Guild Wars 2

Hi, I play a dual wielding warrior with sword in main hand and an axe off hand, but today I realize a big difference in DPS just by hand swapping them.

With sword in main hand my damage is around 900-1100 for crit

But when I change the axe to main hand, my crit is around 1000-2500 on the same foe which is a crazy increase. and I seem to auto attack faster as well ?

My total damage is always shown as 3089 regardless of which weapon at which hand. Here are my sword and axe stats:

+ Sword/Axe
-Damage: 905-1000 /857-1048
-Power: 90/78
-Presicion: 64/74
-Others: + 5% crit damage/ +3% crit damage
+ 5%damage/90 toughness

I’m still inexperienced with this game ( 2 weeks) , so can someone explain to me what the problem here ? Is this a bug or the axe just naturally has superior auto attack speed and crit damage ?

Thanks

Sword damage is a little lower because it has bleed stacking built into it. Axe is just raw damage.

Ignore the Attack stat, it’s functionally useless. Damage is based on a skill specific coefficient which is a multiplier of your Power stat.

Axe autoattack has higher coefficients than Sword autoattack; it hits harder when your stats are otherwise the same.

Like ive said in plenty of other threads swords auto attack the second hit need faster cast time. Right now its 1/2, 1/2, 1/4
Were great sword is all 1/2 i beleive and axe has 2 instant hits in its auto.
Making that number 2 hit on the sword instant would make it possable to stack bleeds better.