Just hit 80 on my warrior
This is the basic build that I run, centered around Fast Hands and rapid use of burst skills. Depending on what other Warriors are running in groups, banners can be swapped as needed; also can shift out of Warrior’s Sprint for Vengeful Return if desired, as it can be useful in niche situations.
Solo PvE:
Use Greatsword and Sword/Warhorn when you have travelling ahead.
Covers most distance. Helps exploring a lot (you want fast travelling when fresh 80 to explore stuff and reach critical waypoints for worldbosses, instances, whatever)
Alternatively, for solo PvE killing stuff, doing Living World s2, and hearts, and w/e what involves combat. I prefer Greatsword/Longbow. Having a good ranged weapon ready for pulling, and kiting (if monster is stronger), is godsent.
Traits are: Strength (Mostly for Berserker’s Strength), Discipline (Mostly for fast hands and the Quickness from last traitline), Arms (more damage with higher crit chance/signet mastery)
For Group PvE:
If dungeon
if involves ranged: (Have a longbow)
if involves only melee: (Have Axe/Mace) – Apply vuln with mace 4 and axe 2 then swap
to gs and 2 the kitten out of everything
if else: (Have Hammer) I enjoy the versatility of a Hammer. The CC it brings, the dmg is
decent, and a very useful blast finisher burst
Traits: Strength, Arms, Tactics (Phalanx Strength is great for Group content)
if world bosses
for world bosses i love having longbow and being ranged there, it is not as annoying as
being melee. greatsword is not bad 2nd weapon.
Maximizing dps here is not -that- important so i swap arms with discipline
Traits: Strength, Discipline, Tactics.
if fractals (Depends on instance)
if sw cf (have sword/warhorn+longbow)
Generally, I feel Greatsword is Warrior’s best friend, and I am glad it is.
Best thing is: get every weapon warrior can use.
Cooldowns on greatsword are so low, i don’t feel the need to swap weapons in a normal rotation (dodge/dodge/heal/burst/hundred blades/whirlwind/rush/auto/burst rince & repeat… or something like that).
if you master the greatsword, you have covered 90% of the warrior in pve.