Guild Wars 2

Here are a few 100b builds i made a while back when i was bored. I havent really looked at them or adjusted them since i made them, so maybe some things have changed (1-2 months ago).

Here are a few things to note first, which will help explain my choices.
1. For pure damage, I generally recommend rune of ogre or divinity: http://postimage.org/image/89xqsnah7/ ; this is based on an average 100b build vs a target with 2600 armor.
A lot of the other runes are more situational, so don’t forget to try them out and see how you might like them.

2. For mace and/or shield users, I recommend using sigil of paralyzation. This is because the sigil is bugged (I believe since beta), and instead of giving you an x% increase, it basically rounds up. So 1 second stuns (ie the shield) become 2 second, and 3 second stuns (ie skull crack) become 4 seconds. Due to this bug the mace is less viable than the axe, because shield bash with the bugged sigil allows you to get off a full frenzy 100b (1.75s), making the mace redundant. That’s not to say the mace is useless though, as a 4 second stun allows you to get off an unfrenzied 100b, so keep that in mind.

3. For the greatsword, I recommend going with sigil of rage. It is the most useful on many high crit chance builds, and the reason why I never pick say the sigil of force or accuracy, is because they only add a range of about 200-400 damage on a full 100b or eviscerate. Choosing bloodlust is preference really, based on how confident you are. Another trick you can do is put bloodlust on your secondary weps, such as a shield if using the axe+shield, and switch to them when you see someone about to be stomped and you can afford it.

4. ESD = estimated sustained damage, the total damage you are expected to do over multiple hits with your current crit chance.

Condition Removal Build
Ogre/Divinity Runes
Berserker’s Amulet
Axe + Horn
Sigils: Rage on GS, energy on horn, intelligence on axe

Strength: 20(V, IX)
Tactics: 20(VI, IX)
Discipline: 30(V, VII, X); VII is taste, swap for signet mastery or something if you don’t like it.

Heal: Mending
Utility: Sig of rage, Bull Charge, Frenzy, x (balance stance, shake it off, endure pain, signet of stamina, for great justice, etc)

Reasoning: Since this build is made with more prolonged survivability in mind, especially vs conditions, while still being a viable 100b warrior, I sacrificed a small amount of damage for a rather large gain in condition removal/mobility. Horn theoretically gives you nearly permanent vigor (3 sec downtime), as well as swiftness. For every buff on you, you get 2% damage increase; you’ll have around 4 buffs on you at any given time. Your damage will still be high, assuming you have your buffs on. You will have to be smart with your sig of rage though, since you don’t have signet mastery, and most likely wont be running FGJ; your ESD will be kitten when fury isn’t up, as can be seen under ESD on http://postimage.org/image/89xqsnah7/.

100b “Destroyer” Build
Eagle Runes
Berserker’s Amulet
Mace + Shield
Sigils: Rage on GS, paralyzation on the mace, w/e you want on the shield (hydromancy is nice)

Strength 20: (V, IX)
Arms 10: (IV) ; going any higher is kind of pointless.
Discipline 30: (V, VI/VII, X)
*10 remaining, do w/e you want with it, such as Tactics VI (empowered) which isn’t half bad, or Strength I (death from above) or II (restorative strength)

Heal: Healing Surge/mending; healing surge just allows you to execute a skull crack combo whenever you want, so it depends on taste.
Utility: Bulls Charge, Frenzy, For Great Justice (or w/e), Sig of rage

Reasoning: The way unsuspecting foe works is you get a 50% critical chance increase to your current critical chance, so if you have 50% current crit chance, then unsuspecting foe will give you 75% chance. Therefore I designed this to use sustained fury, in order to give you exactly 100% crit chance with unsuspecting foe at all times. So as you may have guessed, you use skull crack/shield bash on your target, then frenzy 100b them, and each hit will be a critical hit. You can replace FGJ with anything, just remember to have fury on when you initiate your stun+100b combo. Referring back to http://postimage.org/image/89xqsnah7/ you can see the difference in damage between critical hit and ESD, so as you can see you will be doing a kitten load of damage. Just note that you cant stack shield bash and skull crack durations.

