Level 25 warrior - need advice
1) As of lvl 21, you should be able to find Blue grade armor on the BLTC that is Power / Precision. Gear yourself in dual stat armor that is appropriate for your current level.
2) Make sure that you’re using lvl 20 or lvl 25 jewelry. Since the Carnellian (Power / Precision) jewelry is only available at 30th, I’d suggest that you equip a full set of Amethyst Silver pieces (Power / Vitaility) since they’re usuable at lvl 25.
3) Make sure that you’re using Power / Precision weapons that are level appropriate.
4) See your Warrior trainer. Choose to respec your Trait choices. Put x10 points into Arms for the Deep Strike trait. Then put the rest of your points into Discipline for eventually getting the Signet Mastery trait at 30th.
5) Equip the Healing Signet in skill slot #6 (for constant healing). Then equip the Signet of Stamina (for extra dodging & condition removal) and x2 other Signets of your choice. My personal recommendations would be the Dolyak Signet (for the times when you need to ignore enemy control effects) and the Signet of Fury (for extra +Precision and instant Adrenaline as needed). Though if you’re already at 100% Critical Chance rate by this point, then I’d remove the Signet of Fury and replace it with the Signet of Might (for just the passive +Power).
6) When you hit 30th, take the Signet of Rage as your Elite. Don’t be afraid to activate this as often as needed for the nice list of buffs that you skill from the signet. Getting the buffs is more important than using this signet for the Deep Strikes trait.
7) Greatsword -> 100 Blades -> Profit? With the Deep Strike trait, you’ll be brokenly powerful for your level. This build will finally become sane again by 60th level. By that point, you should have a good enough grasp of GW2 to be able with becoming a mortal again. Deep Strike gives your +Precision for ever signet that isn’t on a cool down timer. Basically you only activate your signets when you need one of their special abilities. Otherwise just think of them as permanent offensive buffs in their passive state.
8) You really need a ranged weapon. While most people would suggest Rifle for a Deep Strike build, also take a look at the Longbow. That weapon basically functions closer to a modern day shotgun than true ranged weapon. Longbow #2 is designed to be used when you’ve got mobs right next to you. It also have some nice control effects and a potentially useful F1 fire field (which you can use to trigger AoE Might through Longbow #3). To be honest, the single target Rifle would still likely be better for you. However the AoE potential of the Longbow does make it worth trying out.
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Thanks a lot! So I just put 10 on Arms, get the Deep Strike trait, then put the other 5 into Discipline and spend the next 6 on it while I wait for level 40 so I can put the other 10 on it?
Do I go for condition damage on the weapons?
Double edit: 11 blades doesn’t really do much with the deep strike trait? does the same as before..
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glass warrior for leveling? imo bad idea. Worry more about at least toughness and adding in some vitality trinkets or something, health regen food. Glass warrior is mainly for speed running CoF1, and you are not there yet. I’d drop axe/mace for hammer/GS and rifle backup. Hammer/rifle is very good at metas, lots of xp. Keep your armor within 5 lvls or so. Bottom line is you are not going to be gaining as much xp if you are always face down. When I was lvling warrior, I could take on 10 centaurs at a time with a hammer, two or so levels higher than my warrior. They would keep spawning almost as fast as I could kill them, and then I’d kill them too, until my hands got numb. Maybe group with a mesmer at metas, the two of you will about pwr lvl.
Thief? My thief is a survivor. But that is a different topic.
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Thanks a lot! So I just put 10 on Arms, get the Deep Strike trait, then put the other 5 into Discipline and spend the next 6 on it while I wait for level 40 so I can put the other 10 on it?
Do I go for condition damage on the weapons?
Double edit: 11 blades doesn’t really do much with the deep strike trait? does the same as before..
Your net goal in the big scheme of things would look something like…
Strength 20 – Berserker’s Power & Slashing Power
Arms 20 – Deep Strike & Forceful Greatsword
Discipline 20 – Signet Mastery & Heightened Focus
(Insert the last x10 Trait points where ever you want.)
My personal priority order for the Traits: Deep Strike, Signet Mastery, Forceful Greatsword, Berserker’s Power, Slashing Power, Heightened Focus, & (insert). (If you find that your Crit Chance is dropping off too quickly, you can move Heightened Focus to somewhere earlier in the listed order.)
