Guild Wars 2

Hello all,

Please help me out here. For starters I do not have a lot of gold so changing my specs around has been a bit rough. Right now I have the yojacks build using sword/horn and rifle. I leveled all the way to 80 using gs and am struggling with the change. I have determined that I don’t care for my war in WvW not saying that are bad just not working for me. I rather play my ranger or mesmer in WvW.

So in short I need a spec that will work well for PVE farming and dungeons and fractals. The gs build I had I died much too easily. the yojak build I am running i stay alive a LOT better but I can’t put out much damage and my aoe capability is very limited. also my guild has a lot of rangers and necro’s so we are constantly hitting bleed caps which makes my build not so great in our runs.

I am looking for a recomendation on a build that has a decent level of survivability but that still has decent range and dps. doesn’t need to be fantastic dps just not pathetic :-)

I almost tried the hammer gun spec i found listed as that seems to have decent damage and also some survival to it but it was listed mainly as a pvp build.

http://www.intothemists.com/calc/?build=-ss-70;0VKkN0_47L-60;9;49OJ-E4;026-09;23;0I-k3;2ZF18ZF185Ba
Also since it was pvp there were not any suggestions for armor type to get. I have saved enought CotF tokens to buy 1 exotic weapon for my next try and have 400 armorcraft to work on getting the right armor.. but hoping to make a smart move this time. hammer seemed good for cc , decent damage, and has good range and aoe compared to sword. I am thinking I can make sup soldier runes as I haven’t been able to afford them yet.

Any help or event pointers to threads I may have missed where this is discussed would be GREATLY appreciated.

Anyone? I will even take basics :-( lots of views but no love.

Me and another warrior dungeon buddy have ran this build in general PvE and Fractals with great success. Shouts heal and remove conditions from you and your party with soldier runes and allow you to take some hits. I use GS mainly but i switch to axe/horn for some fights and LB for ranged fights of course(gun would be fine too i just prefer the LB).

Gear: Full Pow/Pre/Crit dmg except for 2 acc’s that are Tough/pow/pre.

http://www.intothemists.com/calc/?build=-sg-o;1NKkN0_4FL-60;9;4JJ-T-48-49;257B;1J-k3;2ZF18ZF185By

Copy and paste the link or it wont work.

For dungeons:

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/75020-my-final-axemace-dps-dungeon-build/

I use this build. But the problem with that build is that it uses consumables.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIEQNAnZTjgOJvtQCPMxBEjiiYIUPsj2QOSKKjBE

This is my food-less build variant.

For PvE farming:

Use GS on enemies that aren’t threatening or has a chain CC. The Hundred blades root will never be a weakness for that. Use Axe/whatever for enemies that are threatening. Axe has a higher sustain dps, and you are more mobile that way.

Thanks all. Appreciate the ideas will check out both of those builds

GS/Longbow
Zerker armor with valk gems

Valk rings/ammy with valk(emerald?) stat gems
Zerker earrings with zerker(ruby) gems

20/30/0/0/20

Nuff said.

Give this a once over:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIEQRBMdxG2IoTzbLkxDOcAA9wqr2yo4niOKoaKA;ToAqdM7I2xCmbH5OrKGVsXYiA

Karaad.7930:

GS/Longbow
Zerker armor with valk gems

Valk rings/ammy with valk(emerald?) stat gems
Zerker earrings with zerker(ruby) gems

20/30/0/0/20

Nuff said.

What are Valk gems? I’m running something like this and am finding my survivability to be lacking.

Yojack build but gear with zerker and axe/warhorn. Less reliant on bleeds with all the overall utility and fun of original with more burst damage for pvp

for pve i use full soldiers armor and jewelry (power/toughness/vitality)

30 in tactics, 20 in defence, 20 in strength running as a shout healer. with the greatsword (yeah i know, no forceful great-sword. sue me) i can stand and tank most mobs for a little bit of time and deal out considerable damage. my rune set is for maxing out my might up time so my for great justice lasts just over 45 seconds.

in dungeons and events i’m easily everyone favorite team member for being able to keep 6 stacks of might on everyone and occasionally 9 for a few seconds.

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mMRc0kc9MMRTaMmRTaM0pGafVRVsVV

Sword/shield and hammer, I love this build! You really want to use omnomberry ghosts/pies with it since it’s focused around critting a lot and healing yourself from those crits. Also use maintenance oil!

The way I play it is pure melee, but you could swap out the hammer with a rifle/longbow (I swap to longbow on mandatory range fights). I usually run with Signet of Rage, but use the Battle Standard on dungeon bosses. I also change the defensive traits depending on what I might need, which you can do with a number of traits in this spec, really.

I use knight’s armour (with soldier runes), soldier’s weapons, berserker jewelry and a cavalier’s quiver. Bloodlust sigil on hammer, blood sigil on sword and accuracy sigil on shield. I see some good numbers with this build and I don’t die often, but when I do it’s usually my fault anyway

As a Warrior you have many options how to play your toon. Thats why I like my Warrior because of the versatility.

I leveles with GS signetbuilt untill lvl 20 but got borred

I tried a Ranged built around 50 with rifle and Bow focussing only on ranged skills for Instances. Worked well in groups, worked not so well while soloquesting

I leveled with Sword/Axe till 80 and loved the quick gameplay and movement. At 80 I played a conditionbuilt with lot of precision to trigger bleeds and earth sigil.

Then I tried Dual axe critbuilt with the reduced Cooldown trait in disc which recharged my endurance and game me some survivability. Workt quite well and i do tons of damage.

Right now I save my gold for the runes for my next project: A PvE Crit hammerbuilt with high fury uptime du to crippling wave. I tested it in the mists and it seems like fun. If everything works as I planned I will have 55% base critchance and 75% with fury which should have a quit high uptime. Has some nice defensive too.

If you love the GS (I hate it) there are some GS Shoutheal builts out there.

Wanna roll a Supporter with OK Damage get Axe/Horn and buff your party to the max.