Guild Wars 2

Greetings!

Currently I am using a defensive build on my warrior (defense/tactics with 10 pts in Arms with a bleed duration bonus). This is great for my goals in WvW which is the focus of my playstyle.

However, I am looking to make some gold and thus wanted to do a bit of PvE farming, but my damage is rather lackluster. What type of weapon should I obtain to aid with my DPS (I’m thinking maybe dual axes or a greatsword). Keep in mind I don’t plan on changing my Traits (ANet please put in Dual-Spec!!), so I won’t have any traits to help augment or boost a particular weapon’s power.

Thanks for your input!

Farming what, where and at what level? Maybe you mean farming veteran mobs 1 by 1?
Provide more info in the future please

I’ll assume you mean the 2 event camps in Cursed Shore(so far the best mob farm as is), and say that you really need damage traits.For weapon – double axes, all the way.Melee weapons have max 3 targets limit, but with axe 2 and 5 you can ignore that, which makes double axe the best since the mobs are bunched almost all the time.
I seriously advice against the use of longbow(rifle is just….no) because of the time needed for the skills to land(adren skill and 3). By the time they do, the mobs will be dead/dying, and you would have done almost no damage, resulting in really poor loot.
The best for farming is having green mithril jewels with magic find(rares and exotic provide minor stat boost and only a 1%MF increase, and they’re just not worth it) and runes of the pirate(the cheapest so far, about 30s each). Get 5 superior runes of the pirate(will net you about 50% MF) and on your 6th slot put a major rune of w/e it is with 7% MF(pirate, traveler, scavenger I think).Other superior runes will give you 10%, but they also cost 1g+, so you decide if it’s worth it.Buy 2 superior sigils of luck, 1 for each weapon swap, and never use 2 luck sigil weapons at once(bonus doesn’t stack).
The best scenario is to have traveler rares for 18% MF(each item giving 3%), but I myself have gotten dungeon exotics for the stats(only my boots are traveler’s).
So, what’s left for you is food buff.Use either 30%(most common), or 40% – use it only if you can have constant boons, otherwise you won’t have any bonus at all.
Just to say, with these you’ll be quite squishy and you won’t do as much damage, but you’ll have magic find of 50%(runes) + 15%(weap sigil at 25 stacks) + 30%(jewels) + 7/10%(6th slot item) + 30/40% from food buff.Without this, any other type of farm is slow and time wasting.I’ve gone quite into detail just for a simple question, but for some reason I’ve the need to properly explain how a real farm is conducted.

Side note : never EVER go into a dungeon with magic find gear on.Just don’t.

It’s hard to go wrong with greatsword. It would also be cheaper, buying a single GS versus two axes.

With your high defense and low offense, mobs probably won’t die in a single HB+WW combo, so Axe will probably be superior for your sustained DPS pew pew pew.

Off-hand … shrug. Sword OH may be best because you get high range damage via the Sword4 ability, and Sword5 is great for PvE damage pew pew.

Greatsword has low auto attack, but it has a wider arc than axes, and hundred blades is about the highest pve aoe damage in the game, it also comes with a traited 6 second cooldown, which is very short. I prefer knight gear though, high survivability while still respectable damage, and mending with shake it off to get rid of conditions before they hurt your low hp.

Even with wider arc, the 3-target limit remains.It’s good for whirlwind rush, but aside from that it’s just not that good.
At those events, mobs rarely live more than 2-3 seconds, with 15+ players waiting to aoe them immediately.Your job is to do as much damage to as much mobs as possible.GS just doesn’t do it.

Ivanov, I had no idea what to farm tbh. But last night I went to Cursed Shore looking for those camps you mentioned, and it worked out great! I basically just bought a green set of gear that has magic find and damage, and my income has dramatically increased.

Thanks so much for taking the time to explain all of that!