Guild Wars 2

I much prefer keeping myself alive as much as possible. That’s why I use shield and went from guardian to warrior because the sword and shield combo sucks.

My original idea was to get as much Healing Power as possible, couple with condition damage and toughness, with defender runes. Plan was to rely on bleeding to make up the slack of whatever I’d use to keep me alive via healing, blocking, stunning, endure pain, dodging, running, whatever.

All the negative feedback for this kind of tactic, which is tanking, is intimidating me. Is there anyone who can vouche it’s worth while, or at least handy?

You call it defense tactics, most people see it as an easy playstyle that allows for too many mistakes and still puts out high damage through conditions. It is completely viable in small-scale WvW, but in PvP/PvE, warrior does other things better. Although s/s longbow condi is quite strong in PvP as well.

If you use it in PvE, then you are just holding your party back by doing way less damage then you could. This game can be finished from start to end with Zerk gear.

Still, play what you like.

It depends where you want to use it, in wvw its pretty viable.

Personally i run full ascended sentinel in wvw, with ascended soldier trinkets, cant be bothered to grind dungeons or LS for ascended sentinel or ventari trinkets.
I recently made ascended ventari weapons and armor, so toughness as main stat instead of vitality and hp instead of power. I prefer sentinel overall because i use defiant stance instead of healing signet, so healing power only goes into adrenal health heals.

I also run wh instead of shield for condi cleanse and soft cc counter.

I prefer a bigger health pool compared to max toughness, due to condi meta in wvw.

Wanze.8410:

It depends where you want to use it, in wvw its pretty viable.

Personally i run full ascended sentinel in wvw, with ascended soldier trinkets, cant be bothered to grind dungeons or LS for ascended sentinel or ventari trinkets.
I recently made ascended ventari weapons and armor, so toughness as main stat instead of vitality and hp instead of power. I prefer sentinel overall because i use defiant stance instead of healing signet, so healing power only goes into adrenal health heals.

I also run wh instead of shield for condi cleanse and soft cc counter.

I prefer a bigger health pool compared to max toughness, due to condi meta in wvw.

I keep forgetting about that, even though one of the main areas in PvE that’s giving me trouble are the ones that spam poison everywhere. Not too many viable anti-cond options for a warrior that I know of.

OwikGall.1607:

Not too many viable anti-cond options for a warrior that I know of.

Shoutbow and Shouts Frontliner are saying hi. Those are two of the best anti-condition build in the game and both are Warrior build.

Thaddeus.4891:

OwikGall.1607:

Not too many viable anti-cond options for a warrior that I know of.

Shoutbow and Shouts Frontliner are saying hi. Those are two of the best anti-condition build in the game and both are Warrior build.

Well then, I should get acquainted with them.

OwikGall.1607:

Thaddeus.4891:

OwikGall.1607:

Not too many viable anti-cond options for a warrior that I know of.

Shoutbow and Shouts Frontliner are saying hi. Those are two of the best anti-condition build in the game and both are Warrior build.

Well then, I should get acquainted with them.

Sword/Warhorn with traited warhorn is quite awesome as well.

+ You can get the runes that remove a condi on shouts.

Pandeh.5248:

OwikGall.1607:

Thaddeus.4891:

OwikGall.1607:

Not too many viable anti-cond options for a warrior that I know of.

Shoutbow and Shouts Frontliner are saying hi. Those are two of the best anti-condition build in the game and both are Warrior build.

Well then, I should get acquainted with them.

Sword/Warhorn with traited warhorn is quite awesome as well.

+ You can get the runes that remove a condi on shouts.

Tempting. Was planning on rune of the guardian for the burn per block before. Then again, those poison spaming areas are a pain in my neck.

Pandeh.5248:

OwikGall.1607:

Thaddeus.4891:

OwikGall.1607:

Not too many viable anti-cond options for a warrior that I know of.

Shoutbow and Shouts Frontliner are saying hi. Those are two of the best anti-condition build in the game and both are Warrior build.

Well then, I should get acquainted with them.

Sword/Warhorn with traited warhorn is quite awesome as well.

+ You can get the runes that remove a condi on shouts.

Sword/Warhorn with traited warhord = Shoutbow build