head to head
vs
Guild Wars 2vsMount & Blade: With Fire and Sword
Guild Wars 2 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Guild Wars 2Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 7
Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword leans harder on execution: Directional melee and mounted gunplay reward manual skill
Reads4 vs 3
Guild Wars 2 leans harder on reads: WvW and structured PvP feature real adaptive opponents
Variance3 vs 3
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization7 vs 7
Even - both lean on optimization about the same.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.