Guild Wars 2

Although I agree with some of your points, it seems the problem may stem from the fact that you are focusing on gs. gs has excellent mobility but is not the be all and end all weapon choice for 1v1. In fact there are much better options available to you.

warrior dual axes #2 and #4 attack show an animation of attacking with both weapons and you see 2 damage strikes with both these attacks. Not quite the same as thief but at least its acknowledged with other classes.

Here is a quick snap of axe attacks. Will try to post some better ones later….

I can see everyones beef with axe5 being lackluster in certain instances but there are definitely positive uses for it. As already mentioned above, using axe5 to regen adrenaline is great. I have reduced weap swap build with reduced cd on burst skills. My whole build focuses around burst f1 output and regen on adren is key for both my weap sets.

Using axe5 when hitting multiple target keeps pressure on all of them and is better dps in that situation.

Someone mentioned above that axe5 only procs 2 times in fire field, my experience is quite different. Axe5 procs about 6-7 times (have not counted but notably more than 2) in fire, poison, water fields and is super useful because of it when running with groups. Axe2 only procs twice in these fields.

I do like axe4 as well in addition to the relatively short cooldowns for both oh axe skills. My opinion is axe oh is situational (like most oh skills) and has applicable synergies depending on your build/group. So no, its not a lost cause, and in fact I find the burst build setup I am currently running is an excellent counter to the cc spamming Warr hammer build (which there are plenty of in wvw). But to each their own.