Guild Wars 2

Even after the update I feel base warrior is pretty bad, particularly against the elite specs. It doesn’t offer anything the other classes don’t do better.

The main thing warrior had was a high health pool but this is not really important because of the high damage/conditions all the classes now put out. Passive defenses are now vastly more important then HP but base warrior doesn’t really have much in this area.

If Anet wants to make people buy HOT to be competitive I have no problem so long as they are honest about it instead of lying. At this point it just feels like the balance team is incompetent.

I think pure warrior is the only profession that can be a serious threat against new elite specs. This is my personal opinion but whenever I play with gs/axe-shield combo, I do not feel that much underpowered.

alain.1659:

I think pure warrior is the only profession that can be a serious threat against new elite specs. This is my personal opinion but whenever I play with gs/axe-shield combo, I do not feel that much underpowered.

alain.1659:

I think pure warrior is the only profession that can be a serious threat against new elite specs. This is my personal opinion but whenever I play with gs/axe-shield combo, I do not feel that much underpowered.

Warrior damage feels incredibly easy to mitigate/avoid but warrior doesn’t have much ability to do the same.

Stochastic.1398:

alain.1659:

I think pure warrior is the only profession that can be a serious threat against new elite specs. This is my personal opinion but whenever I play with gs/axe-shield combo, I do not feel that much underpowered.

Warrior damage feels incredibly easy to mitigate/avoid but warrior doesn’t have much ability to do the same.

Same with every other base spec

base warrior is one of the strongest base professions

Krysard.1364:

Stochastic.1398:

alain.1659:

I think pure warrior is the only profession that can be a serious threat against new elite specs. This is my personal opinion but whenever I play with gs/axe-shield combo, I do not feel that much underpowered.

Warrior damage feels incredibly easy to mitigate/avoid but warrior doesn’t have much ability to do the same.

Same with every other base spec

Then either way the OP is correct.

Take scrapper or rev, there is pretty much nothing base warrior can do verse them. Scrapper is literally better at being a warrior then warrior.

All base specs are underpowered. Thief and mesmer are just about playable with non hot specs and that’s only because they can avoid poor fights and decap instead.

Ubik.8315:

All base specs are underpowered. Thief and mesmer are just about playable with non hot specs and that’s only because they can avoid poor fights and decap instead.

“By avoiding other players who’re running Elite specs, thief and mesmer are playable”

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Ubik.8315:

All base specs are underpowered. Thief and mesmer are just about playable with non hot specs and that’s only because they can avoid poor fights and decap instead.

“By avoiding other players who’re running Elite specs, thief and mesmer are playable”

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

At no point did I say you would have fun playing base thief or mesmer. Just that you could still have a positive impact as opposed to being condi fodder.

Stochastic.1398:

Krysard.1364:

Stochastic.1398:

alain.1659:

I think pure warrior is the only profession that can be a serious threat against new elite specs. This is my personal opinion but whenever I play with gs/axe-shield combo, I do not feel that much underpowered.

Warrior damage feels incredibly easy to mitigate/avoid but warrior doesn’t have much ability to do the same.

Same with every other base spec

Then either way the OP is correct.

Take scrapper or rev, there is pretty much nothing base warrior can do verse them. Scrapper is literally better at being a warrior then warrior.

base warrior is stronger than base engie, or base ranger, or base guardian

Darknicrofia.2604:

Stochastic.1398:

Krysard.1364:

Stochastic.1398:

alain.1659:

I think pure warrior is the only profession that can be a serious threat against new elite specs. This is my personal opinion but whenever I play with gs/axe-shield combo, I do not feel that much underpowered.

Warrior damage feels incredibly easy to mitigate/avoid but warrior doesn’t have much ability to do the same.

Same with every other base spec

Then either way the OP is correct.

Take scrapper or rev, there is pretty much nothing base warrior can do verse them. Scrapper is literally better at being a warrior then warrior.

base warrior is stronger than base engie, or base ranger, or base guardian

Or revenant which doesn’t work without Herald.

Stochastic.1398:

Krysard.1364:

Stochastic.1398:

alain.1659:

I think pure warrior is the only profession that can be a serious threat against new elite specs. This is my personal opinion but whenever I play with gs/axe-shield combo, I do not feel that much underpowered.

Warrior damage feels incredibly easy to mitigate/avoid but warrior doesn’t have much ability to do the same.

Same with every other base spec

Then either way the OP is correct.

Take scrapper or rev, there is pretty much nothing base warrior can do verse them. Scrapper is literally better at being a warrior then warrior.

If we take in account that base classes were balanced, and when HoT came out elite specs were largely better than core specs, then we talk about overpowered elite specs, not underpowered core specs :p