Guild Wars 2

So, I just started playing sPvP again after a long hiatus from it, and I main an engineer, and have since headstart. And in both hotjoins and tourneys I am running into warriors that I just can’t do kitten against, the sheer amount of condi removal they seem to have is just absurd. I mainly WvW’d for a while, and while those stunlock warriors were bad, never had I seen anything like the condition warriors running around in Spvp that I am now encountering.

I literally cannot seem to do anything against a good one, the fight basically starts I throw down heavy condi pressure they cleanse or pop zerker stance, so I’m forced to save my cooldowns to apply once it drops. and by that time their passive regen has their health back up high if not full. At this point in the fight if I havn’t been immobilized and bleed stacked, my dodges are gone, and I have a permanent burning on me, and I’m at 50% health with my turret still on 10 sec CD. Then I generally will get pinned down and condi stacked to the point of no return, while hitting all my nades and watching him just cleanse them?

So I’m just seriously looking for some advice as a condi engineer vs all these warriors running around. Last I played spvp warriors were pure kitten, and now they seem kittening unstopable. As an engineer the only hardcounter I really thought we had were kitten necros, but since fighting some of these builds I am starting to rethink that.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks,

Zaragoz

Play the five guage build. It is ok vs warrior. Most of them are stopable in 1vs1 with that build.

Use dodges and your block for when they have zerkerstance. Use blinds when its gone. Do not try to hold a point capped, you’ll die. You can however keep it decapped.

When you see a Warrior you do what we do. You run.

But all Matrix references aside, you just focus under their Name Plate for the Boons their receiving, Apply Pressure and kite saving all your longer CD (Gear Shield/Elixir S/Rocket Boots ect) defensive moves until you draw out their Stability/Berserker Stance then you pop your Defensive Skills and literally run and open a gap until they wear off. Turn around and Kill them.

Really guys a condi war is the easiest class to counter since ages in mmos.They have only 2 skills you need to dodge(or block blind), pindown and impale on 25 and 15 seconds cooldown and if they miss thise they can’t literally do kitten to you.I hate condi wars so i’m not trying to defend them at all but you cannot even compare them to necro, engie, mesmer condi .Idk but i personally find warriors the easiest class to counter by far or might be because i main one myself for so long i know every move they can pull without even thinking.Trust me focus on pindiwn and impale count cd in your headbif you must.Even if you get hit by a full flurry in spvp the damage is really kitten and he sacrifices his combushot forvit wixh is a good thing.
Also don’t pop your condi removal until you get pindowned, have 4, 5 stacks of torment(be patient) up or 2 seconds after flurry started.You will be spared 90% of the damage guaranteed.Reflects and blinds are also a doom for them.