Guild Wars 2

Some builds that should do well and will be fun playing after the coming patch:

1.Hambow
Yes it will still work and will still be very strong in Conquest. Combustive shot is not effected by the nerf so you would just need to be more careful with spamming earthshaker.

2. Hammer + GS
Same traits as hambow 0/0/6/2/6 but with ‘Brawlers recovery’ instead of ‘Burst mastery’
and ‘Defy pain’ instead of cleansing Ire.
With 2 ‘Endure pain’ for 10/60 sec of immune you should be fine with zerk amy.
…or switch endure pain (trait) for bolas for the 100 Bolas build
An old personal favourite build of mine,
You throw them at the end of hammer chain for 100b +ww(or the new gs F1?) to finish just about any1, or if the foe is hard to catch throw it right after leg specialist 1 sec immobilize then rush + hammer chain.

3. GS + Axe/Sword
version 2
0/6/0/2/6 (or 2/6/0/0/6) Roaming build for spvp.
Those traits give 3 important things:
1.Brawler recovery for condi cleanse
2.‘Furious’ for a very fast adrenaline gain so missing eviscerates is not a big deal
3. With ‘signet of fury’ you get 27% crit chance on soldier/valk amulets (which active can be good for having full evis ready), so you have a tanky build while doing zerker damage.

Enjoy Warrior and go wreck those fotm dps guards

Wait, people use Hammer/GS in SPvP?

there gonna

About a year ago right after the warrior buff and before the following nerfs you could earthshaker+100b (with paralyzed sig) on whole group of ppl corpses and rush on to next, those noobs never knew what hit them oh the times…

Cygnus.6903:

Wait, people use Hammer/GS in SPvP?

Wait, people use Furious?

Yes juba u will

:P
anyway it will be glorious.

Eiland.1405:

there gonna

About a year ago right after the warrior buff and before the following nerfs you could earthshaker+100b (with paralyzed sig) on whole group of ppl corpses and rush on to next, those noobs never knew what hit them oh the times…

I don’t think this was ever valid in high level play. I mean sure, GS can cleave, hammer can havok a group, but together they lose out on other things. For instance, the roaming warrior will be much faster with a sword, whereas the point fighter will be way stronger with a longbow (which arguably brings more ‘cleave’ then the interruptable HB as well).

Edit: I forgot to mention that people should not take Brawler’s Recovery over Cleansing Ire on any hammer build, as CI builds adrenaline as well.

Cygnus.6903:

…the roaming warrior will be much faster with a sword, whereas the point fighter will be way stronger with a longbow

Well in high level play other classes are better roamers anyhow and yeah as I said, hambow will remain very strong on point fighter.

Cygnus.6903:

Edit: I forgot to mention that people should not take Brawler’s Recovery over Cleansing Ire on any hammer build, as CI builds adrenaline as well.

About this I disagree. it might be worth while taking CI over endure pain or something, for more adrenaline and cleanses but it is not mandatory.
The good thing about hammer is you only need 1 bar for full damage and to start the combo, so just weapon swapping form hammer to gs and back will give you that.

Eiland.1405:

Cygnus.6903:

…the roaming warrior will be much faster with a sword, whereas the point fighter will be way stronger with a longbow

Well in high level play other classes are better roamers anyhow and yeah as I said, hambow will remain very strong on point fighter.

Cygnus.6903:

Edit: I forgot to mention that people should not take Brawler’s Recovery over Cleansing Ire on any hammer build, as CI builds adrenaline as well.

About this I disagree. it might be worth while taking CI over endure pain or something, for more adrenaline and cleanses but it is not mandatory.
The good thing about hammer is you only need 1 bar for full damage and to start the combo, so just weapon swapping form hammer to gs and back will give you that.

Then again, you would be out of adrenaline after using the burst. You still need the adrenaline for follow up bursts.

Sure, you can use BR with CI, but on a hammer build, I would never use BR without CI.

“You still need the adrenaline for follow up bursts.”
Thats where you are wrong – the following burst is of GS not eviscerate or combustive shot. We still not sure how the new burst is gonna be but it’s close range for under <50% hp foes, thats not gonna happen too many times.
Much more likley that you will whirldwind after the hammer combo because your foe is not gonna just stay there.

Eiland.1405:

“You still need the adrenaline for follow up bursts.”
Thats where you are wrong – the following burst is of GS not eviscerate or combustive shot. We still not sure how the new burst is gonna be but it’s close range for under <50% hp foes, thats not gonna happen too many times.
Much more likley that you will whirldwind after the hammer combo because your foe is not gonna just stay there.

It is because of the new changes that Burst Mastery will be mandatory on this spec. Hammerchain gets your target below 50% almost always, then you can swap, still have at least a bar, and use the finishing GS move that has the same power at all stages of adrenaline (it will only provide more or less fury depending on adrenaline level).

Aside from that, the synergy between using Hammer to lock a target down, then swapping to GS for the burst skill will be incredible. Not only will you do formidable damage and give yourself fury, but you will also have a secure way of landing Cleansing Ire.

Which brings me back to my earlier statements.

I feel like we are going in circles…

There is a reason you don’t see hammer+gs currently in PVP – it has no guaranteed condi clear.
The reason it will (might) become viable is ’Brawler’s reovery’ , a great condi clear which is not depended on landing burst skills.
If you are taking burst mastry (which is the skill you realy need for 2 following bursts not CI) then you are not taking BR – so you are not viable again.