Guild Wars 2

The following people who have posted in this thread (up to https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/tPvPer-don-t-complain-about-Thieves/713846 ) are on the QP leaderboards as of 11/12/12 10:30AM PST:

Prince.3682: 11 QPs
nurt.5401: 5 QPs
Cyrkle.5814: 19 QPs
Vayyy.5420: 76 QPs
Fourth.1567: 5 QPs

In other words, the tPvPers in this thread have all said that thieves are too strong.

I don’t personally know if they’re too strong at high levels of play. Certainly at low levels of play (i.e. free tourneys), they are, especially considering the effort involved in playing them. Shortbow is really strong, and the burst from either the cnd/steal/bs combo or just spamming dancing dagger a few times is a bit much. Their mobility is also ridiculously good on Foefire and Kyhlo.

1. When will we get a public ladder and a way of monitoring our ranking within our region?
2. Contents of march patch
3. Will we ever get some form of team rating (as opposed to merely the average of personal ratings)?

I’ve seen some discussions on the GW2 subreddit regarding warrior PvE (dungeons, mostly) which seem to assume that you’re using greatsword for DPS.

This seems a little odd since the last time I did TTK tests in the mists, axe auto-attack beat out HB by something like 11%.

Certainly, GS has a somewhat larger radius, but I never seem to encounter situations where axe radius isn’t enough but GS radius would be.

GS does also inflict more vulnerability (especially since it looks like mace 4 may be a slight detriment to axe DPS; axe 2 seems to be a small win), so it’s plausible that the extra DPS from the rest of your group might be enough to make up for the personal DPS loss.

Am I missing something? Is GS actually a better choice than axe/something in non-open-world PvE?