Guild Wars 2

I livestream on my youtube channel with my warrior sephiroth clone.

I don’t have much experience with warriors but this is the build I currently use.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJEQJARUjMdmO678d24Z8wuT3BnoT0QWQlZwFc6aNU4pAO4FQAA-TBSBwA02fAwTKAvugrK/ocJFwp+TKNMmVCSKA9UGB-e

I would appreciate some help from someone more experienced than me.

I need to command in WvWvW sometimes and have to use tanky build or else I die and people stop following me.

Before you continue on to the build I link, keep in mind that when you are commanding in WvW, your only job is to command and stay alive doing it, let your zerg worry about dmg and buffs. Basic rule of thumb is to find the enemy commander and then slaughter them asap. So your only goal outside of commanding needs to be making it through said slaughter in one piece.

I used to be one of the T1 Commanders back on Sea of Sorrows during its reign as #1, keeping in mind that I haven’t WvWvW’d since then and that was years ago. Warrior however, I played for around 4k hours with every tanky spec immaginable. The following is about as good as it gets while keeping your GS in mind.

This is the base setup for it. Keep in mind that you will lose a block because you use a GS. Also keep in mind that this build is meant for commanding, not general pve as it has no dmg of it’s own. Its only goal is survival. Feel free to trade out one of the shouts for something else should the situation demand it. If you’re getting reliable druid regens, trade out the traits that provide the basic regen buff for something else, like blocks reflecting projectiles.

This builds focus is on reducing dmg as much as possible while stacking on as many different types of regens as possible, and warrior has access to quite a few compared to other classes. Your passive hp regen will be nothing to sneeze at when you’re at full throttle. You can face tank lupi in Arah with this build without dodging a single one of his attacks, so it can take a pounding. This build is not a god mode, I can’t die build. You can die, really fast in fact if you get focuses. The only difference is that you will have significantly more time to escape into the bulk of your zerg. So skill is a big factor.

Here is the base form of the build. Don’t die.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJEQNBJhF6kpDTHUKovDr8w4Bueo7A6QciYpKwQWcNgAQyLorlCeHtt2ZLA-TxRBQBGc/BAcgCOm6PaU5XK0wQhDoQKVCSKAN3aB-e

Edit: For sigil’s I suggest using Life (On your back bar weapon) and the one that refills endurance when you kill something (the other sigils are personal preference). 250 more healing power isn’t usually worth it, but warriors scale really well with the stat, so have your regens and shouting healing for more helps. When you’re going for survival, every little bit helps and can be the difference between death and escaping by the skin of your teeth.

Get rid of FGJ,OMM and Fear me.Replace for Outrage,berserk and Endure pain if survival is what you want theres no need to share buffs,others will do that,you will need to outlive it all.Mace main is useless,that one block will be given to you by the guards in your vicinity,sword would be the wiser way to go.Scrapper rune meh,i’d take durability over it any day.Theres also no point in healing power on warri since our regen scales badly.All we need to be a tank is vit/toughness.

I should have mentioned. I only command when no one else is around so I don’t need to be a 100% dedicated tank. I prefer something around 3 quarter tank.

Here is my new build after revising your suggestions: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJEQJARUnMdY6gSS9dYXIGPwKEdHQUqTELVBmSPoxlDeHtt2ZLyirBEAA-TBCBwAAukCq0wgWJYgnUQO1f0q8TvuAh7PQKA2UGB-e

*Keeping GS – Must play GS, only reason I made this char.

*Keeping rifle – Bow or Rifle. Want secondary weapon to have max range so I am limited to rifle and bow.

Changed signets to Outrage,berserk and Endure pain. The shouts work great but I want to use Soldiers’ Stats – for the Soldier 1st Class reference so I’ll go with caedmon’s suggestion. Rage fits Sephiroth theme more than shouts.

Changed elite signet to Headbutt. Might as well go full berserker specialization.

Really temped to change defy pain to armoured attack for that soldier stats. Will probably change between the two depending on game mode.

Changed out tactics because shouts and warhorn are not being used.

Added Discipline – Warrior’s Sprit is just a really nice trait to deal with immobilize. GS has 2 movement skills. I might change rifle to sword/shield to get 2 more movement skill but I still want a ranged weapon.

Brawler’s Recovery seems to weak of a trait to consider. going with DotE

Added Burst Mastery to help get more adrenaline for cleansing ire.

Just going for some permanent sigils because most of em are meh.

I can’t find curry mussel soup on TP. I don’t want to have to craft it myself. I’ll just use the soldier’s food. Lemongrass Poultry and Potent Superior Sharpening Stone.

Does scrapper reduce condition damage? Direct damage rarely kills me. I can usually kill glass cannons that rely on direct damage. Its usually condition damage that hurts the most. Is rune of Melandru a good idea?

In terms of the builds, the one in ur OP was just…..god awful, I’d die alot too if I ran that.

the second one u linked was….immensely better. That said the sigils and runes are horrible that you got there. Really just anything other than those 2 sigils would be an improvement so long as they aren’t condi duration.

The rune isn’t as horrible but there are better no doubt.

with traits i’d go rousing resilience over cleansing ire. Most damage you get is power still in group fights….and although you have a fair amount of resources for mitigating it, ur endure pains are really the only things that will keep you from dying. If ur fights aren’t lasting long enough to burn through both endure pains….then u can keep cleansing ire.

U need to take brawler’s recovery for condi clear on weapon swap. destruction of the empowered just isn’t gonna do anything for you in terms of damage.

