I hate the Warrior meta. Not because I think it’s ineffective (it’s obviously very effective), but because it’s painfully boring. It’s essentially just spamming GS2 with offhand mace #4 and axe #1 thrown in.
So, I wanted to make an effective warrior build that is far from the meta, and here is what I came up with:
I’m still experimenting with it to work out the kinks, but it seems to work quite well. I took it into a level 29 Fractal and was consistently hitting 30k damage between my “Volley” and “Kill Shot.” I am thinking of switching the sigil of accuracy on the rifle to sigil of intelligence to guarantee a critical with “Volley” and “Kill shot.” The critical for those attacks does proc nearly every time, but it’s always annoying when that one time occurs that it doesn’t proc.
My rotation is: Start with mace #4 – axe #2 – Axe #1 for one rotation – Rifle #4 – Volley – Kill Shot – repeat.
Play how you want, but don’t try to hide behind effectiveness. Your build is terrible, as is rifle in pve, and trying to be a special snowflake by playing a bad build is plain dumb.
If you’re on EU and need help to get into dungeons, pm me.
I lived under the impression that 6/6/… pure axe or pure gs had both a little higher dps than old a/m? Maybe less vuln?
Also, I read that burst skills first spend adrenaline, then hit.
Even if I’m wrong though, it does not make you build any good, sorry.
They do, But I fail to see how that invalidates the entire build. I took Berserker’s Power to improve the damage to the Axe #1, not “Kill Shot” since I really don’t need “Burst Precision” due to my fairly high Critical hit chance, and especially not if I use “Sigil of Intelligence.” Yes, I could benefit from “Berserker’s Might,” but with “Sharpened Axes” I think it’s not needed nor worth the DPS loss to Axe#1.
Well you said you hate the warrior meta but only focused on the fast hands build. When I get tired of pure axe I go pure gs and back.
If you want a reason why your build underperforms, it’s the ferocity change. 30/0/0/10/30 used to be old meta before the critical damage nerf.
Also, no solid PvE build anywhere ever will involve the sigil of intelligence.
I don’t know what the “fast hands” build is.
I still don’t understand how my build is complete garbage as you both are saying. I am consistently doing 30k damage at the end of every rotation (which is a pretty short rotation) and doing high damage with the axe auto-attack ( anywhere between 10k and 16k.) Yes, I would do more damage with the meta, but that isn’t the point.
If you use greatsword and axe+mace both, you want to use GS2 on cooldown and axe1 inbetween, necessitating the trait fast hands. This trait cannot be acquired if you go for dual wield agility and camp axe + mace/sword.
Your passionate defense of your build clearly suggests you are having fun with it. That’s great, good for you, have a nice day
However, you came here to ask for thoughts on it, and those boil down to “bad damage”.
Why would you want a build spamming volley and killshot off cooldown between auto attacks if your main problem with the meta is that the rotation is boring?
Why would you use 2 grandmaster traits contradicting themselves?
Why shake it off?
Why going for a build filling the exact same role as the meta dps build for warrior, but worse?
If you’re on EU and need help to get into dungeons, pm me.
Well you said you hate the warrior meta but only focused on the fast hands build. When I get tired of pure axe I go pure gs and back.
If you want a reason why your build underperforms, it’s the ferocity change. 30/0/0/10/30 used to be old meta before the critical damage nerf.
Also, no solid PvE build anywhere ever will involve the sigil of intelligence.
I don’t know what the “fast hands” build is.
I still don’t understand how my build is complete garbage as you both are saying. I am consistently doing 30k damage at the end of every rotation (which is a pretty short rotation) and doing high damage with the axe auto-attack ( anywhere between 10k and 16k.) Yes, I would do more damage with the meta, but that isn’t the point.
You said it yourself, you do more damage with the meta. Currently the warrior meta splits off in two general directions. You can do the more self sustained DPS build (6-5-0-0-3 or 6-6-0-0-2), or you can go off into Phalanx Strength. There is a reason that the meta exists, because it is more effective. With Phalanx Strength possibly you won’t do as much damage as your build, but it will be close, and you’re providing the rest of your team with higher DPS potential. If you want to outwardly hate against “The Meta” and make your own build that you knowingly admits is weaker, you’re acknowledging that you’re a crutch. You asked for our thoughts, and our suggestions are really don’t use your build, unless you honestly don’t care for what anyone else thinks.
The problem with pve is there is an otimal way to do things. Build can vary depending on what is in ur party but the basic premises will remain the same
