Guild Wars 2

There are generally two “best” warrior builds for this if you want a five minute run.

For both:
-Get +10% dmg vs flame legion pot
-Skale Venom (vulnerability per crit). Run across Bloodfin Lake’s bridge and look to the right where there should be a fire camp. Start event, takes about 10-15 minutes. Skale Fin = 16 copper each.
-For Great Justice. Use for 3 Might to everyone. Combos with mesmer’s signet of inspiration which bounces back every might you give to the mesmer.
-Battle Standard/Warbanner. Everyone gets this. The might stacks from battle standard. This way, everyone is hitting 25 might stack.

Build 1: Pure dmg.

Utilities: Healing signet, power signet, precision signet, For Great Justice, Battle Standard

30/25/0/0/15

Get GS with sigil +10% vs flame legion
Dual axe with sigil +10% vs flame legion and superior air sigil

First trait tree:
+dmg% for adrenaline
+10% dmg for GS
+10% for axe

2nd trait tree:
+40 precision per signet
+vulnerability 66% per crit

Last tree:
+crit chance for adrenaline

How to play:
Use Hundred Blade -> Swap to Axe and spam 1 -> Swap back to GS asap and HB again. Repeat.

Build 2: Support DPS

Healing = Optional, Banner of Strength, Banner of Discipline, For Great Justice,

20/30/0/10/10

First trait tree:
+dmg% for adrenaline
+10%dmg GS

2nd trait tree:
+might per crit with GS
optional

4th trait tree:
empower ally: +70 power to each ally including yourself in combat

Last tree:
+crit chance for adrenaline

How to play: drop banners and spam HB.

Forgot to add gear.

Obviously Berserker Gear.

Runes: Ruby Orb

Don’t get the +20% crit dmg rune set. It’s the least damaging of all the offensive runes. Yes, we’ve actually mathematically calculated them all. Highest is actually scholar runes, but ruby orb is cheaper and reliable.

I’ll upload a video when I get the c hance.

What is it that makes farming CoF so appealing? Don’t you only get 20 tokens per run after the first 60 a day?

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

What is it that makes farming CoF so appealing? Don’t you only get 20 tokens per run after the first 60 a day?

about 60s per run every 7 minutes including the time interval where you exit and enter and that’s not including the money you get from completion.

You can earn easily 6-7g an hour with CoF if done right. There are better methods to make money, bit this must be in the top 5.

Here’s an update on my cof team.

We do slave driver in about 7 seconds and the last boss in about 25 seconds.

Phira.3970:

+10% for axe

Why this (Axe Mastery) over Dual Wielding for 5% base damage increase? If your crit damage bonus is around or above 50% (for a total critical damage of 200%+), Dual Wielding should have a higher damage output. If we’re talking about Glass Cannon Berserker’s Warrior for CoF runs, I imagine crit damage bonus is up near 95%, Dual Wielding should easily outperform Axe Mastery.

Yeah that was my bad. The above info. that I posted is not up to date and isn’t our current set up anymore.

We used to think a Warrior swapping from Greatsword -> Dual axe was best dps, but we figured that there are better ways to do damage other than just having warriors. The only use we see in warrior is for support DPS – Banner of Strength/Discipline, Battle Standard, and Empower Ally.

This set up for that support build would use 25/25/0/10/10 and a Great Sword.

Our current set up is

1x Support DPS Warrior
1x Support DPS Guardian
1x Support DPS Ranger
1x Support DPS Elementalist
1x Support DPS Mesmer

So were all just buffing each other up which we figured is better than a support DPS warrior and a bunch of 100% DPS Warriors.

or u could have 5 wars: 5 warbanners = 25 might, use dual axes, frenzy, and last chance. You wouldn’t need FGJ. Get BOTH axe mastery and dual wield trait, so it’s gonna be 30/30/0/0/10.

Everyone has frenzy, 2 wars get banners of str/disc, 2 wars get OMM, the rest of the utilities fill up with signet of power (and fury if you can).

Sigil of force on off-hand, sigil of rage on main-hand. Try to activate sigil, frenzy after quickness runs out, and another quickness when boss is 25% hp.

Really just need to hit 12 or 13 might. The mesmer uses Signet of Inspiration which doubles that and everyone hits 25 might.

i edited my post above.

Probably would work. We can kill slave driver within 6 seconds. I have no doubt Frenzy from 5 warriors would at least bring down slave drivers hp to 25% for another frenzy.

Hi there, will it be fine to have zerker armors in rare instead of exotic? I don’t really have the funding for full exotic armor. Thanks for the guide anyway, it was helpful.

Could work but youd be slowing your team down.

Doesn’t cost much for exotic set compared to Legendary Weapons. I’ve seen people aiming for Twilight before getting exotic..

Twilight costs 1000g while getting an exotic set (get berserker armor set from CoF tokens) won’t cost even over 30g.

Is 25/25/0/10/10 still generally accepted as the go to build for this? I’ve been running speeds on my mes and thief lately and just got my war to 80 this weekend but wanted to double check builds before hopping in.

Edit: looks like https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Optimum-Trait-Distribution-for-Glass-Cannons/first has the most recent posts/info on the topic so I’m assuming that is the best resource on the topic. Also, a sincere thnx to Phira for putting in the work on this topic.

This is my oldest guide I wrote on a whim while at college. And everything is not up-to-date. I now know a lot more tricks to doing CoF faster including how to skip NPC conversation by teleporting over gates and how to kill effigy in 10 seconds (TW duration). I plan to write a better up-to-date guide if this isn’t nerfed tomorrow.

And 25/25/0/10/10 is viable because you can offer your team Empowered Ally (+70 power to teammates).