Guild Wars 2

Hey,

So i recently got my warrior up to 80 and decided to go for a hammer zerking build for WVW, as the new changes are coming out soon, is it best to hold out before spending too much gold, and buying loads of gear?

The 2 builds i’m trying to decide upon are http://intothemists.com/guides/991-wvw_shout_heal_frontliner or http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-s;4NKkN0_4NLVQ0;9;6JJT;419-05-27An-k0U;1CqNYCqNYn-kc0-g290;1jVp0t1yY3_9a-30C-2i;9;9;9;9;9;9;14-6i.

haven’t spent too much gold so far just bought some jewelery, and have bought 3 ascalonian pieces of armor, but just wondering if it would be best to hold out for now before fully gearing or should the changes not really effect the 2 builds listed?

also out of the 2 builds listed which one seems to be better?

Many thanks.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/external?l=http%3A%2F%2Fgw2skills.net%2Feditor%2F%3FvIEQJARSjMd04ZhHWhwJaAB9QDrCuQ9wO2w4IVQMA-zUBBYfBKHtIasVRFRjVXDT5iIqOAACATMJOxJWKA9EGB-w

It depends on how experienced you are in WvW; if you are in an experienced WvW group/guild or If you are part of the ‘EB zerg’ mostly, or lastly smaller groups (5-15).

1. As a starting out warrior in WvW, I always suggest Soldier Armour, Zerker Jewels.
Take this to begin with as it’s pretty nicely balanced, keep adding more Zerker/Knight/Cavalier Armour pieces until you find your breaking point (where you can no longer survive the fights ), and then go back one armour piece.

If this is you then, the most noob friendly build is the first one with Shouts that heal for that reason.

2. For a more experienced WvWer (if this is an alt) or if you are part of an organised WvW group/guild. You can go into Knights/Caviler Armour and again Zerker jewels. (this will change to Soldier armour if you are fighting other blobs/zergs rather than other guild groups of similar size).

I would then take the 2nd build, (Burst mastery) – With a group that knows how to water blast, shout healing isn’t necessary and any increase in DPS would be better. (too much survivability is a bad thing – you still need to kill quickly)

As a side note, I can see warriors dropping shout healing in the future meta pretty soon anyway, especially after the 15th patch – its already becoming, no longer a thing, in GvGs recently anyway, soon it will filter down to general builds in place of other more useful builds.

so would it be best to wait till the 15th before buying all the gear, and gearing up my warrior? or should buying the gear now be alright?

The gear is pretty much the same across all builds, build tanky with damage jewelry. Gear isn’t going to change much post new patch. If you want to be really cheap run dungeons for that gear and make some money in the process. AC, HotW both give Soldiers gear. SE and Arah for knights. Gonna need to check whoever for Cavaliers. Laurals/fractals/guild comms for your trinkets, Get full zerker cause it’ll cross over the best.