Dragon Knight 2H vs DW with Bow?

BuzzZaw60

Hello All

My Dark Elf Dragon Knight is currently set up as a DW w/Bow medium armor. I have another character, a Nightblade that is about the same; DW with Bow and all medium armor I am thinking of respec my Dragon Knight to a 2H w/Bow and going more Heavy/Medium I don't have any characters that are 2H, Heavy, Tanked...all are Light & Medium using staffs, DW and Bow.....any suggestions and advice going this route...thanks

Oreyn_Bearclaw

What is the purpose of doing this? In PVE, you will not got more damage than DW/Bow in medium armor on any stamina character. If looking to solo content, or in PVP, the 2H does have merit, but again, it's hard to advise without knowing the purpose of the build.

Kanar

For PvE you can go 2h/bow stamDK. I find it a lot of fun. Should stick to all medium or maybe 1pc heavy.

BuzzZaw60

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

What is the purpose of doing this? In PVE, you will not got more damage than DW/Bow in medium armor on any stamina character. If looking to solo content, or in PVP, the 2H does have merit, but again, it's hard to advise without knowing the purpose of the build.

I'm sorry about that....forgot to be a bit more specific....this is straight out PVE

grizzly375

My DK is a soloist, and I find 2H to not only be more fun to play, but significantly easier to survive. Cleave becomes Brawler which is a damage shield that gets stronger the more people you hit; Momentum becomes Rally which is an awesome self heal.

As usual, most of your damage will come from class skills, not weapon skills.

On the question of armor, I run 5 medium and 1 heavy, I wouldn't go any more heavy than that unless you want to respec into a full Tank build (which is painfully slow to level due to minimal dps output - especially soloing).

Bigevilpeter

I made 2H bow to test before summerset and it can work for sure, but DW bow will give much higher dps.

I had around 23k dps on dummy with 2h and 32k dps with dw

Asardes

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