Guild Wars 2

Since early levels, I’ve been D/P almost exclusively except when I, on occasion, needed to kite/kill multiple mobs at the same time (Shortbow), even though, in those cases as well, D/P still works great, but you’ll only kill one at a time obviously.

Recently, I played around with other options. Used Sword mainhand with Pistol offhand, because I rely on Black Powder (#5 pistol offhand – aoe blind ground effect that effectively gives 1-3 misses per mob), just to see if Sword did more damage. And, whereas it did more damage per hit, I felt like the poison and bleeding from the dagger added up to more, though I’d love to see a dps meter.

Condition curing from Sword main would be nice, but I rarely get hit as it is with pistol offhand, so conditions aren’t generally an issue.

Don’t misunderstand me. D/P isn’t the fastest killer, not even close. D/D with Deathblossom and Stealth seems like it would win that battle.

I think I’ll stick with D/P and SB, grabbing the “heal when using initiative” (Assassin’s Reward – X – Acrobatics), also picking up “gain 2 initiative every 10 seconds” (Quick Recovery – IX – Acrobatics) for maximum survivability.

I honestly haven’t even toyed around with ANY Stealth builds yet, and still barely understand stealing…I’m also level 16 so…grain of salt.

And yeah, as mentioned before, “Immune to blind” mobs suck. Having something relying on evasion rather than blind would be nice for those, such kitten D or D/D. But for anything blindable, D/P basically means I can just stand in one spot, throw down Black Powder and just whittle them down without any concerns.