Guild Wars 2

So I’ve gotten my warrior to level 80 and began to dungeon a bit with him. These are all dungeons that I have done before so I more or less know most encounters. In the past I’ve played through them on my mesmer and guardian and both do fine, but when I play on my warrior I find myself hitting the dirt more often than I’d like, mostly due to the boss focusing me. Almost in every run I’m in that situation where I’m at around 10% hp, my heal on its long cooldown, and me having to back out of melee range but still somehow getting hit and downed. There’s even been one time where I did a dungeon with 3 guardians and still somehow managed to get downed. So my question is, is there any trick to staying alive? How do I deal with conditions? (These are a pain for me most of the time because I’m always in PUGs so I can’t always rely on my party to remove my conditions whenever I want)

For my build I’m doing a mostly DPS focused build, with almost all pieces berserker save for helm, leggings and chest which are knights (I figured this was a good way to go for getting some survivability without taking too much toughness to draw aggro). I use greatsword + axe/mace with a longbow if i need range, but due to my personal preference I like to stay in melee range when fighting a boss (I do this for mesmer and guardian too, which I don’t die on as often since I have invulns/AH). For skills I use healing surge, FGJ, shake it off, a banner, and signet of rage as my elite.

Let me know how I can improve and what I can do better to stay alive. I’d like to keep my build if possible. Thanks in advance

Use a shield.

In the situation you described, use Shield Stance.

Or use a warhorn.

In the situation you described, having Call to Arms or Charge can remove some movement imparing conditions and give you vigor for more dodging.

Overall, if you can’t get by with offensive tactics (it usually takes the entire group doing the same), then use defensive ones. Save Whirlwind for an extra dodge instead of another attack, for example.

Thank you for your advice!

I’ll try doing as you suggested and use a shield as well as use whirlwind as an evade.

As for conditions the movement impairing ones aren’t really an issue but rather the damaging ones are. Sometimes they tick for too long with my condition removal on cooldown and that usually becomes a problem. I’ve tried using sigil of purity on my longbow but I’m not always going to be using it and again I can’t always rely on party members since I don’t run in an organized group.

Yeah, movement impairing conditions i like too, makes whirlwind hit the enemy with every strike. If you’re finding conditions a pain on a particular encounter maybe switch your banner for signet of stamina or your heal to mending. I’d go signet personally for the passive 2.5s quicker recharge for 1 dodge.

MofoJojo.1293:

So I’ve gotten my warrior to level 80 and began to dungeon a bit with him. These are all dungeons that I have done before so I more or less know most encounters. In the past I’ve played through them on my mesmer and guardian and both do fine, but when I play on my warrior I find myself hitting the dirt more often than I’d like, mostly due to the boss focusing me. Almost in every run I’m in that situation where I’m at around 10% hp, my heal on its long cooldown, and me having to back out of melee range but still somehow getting hit and downed. There’s even been one time where I did a dungeon with 3 guardians and still somehow managed to get downed. So my question is, is there any trick to staying alive? How do I deal with conditions? (These are a pain for me most of the time because I’m always in PUGs so I can’t always rely on my party to remove my conditions whenever I want)

For my build I’m doing a mostly DPS focused build, with almost all pieces berserker save for helm, leggings and chest which are knights (I figured this was a good way to go for getting some survivability without taking too much toughness to draw aggro). I use greatsword + axe/mace with a longbow if i need range, but due to my personal preference I like to stay in melee range when fighting a boss (I do this for mesmer and guardian too, which I don’t die on as often since I have invulns/AH). For skills I use healing surge, FGJ, shake it off, a banner, and signet of rage as my elite.

Let me know how I can improve and what I can do better to stay alive. I’d like to keep my build if possible. Thanks in advance

(My response any warrior post about dying too much.) “LOL”

sinzer.4018:

Yeah, movement impairing conditions i like too, makes whirlwind hit the enemy with every strike. If you’re finding conditions a pain on a particular encounter maybe switch your banner for signet of stamina or your heal to mending. I’d go signet personally for the passive 2.5s quicker recharge for 1 dodge.

I’ve never really used signets that much other than the elite so I’ll give signet of stamina a shot. Thanks!