw damage (In fact more base damage than the last hit of the chain with Axe 1) and the block is fine for both cond. o crit. damage builds.
For open world PvE is working fine by now (Even better than mace for trash mobs and veterans I could say) I guess I must try it in dungeons were mobs are harder.