Guild Wars 2

I don’t have much experience in wvwvw yet, my warrior isn’t even level 80 yet, but I’m currently playing with a sword and weapon swapping between a horn and shield. Alot of warriors I’ve ran into told me that it was a waste of a weapon slot and that I should go with one or the other. Is that true?

you probably should go with one or the other, the warhorn is a great weapon and has a lot of utility, but any time you would really need the utility you can just switch to it out of combat.

the sword mainhand is a great weapon, but you aren’t doing yourself any favors by making it your main hand weapon on both weapon sets you use. my advise is to get a longbow, it sets up some nice combo fields, with the sword main hand you have access to every type of combo finisher and the [savage leap] weapon swap into [pin down] is very potent at catching hard to catch classes.

Try it if you like, but I guarantee when you become more experienced you’ll feel like there are other more useful alternatives.

For me, it’s either/or with Warhorn and Shield dependent on mainhand weapon, my current build and role in my WvW team.

Warhorn is superb for escapes – in those situations, the combination of sword and warhorn is the best combination to get you out of a bad situation – one that 3s of blocking might well not do (after all, it’s better to be 200m away from the losing battle than stuck inside it after a block!) It’s also superb at chasing down runners and blocking flankers.

However, shield may suit you during toe-to-toe battles where escape isn’t the intention – holding a gate/keep, defending stonemist, assaulting a Lord in a small group etc. Something where you need to plant yourself and fight.

My advice, keep both in your inventory and swap between them in the same slot as necessary – Warhorn for field battles, Shield for objective fights, something like that. Use your other set for something else. A ranged weapon is always a solid choice, especially if you’re not WvW experienced yet.

Oh loading you rolled a warrior? Its alot of fun can’t troll like you can on your thief but I like it. Only pull the thief out occasionally now.

It’s not bad, but it’s not the most effective.
Usually people use Axe/Shield (Shield for defense + set up Burst) or Sword/Axe (for insane mobility both in and out of combat).

You can run Axe/shield + sword/warhorn

There’s nothing bad about running both shield and warhorn, the problem is from having the same mainhand which deprives you of 3 skills. Throw in an axe or a mace with the shield (probably axe) and you should be solid.

That being said I think you’d be better team support wise with either a hammer or longbow as one of your sets but that’s another debate for another thread.

From my play style (WWW only pretty much), I have only ever used swords for the leap and maybe the immobilize on F1 skill. Shield is ok but it gives no more defense than a good roll (the stun is good to set up a burst though). But a shield doesn’t magically make you survive longer really.. not in the big scheme of things.

I prefer sword+warhorn, and I put hydromancy rune on warhorn with quick breathing.. perma speed almost and a crappy(ish) condition to boon conversion.

In the end though, play a build that suits you… better to play a subpar build you’re comfortable with than an awesome build you cant pull off.

thanks for the input guys, i ended up going with sword/horn axe/shield with this build

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/warrior/?8.0|c.1g.h2.g.1g.h1l|7.1g.hm.e.1g.h1l|1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7|1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.1g.67|0.a4.k59.k19.k6a|39.1|5y.6i.64.6b.0|e

the sword actually has pretty good damage (maybe not gs damage but still nice) and i get nice burst from the axe. With mobile strikes and my utility choices i feel like i can be very offensive or defensive without being locked down by ccs