Guild Wars 2

I have recently rolled a Warrior and was wondering what traits/weapons/skills is best to use in order to level fast?
Most builds I see is of a lvl 80 warrior. Is there a good guide for 1-80?

While leveling you can pretty much use any weapon you want. Once you start unlocking skills get all the signets you can and put your first trait points into precision and get the 10 point talent that gives you precision for each equipped signet you have. Also use the healing signet skill, it’s passive regeneration is quite good while leveling.

After that it’s really up to you, depending on what kind of weapon you like you can put points into getting more power, health or armor as you see fit.

Unless you get swamped by more than 3 or 4 enemies at a time you shouldn’t have any troubles critting your way to victory.

Sounds good, will try it out, thanks

I rolled a warrior on Friday night (Jan. 18th), and did the intro and a couple hearts in Queensdale and got to level 5. Didn’t actually plan on leveling another alt, just killing time.

On Saturday, my wife decided to actually work on her mesmer and do some zone completions, so I joined for a few. And just kept going.

Traits – early order as I spent them.
5 defense
5 strength
5 tactics
+5 defense
5 discipline
5 arms
+5 strength
after that I started playing around
currently at 20 str, 20 def, 10 disc, 4 tact

Weapons – axe warhorn / rifle
the run speed boost is nice and removes cripple, etc
axe hits like a truck
rifle for ranged
currently I am axe shield / rifle (just switched to shield at lvl 61)

Leveling
Finished Queensdale than did the map completions for every town including Lion’s Arch
Did every 1-15 zone
decided to craft on this toon (armorsmith/weaponsmith) both to 100
Moved to every 15-25 zone
more crafting – both to 200
Gandarran Fields
crafting – both to 250
WvW exploration – all of Red Map, 75% of green, 50% of Eternal (no blue cause we go blue next week)
Hirathi Hinterlands
Personal Story to the lvl 11 quest
crafting – armorsmith to 300 weaponsmith to 275
just started Fields of Ruin; next will be Lornar’s Pass

The above took me 4 days and got me to level 64.

Good thing was making armor and weapons I could use while I leveled.
Now wearing Knights gear with soldiers on them. With the exception of a few mobs, health rarely goes down much.

Side skills
Healing Signet – the regen is nice
Signet of Might
Shake it Off – knock off a condition helps with regen, usually only use it if bleed gets high or vulnerability
Dolyak Signet – stability if needed

Elite
Signet of Rage – most of the time
Rampage – I like the stability, but take a lot more damage in this form than normal

Axe hits multiple targets, so hitting 3-5 guys at once helps. Knockdown is really the only thing we have to worry about.

Can’t remember which traits I took, I’m at work, but I took one that basically is a free stability when something tries to knock you down or CC you – it helps some.

If you have some gold, do crafting to get you a few levels. There are guides out there to quickly and cheaply get you 400 crafting. I maxed both artificer and cooking for maybe around 5g. Of course its bets to do this for 60+ as completing the 2 will make you level 80.

Up until level 40-60 the signet build is pretty solid but it falls apart after that. Honestly I did most of my leveling as a full glass cannon warrior with a great sword (power/precision/crit damage traits), I would recommend doing that if you can, otherwise try power/precision/vit or toughness with a great sword. Either way for getting things done fast great sword is easily the best open world PvE weapon.