Guild Wars 2

So, I’ve just sorta embraced the state that Warrior is in and have started to go back to just making silly gimmick builds like I used to. This build is all about putting out absurd amount of burn. Almost everything you do in this build will manage to catch something on fire. Is it good? This is a Warrior build what do you think?

I Present the Acolyte of Balthazar

While not having Discipline will be a big adjustment for some, this is counterbalanced by the fast that you will not be short on burns no matter what set you are on. Let me start by saying that it is possible to run something like this and probably be more ‘viable’, but I feel that this compromises the gimmick we’re going for.

Sundering Leap will allow you to produce another fire field while on LB. There’s a funny potential combo out of it as well. Lay down a Scorched Earth then immediately use Sundering leap on your target. This will immobilize them long enough for you to use Pin Down and then Fan of Fire. With all the +duration you got going you can get a good number of burn stacks just by autoing in LB.

Using Blood Reckoning will allow you to actually take advantage of the last part of your runes. If you use it when your target has a ton of burns the healing you get from it can be decent. It’s basically a burst down build though and not having Healing Signet IS going to hit your sustain hard.

This build is basically the old Burn Guard on Elixirs. Pray your burns kill reapers before they transfer them. No, this is not a good build, but when it works the results can be pretty hilarious. I’ve seen 6k a tic JUSt from burning and this build has a decent amount of bleed as well. Much of this is AoE as well which is something the aforementioned Burn Guard lacked. Have fun burning the world down in righteous anger!

EDIT: I’m a bit sad the Balthazar weapons are so expensive now cause I think this gimmick is fun enough to go full hog into owning the whole look.

I run a very simular build. here is what i have found.

Defense

• This is a must have.
• Replace last stand with cleansing Ire, Your longbow Primal Burst skill is great for cleansing.

Tactics

• Drop it. It literally does nothing for you, because berserk gives you access to fire shield, and crack shot is a projectile finisher which actually procs quite often when firing through scorched earth. Leg Specialist is useless.

Arms

• Take It. and this is why
• Berserker’s Fury=Adrenaline +Fury
• Deep Strikes= condition damage through fury
• Furious= condition damage through crits, which you will have alot of due to fury.
• Arms also increases your bleeds.

Berserk

• There’s nothing wrong with taking last blaze over Smash brawler. Personally i run Smash Brawler to have more access to my Primal Burst skills
• Take Dead or Alive over Heat the Soul. Trust me it will save you. Your torch is not as important of as weapon as you think and most of your burning will actually come from your Sword Primal Burst skill.
• Keep King of Fires

Skills

• Drop Blood Reckoning, you don’t do enough direct damage to make it effective
• Take Signet of Healing. Another option is Taking Mending
• Signet of fury: A much better replacement to Head butt for this build. it does not require a hit and does not slow you down.
• Take Signet of rage. Fury=condition damage, might =condition damage, swiftness = mobility.
• If you take Last Blaze take outrage. It will proc your extra burning between using your primal burst skills. it is also a stun break and can be used every 10 seconds.
• If you take Smash Brawler take Dolyak Signet.
• Keep endure pain, but if you go Last blaze you can go for Shattering blow. This will give you two short cooldowns that proc burning. try it out both ways to see which you likebetter

Equipment

• Lose Vipers: the power does not help you becasue you do not have enough burst potential anyway. the bow attacks too slow, and the sword has crap damage.
• Try out wanderers or rabid.
• If you are a skilled kiter then go for it. if not or if you just want to shut down condi’s go milandru
• Sigil of Smoldering: on both weapons.
• Your second rune can be almost anything on critical hit, or on hit. don’t do on swaps, or on kill.

Here is what i run you’ll notice everything is much more optimized.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAsfTjMdQfH24BehAnIWgCsjEYAIlhU5uALg3W7td3C-TJhAABAcKAC5JAQ0+D6XGAA

Keep in mind the builder is broken. If you croll opver condition duration it will say Burning 53% , but it does not add in the base 37% from Wanderers Amulet so your burn duration should wind up being 90%, running balthazar will make it more than 100% which is sort of a waste. 90% duration is almost exactly the same as 100% were talking a difference of half a second.

A couple things:

1. The idea isn’t to be optimal, the idea is to go as full hog into burns as possible.

2. While CI would be good, that would mean having no Stability or giving up Sundering Leap, which has synergy with several other traits.

3. There are several reasons for Tactics. Leg Specialist is just a great Traits and helps you to land the combos that this build is so reliant on to work. Burning Arrows is fairly obvious, more burns. Same thing for Powerful Synergy, it lets you constantly have a Flame Aura.

4. I see no reason to take Signet of Fury when Berserker gives you Head Butt. If you are going into arms sure that’s great but Head Butt gives me another burn and full adrenaline. It takes more skill to land but that’s half the fun.

The point of a gimmick isn’t to be optimal, it’s to be good at one thing and it gives you the possibility of a easy win but falls apart if you mess up.

BurrTheKing.8571:

A couple things:

1. The idea isn’t to be optimal, the idea is to go as full hog into burns as possible.

2. While CI would be good, that would mean having no Stability or giving up Sundering Leap, which has synergy with several other traits.

3. There are several reasons for Tactics. Leg Specialist is just a great Traits and helps you to land the combos that this build is so reliant on to work. Burning Arrows is fairly obvious, more burns. Same thing for Powerful Synergy, it lets you constantly have a Flame Aura.

4. I see no reason to take Signet of Fury when Berserker gives you Head Butt. If you are going into arms sure that’s great but Head Butt gives me another burn and full adrenaline. It takes more skill to land but that’s half the fun.

The point of a gimmick isn’t to be optimal, it’s to be good at one thing and it gives you the possibility of a easy win but falls apart if you mess up.

Every time you use a rage, torch or primal burst skill or when you enter berserk your fire aura will explode and waste the extra duration, because warrior synergy.

burning arrow is useless, since it doesnt reduce burst skill, so you only have auto for extra burn…and a better 2 up time..that’s it…
and powerful synergy is the most useless trait in game..you don’t need double duration aura…you will be shattering them all the time..

I mentioned this before, but Headbutt is NOT a bad choice for your elite. I like Signet of Rage, for the fury and might and swiftness, but I cannot denigh that the CC+Adrenaline combo from Headbutt is amazing. I use headbutt quite often, and when I do i swap into rousing resilience, take outrage, endure pain, and balanced stance. this gives me an actual heal combo.