Guild Wars 2

Which weapon is best for DPS ? / Which is the strongest weapon ?
What are the best weapon combinations for damage ?
What is the best ranged weapon ?

If we’re talking a single weapon, then Axe probably top DPS. Not sure what you mean by “strongest” but Longbow and Hammer tend to be the two most common in Spvp. Longbow for the good condition damage ala pindown as well as the aoe damage from combustive shot and arching arrow….And hammer for the disables. Personally I prefer SwordSword/Longbow for Spvp, but you didn’t specify whether this was Pve or Pvp.

Greatsword / AxeMace. Slightly less optimal is AxeWarhorn/AxeMace. You don’t have to worry about breaking 100blades chain with the latter weapon sets and the utilities you receive from warhorn are quite nice. Especially in fractals. But it does slightly less damage overall.

Longbow. Rifle does slightly more single target damage but Longbow has a lot of beneficial utilities and good aoe damage.

Really ? Axe can outdps 2h sword ?
If i were to use a longbow which stat would benefit me more Power or Condition Damage.

Kratos.6293:

Really ? Axe can outdps 2h sword ?
If i were to use a longbow which stat would benefit me more Power or Condition Damage.

Yep, axe is just straight up higher DPS. A big 100B number doesn’t mean the GS is the best DPS option, as once that 100B is exhausted, the DPS is terrible.

GS works perfectly with Mobile Strikes. Also you have one more Evade-Skill as a great gap closer.

Axe actually works really nice with “Leg Specialist” since “Throw Axe” triggers within 1/4 second. “Bladetrail” of a Greatsword has an execution timer of 3/4 second.
Of course its easier to use a Shield along with the axe to have more defensive abilities without a huge loss of DPS. Even Mace offhand; Axe mainhand works fine for control purpose.

Unfortunately the Greatsword cooldown-reduction lays in the Arms-traitline.
I think damage-spikes of both weapons, Greatsword and Axe, are pretty predictable.
Good players could easily evade a Hundred Blades-combo or an Eviscerate-combo.
Guess thats also the sense of damage-spikes.

In addition I also think that Greatsword works better against stealthed enemies since Whirldwind Attack (GS3) is a pretty good mobile AoE-attack. Shatter-mesmers mostly use immobilize before their damage-spike. So an evasive attack which saves you from a huge damage-spike while staying there with immobilization.
I think its also much better than Axe5 (Axe-Offhand) since you are not that vulnurable during that skill.

Btw this is for PVE
I want to kill things as fast as possible. What’s a good build ?

Axe = solid DPS/little AoE
GS = Mobility + Burst Dmg
Sword = Hybrid Weapon/Condition weapon
Longbow = Hybrid Weapon/Condition weapon
Rifle = Single Target Burst Ranged Weapon
Shield = Defensive Offhand
Hammer = Burst CC weapon, AoE
Mace = Defensive CC weapon, single target

All those are in main hand, except shield.

On offhand 1h weapons have a bit different or same roles.

just wanted to add in that with signet of fury, healing surge, that trait that grants fury on axe crit, and the trait that reduces the cost of burst skills you can evis very frequently