Guild Wars 2

So I am considering making a warrior, however I know that they are about to get a balance in the upcoming patch. Is now still a good time to roll one? Or should I roll a guardian? I like to be tanky and dps! Ty for the advice!

You can always make Tanky or DPS oriented characters.
But you’ll never be a Tank in this game.

Warrior is still going to be good just like any other class.
Just as long as you know how to play it right.

I say give it a try! =)

You prefer to run alone or with a group? Warrs and Guards vary in that factor.

The nerf to warriors is honestly not as huge a deal as the nerf to Ele’s FGS. You can also argue that the FGS nerf will hurt others as well, especially thieves since they can no longer insta-heal with their signet when using fiery rush against the wall (their improv trait will also suffer). Judging from warrior forum, the GS nerf is not that huge at ~4% dps loss and the meta will most likely not change. The adren nerf is somewhat useless since you already lose adren when not in combat (though slowly) and for PvE it won’t affect at all since you’re always stuck in combat anyway. The only other big thing is the SoR nerf which I feel is unnecessary as it’s the only useful elite skill we have. Overall, this is undoubtedly a huge nerf if you are a soloer, but for groups you won’t see much of a difference.

nagr.1593:

….. The adren nerf is somewhat useless since you already lose adren when not in combat (though slowly) and for PvE it won’t affect at all since you’re always stuck in combat anyway. …..

I think you are badly mistaken about how much effect this will have. I can keep a constant 15% damage on my Warrior in just about ANY zone right now and from the videos I’ve seen your Adrenaline will completely drain in about 15 sec out of combat with the patch (it takes about 30 sec to START draining now). It will basically not allow you to abuse the Bezerker’s Power trait (XI STR) like you can now.

On the other hand, SHOULD I be able to keep a constant 15% damage boost on any character in the game? No. It’s a good nerf to hinder a minor exploit.

Signet of Rage is also generally considered overpowered right now, so that nerf is needed as well.

While it’s impossible to say before the change (so it can be fully tested) all the Warrior nerfs appear to be reasonable ones. Frankly the Warrior has a number of over powered capabilities right now but Warrior will still be one of the strongest (and survivable) character classes in the game even after the Feature Pack changes.

The Warrior class will certainly not be “ruined” by these changes (if they all work the way they have been described).

The FGS change is simply plugging an exploit hole that was not the skills intention.

To answer your question the nerf will not make to huge of an impact. You can fill adreneline still very fast. Still going to be most op pve class by far i think.