Guild Wars 2

Wyrd One.2175:

Technically the pistol skill #5 is both combo field + combo finisher in one skill. It lays down a smoke field and then immediately fires a projectile finisher through it, which is why the attack blinds your foe. You can fire off pistol skil #4 from inside your smoke field and you will both daze and blind your target as you combo again.

Yes, I guess I was meaning about the sword by itself not having finisher/field (if at least you could trigger the darkness field from #5, or someone else’s field, with some sword attack, as you can do if you have pistol or dagger in the main hand…)

Forgot to say, the only thing I miss from using S+P is the lack of a combo finisher or field

Well, sword offhand, I don’t know why it’s not in there yet (I mean, Hipnos can dual wield swords and not Thieves? I thought we were more into fighting than them…)

I want a whip! They already have whips (if you played a silvary, you’d know, not sure if they can be seen if not) in game, and I loved using one, so just add some whip skills for us!

Forgot to say, I allways use F1 twice every time, steal and use whatever I stole instantly, then roll backwards if I’m on pistols/shortbow

I almost only use steal on 2 situations, 1st if I need a teleport (and not using sword+pistol for some reason), 2nd with “bosses” (veteran or higher) for extra damage/protection

I have the opposite from you, at low levels I’d use dual daggers / dual pistols every time, I didn’t like the sword, but at 50+ (maybe sooner, can’t recall) I started loving pistol whip, and the sword AoE, at lvl 80 I can’t use anything besides that in pve (I’m not talking about pvp, but probably daggers are better for melee there).

I tried every possible weapon combination, and whatever choice of traits I could think of, and still doing a TON more damage with weapon+pistol than every other weapon in pve, also at high lvls, if you go solo like I did (cleared 93% of the map so far, including all pve maps, just have some wvw left to discover), you’d need SoM (no option there) if you want to survive, since you’ll be fighting groups all the time (specially in personal quests, but also while exploring the maps, lvl 70-80 and 80 maps are quite crowded with undead and other nasty beings…).

I’m talking about doing 3000 damage with 1 pistol whip, while doing less than 1000 with any other dual-weapon skill (except for unload, that deals about 1500), heartseeker, or whatever other weapon skill. Add that to the fact that swords do AoE damage, while daggers and pistol hit only 1 target at a time (except for death blossom, that would be great, but the poison damage needs time and you normally don’t have it when 5 undead surrounds you).

The only other weapon that deals as much damage (and AoE) to me is shortbow , if you go melee and spam detonate cluster bomb all the time, but you don’t heal as much as you do with a sword (9 hits per target with pistol whip, does heal a lot, and shortbow is slower with normal (1st key) hits), and don’t stun (which can be critical if you’re fighting a veteran).

I really tried all other weapon combinations, but at high lvls I can only do sword+pistol, and dual pistols for bosses if I can’t stay on melee