This is the top dps build for a Warrior. If you really wanted to do spike melee dps, I’d use the Greatsword (which is what the spec is designed for) and Axe/(Off-hand). Basically you’d want the Axe’s F1 ability for single target spikes and the Greatsword for 100 Blades.
In your 20’s, a devoted Deep Strike spec will give you 100% Critical Chance. That means that you have a guaranteed +50% Crit Damage that is being added onto every hit. This crit bonus will also slowly increase as your invest Trait points into the Discipline line. As a low level Warrior, this is the highest possible damage spec in the entire game (assuming that you keep your Crit Chance near 100% and that you stock up on as much +Power & +Crit Damage as possible). Enemies explode into clouds of bloody mist as you slaughter your way through groups of mobs using your frontal arc range of 100 Blades. If this isn’t enough dps for you, then there are absolutely no other options for you as a purely dps Warrior. (All of this is based on the assumption that you’re using all Signet powers to activate the +Precision bonus from Deep Strike and that you aren’t constantly activating your signets.)
No, +Condition is completely worthless for the cliche Greatsword build that I’ve been talking about. You’ll get some of the stat for free due to your Trait spec, but it’s a worthless stat for a non-condition Greatsword build.
As another poster tried to point out, this is a soloing build. It is really only viable until around lvl 60. By that point, the unbalanced amounted of +Precision from Deep Strike is well within the standard +stat range for a 60th character. At that point, you’d need to revise aspects of your build. However up until 60th, this is the easiest (if somewhat boring) build that a Warrior can have. Your high armor and health pool values will be more than enough to sustain you during the short time that mobs are alive. Yet you will run into problems against any mob that you can’t immediately burst down, which is why I suggested using a ranged weapon to help you kite a veteran mob in between your 100 Blade cool downs.
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Just to mention, I didn’t “try to point out” anything regarding other suggestions (and were tldr had general knowledge on their point already), I’m not speaking of end-game but leveling as was part of what was asked. I actually did try sword/axe/mace combinations while leveling (I do have master crafter after all and had 4-80’s at the time of lvling), but none of those weapons could cut-it in the great hordes of MOBs ascending upon my warrior. Sure. Good damage, but too brief and too exposed. For predictable combat where such as you run the same dungeon over and over and over, sure, but leveling? meh
Hammer on the other hand is a 360 degree mobile AOE machine. Hordes of MOBs can ascend on the equipped warrior, but they are going to be faced with chasing the warrior the whole way thru, even endlessly in little circles. Even at metas, the always moving hammer wielding warrior is hitting everything on the field, everything, thus getting xp credit for it weather he lands the killing blow or not. But to keep hitting, it’s far less about power etc and more about defense and just staying up.
Even in dungeons such as AC where warriors are trying to lvl up with a group, as dungeons give the best xp, warriors with glass builds are always falling while groups are often just too inexperienced to support such a warrior build, to keep them engaged. But having some survivability goes a long way, often leads to dungeon completion and that big xp gain.
So at least from my experience regarding leveling a warrior, with good defense and a mobile AOE machine such as the hammer, I was able to level-up my warrior faster than my guardian, thief, engineer and mesmer, quite a bit faster and with far more loot drops. And not only loot, but far better karma gains which I saved up and bought a full set of exotic armor at cursed shore the day my warrior reached 80. I didn’t even bother to get a grandmaster book until then as 60 imo is still too early to increase damage.
Put your trait points in toughness or vitality, equip hammer / rifle or mace + shield / rifle, try to buy the best available gear from tp.
Try to map all your skills to buttons, so you can learn to operate them accordingly, try to get better at dodging/strafing. As you’re leveling up your main goal should be learning your character, after you’ll get better with him, you’ll be able to gradually trade off some defensive stats for dps, dps doesn’t matter much anyways at lvl 25, as you can breeze through most of the mobs with any up-to-level weapon set and dps is useless if you’re dying/running away from mobs all the time.
Yes, rifle is also useful in certain situations. I keep one on my warrior, still, a cleric rifle. When you are at a meta where the boss does 1-hit kills lol or takes health to sliver really fast, that rifle is very useful for fall-back. Also, if you are doing metas where there are just too many of those ranged type players, so annoying, you will be using your rifle a lot just to get a quick hit in on the spawn before it’s gone two seconds after spawning (e.g. the MAW). Too bad you cant shoot rangers when they use their huge bow knockback though, just as you start your 10000 blades attack… grr I really hate rangers.
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