Guild Wars 2

I wanted to check in with the warrior community to see what everyone thinks is the best build for the current raid content.

I’m assuming that a straight up Phalanx Strength build is ideal (unless your raid already has 2 of them), but I’d like to see what variant of this people are using. I.e. are people still using Head Butt or is Banner better since we’re actually getting chalenging content for once?

Also, with the value of condi, is there a condi build that people think is competitive? Is there a condi build that also brings Phalanx Strength?

Please share, but I would also ask to get some context if people could say how far they’ve cleared into Spirit Vale as well. Thanks.

I would say between old vanilla phallanx strenght and the new phallanx berzerker.
Im trying phallanx berzerker just to say i gave our spec a shot…

How is Tremor against breakbars? I know a lot of CC skills that send out CC in a path in front of them tend to take off more breakbar than the type of CC they apply would normally (such as Staff on Rev and Shield on Chrono). Is this the case with mace as well?

I’m sure the best build involves Greatsword, Phalanx Strength, and full zerk gear.
Just like everything else. :\

But bring Condi/Torch/Berserker-traitline as an alt in case you need to fight the condi-only boss.

Elite banner is going to be preferred with any organized group. It minimizes mistakes from getting downed, and Headbutt doesn’t have much utility beyond managing a breakbar. An organized group is going to plow through the breakbar, so the extra 1 sec stun isn’t going to mean much, especially if it stuns you in return.

Otherwise, meta hasn’t changed for warrior.

Yea, the biggest benefit of headbutt seems to be more of the adrenal gain and its effect on the dps rotation than the CC effect on a breakbar. I’m a bit rusty on war and haven’t really played with berserker since unlocking it, so I’m not sure how much of a dps loss it is to not use headbutt in a rotation.

Whatever it is, it’s you losing a full second of dps, so unless Headbutt damage itself is amazeballs, I wouldn’t use it. As for adrenaline gain, there’s tons of ways to get it, and I don’t usually have a problem using my burst every time it comes up.
You don’t need to put the onus of smashing a breakbar on yourself, in a raid setting. Everyone on the attack should have at least one hard-CC skill for that. Headbutt becomes more of a breakbar insurance in case the rest of the raid’s not paying attention.

The only things ive seen asked for is PH/GS, which I personally refuse to run, because that build is so 2013 and Condition build.

I’d rather run condition myself, because its not boring. (Ive actually fallen asleep in my chair while playing the standard PH/GS/Zerker Warrior. Its awful.)

I’m not looking for what people think is “fun”. I’m looking for what is the most efficient.

Condi Berserker I think.