I can’t really tell you not to take rifle. Since it does give mobility that is very useful, and it lets you ‘range’. But I WILL tell you that you aren’t gonna be doing any useful damage with that kinda rifle setup. Bow honestly makes more sense to me from a damage and support perspective, but I personally find bow very stiff. Hard to move around with it and hard to avoid damage with it. So…whatever. Personally I still think u might be better just to scrap it and adopt the pvp meta power build on metabattles instead. I mean the second build if nothing like the first one you posted…….so why shouldn’t the third one be nothing like the second one, etc.
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Noone wants to follow a commander who can’t do anything by themselves…

Ur limited to guild runs if you want to do 0 damage.

YOu should ask WHO you want to command first and foremost. And then build based on the answer to that question. It could be complete tank….complete glass…..complete utility…..it could be anything really.

Here’s the build now: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJEQNAR8enMdY6gSS9dYXIGPwKEdHQUqTELbBmSMo01CQ+bBgQ37lN0eaB-TByGwAAuoCRVCOWHwQlfT0wsa/BRq/o4JFQKA2UGB-e

Still not sure which rune I should be using with this build.

Sigils – I guess damage increase and critical chance increase doesn’t do much for this build because I am not damaged focused. I guess I will use survival focused sigils instead – Purity and Water added. They have nice short cool downs and the condition for activating them is the easiest one for this build.

If not rune of melandru or scrapper. What rune should I use?

Wow. I didn’t even notice rousing resilience. It works really well with Warrior’s Sprit. I already have 2 movement skills and I think I will add the 2 more I mentioned previously for 4 movement skills that breaks stuns. And I already have stun breaks from outrage, headbutt and endure pain.

Added Brawler’s Recovery.

Changed rifle for sword/shield. Hopefully, I can close the gap with savage leap+shield bash+weapon swap+whirlwind attack+rush or any combination of those skills. The movement skills also prompts me to swap weapons more often and get that brawler trait off more often. Bonus block on shield – Probably best if I stick to Melandru’s rune because I can mitigate physical damage more than condi damage.

I don’t like meta builds even if they are better builds. I don’t like running what everyone else is running (unless I come to the build myself).

For PvE, I can just swap out the soilder’s gear and food for berserker’s gear and food and the traits and skills will still work with crit focused stats. I wish I didn’t have to change builds+gear manually every time I swapped between wvw and pve.

Hope Anet adds an auto build change with wvw like they did with normal pvp.

Off-Topic: No duel wielding GSs for the berserker. What does a torch even have to do with going ape-kitten crazy on your opponent?

swap one of the purity sigils for cleansing. you have fast hands so ur swaps are every 5 seconds, and sigils share cd’s regardless of what weapon they are on. Having 2 sigils of purity could be like having 1……besides sigil of cleansing is the go-to for fast hands users since u kno when its gonna proc and its reliable.

Other than that….ya what u posted in the link is a decent looking build now.

Done. Thanks for all the help guys.

Yeah, the build I posted was just a base for him to start with. A general ‘all-rounder’ tank build that touches all aspects of warrior survivability. Easy to edit and specialize to the needs of the player working with it. Healing not an issue? Drop the heals for stun breaks and controlled dmg immunity. Getting sniped by range a lot? Pop on the block trait and reflect em with you mace (since ranged doesn’t trigger the counter attack). That kinda thing. Easier to know what you’re working with when you can see all of it in one place and just edit out the things you don’t need.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJEQJARUnMdY6gqQUhYXIuQwkUJpQUqTELbB27lN0eaR+bBgQnSMo01CA-TlRAQBKc/h+orpLK/yk6PrRJIA8tHbGGAGBRQERMzMz0IiICpAYTZE-w

I removed the sigils for some crest of soldiers. Bad Idea?

I dont see how rifle and rousing will help you vs a condi bomb.

Imagine,you commanding..Stuck in a condi bomb on rifle,unable to swap no utilities left.Youre kittened.

Grab sw/shield instead of rifle and use cleansing ire.You need to be able to move out of condi bombs on both weap sets you got while commanding.kitten will happen and when it does happen you need to be able to outlive it to keep on going.

Sephiroth lol

I made one long time ago.

http://i.imgur.com/2fgeQSO.png

You have to buy Belinda’s Greatsword

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJEQNAR8enMdY6gqQUhYXIuQwkUJpQUqTELVBmSPI2lDeHtt2ZLyirBEAA-TFyHABns/wX6eA4CCYwTKQ5Diweq/0kSwfU+FAAB4m3Mb2mt5Nv5NP0hO0hO0h2Nv5Nv5NvZpAYTZE-w

I keep going back and forth between rifle and sw/shield. Rifle lets me pick off stranglers with out wasting movement for them. sw/shield is just better in every way for the build except for the melee range. I hope the dagger in gw2 expansion has a little range so I can go dagger/shield or dagger/dagger.

Rousing makes me almost unkillable to direct damage but you are right Caedmon.6798, Condis are giving me trouble. The meta has moved to condi focused builds so I guess I need to double up on my condi removals. Added back Cleansing Ire.

The crests were a bad idea and absolutely suck. Adding back the sigils. The sigils of water dont do much so I am changing them to energy and cleansing sigil.

Changing out scrapper for melandru.

Overall, I’m happy with the build. its not meta or game breaking but its good enough to get by.

Juba.8406:

Sephiroth lol

I made one long time ago.

http://i.imgur.com/2fgeQSO.png

You have to buy Belinda’s Greatsword

OMFG! What skins are you using in that image?

I was on hiatus from gw2 when anet sold Belinda’s Greatsword. Ever since, I’ve been logging in GW2 after every update looking at the Gemstore hoping for it’s return. I think arenanet will bring out the katanas when we get cantha expansion.