Guild Wars 2

Hey guys!
Have been playing warrior for about 3 months now, know how it works and stuff. Though I seem to increadible dmg from bosses in frac 10-12 (in only at level 13 now). I got a terrible spec at 30/0/10/0/30 but it have worked untill now. I want to go to frac level 20 but that will be impossible if this getts higher.
Is it only me or dont warriors have any sustain? it´s like heal once, u cant take dmg for 5 sec…. w8 for heal, dead.
Anyone know what I have to change?
(got 5 agony resistance but I dont notice any diffrence)

my warrior ^^

First i recommend working on more agony resist, 15 is pretty easy to get and helps quite a bit.

Second, learn the bosses “tells” for their agony attack and dodge them, it takes practice but is very doable and completely negates the damage from agony.

Third, not sure what gear you are running but if you are glass cannon spec with glass cannon gear and you run with pugs you will die a lot in the higher fractals.

I run full pow/pre/crit dmg gear except for my 2 accessories which are toughness/pow/pre. Soldier runes in my gear and a 20/20/0/30/0 shout build. Your shouts will heal you and your party for about 1200 each and remove conditions from you and your party. I run the signet heal and never activate it, it heals for about 200/sec, which over 25 seconds(CD of other heals) is 5000 hp without having to cast anything ever.

You won’t to as much damage of course but you don’t do any damage when your downed or dead. My 100 blades do 12K to 20K damage depending on buffs.

Coll, will try it, thanks

I went up to Fractal 17 with 0 agony resist due to bad luck on dailies and being too poor to make a quiver. 5 resist is enough to take you through 19. It’ll suck at 20, but by that time you should have enough daily tokens for a second ring.

If 5 AR isn’t enough, you need more self healing/defense. That way you can save your main heal for when you miss a dodge on an agony attack. Some of the better ways to get more self healing:

Adrenal health at 15 Defense (basically 360 health every 3 seconds with full adrenaline)
Shout heals at 30 tactics (a huge spec change for you)
Omnomberry Pie (lifesteal on crit)
Sigil of Blood (also lifesteal on crit with cooldown)

Bosses in GW2 hits hard
If you are not specced to deal with these damages, change your gears & play distance.

I run full knight armor with berserk accessories build 20/20/30/0/0 with a rifle for main weapon.

I can tell you I hit really hard and most of the time the last alive, but I have my secret : I allways play at range & dodge all I can

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What Janah said.
Bosses hit hard. I also run full knight armor with berserker for just the jewel slots, and run less into the defense line. I hit 13k->14k 100blades easy, even though I am not greatsword focused at all, it is just there mainly to take up space (I use double axes). Like Janah, I also dodge all the attacks I can.

I know my guild leader runs full pow/tough/vit armor with runes of divinity, along with the divinity rings from fractals, the triforge and the karka earring. He hits 15k 100b consistently, heard he gets up to 18k to 19k and can take damage like a boss.

I can’t help but feel most of you don’t know what you are talking about. Agony does percentage based damage, the only way to reduce it would be with Agony Resistance (which makes a gigantic difference) or dodging each boss’ agony attack. For example, Raving Asura’s agony attack would be those electric balls he throws at you, Bloomhunger’s is his poison grenade things, Mossman’s are his thrown axes, etc etc

Regardless, toughness/vitality will do absolutely nothing for you when it comes to agony.

Jzaku.9765:

I can’t help but feel most of you don’t know what you are talking about. Agony does percentage based damage, the only way to reduce it would be with Agony Resistance (which makes a gigantic difference) or dodging each boss’ agony attack. For example, Raving Asura’s agony attack would be those electric balls he throws at you, Bloomhunger’s is his poison grenade things, Mossman’s are his thrown axes, etc etc

Regardless, toughness/vitality will do absolutely nothing for you when it comes to agony.

True but, agony is also a “tick” of damage. Lots of the posts talk about passive healing which does help with agony. Also nearly every agony attack also has a straight damage portion(Mossmans axes, dredge suits ground pound), so more general survivability does help.

Agony renders healing useless, so I’ve seen anyway, but also if you use Endure Pain it doesn’t damage you – That’s what I saw on my own Warrior.
I also read that at level 10 – 0 agony resistance is 1/8th of your health per tick, then with 5 agony resistence it’s 1/16th – So on