Guild Wars 2

Could someone look over my build? I mostly play WvW. In groups/zergs, I frontline with my greatsword. Roaming, I close with my greatsword and switch to axe/shield for combat, switching to my greatsword for chasing if need be. I also have a warhorn for swiftness and blast finisher, not really used in combat unless I’m forced to. I’ve found this build is plenty tanky enough for most situations, I rarely if ever get downed, even when running right up front with commander. And I can deal enough damage to finish people or duel one on one while roaming. I’ve been running this build for the last month and have had great success in WvW, both running in medium-sized groups and roaming solo/small party. I just wanted to see if anyone had any ideas on how to improve it. Thanks in advance!

Gear:

Armor – All Knight’s (PPT) w/ Ruby Orbs

Backpiece – Soldier’s w/ Exquisite Azurite (PTV/VPT)
Rings – Ascended Soldier [Lost Seal of Usoku][Royal Signet of Doric] (PTV)
Accessories – Cavalier’s w/ Exquisite Azurite (PTCr/VPT)

Weapon Set 1:
Soldier’s Greatsword (PTV) w/ Superior Sigil of Fire

Weapon Set 2:
Berserker’s Axe (PPCr) + Berserker’s Shield (PPCr) w/ Superior Sigil of Bloodlust & Hydromancy

Siege Weapon:
Berserker’s Rifle (PPCr) w/ Superior Sigil of Force

Traits:

20 Power (V, IX)
20 Precision (V, X)
30 Defense (II, VIII, XII)

The traits and stuff look fine. The gear stats are really the only thing anyone could argue with, but only because they are so subjective.

Warlord.9074:

It,s fine but i dont like having slow weapon swaps. You need 15 in dis for weapon swaps. Since you are not using a warhorn or even a traited warhorn with 15 in dis you could of picked up signet mastery so SOR cooled down faster. Thus giving you more uptime on swiftness fury and might. I would of liked to see more Cavilers trinket and or zerkers trinkets.

I also would of liked to see either knights or berserker weapons and either caviler, knights or zerker trinkets. Soldiers gear is ok. It does have good power, the problem with soldier gear is that it has less defense than knights, and it has no precision.

A lot of warriors think that precision is a dead weight stat. And there are better ways to get it like using fury and perception sigil stacking and food. But im a firm believe in the best builds are pure builds. When you go full out precision you can get like 90-100% critical chance. That ends up putting to shame and high power build with low crit chance and crit damage. So yeah the high power build basic attackkitten hard, but a crital chance build with critical power hits harder all of the time.

Vitality is a great stat but when you have like 20-22k base HP in WvW it isnt really that needed. Like it is on an elementalist who barely has 10k hp.

So I think your build needs 15 in dis, more precision and crit damage, and more toughness and less vitality. Then in my esyes it would be good.

instead of 20/20/30/0/0

Try 10/25/20/0/15 yes you lose 10% damage with GS, but you pick up 10% damage to bleeding foes instead. You lose 10 in defense, but you pick up faster weapon swaps, and signet mastery for a 20% CD reduction on signet of rage. If you dont need the signet master, there are several other really good beginner traits in Dis. Might stacking with a shield is one the other is 9% crit chance with full adrenaline.

Thank you for your input guys. Warlord, I’ll try your changes out for a couple days and see how it goes. No harm in trying new things out. Faster weapon swaps might be good for me in fights considering the Hydromancy sigil I have on my shield.

The one build I’d suggest is:
20/0/20/0/30

You get the 10% damage trait for GS, you get signet mastery, heightened focus (9% makes up for not going into arms) and boon hate (3% per boon can add up quickly against boon spamming classes)