Guild Wars 2

As a warrior, I want to fulfill the following role:

1. Be able to tank a bit in group fights (either via vit/toughness or by CC)

2. Moderate damage – I don’t expect huge burst, but just enough damage to be dangerous if someone gets too careless around me.

3. Useful in a group fight, but not entirely support based. Right now, I feel the shoutbow is a bit too support oriented for me. Sure, my teammates greatly benefit from my shouts, condi clears, and might, but my usefulness goes down dramatically if I’m alone. And since I solo all the time, I can’t guarantee that my teammates will be around to back me up.

Bottom line: I don’t want to be selfish, but I don’t want a build that is heavily geared towards helping team mates.

I was thinking about the hammer with its AoE CC and weakness. But I was wondering if it fits my other parameters, namely moderate damage and decent tankiness. I’ve never played a hammer warrior, so here’s asking the experienced community for their thoughts…

Finally if there is any other build/class that fits my description above, I’d appreciate any opinions.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Warrior_-_Hambow

huntroll.1489:

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Warrior_-_Hambow

I’ve played against traditional hambows a lot in the past as a mesmer and engineer. The thing is that I’ve never really felt very threatened by them. I was wondering if the standard hambow build has even “moderate damage” to be dangerous.

Or maybe I haven’t really met good hambows who can put out damage?

Well try it, it’s not a build that requires too much practice to get the hang of. :P Btw I found Celestial amulet better than Soldiers, you could use like Geomancy/Doom on LB for some extra conditions.

But honestly I wouldn’t really try to play a dedicated point defender if I were you, being mobile and constantly rotating between points/fights is a lot more efficient than bunkering and dying to DPS pressure from 2-3 people anyhow.

huntroll.1489:

Well try it, it’s not a build that requires too much practice to get the hang of. :P Btw I found Celestial amulet better than Soldiers, you could use like Geomancy/Doom on LB for some extra conditions.

But honestly I wouldn’t really try to play a dedicated point defender if I were you, being mobile and constantly rotating between points/fights is a lot more efficient than bunkering and dying to DPS pressure from 2-3 people anyhow.

Yeah, I don’t just want to bunker – but I want to know that I can be a pain to get rid of and hold out for a little while till (if) help arrives, and to contribute to a team fight. But I also want to be able to go to other points and help there too.