Guild Wars 2

I usually play my Daredevil in Fractals but I just got my condi PS warrior set up and I can barely survive at all. I guess I’m used to infinite dodges and heal on critical. So any tips would be appreciated

Most common mistake is standing on top of the “spin 2 win players” (necro/guard/etc).

Take a few steps back and you’ll take less social awkwardness damage. Dodge only the big damage as you can outheal everything else with https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Blood_Reckoning

Using that properly is pivotal. But done properly you should have no problems with sustain.

I had trouble with blood reckoning, seemed like I couldn’t stand in to get damage done to heal. Just need more practice I suppose

Fractals have a lot of damage now that most players will not avoid. If you want to do fractals on a warrior, demand a good comp, make your own lfg, and post this:
“t4’s, 1 magi druid, 1 chrono, 2 dps”

You can’t expect to do everything on one class. The best way to survive trash mobs is to have a surplus of blinds (necro, ele very strong burst aoe blinds if they bring them, thief has good sustained blinds, engi has enough to get you through most fights). As a warrior you have a single blind (longbow 4). For trash mobs, don’t use the qt bench mark rotation (which is designed for single target). The mobs will often be spread out, and so scorched earth is your main priority (unless a mesmer will pull them into a pile, in which case do regular golem rotation). Typical rotation without focus pulls: longbow 4 (it explodes to blind multiple, so shoot for a crowd), headbutt, scorched earth, blood reckoning, scorched earth, by this point you have set yourself up to successfully kill the mobs, continue your rotation like normal basically.

The best way to survive boss monsters is to have a magi druid heal you through everything. Most bosses can be killed completely stationary if you have a magi druid. Ever do a mai trin kill where all 5 players never move outside cannons? Its pretty great. Additionally, this actually speeds up your kills because the druid brings such great group buffs that even a healing druid will lead to faster kills than no druid at all.

Thanks, I’m not gonna demand a good group comp though. I actually did fractals last night and I did alot better. The team was much better skilled than the ones I had before when I was trying out my Warrior. Still need some more practice but I just gotta get used to it again. I did learn not to worry too much about perfect rotation on trash, that’s more for bosses

I struggled with the same after going Condi PS. What I do for a lot of boss fights where lots of little attacks are present where 2 dodges just wont mitigate all the damage, or lots of little condi ticks over time, or where the team isnt using reflects/blinds/group support, I sub arms for defense. Extra invuln, extra heals, extra regen, extra defense. I survive like a tank, every 15s I’m pretty much cycling full heals through blood reckoning and traits, and Im still bringing good dps and might, fury, banners, ea, for the team.

I’ve never fractaled on a CPS, but I bet any one with Afflicted is nightmare without a druid or chrono since you have zero self cleanse. I feel like most CPS’es probably don’t run Defense for Cleansing Ire, but you might wanna try it out? People probably wouldn’t care or even notice, so long as you’re cranking out 25 might stacks.

There’s some condi removal, Torch 5 and going into Berserk mode. But not exactly reliable.

I suggest adjusting your build in accordance to your performance or the run..

Optimal Warrior PVE builds are actually glass.. and if you don’t have the proper party like a boon bunny and healer to back that up it’ll be tough.

Also if you’re a fairly new Warrior and not used to dodge timings and the Warrior skill set I strongly suggest you use a training wheels trait line like Defense before going full glass after getting more experienced.

Don’t mind the people demanding builds from you. They’re just noise, most of them can’t even actually play well, play at your pace and your own curve.

Warrior is actually one of the harder classes to servive on if you run the full meta as you don’t really have a heal skill