Guild Wars 2

I have been a PvEr until the last month when I finally started some WvW.
Played my ranger and guardian for a bit then this weekend dusted off my warrior.
Wow! What a hoot! Lots of fun.

I know it is not “real” WvW, but for the time being I am ranking up in EotM.
It seems the quickest way to get the World points for basic skills I want.

Right now this warrior is using exotic zerker with Scholar runes and a mix of zerker and soldier trinket —> 21k health, 3k armor, 1100 damage.
With those stats, condition cleanse, mobility and an aggressive style, he is resilient and fun in zerg clashes.

Anyway, I have a dilemma.
I am ready to make an inital set of ascended armor for this warrior, but cannot decide what how to outfit this warrior during his time in EotM.
Soldier’s, Zerker, Knight’s or a combination.
Since I am running around with the zerg, health and armor seem less important than power and precision as long I as can draw fire and tag mobs.
That is, until we clash with another zerg. Then I appreciate the health and armor and wonder whether I need more.

Note: over time I will make a complete set of Soldier’s, Zerker and Knight’s that I can mix/match and share between my warrior and guardian.

Maybe it doesn’t matter.
Your thoughts?

For the moment using zerker sword+horn/greatsword for mobility, closing, aoe and attack speed.
Hammer feels slow to me, but open to change that later.
I have a nice variety of ascended trinkets.

Don’t gear for eotm. If you want an ascended armor, craft a berserker one, as it only matters in fractals.

I play EoTM more than anything and I suggest watching this video in youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eHwNGhIozQ

If you want a more advanced and polished build go look at the build I posted in this section a few minutes ago.

;) “fear me” is a good friend

In all honesty, EotM is just a sad experiment to level up 2-80 Lvl OR to get WvW ranks to arrive to 242 which most consider as the “minimum” to get the fundamental WvW utilities.
The battles that I have seen in EotM do not really require specific builds/gear, especially if you come from PvE (i.e. you already have full Berserk gear).
You will notice quickly enough that the PvP component in EotM is very marginal.
If you want a piece of advice and you intend to approach the “real” WvW: look for a build you would like to play in WvW and practice with that one (for warrior is the usual dualism worker/destroyer in zergs + the variety of roaming builds).
In EotM You will not have the battles/skirmishes/duels that you find in regular WvW, but at least you will see how it goes in terms of mobility, dps output and survivability. As I said, not the best training camp, but still…

Thanks, a WvW-light with training wheels is just how I look at EotM.

I have decided to go with a Berserker armor set. Spent the day accumulating materials (a few more days to make the Deldrimor sigh).

Also got my Weaponsmith to 500, so will make some weapons too.
Thanks again.

here some metagame builds:

http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki