Guild Wars 2

Ages ago, I’ve created a Warrior to do WvW with. I named him after a warlord of a book I love (this becomes relevant later). Recently, I’ve been dusting him off, but I’ve actually have no idea how to play Warriors.

So now I’m looking for a build that’s pretty effective in WvW. I don’t really care how it works or what it does *as long as it uses a Main Hand Ax." The character in that book wields an ax and it’s a big part of how I want to play my Warrior.

Any ideas?

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Warrior_-_GS_Axe/Shield_Roamer ?

Thanks. That looks interesting.

As a follow-up question: is there a build with an ax that is more supporty (I know the ax itself doesn’t really lend towards that).

Not that I’m aware of. I’m pretty sure Axe is the highest raw dps weapon we have, but I could be wrong.

Mace (weakness, block, daze, stun) or Sword (cripple, immobilize, leap) would be your more supporty options for a MH weapon.

you can always grab a warhorn to get more supporty. But power-based builds cant really get supporty (in the healing, boon, condi-cleanse sense) without big sacrifices to their dps. And axe leaves you no choice there – its a pure power weapon and begs you to stack crit damage and power – and you need toughness anyways, so no stats left. But you can of course “support” with crowd control – or Firefields from longbow to stack might. Or just bash them to the head with eviscerate and support by making heads roll – “offensive support”! lol.

Okay, thanks for the feedback :-)

If you want more supporty, you can always take this as well

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Warrior_-_Traditional_Shout_Frontliner

Just swap the sword to axe and you should be pretty good to go.

With Axe you will be doing more damage, but you won’t have that leap and immob sword offers.

You could try and get supporty with an Axe/Wh + Longbow perhaps. I have no idea how well these would work though.

Active and passive condition management.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQNBHhNakpjuQLDx2DORDUFUIX8AQ9QMDxeyM4FA-TVSDwAs0Hk4JAUV53L1fqcCAWoEEgJIJHCAa7PQGAmtA-w

Purely active condition management, and a bit more offensive. You’re a lot more flexible with food here so you could go for mango pies or might stacking for example if you like.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQNBHhNakpjuQLDx2DORDUFUIrgAQ9QMDxeyM4FA-TFSDwAs2f0Hk4JAUV53L1fqcCAWoEEgJIJHCASBExWA-w

These may be total garbage, but if you had to come up with a more support oriented Axe build these seems like they could be an option.