Guild Wars 2

Hi! I haven’t reached 80 yet, so I’m pretty much a big noob

Here is a build I want to do with my warrior, can some of you experts look over it and give me advice? Build

I want a mostly PvE warrior, high survivability and if possible good damage

I read about a build from 3 years ago, where you have a defensive build and berserker armor/accessories, is that still possible?

What about Berserker specialization? It’s mostly damage and a few conditions, right?

Hasky.7185:

Hi! I haven’t reached 80 yet, so I’m pretty much a big noob

Here is a build I want to do with my warrior, can some of you experts look over it and give me advice? Build

I want a mostly PvE warrior, high survivability and if possible good damage

I read about a build from 3 years ago, where you have a defensive build and berserker armor/accessories, is that still possible?

What about Berserker specialization? It’s mostly damage and a few conditions, right?

The Berserker specialization has three paths in it: one devoted to direct damage, another to condition, and a third to survivability.

In terms of the build you posted, here’s a rework that leaves your weapon choice and most of your gear choices in tact so you can get more out of it.

Changes:

• Swapped Peak Performance for Death From Above. There’s no great trait for you here, but you had no physical skills so PP does nothing for you and DfA is fun and can keep you from dying if you fall too far.
• Swapped Axe Mastery for Berserker’s Power. +20% is better than +150 ferocity, and it applies to all hits rather than just on crit. If you generate enough adren to burst all the time, you can maintain +20% at all times.
• Swapped Dogged March for Shield Mastery. You now reflect projectiles and gain might on every block/reflect, and have faster cooldowns on two good skills.
• Swapped Armored Attack for Defy Pain. You don’t have a high toughness, and the 4s protection you get from DP is better than the 100 or so power you’re getting from AA, imo.
• Swapped Last Stand for Cleansing Ire. You don’t currently have any stances on your bar, so this was really only giving you access to Balanced Stance. Not bad, but CI will help you gain adren faster (helps with BP above) and you’ll be shedding condis like a boss.
• Swapped Inspiring Battle Standard for Brawlers Recovery. You don’t have banners on your bar, so IBS wasn’t giving you anything. BR will help you even further with condis. If you find you have overkill in terms of condi management, you could swap this to Destruction of the Empowered, but only if the baddies you’re fighting have boons.
• Swapped Burst Mastery for Heightened Focus. BM is a good option, and you could keep it. But try HF out for a while… Quickness is super fun, and will work well with your axe auto. Also, the damage you’d be getting from BM with your bow is negligible, and you probably won’t need the adren conservation thanks to CI above.
• Swapped Sigil of Perception for Sigil of Bloodlust. It’s an expensive swap and may not be worth it, but your crit chance is high enough, especially with fury, so you’ll get greater benefit from bloodlust stacks.

I didn’t change your utilities, mostly to keep the build familiar to you, but you could certainly change them around and your traits accordingly. Your weapons too… greatsword is handy for running around the map and most pve mobs will just eat an entire hundred blades, which is nice and easy. Plus, Forceful Greatsword is a great trait.

Your runes are a very good offensive match for your current build. If you find you’re too squishy, you could change them to a more defensive set. If you change your build around, you may want to change the runes accordingly, depending on what you settle on. For example, Strength or Hoelbrak runes are a great match for might generating builds (yours generates might, and a gs build would stack even more, though Rage runes are great too).

In terms of tough builds that use all Berserker gear, it mostly comes down to dodging, stances, and generally playing the class well. If you’re not dying now, you don’t need to make any changes.

If you are dying and are willing to swap your gear, going all Knights and then traiting Armored Attack will give you much higher toughness and almosst equal power to what you have now. What you’ll be giving up is crit damage. There are other builds that trade killing power for survivability.

Firstly: Thank you very much

I didn’t know that “physical skills” is so specific :O

GS seems to be used often, i think i will switch my bow for GS and take Forceful GS, sry for the Inspiring Battle Standard, i was using Banner of Strength instead of For Great Justice at that time, but what is better? BoS with regen, or FGJ for the might?

Here the updated Build

And should I swap Dolyak Signet for Endure Pain?

