Guild Wars 2

So I generally still play a hybrid of Ham-shout in WvW … I really enjoy the mobility of the s/wh and love playing hammer for cc … utilities tend to be 3 of the following depending on my mood …

(FGJ, Balanced Stance, Berserker’s Stance, Bull’s Charge… and very rarely now Shake it off)

I’m just curious because I’m trying to make the transition to utilise more of the HoT elite specs, but don’t want to go to the extent of changing my preferred weapons. I know this limits my potential skill cap playing this build against roamers or small teams … but we all like to have some small battles between the big ones.

I’m presently in full berserker’s and have little need for additional toughness (have 3 accounts and have played wvw since bwe1 or 2 was it).

My questions are as follows:

1. Is Marauder’s stats in any way better than Berserker’s… is it worth switching over to get the concentration? Anyone have experience here

2. Is there a skill line I should move my traits to, I am pretty sure I’m still on the original defensive set up … should I move one line to Berserker’s?

Can anyone give me any tips to help me make this transition? While i enjoy supporting the commander’s or a good squad, I want to step up my game and 1vX skills.

I have been getting into trouble with a few small skirmish teams lately, mostly because I enjoy the challenge of fighting them, and I think they have had some fun fighting me. I think one of them pretty much looks for me on the field, cause I see him almost every night.

While I have decent survivability I would like to increase and update my knowledge and skill.

To my best knowledge: this is pretty close to what I am running:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNBiYDbkpDq8wyQwKEoDxQWQlnwFECaNU4xAO4FQAA-TFDBQBJw0XV2fwIKp8wVA4IKV0oyg8oLYCKBxh6PQ4gAAgHAQK0IEAAB4m3MbGgbGAA-w

Hmmm… I just don’t see the synergy, especially in small group. Your primal sword burst is basically condi, and your hammer is mediocre direct damage.

The value of that weapon comp was really more about group support and then cc before the changes to stab. It does ok damage, but I don’t see it gaining much from the berserker line.

Fwiw, swapping your sword set for a gs would give you almost the same mobility with warrior sprint, while kicking up your killing power by a lot, especially with the berserker line. I know you don’t want to swap weapons, but it’s the only way I can see retaining everything else you want while still working in gains from berserker.

Thanks I’ll give it a go… I just want to update my build, but I’m kinda deadlocked as I really enjoy the warhorn, helps with condi clears/blast/and mobility.

fwiw … I hardly use the sword, minus the gap closer every now and then

Hexinx.1872:

Thanks I’ll give it a go… I just want to update my build, but I’m kinda deadlocked as I really enjoy the warhorn, helps with condi clears/blast/and mobility.

fwiw … I hardly use the sword, minus the gap closer every now and then

Ah, in that case you should know that between resistance and condi clear, especially in primal state, the warhorn isn’t really bringing much on that front. Your other sources of swiftness, warrior Sprint, and that speed buffs no longer affect movement skills means you’re not getting much mobility gain from it either.

A blast finisher is nice and all, but not that important, especially in small groups. Besides, once they fix the bug, you can always swap in stomp to take advantage of its new functionality, if you find yourself missing the blast.

Thank you, I’ve seen plenty of axe/shield + GS roamers, I just feel like I could be contributing better in WvW. I feel like I’m still playing the old way, which while viable … isn’t optimal anymore. Metabattle doesn’t seem to help much, there’s some interesting conquest builds. But in terms of WvW … not sure what to do. Thanks for the tips – just trying to get up to speed what would be most useful.

Does concentration affect resistance uptime?

It does, but I wouldn’t personally invest in it. Use a +20% boon food if you really want and call it good

Ur really not going to get anywhere using a warhorn. Ur solo game is gonna be blah, and even in a supporting role for large groups the weapon is blah compared to what other supports bring (vigor and blasts are great…that’s rly it). Its really just a weapon you sub in while out of combat for the swiftness atm. Try and get it out of ur favourites.