Guild Wars 2

I’m going to be running an axe/axe build. Dont really care for your opinions on axe as offhand, doesnt bother me at all that its sub optimal, i like the way dual axe looks.

Anyways onto my question..
Tossing up between gsword and longbow for my secondary weapon. Ofc i plan to carry both but i cant always equip both at the same time and I’m planning to chose my build on which of the two i chose.

Gsword offers 100b and good mobility but no ranged, longbow on the other hand doesnt really offer much cept for ranged dps for those sticky situations so i can regen health or dps while dodging aoes.

Anyways planning on using
30/10/0/0/30 for longbow
30/25/0/0/15 for gsword

so yes i can swap them depending on situation but its not so easy to retrait.

In what context will you be using this? Dungeons or WvW? Taking for granted you’re not using this for PvP.

Why are you asking us if opinions don’t matter to you?

Gamgee.8612:

In what context will you be using this? Dungeons or WvW? Taking for granted you’re not using this for PvP.

Sorry PvE. dungeons, fotm, events, etc

Adam.4103:

Why are you asking us if opinions don’t matter to you?

DOWN BOY, thats a bad troll.

If tagging is your goal, then go with LB. If you want high DPS and a fast way to get to melee range, use GS. Personally, if I were doing loot runs like world boss train, I’d want LB to tag lots of stuff. In a dungeon and for small groups, I want to put out as much DPS as possible, so GS is what I use. I only do boss train maybe twice a week, so I don’t bother to re-trait for LB. I just leave traits for GS. I do, however, retrait for WvW, where I use a completely different weapon and armor set. Just my 2 cents.

went with gsword and the 30/25/0/0/15 meta. So far loving it. 100b does alot of dmg and i dont have to deal with the crappy auto atk from gswords. Also love the extra might stacks.
Was thinking of changing to Axe/Sword aswell. Was playing around with sword as offhand and looks like it could be useful in dungeons although so far i dont like it in open world.

I’m not going to say it’s bad or anything because as far as I know, it might be the best build there is for dungeons BUT take an extra though of bringin both CD and direct damage. If I were you, I’d spec for one of them. There’s a few(note few) working hybrid builds(which I havn’t tested) but I’d try to focus on either direct damge or a condi build, simply because you will get more out of it going all the way in one of them. If you liked it though take it from there

I’m specing for as much dps as possible.
Sword seems to me atleast to be the only offhand that will increase dps.
Mace is CC
Axe is dps but very situational. Its only a dps increase if I’m mobbed. (ignoring fury, which is why i like it for open world)
Shield is defensive
Horn is supportive

Figure with sword, i can use #4 and 5 and just let them run their course. 15seconds of 5bleeds/5torments just ticking away while i dps. Ofcourse I’d have to figure out if the animation time would make them less dps though.

I’ll just say here that OH mace is great for giving you a couple seconds of a knocked down mob (or mobs, if they happen to be in a straight line). On top of that, with superior sigil of bloodlust on the mace you can end up with 25 stacks of extra power. That increases DPS significantly. I truly love my axe/mace and GS setup because I kill anything… fast.