Real advice? Reroll..
Sorry bro.. but you picked the class anet has chosen to kill.
It is not that warriors are weak on this patch…
If you go datamining back 1.5 years in the past.. all they did was nerf after nerf after nerf andbit got to a point where you will have fun early game i gotta say that.. but when you get to the end game and decide to move on to that next step.. the competitive scene.. you just cant…
Anet made it so there is zero build diversity for wvw..and almost same situation for spvp and none of those includes new spec..
While any other class out there can do ehatever you do as a warrior better…and faster…
So if you arr not 80 yet.. it mrans you didnt invest on ascended gear… or ascended wep yet… so there is still time…take a moment and try other classes…
Dragonhunter and revenant are some great heavy users if you like heavy users play style… they pretty much can do what warriors do.. but much better…
Reaper can tank a few… dps/debuff a lot and is hell a fun…
Really.. just pick any class…it will be better..
Im a 2 years warrior full ascended 4 legendary weapons..
Rerolled rev cause sticking to this dummy class they wanna enforce us to play is just not useful

Hasky.7185:

Firstly: Thank you very much

I didn’t know that “physical skills” is so specific :O

GS seems to be used often, i think i will switch my bow for GS and take Forceful GS, sry for the Inspiring Battle Standard, i was using Banner of Strength instead of For Great Justice at that time, but what is better? BoS with regen, or FGJ for the might?

Here the updated Build

And should I swap Dolyak Signet for Endure Pain?

No problemo. As for your questions plus some additional comments….

• If you’re running solo, banners will never be worth it. Even if you’re not, I don’t personally run them, but if you want to maximize group support you’d run a banner along with Phalanx Strength from Tactics. I don’t think this is what you’re going for, so skip the banners and take FGJ
• Dolyaks is probably a better choice for your current build over Endure Pain. Unless you find you’re getting bursted down a lot, Dolyaks will give you better damage mitigation over time through the armor increase, and you’ll also have stability in case you’re getting tossed around or you’re trying to execute a full 100 blades against enemies with interrupt skills.
• If you find you’re too squishy, consider switching fully to stances (Frenzy, Endure Pain, and either Balanced Stance or Berserker’s Stance, depending on whether condis or cc are a bigger problem), then trait Last Stand again. If you’re not too squishy, don’t make the change.
• You can maintain 100% Fury uptime using SoR and your greatsword burst (which is a better burst than your axe against mobs, but not single targets). As a result, consider switching up your runes eventually if you find this build works for you. Strength or Hoelbrak are good options, as mentioned, though not cheap. Strength lets you stack might better of the two, and then it has the additional damage buff. Hoelbrak helps with condis.

Good luck!

Hate to say it, but you picked the wrong class to play. In 17 years of MMO gameplay, I’ve never seen a class in a worse state in any game, without so much as an acknowledgement from the development team.

I mean, you’ll have fun on your warrior in PvE content, and assuming you have a TON of gold to spend on armor runes and everything, you’ll even be viable in fractals/dungeons(lol), but that’s it. Outside of PvE content, warrior isn’t even trash-tier. You’re actively hurting your team by playing warrior at this point.

I heard they nerfed him, but that badly? Oo
I wanted to make a Revenant when i get to 80, but if the situation is so bad.. wow, didn’t expect that from GW2 -_-

Thanks for all your input, I think I’ll play him for a bit longer and try the GS fury thing, but won’t make/buy any good gear for him and go make a Rev then!

Dont get me wrong.. i love my warrior..
I wasted a ton of gold to get 4 legendaries just for him.. nothing for my other classes.. i have everything ascended.. best infusions for wvw.. best build for my playstyle.. but.. they just continued to nerf it to the ground..
We continued to adapt.. change runes…sigils… but it got to a point where as other says.. you hurt your team more then you help. It is better if i go on a full exothic reaper then my full ascended/legendary warrior and probrably it will provide more fun as well..
If i get all that gear…swap to any other heavy even if i am clueless of how to play the other class.. just copy a build from a friend and smash random skills at random moments.. it will help the team more then warriors can help..
And it is not just now…
Its something thats going on for quite a while already…it is not even surprising anymore….everytime warriors manage a way to adapt the last nerf suffered..they toss a new one..
So.. we are on a situation where the frontline team needs heavy classes..but not warriors…
The backline team need any class, but warriors
The spvp team can use most classes, but if a warrior is on the team.. the team is automatically weaker then if it was any other class.
Sad story for us…