I recommend you use this build with an asura, because the animations are smaller and less noticeable. Skull crack is almost completely indistinguishable from a normal mace hit, and skull crack + frenzy 100b will catch most people completely off guard since they wont understand what just happened (partly due to your size).

General 100b Build
Ogre Runes
Axe + Shield
Sigils: Rage on GS, int on axe, paralyzation on shield.

Strength 20 (V, IX)
Arms 20 (IV*, VI) | Arms 30 (IV, VI, XII) ; preference
Discipline 30(V, VII, X) | Discipline 20 (V, VII)
*I pick this because of the sigil bug, which allows me to get off a full frenzy 100b, otherwise I would pick rending strikes V.

Heal: Healing surge/mending, just preference.
Utility: Bull charge, frenzy, endure pain/balanced stance.

Rationale: This is just a general all-around balanced 100b build. It is probably the most versatile and balanced build, with good damage and good mobility, but mediocre condition removal obviously.

Maximum Damage 100b Build
Runes: 2x fire, 2x strength, 2x hoelbrak
Berserker’s Amulet
Dual Greatswords
Sigils: Battle on both GS

Strength 20: (V, IX)
Arms 25: (V/III, X)
Discipline 25 (V, VI)

Heal: Healing Surge
Utility: Bulls Charge, Frenzy, For Great Justice, Sig of rage

Reasoning: The runes will give you 60% might duration, allowing you to effectively maintain your might stack at around 20-25 stacks permanently. It takes a few seconds to build it up, but once you do, you’ll be hitting for massive damage, see the dark blue and dark red bars: http://postimage.org/image/89xqsnah7/. You obviously don’t have as much versatility, but you can make up for that a bit with your damage. Keep in mind those values are rated against a target with 2600 armor, you will demolish squishys. You will cycle for great justice and signet of rage to keep permanent fury and might stacks, which means your ESD will be very high. It requires a bit more work, since you also want to constantly switch weapons constantly to keep the might flowing in. This build can be a lot of fun, but it isn’t a very serious one. It could be probably more optimized to get the least amount of might increasing factors while still maintaining 20+ might stacks.

*Watch out for obvious mistakes, i didnt really proof read this.

These set-ups are the SOLE REASON on why Warriors are bad. Because players recommend bad utility sets such as FGJ, Frenzy, Bulls Charge and people follow them anyways. Not to mention the fact that you think the 25 minor trait on discipline is actually worth taking.

No stability = you get interrupted even at point blank. And by point blank I mean specially when you’ve baited out stun breaks and they can surely die with Frenzy + HB.

Learn to use Balanced Stance for Christ sake if you want to “make PvP guides.”

Anything works in PvE, but if this is a guide for PvP then sorry. I recommend that you actually make a guide that HELPS NEW WARRIORS. NOT a guide that posts bad traits and utilities.

hey man don’t rag on a guy for trying

Defektive.7283:

hey man don’t rag on a guy for trying

For TRYING TO MISLEAD NEW WARRIORS TO HELL? Sorry man I have to stop him before he does things like this.

20/30/0/0/20 axe(mace) shield gs 5 scholar 1 divinity
damage boast, gs 10%,
vigor on 10%(50% crit stuns), gs 20% trait, 4 sec quickness
%crit chance, mobile strikes
enrgy axe stun shield
energy gs
frenzy, bulls, balance, sig
12-15k 100blades under sigil on heavy golem

20/20/0/10/20 axe shield gs 5 scholar(balthazar) 1 divinity
damage boast, gs 10%,
vigor on 10%, gs 20% trait,
immobilize trait
%crit chance (sig recharge), mobile strikes
enrgy axe stun shield
energy gs
frenzy, bulls, balance, sig
10-12k 100blades under sig on heavy

Nier.2478:

These set-ups are the SOLE REASON on why Warriors are bad. Because players recommend bad utility sets such as FGJ, Frenzy, Bulls Charge and people follow them anyways. Not to mention the fact that you think the 25 minor trait on discipline is actually worth taking.

