Guild Wars 2

Did not realize the forum messed up my old thread. So recreating it.

So I believe I have found the new Warrior Meta. I seen the Trip Shout Warrior Build that has recently begun to spring up and I made a few adjustments to it. I believe this Build now to be the most powerful that a Warrior can offer.

No longer are Warriors outclassed.

Guardians, Thieves, Mesmers are the meta? I doubt that.

Behold! The ES Shout Warrior. Check out the my Video and tell me what you think.

Round 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouNxAlyyFuw&feature=plcp

Round 1 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdgL6053wKg&feature=plcp

While I’m definitely impressed by your survival skills, I’m quite underwhelmed by your build’s damage output. While it seems to be enough in 1vs1 situations, you might often find yourself in a situation where you can’t finish someone off before enemy reinforcements arrive, thus ending up in a >2vs1 situation. But hey – it all depends on one’s play style. I prefer high DPS with just a pinch of survivability, while you seem to be focused on stuns and heals. Nothing wrong with that Could you share your build?

Ibrins.4906:

While I’m definitely impressed by your survival skills, I’m quite underwhelmed by your build’s damage output. While it seems to be enough in 1vs1 situations, you might often find yourself in a situation where you can’t finish someone off before enemy reinforcements arrive, thus ending up in a >2vs1 situation. But hey – it all depends on one’s play style. I prefer high DPS with just a pinch of survivability, while you seem to be focused on stuns and heals. Nothing wrong with that Could you share your build?

Although I completely agree with the your statement regarding damage, you have to keep in mind that this is more or less an assist Build. Sure it survives well and to some extent can 1v1. However its more for Spike Assist, CC, Condition removal, Revival. I was solo queued there in those videos so most of the time I am running Solo or 1v1ing.

In a premade with Guild members. You pair this Build up with a DPS Mesmer or a Tanky Mesmer and you are unstoppable.

I would have to put the template together but I am more than happy to.

Taugrim’s “Captain Hammer” build has been around since June.

I’ve been using something similar since about a week after launch. Once you go shouts you never go back :P

Secro.5039:

I’ve been using something similar since about a week after launch. Once you go shouts you never go back :P

I did. So did Taugrim as well (as far as actually specc’ing for them) recently. I tried the shout war, Hammer + Axe/mace (axe/shield, sword/shield, rifle, sword/mace, GS for offhands trying to find a sweet spot) and the problem with shouts if you spec for healing is that your damage becomes poo.

In the meta we have, it’s all about burst+CC coordination. Shout healing (fully geared and poo damage because of it) are around 2k… that’s 1 attack from one person. It really doesn’t even stall at best.

I like the idea of the hammer warrior, and a shout warrior but warriors just have a fundamental problem at it’s core: Anything you try to spec the warrior to do another class can do better, while also bringing more group utility. I personally believe this is because the warrior was probably the “baseline” class that they made first, and it was cool. Then they started making other classes and took some ideas for abilities from the warrior but improved upon them, while leaving the warrior with the vanilla ability.

For example: guardian shouts > warrior shouts. Thief/Mesmer quickness > Frenzy (no incoming damage penalty, 1 applies it to your entire group nearby). Banners are engineer kits that expire and have far too long of cooldowns. Etc.

With that said though I’m not giving up hope that ANet recognizes where the warrior is lacking (it’s not damage, it’s the bland and lack of dynamic abilities compared to the sister functions they gave to other classes) and is looking at an overhaul. I can dream right?

Also I’m glad you’ve discovered the captain hammer build and are enjoying it @OP. I wish you the best of luck.