Guild Wars 2

Asked some players in-game and they didn’t know.

So what’s a 5 Signet Warrior and why is there so much hatred expressed towards them?

A good description Zargnath, it would have taken me 200 words o say the same thing. Jheez do I waffle

As someone who used to be a 5 Signet Warrior, you might hear it called just a Signet Build, it is actually a nice build to play. I found the gameplay much simpler, mostly it means not needing to use the skills on the right at all so it was more about positioning, dodging, etc. IMO they were kind of adding to any stats given to me by gear. I didn’t go down the glass-cannon route (if you don’t know what that means it would be less defense from gear more Power and Precision, Beserker gear gives Power/Precision/+Crit Damage).

Don’t think of it as a bad built. It is a good build but in Dungeons a kamikazee build.

It sounds like you aren’t a Warrior so I will add that support stuff for others comes from things like Banners and Shouts. I am sure if you have been with a Warrior in Battle you have seen those Banners and heard lots of “For great justice” shouting, those things are giving both you and the Warrior boosts etc. Banners and Shouts take up skill slots so 5 signets are obviously impossible.

A 5 Signet warrior is warrior running around with only signets as his utility skills, hat includes heal and elite skill. To complement this he has a trait the gives him +X power per signet that is not on cooldown. Often they run around with full berserker gear as well(power, precision, crit damage). This makes them focused only on DPS and they are pretty much glass cannons. The reason why this gets so much hate is that they don’t create any support for the group and that means there wll only be 4 people to control the enemies they’re facing which can be quite anoying at harder dungeons and such.