Guild Wars 2

Ok, so some people have been complaining about these Hammer/Mace Shield wielding warriors.

Oh my, they’re scary. And we poor thieves with no way to get stability except an elite and stealing it.

10/0/0/30/30

Ok, so trait Mug on your Deadly Arts.

In Acrobatics you need

1. Vigorous Recovery
2. Pain Response or Quick Recovery, I don’t care what you choose.
3. Hard to Catch

In Trickery
1. Uncatchable
2. Initial Strike
3. Hastened Replenish or Sleight of Hand, again I don’t care which.

Go with berserker armor mixed with knights. Whatever you feel more comfortable with. Even soldiers if you want. Honestly I don’t care.

Equip Traveler’s Runes, 6/6. You want that 25% movement speed for WvW and to be a a bit more mobile.

For your healing skill you want Withdrawal. This is a mostly nonstealth build.

Your Utilities should be
1. Shadowstep
2. Roll for Initiative
3. Spider Venom

Your main weapon set should be P/P. Your second one can be whatever. S/D be best for in your face if you can dodge stun skills well. Again, I don’t care. SB if you want range and evades with easy poison and swap Spider Venom for Assassin’s Signet or whatever you want.

Now, engage Hammer Warrior. Keep your distance by timing your dodges and using your dodge trops to your advantage. Use body shot to immobilize and keep warrior at bay. Keep popping Pistol one to keep condition pressure up and make warrior waste any cleansing he may have active. Passive ones, just time it. Pop Spider venom when you’re ready to start your mini burst. After you pop it, unleash an unload from hell, but putting a body shot inbetween them may help you from him just dodging. After all is said and done, pop a steal then roll for initiative. Now whenever you have him in a certain threshold of health, let him come to you. Perferably when Spider Venom is ready. Have poison on and some bleeds on him. Let him get close, pop blinding powder and unleash your bundle of axe spinning. Maybe you’ll down him, maybe not. If not, get distance and keep him at bay again, keep it up. You can shadow step and pop a blinding powder too for easy get away then.

Hard to Catch will give you one free “stun break”. As in you’ll teleport away and wait it out safely mostly. Shadow Step is your back up/tool to distance/gap closing. Roll is for initiative mostly but can be timed for an evade and initiative or just an evade. Withdrawal is your distance gainer and heal. Simple, yes?

There’s my half kitten attempt at a counter. Stop QQing and deal with it till future change happens.

Sincerely,
Another thief

Just the fact that you have to resort to making an entire build to even think about killing a Warrior speaks volumes.

This works. But my solution for Healing Signet Warriors, is just to disengage and find something easier to kill. Doesn’t require changing my gear, so I like it better.

Rahar.9872:

Just the fact that you have to resort to making an entire build to even think about killing a Warrior speaks volumes.

Nah, I’m sure this would do well against other builds too. Just the Meta Hammer Warrior build was the target since everyone says their brother and dog use it.

All builds have a counter(s), just like all builds have their pitfalls. No one build can destroy everything out there, unless something is seriously drastically out of balance.

Xter.6271:

Rahar.9872:

Just the fact that you have to resort to making an entire build to even think about killing a Warrior speaks volumes.

Nah, I’m sure this would do well against other builds too. Just the Meta Hammer Warrior build was the target since everyone says their brother and dog use it.

All builds have a counter(s), just like all builds have their pitfalls. No one build can destroy everything out there, unless something is seriously drastically out of balance.

You’re right, but you also missed the point of my post. Having to resort to making a special build to even think about standing toe-to-toe with warriors, as opposed to simply learning to fight them, is the core problem and a sign that the profession is getting out of hand.

And as it stands right now, a Warrior condi build with LB + S/S can destroy everything out there.

Like hammer warriors?

Rahar.9872:

Xter.6271:

Rahar.9872:

Just the fact that you have to resort to making an entire build to even think about killing a Warrior speaks volumes.

Nah, I’m sure this would do well against other builds too. Just the Meta Hammer Warrior build was the target since everyone says their brother and dog use it.

All builds have a counter(s), just like all builds have their pitfalls. No one build can destroy everything out there, unless something is seriously drastically out of balance.

You’re right, but you also missed the point of my post. Having to resort to making a special build to even think about standing toe-to-toe with warriors, as opposed to simply learning to fight them, is the core problem and a sign that the profession is getting out of hand.

And as it stands right now, a Warrior condi build with LB + S/S can destroy everything out there.

Well as I see it too, you need to resort to a condition cleansing build to deal with most necros. Or be really fast with the take down. Rangers I generally need more gap closing and stealth to deal with one that can play well. Bunker Guardians I’m resorting to S/D with more offense then defense. And so on, so on. The Warrior seems to be the Meta right now according to the forums and some in game chat. Well, countering the meta includes adapting to it too, and I’m sure there are people who have and people who decided to adapt to the counter meta. Just choose what you want to play and enjoy it. If everyone is so intent on killing these meta warriors, which everyone and their dog plays, why not counter it and enjoy more kills because the meta is the most popular and more people play the meta.

(Hint: This thread is some what serious, and some what sarcasm at people QQing about Warriors.)

solution:

That’s pre-Oct15 LS btw…

And pre-Oct 15 Bas venom too…Now they are both “fixed.”