Guild Wars 2

My main is a thief. I deleted all my characters to focus on the thief, but right now it’s so broken. I feel like it’s time to accept defeat and reroll warrior.

Thief is might get rifle and is kittened me off for HoT, and Warrior seems the most promising so far.

I haven’t played warrior in about a year now, and I only have on question.

Is GS/ Ham still a thing? WvW and PvP wise?

Thank you

and by GS/Hammer I mean TapDatMouse style naaameaaan

Gs/ham can still work well in Wvw roaming and havoc, but the mobility is less than it was pre-patch and you don’t have a lot of defense against ranged pressure (which is a bigger worry now). On the plus side, the dps on the gs is much higher now, especially when combines with quickness.

You’re on Blackgate though, and I have no idea how much roaming and small group stuff is done there. If it’s all zerg all the time, you’re probably looking at h/s+wh. In T2 and below, I know a number of organized havocs have been dropping warrior out of their comps in favour of mesmers, thieves, and eles, mostly, sometimes guardians.

As I understand it, h/gs has been the main warrior build that’s had any traction in pvp, but some have said it was carried pretty hard by Rampage. If true, due note that the. Rampage CD was increased and the duration was decreased yesterday.

You’ll probably appreciate that warrior can still hit hard without the fragility of a thief. But you may also be frustrated by the relatively fewer opportunities warriors have to make someone eat that damage and to shake aggro when you’re focused, when compared to your thief.

Whether warrior will work for you really depends on your playstyle.

you might want to make a left turn because warrior is not on the right side neither lol
the movement update really took a toe of gs but to answer your question, yes gs/hm is still pretty solid.
str, arms, disc, full zerker weps, armor, trinkets. str or hoelbrak runes.
whatever food and sigils you want. simple as that.

Thanks guys for giving me a lot to think about.
I guess just like me, you are waiting on your elite specialization to make your decision.

@Dark I was thinking of rolling maybe, str / defense/ disc with errthang zerk.

relying on my toughness and health regen to save the day.

Keep in mind the base armor difference between warriors and thieves is only about 150. That’s not nearly as valuable as a single attack mitigated with a blind

Good luck!

GS + Rifle > GS + Hammer.

I don’t need the new spec to sway me. I’ve played war since GW2 dropped, and will continue to go heavy metal until the end. Though the mobility thing is real, I play my war in pve and pvp, and go d/d ele in wvw.