Guild Wars 2

If you put these 1v1 kings against each other who would win???

mesmers would win

Me on my mes. Too many stun breakers and if they drop conditions on me Arcane theft.
And this is with shatter of perplexity build.

lol @ warriors

Damash.1074:

If you put these 1v1 kings against each other who would win???

Depends on the terrain, but open field mesmer would.

Mesmer should yea

Mesmer should win although it’s near impossible to catch up with a Warrior if he decides to bail and legs it. A well played Mesmer is one of the few hard counters against a Warrior in this current Meta.

Mesmer by far.

If you want detailed information: Warriors aren’t even close to the kings of WvW 1v1, there are many builds that beat them. People just cry foul when they lose to anything which creates false stigmas, which then perpetuate themselves because people heard it before so it must be true.

The strength of warriors at the moment is that the paralyzation sigil is horribly bugged (the Hammer/Longbow Warrior can spam “level 3” Earthshakers endlessly in infinite fire fields for the might, aoe stun, and 100% crit chance for huge aoe damage.) This type of chain stunning with huge damage is what makes signet heal so good because you can barely fight back, and thus have trouble ever doing more than the signet is healing. This is by far one of the strongest sPvP builds because of the way conquest works. People who don’t understand blame Beserker Stance/Healing Signet/something else dumb but all of those wouldn’t be a problem if you couldn’t spam L3 Earthshakers (which was never intended).

As far as WvW goes Warriors are nowhere near as effective, but still good in Zerg vs Zerg. Once the paralyzation sigil is fixed warriors are going to be pretty bad 1v1 against most classes. These strengths actually apply so little that for 1v1 the best warrior is Mace+Shield/Greatsword which is nowhere near as strong in WvW 1v1 as Hammer/Longbow is in 1v1 sPvP.

As I said though people are idiots who prefer to hear that something is overpowered somewhere, then assume that’s the reason they’re losing (even though it’s an entirely different game mode against an entirely different build). Once that para sigil is fixed even Mace+Shield/Greatsword is going to be pretty bad for 1v1. I’m not insulting warriors, I’m sure you’ll still kill bad specs/players just fine and if you roam in a group obviously your group can do anything if you work togteher well. But I wouldn’t be suprised if CondiWar using something like Longbow/Sword+Offhand becomes the new best warrior dueling build.

It’s not carved in stone. I’ve lost to a Warrior on a couple of occasions recently.
Once through sheer over-confidence and again because Mesmer’s couldn’t catch a cold. Even with Traveler(sic) runes, once a Warrior starts to run away the fight’s over.

this is more like an spvp question, but if im on my roaming build, bye bye warrior. mesmers are great duelers….but terrible atm in zergs, apart from being a veil bot.

the mesmer uses light armor. if you do anything that prevents him from casting, you can take him out in 3 shots – 2 if you have very high dps – otherwise he won the fight vs generally any class because his dps is very high. And I don’t agree with mesmers being bad in zergs – the great sword has as long a reach as the long bow
. My build shines in zergs …more often that not in my server …I’m the one leading my zerg in zerg vs zerg face offs because I usually take down about 5 characters to 1/2 health at a time. Unfortunately, sometimes they follow my illusions thinking it’s me and it doesn’t work as well lol.

all depends on the builds they run…