Guild Wars 2

Hey Warrior forum, what do you think is better?

First build is 25/25/0/10/10
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/warrior/?8.0|7.1g.h2.c.1g.h1|4.1g.h1|1n.a7.1n.a7.1n.a7.1g.a7.1n.a7.1n.a7|2s.d13.2s.d13.3s.d19.3s.d19.2s.d13.2s.d13|p58.p56.0.a6.a5|54.7|0.0.0.0.0|e

Second build is 30/25/0/0/15
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/warrior/?8.0|7.1g.h2.c.1g.h1|4.1g.h1|1n.a7.1n.a7.1n.a7.1g.a7.1n.a7.1n.a7|2s.d13.2s.d13.3s.d19.3s.d19.2s.d13.2s.d13|u58a.p56.0.0.f5|54.7|0.0.0.0.0|e

3% damage increase gives about 325 effective power at these power levels.
This is estimated data (utilizing the build formula).
2% would give about 210 power.

Each boon provides 2% damage (roughly 210 power increasing as overall power increases).
The difference in effective power of these builds, not including the dam from boons, is about 500. You would need 2 fully maintained boons and 1 that you can maintain 50 of the time for these builds to equalize. Any more than 3 makes the first more favorable.

Fury and Might can be permanently maintained.
Swiftness more than 50% of the time (10% boon duration, remember).
10% boon duration also makes all boons last longer which allows greater stacks of might, albeit little.

What do you guys think?
I think build 1 is better.

Hi CookMETender, nice discussion with Phira on these 2 builds. IMO, I would go for 30/25/0/0/15 simply due to 1 reason.

I can use Axe Mastery and Slashing Power which benefit both Axe and GS. Of course Phira’s calculation point out differently which it would take build 1 to have 5 boons to even out the damage compared to build 2. For me, I would say both you and Phira to each of his own.

That amount of damage will not offset the benefit of having 10% GS damage and 10% Axe Crit damage. That’s the only reason.

Thank you to both you and Phira for these calculations. It made me see warrior build in a different light cheers.

ChaosDoom.8459:

Hi CookMETender, nice discussion with Phira on these 2 builds. IMO, I would go for 30/25/0/0/15 simply due to 1 reason.

I can use Axe Mastery and Slashing Power which benefit both Axe and GS. Of course Phira’s calculation point out differently which it would take build 1 to have 5 boons to even out the damage compared to build 2. For me, I would say both you and Phira to each of his own.

That amount of damage will not offset the benefit of having 10% GS damage and 10% Axe Crit damage. That’s the only reason.

Thank you to both you and Phira for these calculations. It made me see warrior build in a different light cheers.

Thank you for the comment
and I’m thankful for the discussion with Phira too.
Really helped me understand each build much better hehe

If you choose to go with #1, I’d take 5 points from Arms and put them into discipline. I’ll do this entirely because I’d loathe being stuck with a rifle for 10 seconds. Fast hands is probably one of the most flexible traits warriors can get, not to mention how perfectly it fits thematically

and yes; I would trade 50 power, and 3% damage whenever endurance is not full for it (and 5% critdmg.)

Fourtyfives.6297:

If you choose to go with #1, I’d take 5 points from Arms and put them into discipline. I’ll do this entirely because I’d loathe being stuck with a rifle for 10 seconds. Fast hands is probably one of the most flexible traits warriors can get, not to mention how perfectly it fits thematically

and yes; I would trade 50 power, and 3% damage whenever endurance is not full for it (and 5% critdmg.)

That’s true when you use Rifle/GS. I believe the above 2 builds are sort of meta build for GC warrior.

We can modify slightly eg. 5 off here and there to fit to our weapon choice. GS/Axe/X would not benefit too much from 5 sec weapon swap because 100B have not cooldown yet.

In my opinion, 20 in Discipline is a must for any Axe build. Sharpened Axes is just sooo much fun because it lets you spam Eviscerate to your heart’s content without gimping yourself.

I honestly don’t find Eviscerate useful in FoTM
I hate being down on crit and %dam for that long as well…
and I have to sacrifice other traits to get that.

You do gain some sweet Crit Damage from the Trait line though.

Oglaf.1074:

You do gain some sweet Crit Damage from the Trait line though.

Yea, that’s true T__T

I can’t go 10 into discpline without feeling kitten that 5 more points gives fast hands =\
Been so used to switching weapons constantly that it feels wrong if the cooldown is more than 5 seconds T.T