Guild Wars 2

Hi!

I was hoping to get some advice on my new WvW build and any tweaks that you would recommend.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/warrior/?8.0|7.1c.h4.g.1n.h17.0.0.0|2.1n.h17.0.0.0|1n.79.1n.79.1n.79.1n.79.1n.79.1n.79|2v.d13.2s.d13.31j.d17.21j.d13.1n.0.2s.d13|k3a.0.u289.k29.0|15.1|5x.69.6c.6g.6m|e

Goals and thought process:

I am a rank 92 warrior so I have decent experience in WvW. I mainly ran a shout heal support build, that was until I leveled up my guardian and realized how much better they were in the support category. I still loved my warrior but felt he needed a change. It was at this time I got really lucky and an axe precursor dropped for me. I now have my legendary and want some sort of axe build for WvW. My warrior is my front line zerger, not a roamer, not a solo character, a full fledged in your face zerger.

The must have and the why:

As I mentioned before, because I have the axe legendary I need that to be in at least one of my sets. Other then that I can basically change anything about this build. (Except backpiece too much effort to get ascended again.) I would really like your advice on the traits! I have considered dropping 20 from defense and placing them in discipline for more burst damage and the sharping Axe trait.

My condition removal relays on the war-horn , cleansing Ire, my runes, and lemongrass. My raw damage seems to be pretty decent but crit damage is low. I usually have fury on during battle so I crit. a lot. The toughness from Knights allows to survive up front. Hammer is there to disable and my main goal is to land the final axe hit on 3 people. The more I look at the build the more I think I can get away from using Last Stand since Doylak’s Signet provides another source of stability if I need it. FGJ seems a little weird in there without any shout traits but I relay on the fury.

So let me know what you think and if you have any advice

Thanks!

You’re right, your crit damage is too low to get the full axe potential, while your toughness is way too high.

I’d switch some knight gear to berserker instead of dropping 20pts from defence tree if I were you, the traits are way too good for front line zerging.

I’d also recommand taking berserker stance instead of balanced stance, it gives you another condi bypass + builds adrenaline for your F1, pretty cool IMO.

PS : leg specialist (tactic I) is fun to use with hammer 3 ^^ but empower is cool too.

This is what I run in WvW whenever I run axe. For me personally, Eviscerate is one of the biggest appeals of using Axe MH, so I build around Eviscerate. Then again I spend most of my time roaming.

As for the build that you posted, here’s a few comments:

• I don’t really get why you would go 30 into Defense for Last Stand. Granted, it blocks the first CC that you would take, which is often the critical one, but it’s a 90 second cooldown for that. With Dolyak Signet and Balanced Stance both being stunbreaks, I don’t see any reason to use Last Stand.
• I think your trinkets are way out of order. If I were you, I would fiddle around with this page to figure out the cheapest way to get to a crit damage% number that you like.
• If I were a zerg runner, I would definitely go Rune of Melandru over Hoelbrak.

But honestly, I am not really sure whether Axe MH is the kind of weapon that you should be running in zergs. It’s a full on damage weapon with cleave and that’s it. There’s no CC and no condition damage.

Thank you for the suggestions. I will be looking at switching out some gear to get more crit. damage. I had not considered taking beserkers stance. I will look into it. I debated taking Melaundru runes over Holbrak but eventually settled on Holbrak because I also PvE with my warrior and like the extra damage. I agree that Axe is not the best zerg weapon but I feel bad not using my legendary in WvW I am hoping for an axe 4 and 5 buff in the next patch that will at least make it a good offhand.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/warrior/?8.0|7.5g.h1.e.1g.h2.0.0.0|3.1n.h1.0.0.0|1n.7r.1g.7r.1g.7r.1g.7r.1g.7r.1g.7r|3s.0.2s.0.3s.0.2s.0.3s.0.2s.0|0.p46.u129.0.f3|15.1|5x.6i.6g.6h.0|e

Thats my beta build, if u want to try it out. If u feel that u want reduced cd on signet of rage, pick up furious speed instead of furious reaction and drop warrior sprint.