Yes these bad “set-ups” that include such horrible bad traits and utility like frenzy and bull charge are absolutely terrible for 100b builds, and are definitely the reason why warriors suck. And not to mention i think the 25 minor in discipline is worth taking, yes holy kitten i am dumb, see my stupid brain figured that it would be better to have +5% crit damage over +50 precision and a random arms trait that i dont particularly need.

No stability = you get interrupted even at point blank.

Thanks for the awesome insight on what stability is though, holy kitten i had no idea without stability you get interrupted, even at point blank. See i always thought no stability meant you are susceptible to CC in general, but kitten i just never really realized it also included point blank. Mind = blown. I guess it depends on your playstyle, see i have no problem running no stability, but sometimes i do anyways, though not for the reason you state. I guess without stability you need to utilize some basic timing, but that might be too difficult for some.

And by point blank I mean specially when you’ve baited out stun breaks and they can surely die with Frenzy + HB.

Oh so by point blank you mean something that isnt the definition of point blank, and you use stability because you are 100% sure that you’ve baited out all of their stun breaks, and now want to make sure you dont get disrupted in case they what, spastically CC you the second you hit your bulls charge, or go to initiate your 100b combo that doesnt involve bad utilities like frenzy and bulls charge?

Learn to use Balanced Stance for Christ sake if you want to “make PvP guides.”

In case you cant read, these are just 100b builds i made a while back, and felt like sharing. Note how i said 100b, and note the 1, 0, 0, b in that specific permutation means 100b, so yes this will all be with respect to and relative to 100b. Also, this is not a pvp guide, this is a post about 100b builds, as previously mentioned, so it talks about 100b builds, which is the point of this post, because its about 100b builds.

Anything works in PvE, but if this is a guide for PvP then sorry. I recommend that you actually make a guide that HELPS NEW WARRIORS. NOT a guide that posts bad traits and utilities.

Again this is not a guide, and how do i help new warriors by offering them builds that, according to you, must have balanced stance, cant have bulls charge or frenzy – which are basically the prerequisites for a 100b build – when realistically the 100b build is the only proven viable build for spvp and tpvp?

Please offer a well tested and well documented counter build then and enlighten me.

Sand Beagle.9867:

Nier.2478:

These set-ups are the SOLE REASON on why Warriors are bad. Because players recommend bad utility sets such as FGJ, Frenzy, Bulls Charge and people follow them anyways. Not to mention the fact that you think the 25 minor trait on discipline is actually worth taking.

Yes these bad “set-ups” that include such horrible bad traits and utility like frenzy and bull charge are absolutely terrible for 100b builds, and are definitely the reason why warriors suck. And not to mention i think the 25 minor in discipline is worth taking, yes holy kitten i am dumb, see my stupid brain figured that it would be better to have +5% crit damage over +50 precision and a random arms trait that i dont particularly need.

No stability = you get interrupted even at point blank.

Thanks for the awesome insight on what stability is though, holy kitten i had no idea without stability you get interrupted, even at point blank. See i always thought no stability meant you are susceptible to CC in general, but kitten i just never really realized it also included point blank. Mind = blown. I guess it depends on your playstyle, see i have no problem running no stability, but sometimes i do anyways, though not for the reason you state. I guess without stability you need to utilize some basic timing, but that might be too difficult for some.

And by point blank I mean specially when you’ve baited out stun breaks and they can surely die with Frenzy + HB.

Oh so by point blank you mean something that isnt the definition of point blank, and you use stability because you are 100% sure that you’ve baited out all of their stun breaks, and now want to make sure you dont get disrupted in case they what, spastically CC you the second you hit your bulls charge, or go to initiate your 100b combo that doesnt involve bad utilities like frenzy and bulls charge?

