Guild Wars 2

So I thought about finally fixing my Warrior and giving her a useful build.

Since I mostly play Warrior because its somewhat easy and I plan to pug higher level Fractals with her I thought about getting a bit more tanky.

Now here is the problem: I wanted to go for a PS build with Knight gear.
The gear itself should be fine for the build since it has as much crit as Zerk, but I wonder:

Does the Armor actually make enough of a difference to survive longer in Fractals?

Nope. Fractals are pretty punishing – either you dodge and live or don’t then die. Toughness won’t help you live much more… in fact, you will likely die more from holding aggro more

Tactics line gives you so much vitality you shouldn’t need knights gear. Usually when I play PS warrior, I intentionally face tank a few hits just to conserve my stamina bar or finish that hundred blades animation and since I am using strength rune, I don’t really need to maintain >90% hp.

While it’s not the best build for PS you can always go with this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQNBhYDbkpjKPr9wvD6QD8DUmCgzrwGMCpbilY7B-TBBXgAA7PK/C1N0r+zjSQxAkH-e
grabbing great fortitude for an extra like 2k hp iirc. Then also swap in the Rez Banner maybe? You’ll lose quite a bit of vuln potential without the quick Axe/Mace swaps but if you need to be tankier this is an option without going too overboard /shrug.

If you don’t dodge your hp will melt knights stats or not. And if you do dodge hp will not go down that much anyway + ps build has a lot of hp by default.

I rarely see pug have problem with high level fractal besides a few of the boss fight.

So it is probably overkill to wear knight gear unless you are doing boss fight.

Go assassin stats, signet of fury, superior rune of rage for 100% fury uptime to drop for great justice into something else, omnomberry ghost for precision and stealing health on crit hits, maintenance oil for precision, will be best for a PS Build. I survive from hp steals, healing signet, and being light on my feet. Even if you did soldier stats,it is still a deadly environment.

Dont underestimate the power of hp steal in crits. Sometimes i can gain 253 per 1-2 seconds. With stated above set up im 101.7% crit chance to make 25 might in 2 seconds on a mob.

The rune also has 5% dmg always as lonng as you have fury up, granted from GS burst skill. Yes above 66% crit is overkill but i maintain party might stacks with no guard nor ele.

P.S. be careful not to fully advertise this build. Id hate for it to get nerfed lol.

jessiejay.3625:

Go assassin stats, signet of fury, superior rune of rage for 100% fury uptime to drop for great justice into something else, omnomberry ghost for precision and stealing health on crit hits, maintenance oil for precision, will be best for a PS Build. I survive from hp steals, healing signet, and being light on my feet. Even if you did soldier stats,it is still a deadly environment.

Dont underestimate the power of hp steal in crits. Sometimes i can gain 253 per 1-2 seconds. With stated above set up im 101.7% crit chance to make 25 might in 2 seconds on a mob.

The rune also has 5% dmg always as lonng as you have fury up, granted from GS burst skill. Yes above 66% crit is overkill but i maintain party might stacks with no guard nor ele.

P.S. be careful not to fully advertise this build. Id hate for it to get nerfed lol.

This looks good, especially because I really dont want to spend 50-60g on Hoelbrak/Strengh runes.

The utilities would be FGJ, a banner and Fury Signet I guess?

Arkinos.7245:

jessiejay.3625:

Go assassin stats, signet of fury, superior rune of rage for 100% fury uptime to drop for great justice into something else, omnomberry ghost for precision and stealing health on crit hits, maintenance oil for precision, will be best for a PS Build. I survive from hp steals, healing signet, and being light on my feet. Even if you did soldier stats,it is still a deadly environment.

Dont underestimate the power of hp steal in crits. Sometimes i can gain 253 per 1-2 seconds. With stated above set up im 101.7% crit chance to make 25 might in 2 seconds on a mob.

The rune also has 5% dmg always as lonng as you have fury up, granted from GS burst skill. Yes above 66% crit is overkill but i maintain party might stacks with no guard nor ele.

