Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, lately I’ve been playing my warrior more and I’ve wanted some input on my WvW situation. Keep in mind, this is all about solo/small group (less than 5) roaming. I don’t care about zergability.

I currently run mostly Berserker, with a touch of Marauder (couple weapons, couple trinkets) With Defender Runes — Mace/Shield and GS. I have a blast and feel totally capable in most all situations. But when I play this same build in sPvP, where power warrior isn’t padded by as many buffs, and Defender Runes don’t exist, I switch to running Vipers amulet and Krait Runes, same build otherwise (I maybe change some traits, I honestly don’t remember) and I have a blast here, too – with so much mixed burst this build is wonderful.

anyway, the point is that I’ve been slowly amassing some Vipers gear for my warrior, and I’ve been second guessing whether it’s a good idea or not. Should I make a second set of gear for condi roaming, with Vipers/Krait like I do in Spvp – Should I stick with my power build with defender runes, because it’s really strong in WvW – or should I blend the ideas and go Viper/Defender for less burst but more sustain?

I do viper/durability with my ele (but there the boon duration and extra life has much more impact) and i realy like it. With warrior i stick to power with maximum mobility in roaming. Just be as fast as possible. = permaswiftness (pack rune + warhorn + boon food) and 5 leaps over 300 range :-).
After using that permaswiftness for a while on war and ele 25% feels slow …….

I have an ascended set of marauder gear with Defender and another set with Durability. Honestly I love defender runes and have been using them literally when they were first released waaaaaaaay back but I truly feel that they are only better than Durability runes if you are roaming solo. As soon as you get into a small group even 2 or 3 people then durability runes begin to blow past defender runes. The boon share of protection/regen/resistance is just too good. Along with 175 toughness, 125 vitality and 20% boon duration.

Defender runes are not in pvp for whatever reason I dunno. (they were never in pvp to begin with) BUT durability was removed from pvp because a 5 man group all running durability gives 15 sec of protection/regen on 20 sec cooldown AND if one of your party is a rev giving facet of nature then you have 100% uptime on protection and regen. In WvW you have boon duration food also so the uptime is amazing.

I wouldn’t bother making a condi set with defender. Those runes work really well with power. You would want a condi rune set if playing condi.