Guild Wars 2

Hello, first of all i want to say that i’m french, i post here because the english forum is more active than the french one, sorry if i make some mistakes.
And I want to clear first that I am not a pro-warrior but I would give my feelings on this class hoping the devs become aware. (I mean just PvE because I absolutely not do PvP, I’m do fractal, dungeon, exploration…)

The warrior has plenty of opportunity to weapon, sword, mace, axe, hammer, longbow and others, much diversity possible and yet everyboy play that GS/axe-mace build.
It seems that nothing can be strong except phalanx warrior.

The warrior is my main class, I play since the game’s release (with some breaks) and I must say that I playing with a GS and stack power begins to seriously tired!
So I looked for other builds that have the same effectiveness:

- Double Warrior sword bleeding : I love the principle of stack bleeding max BUT sword/torch Berzeker seems more efficient (as the classic warrior as GS)

- Berzerker sword/torch : A good principle to introduce the burnon the warrior ! But once again the classic GS warrior is always more efficient (nerf of LB…) felt Anet wants us to stay with GS ^^ ’
- Then I tried axe/axe : a different gameplay, just as original as the two mentioned above, but again, less damage, less mobility …
- Hammer and mace : support/tank which is absolutely not needed in the meta.

So if we want to stay strong in PvE right now (I’m not talking about raids I do not have the experience to have an opinion on it) we must stay with a GS and stack power … Nothing else is possible and it is really boring to see all of these GS on legs …
What do you think ? Is Anet going to do something? Do you know an original build competitive in PvE without GS ?

ps : pls be intelligent in your answer, i’m not god i can make mistakes in my judgment, be constructive

I’m mostly a PvEer. For my warrior I use hammer/rifle. Atm I kitting him out for a regen build (which by many people’s accounts suck, but I want to try it).

If you’re looking at pure dps, then yeah GS might be best.

But, that’s not what I look at. With the hammer I get 1 ranged cripple (#3) and 3 different interrupts (#’s 4, 5, and F1). My hammer gives me control on the battlefield. Also, I can keep weakness up almost all the time with #2… mathematically that alone reduces enemy damage by 25% (50% damage 50% of the time = 25% overall damage reduction)… which is awesome defense against spike damage, and makes (I think) a regen build viable.

When it comes to PvE most people can do just fine with a majority of the content no matter their build – that’s why Power/Precision/Ferocity is favored, because it means you get through it faster. So for me the test comes with the champions and otherwise prolonged fights. It doesn’t matter to me if it takes me longer to kill something, so long as I am victorious in the end. With the above berzerker focus, people tend to go down much faster in those prolonged fights than those who are kitted out for survival and control.

I think there’s more to look at than just pure dps for any class.

So when you see me running around, you’re going to see a warrior with a big maul and/or a rifle setting down a banner of tactics… at least for the next little while.

~EW

P.S. some weapons don’t fit a persons’ playstyle. It’s entirely possible that a person will do more dps using another weapon because they’re naturally really good at it and maybe not so good with the GS. So, GS dps might be awesome on paper, but how well the person can use the GS can change the real dps they do by a lot.

I’m okay with you, i like to play s/s, a/a and s/t but no one of them is really effective :/
That’s my problem, and i think it’s not only mine ^^

If someone play an other good build that GS might, let me know !