Learn to use Balanced Stance for Christ sake if you want to “make PvP guides.”

In case you cant read, these are just 100b builds i made a while back, and felt like sharing. Note how i said 100b, and note the 1, 0, 0, b in that specific permutation means 100b, so yes this will all be with respect to and relative to 100b. Also, this is not a pvp guide, this is a post about 100b builds, as previously mentioned, so it talks about 100b builds, which is the point of this post, because its about 100b builds.

Anything works in PvE, but if this is a guide for PvP then sorry. I recommend that you actually make a guide that HELPS NEW WARRIORS. NOT a guide that posts bad traits and utilities.

Again this is not a guide, and how do i help new warriors by offering them builds that, according to you, must have balanced stance, cant have bulls charge or frenzy – which are basically the prerequisites for a 100b build – when realistically the 100b build is the only proven viable build for spvp and tpvp?

Please offer a well tested and well documented counter build then and enlighten me.

Oh Gawd, here comes the Svarheight pain…

to be honest, i think a lot of people on these boards just have so much animosity for no reason. it’s really driving down everyones perspectives of the sPvP community.

let his builds be his builds, if they are bad – then people will figure that out on their own.

Nier.2478:

These set-ups are the SOLE REASON on why Warriors are bad. Because players recommend bad utility sets such as FGJ, Frenzy, Bulls Charge and people follow them anyways. Not to mention the fact that you think the 25 minor trait on discipline is actually worth taking.

No stability = you get interrupted even at point blank. And by point blank I mean specially when you’ve baited out stun breaks and they can surely die with Frenzy + HB.

Learn to use Balanced Stance for Christ sake if you want to “make PvP guides.”

Anything works in PvE, but if this is a guide for PvP then sorry. I recommend that you actually make a guide that HELPS NEW WARRIORS. NOT a guide that posts bad traits and utilities.

haha. I was actually reading the OP on my phone and as soon as I read it I was going to post “Wait until that Nier guy reads this. He will reply, rip your build to shreds and call you a moron because he is the biggest kitten (rhymes with herd and you flush it) on these forums.” I wasn’t signed in on my phone and thought I’d wait til I got to my desk. I got to my desk and signed in, but it was too late because he had already word vomited in this thread. Just ignore this Nier guy, he is a virus.

Defektive.7283:

to be honest, i think a lot of people on these boards just have so much animosity for no reason. it’s really driving down everyones perspectives of the sPvP community.

let his builds be his builds, if they are bad – then people will figure that out on their own.

I mostly just posted them to get some more people thinking about builds. They obviously arent perfect as I didnt do very stringent testing or analysis, and i havent looked at them for weeks. I am sure they can be more optimized, for instance i never tested multi rune setups as i came to the general conclusion that it really doesnt matter as far as damage, so interperet’s 5 scholar 1 divinity combo would actually get me an extra 400 or so damage on a 100b.

I just wanted to share for the benefit of the community. I see it a lot though where ideas get slammed by strawmen arguments and blanket statements that provide no sort of actual counter argument or contribution. I think this needs to stop. People need to provide valid reasons and verifiable information, because posts like Neir’s will just drag us down to a dark fall level community.

They aren’t that bad. Som trade offs, could be better for some players, sure.

Ultimately it’s his builds, use and adjust accordingly.

Have you posted your builds? Personally, I like Defektives even tho I haven’t tried it.

Valkyriez.6578:

They aren’t that bad. Som trade offs, could be better for some players, sure.

Ultimately it’s his builds, use and adjust accordingly.

Have you posted your builds? Personally, I like Defektives even tho I haven’t tried it.

Well it was mostly just a general outline, with very few things set in stone, except the obvious like 50% crit chance bonus on stuns for the mace build. IMO most of them are pretty adaptable, mostly because very few things actually matter or affect your damage, so you can sub out a lot to suit your needs/taste.

Also dont judge on my dual greatsword build, it is just for fun. The other 3 builds are serious though and i think they have decent potential to be viable in all aspects of pvp.