Is weapon swapping neccessary to optimize DPS?

[Artorias]

That may be true for some classes, but definitely not all of them. With my Warrior, I got the most throughput from just stacking sword bleeds, which, if I swapped weapons, wouldn't be getting reapplied as much

Same, this is why I started playing Sword/Rifle and have sigils that bleed on crit on all my weapons. That, combined with Discipline traits that give might and reduce cooldown on weapon swap = beast of a playstyle.

[Deleted]

At least some people understand what I'm trying to say..

Congratulations, you're giving people a confused meaning about the maximum DPS and effective DPS terminology.

[Zephyr Storm]

Congratulations, you're giving people a confused meaning about the maximum DPS and effective DPS terminology.

Congratulations, you're totally not understanding how they both apply to GW2 and which one you should actually be going for.

[Deleted]

People were asking about maximum DPS, warping the meaning so they play 'how they should' is just redefining a terminology. You should have corrected them and told them they should be asking about "effective DPS" and not "maximum DPS".

[Zephyr Storm]

People were asking about maximum DPS, warping the meaning so they play 'how they should' is just redefining a terminology. You should have corrected them and told them they should be asking about "effective DPS" and not "maximum DPS".

True. I guess I was just trying to let people know that going for all out maximum dps for a lot of the professions and specs is a very bad idea and one that will put them on the shit list with other players in a hurry. I probably should have said something more along those lines. I just don't want to see a bunch of people gearing, speccing, and playing like GW2 is WoW or anything other MMO before it. Survivability is definitely a good thing for most professions in GW2 regardless of what you're doing, whereas in other MMOs it's not necessary for a lot of things.

[Deleted]

I like this kind of question, but since we dont have a parser dps, I will say it's hard to answer.