Guild Wars 2

Yes, this is one of those “x class killed me and im super kitten ed posts.” So apologies to the warrior community for the minor raging.

I never thought I’d ask this, but how do you deal with “The New Warriors?”

Because of the necromancer meta, every one of these that I see in wvw is running melandru’s, -40% condi duration food, and likely dogged march. This makes them completely immune to movement impairing effects for kiting.

Has anyone tried to dodge Bull’s Charge since they increased its speed? It doesnt happen. On top of this, they are usually running shield (thus, shield bash) and a 1h weapon that can also cc, like mace or 1h sword. This gives them 3+ setups for Hundred Blades on their other weapon swap, which obviously is death if you eat it. The popularity of the defense trait line means your looking at 2500 armor before toughness is added from gear, making them very resilient to physical damage too.

This is what I’m running. I often drop a trap for SoR or Lightning Reflexes, because Shared Anguish doesn’t seem to cut it for stun breaking. Centuar is in there for speed, it might be optional.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNAsYVjEV11xVaWo2BiVBB1ekJzjJ2DD5oHB-jUyAINBRKCIVJQpwioxWzKiGrSGQzgpSXUt/gRrWIAFzBA-w

If you could make a build/give advice focused solely on killing this type of warrior, how would you do it?

to stop the new stun-lock warriors, you want to go shout/signet mix.

30/0/0/30/10
signets recharge 20% faster
Signets grants 3 stacks of might upon activation
Signets affect the ranger
Regeneration applied lasts 33% longer
Dodging removes blind and poison
Shouts grant you swiftness and regeneration
20% CD reduction on shouts

Runes of the Solider

Longbow and GS

preferably clerics or celestial armor + trinkets

The tactics is to go full evasive early on. Making sure they burn their stun-locks. Drop a healing spring right away. If you get caught, the regen will soften the hits up a little bit. It is not a sure-fire way to win, but in the past two weeks, it has helped me win 4/13 stunlock encounters. It really takes some trial and error, but once their outta CC’s, you can just tank them for the remainder. Stun-lock builds usually focus on heavy DPS due to the small window of “control”. At most they pin you down 10 seconds. Which is a lot, but if they fail to kill you in that time span, they have nothing to counter you with.

Use +40% duration condition food (Rare Veggie Pizza) to counter their own food if you need those immobilize and cripple to survive.

If you are melee just clip into your pet so it bodyblocks the stuns, and when outside you pet use evasive moves.