Guild Wars 2

Hey All!

So I was PvPing as a D/D cantrip ele with some slightly offset traits but pretty much the standard build. I was in a duel arena and was able to beat everybody else there with exception to a condi warrrior who I completely could not even dent.

He had I think axe/sword on the other set along with longbow and he had a celestial amulet equipped. Maybe the fact he was asura made it difficult to avoid his burst but he had insane condition pressure that I could not outsurvive even with saving my evasive arcana water rolls, cleansing wave, cleansing flame, and water attunement switches. All in the meanwhile, I could not even begin to put a dent in him.

Do you guys have any pointers on how to duel these guys?
Are they our counter? Should I have gone scepter / focus with ether renewal?

Thanks!

Warriors are an easmode class with very simple rotations. The best you can do is to find out the build and play it yourself for half an hour. If you don’t know about warrior builds, they seem op. However, their cheezyness makes it easy to beat them if you know what you’re up against. In general, if you run the standard d/d celestial ele build with ether renewal against condi warr, you should be fine.

That probably wasnt a condi warrior you were fighting, but the meta mightstacking soldier/cele axebow. It’s a stupidly strong build atm, and it’s only natural you’re struggling with it. No tips we could give you will help as much as a bit of experience, but I’ll give you some anyway.

- Dodge pin down. It’s hard but doable. If you don’t dodge it, cleanse immediately. He’ll follow up with ridiculous burst if you dont.

- Stack might. He’s ridiculously bulky so you absolutely need all the extra damage you can get.

- Pressure in longbow, but know that he will almost always follow his adrenaline skill up with arcing shot immediately to stack might. Dodge accordingly.

- When his axe comes out (you can tell by his sigil of intelligence under his health bar), just run away. Only bother going in for a trade with his axe out when you have protection and/or weakness on him. If you can dodge the evisc, that’s great.

- Wait with cleansing impale until 4 or 5 stacks torment have been accumulated.

- Run an energy or doom sigil next to your battle sigil. These will have a tremendous impact.

Guys great advice, thanks a bunch.

In terms of damaging him down — you would recommend doom sigils yeah? So it seems like the best option here is energy + doom… leaving out a battle sigil. I think energy is always needed vs warriors especially with evasive arcana.

That being said, it seems pretty hard to dent him, very tanky with ridiculous regen — it’s almost demoralizing. I guess just keep pressuring with combos over and over making sure to land the fire and air in particular?

I was running energy + battle sigils at the time with rune of strength.

Domzz.1260:

Guys great advice, thanks a bunch.

In terms of damaging him down — you would recommend doom sigils yeah? So it seems like the best option here is energy + doom… leaving out a battle sigil. I think energy is always needed vs warriors especially with evasive arcana.

That being said, it seems pretty hard to dent him, very tanky with ridiculous regen — it’s almost demoralizing. I guess just keep pressuring with combos over and over making sure to land the fire and air in particular?

I was running energy + battle sigils at the time with rune of strength.

Don’t drop battle. It’s vital to your damage. Try to maintain 25 might and you should be doing alright damage.

Use sigil of doom, so you can counter a bit his signet heal. Dodge pin down, don’t stay in hsi combustive shot area, even if that means decap your point. Time your shocking aura to counter his axe combo.

Take advantage when he has poison on him, take this time to apply pressure.