Guild Wars 2

I mean glass cannon build.. it’s just sucks, damage mean nothing, when you die in one hit and you’re totally useless for team. BUT it’s warrior, rampage war machine, he SHOULD be pure damage dealer, because it’s d_a_m_n bloodthirsty slaughterer..

What are you exactly complaining about? Or did you come here so people can rally with you? I don’t understand you.

Try toughness..

<— full glass, die less than other classes speced out for bunker. Good idea would be to use signet of stamina, dodge more and if ur in a shiet situation and need to clear conditions, its the best for warriors. If your bound to get hit, get some toughness or use sheild for the sheild block and dodge. Dodge alot.

There’s no rule that says you have to go 100% glass cannon. When I started doing dungeons I had a lot of P/V/T gear so I could at least stay alive. As I became more experienced I replaced some of that gear with Berserker gear.

Assuming you are using berserkers (mathematically best, if you are going glass cannon):

This is why precision and precision healing foods are introduced. If you don’t have blackberry pie at least 50% chance to heal and sigil of blood on weapon, you are going to have no survivability. This food is very cheap. Well, no survivability unless you dodge, which isn’t always possible. Also switch to ranged every now and then to recover.. volley/bow normal should stack crits and allow for healing via food. Then swoop in and axe/greatsword, back off when necessary. You will stay on your feet. The whirlwind should be used for mobility as well as damage once your might is stacked, to avoid damage.

Thieves have to use these foods as well, it makes sense that if you are both stacking precision and crit chance that the foods catering to that style of gameplay fill in the holes in your build.

Keep in mind omnomberry ghost would provide more survivability, I am just saying you should be able to afford the berry pie because its very cheap.. no excuse not to use it on a glass build. It will change battles and change your upper limit of ability.

Traiting vengeance also is a good tactic. Fight difficult opponent.. get downed.. vengeance.. target close low hp enemy such as a moa (greatsword 5 it to close distance).. you shall be able to kill it within the 15 seconds. Vengeance dictates that you must kill -something- within 15 seconds. It doesn’t specify it has to be the champion you are fighting. You hopefully have not lost aggro on the champion, the cycle then repeats.

This sort of vampiric.. trash mob snacking build, is razor edge. Does shout warrior have an easier time overall? Maybe.. Glass cannon warrior is a high risk high reward playstyle though.

You could also just spec knights (toughness + precision + power) and use all above tactics while being a tank… You will kill things slower but die slower as well and be capable of determining when you want to leave.

When fighting anything that stacks conditions, try to use utility skills that remove or mitigate them. There is no correct utility skill or weapon combination for every opponent when you are playing glass cannon warrior. Every situation determines the optimum gear.. and warrior has alot of gear designed for this purpose. There is no rule stating that you aren’t allowed to use the defensive weapons. You will still deal more damage and have lower hp. Interrupts and complete damage mitigation are your friend against certain glass cannon enemies.

Glass Cannon is a noob build in the end anyway to be honest. You can get close to the same damage output while still having a vast pool of health and toughness by focusing primarily on defensive traits and stats and picking one particular field of dps. You’ll still do the highest damage in the game, you’ll out tank guardians, you’ll be able to distribute huge buffs and heals to the party and if you do it right, you’ll clear everyone’s conditions, bleed, knockback, weakness and poison the enemy and still be able to kill Kohler without dodging.

AKA gtfo, warriors are EASILY the most powerful class in the game, both solo play and in groups. You just don’t know how to play them/refuse to play them properly. A decent heal shout or banner build that’s played properly will toast a dps build in group PvE every time, just the buffs and heals alone are staggering.

You’re joking yourself or doing something kitten (like a signet build at lvl 80) if you are struggling as a warrior.

I disagree. I have maimed groups of opponents fairly consistently as they clung to their heals and damage mitigation.
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Example from today:
I was in wvw doing a skill point, it had me down to 40% health because I had to run past a group of opponents and I was behind enemy lines. I had no time to heal.
4-5 of them decided they could jump me while I was busy. I killed them all and then killed the skill point. I played my cards correctly and they played theirs incorrectly. They assumed it would be an easy fight. I use proc healing, skale venom, and proc healing food as well as other consumables. The might stacking duration as well as healing from criticals basically meant that their worst mistake was this: They stood next to each other in a tight group. Then they panicked when things went down.

Is it possible to stealth tank 5 opponents by simply staying invisible due to culling and kill them all on thief? Yes. There are other classes designed in such a way that you can take on groups and win with alot more ease.. The strengths of my build that I decided to trait (scaling power when attacking multiple opponents as well as scaling healing for each opponent attacked) were all in play.
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Glass cannon in itself is not ineffective. It is difficult to excel at it and not everyone should try unless they are willing to learn it. It is easy to have success with other builds, but difficult to excel. You weigh high risk and high reward.. you have to know what you are doing and be willing to adapt. The essence of it is that you have to be able to plan a strategy in seconds and have bleeding edge reflex. Not everyone has this, and I do not recommend glass cannon builds of any class to them.

Every card played right can win you the game. Do whats best with the hand that is dealt to you.