P.S. be careful not to fully advertise this build. Id hate for it to get nerfed lol.

This looks good, especially because I really dont want to spend 50-60g on Hoelbrak/Strengh runes.

The utilities would be FGJ, a banner and Fury Signet I guess?

You don’t need str runes for PS, with a str sigil you’ll maintain like 20-25 stacks. And, don’t forget FGJ gives fury to the group, which if you don’t have an Ele is a huge gain, and if you have an ele… well fury is a constant anyways. Also if I’m not mistaken FGJ will give your party an initial 6 might (3 for the group at 25s duration, and 3 for the ones you just got being pushed back to them for 7.5s).

Rage runes might be ok, but I really don’t think dropping FGJ would be a good idea, in fact I think the synergy between the two providing a more consistent fury for the group would help in situations without an Ele and then like I said with an Ele you shouldn’t worry either way. To note you’d also be trading power for ferocity, not sure how the math works out but I imagine that stat difference would be a loss in damage.

In the end I think PS build with Scholar is fine, str is more consistent but there’s usually a little bit of outside might help and even on my scholar war running PS we’re usually capped. That said I don’t play war much just going from what I remember when I ran more consistently

Only reason i dropped FGJ is because i only like to do runs with an ele. Im flexible to even run dual banner for the added team power. Im more concerned with dmg added to the team count than their personal fury uptime. Some professions can produce it on their own. I also play around with the human skill that makes a buff/condi with 10 sec cooldown. It makes me get aegis 1:5 chance or retalliation, which is cool and ununobtainable to a warrior.

Yes you can swap the runes to scholar, strength or even hoelbrak. Dont forget ferocity is the critcal hit modifier. It may not be max damahe but the team benefit for 5-10% lost personal DPS is an ok price to pay versus 100% DPS and subpar team buffs that make everyone else at 90%. Take one for the team :P

Fractals at higher levels is bassicaly kill or be killed its more about knowing encounters or having a competent group aka a good guardian, sword off hand is your best friend in boss encounters on a warrior

If you’re always with an Ele shouldn’t you always have fury. I mean even with a staff they should be able to maintain fury uptime, esp with quick stacking points before bosses.

If you have 2 eles in your party (which you should of course), there’s no reason to have PMS warrior.
If you, for some reason, have only a single ele, then I’d suggest this build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQNAR3ZjMd09ZtH+dwJaAmg6aCEA6qi0rQME8A-TRROwAjU+BY/Bi6GAr+jMlgiBIP-e
This is of course assuming that one ele prestacking might, fury and vuln on the boss. If there’s no ele in the party at all, I’d suggest leaving.

You can make little tweaks to the build here and there, but elite signet is definitely superior choice as you share more might stacks (and get better fury uptime if the fight prolongs), inspiring banners are completely optional as well, but they paid off many times to me and strenght runes again would probably not be neccessary, but maintaining >90% health in suboptimal party isn’t a guaranteed thing, so I would put my bet on strenght.

This build is what you want: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQNAR3ZjMd03ZtHefQHaAmg6aEEA6ei0rQME8A-ThRBABXp8jm9HwT3AAPBAKV/xMlgiBQP-e

For utils take both banners and signet of fury. If there is another warrior in the group then drop a banner and bring signet of might/FGJ (or even better play another class), or you can sometimes sacrifice the signet of fury to take FGJ if your group is lacking might/fury.

If you don’t want to buy strength runes then get scholar and use the dumpling food for more might duration. I do think that strength runes are better though for health reliability (you don’t wanna interrupt your 100b on mossman ect), but a lot more expensive.

You don’t really want offhand sword a lot of the time, it can be nice but mace is a lot more vuln stacks for the party and has a KD, the only place I use sword is Mai Trin. Warhorn is nice for Mai trin and Imbuned shaman (can drop EA and bring quick breathing for quality of life)

and no, overall a bit of knights gear will just make the fights last longer and not much difference in sustain. You don’t get one shot on warrior for the vast majority of fractals but it still isn’t worth using

Arkinos.7245:

I wanted to go for a PS build with Knight gear.