Hi everyone,
I have some questions about gear that I want to obtain for my warrior. But more specifically, questions about what emphasis I should put on stats.
My current build is http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIEQJARUjkOJv1O2QMxBEjiiAIOPoiAkJUKaj7A and my current gear is something along the line of:
All Knight’s armor. Ranger Runes I think. Or Eagle. Meh
Up until now, I’ve managed to do well with this rather glass cannony build (not completely because of Knight’s gear) just fine, surviving any dungeon as well as WvW and obviously open world content.
The new open world area, however, is quite a bit more demanding, and if I manage to solo 2 to 3 mobs, I give my self a proverbial pat on the back, because it’s just that more difficult. Fractals, I’ve managed to go up to 9, and even though it’s still manageable, I notice that I start to rely on getting ressed more frequently by my team mates because mobs start to hit harder and harder. And instant revive through vengeance / 100% rebound trait is starting to get unreliable in Fractals at this point.
Now, I have no issue making builds, and I’ve designed a few builds that suit me well for different purposes. So if I feel this build is the reason I start lacking, I can just swap builds to more survivable DPS builds or to a support build. (I already have a full cleric’s set for example for if I want to do shout healing)
What I’m looking for is a decent all-round gear set to replace my current apparently not so all-round gear set, that I can use on most content with most builds, including the above one, since I just like it so much. The builds I plan to use with this set will be slightly more DPS than support oriented, so more focus on power/prec/crit than say straight out tanking and especially healing power.
What I’d like to have feedback on is what stats to emphasize. Over the course of the past month of forum browsing, I’ve seen multiple discussions about stat focus on Warriors.
For example, some say that stacking Vitality on the already HP buffed Warrior offers little return in comparison to stacking Toughness. Yet, in WvW and even now in Fractals, it’s the 18k HP that I have that’s killing me through conditions, not the 3kish toughness. Should I focus on Vit, Toughness, both equally, or is the for example a simple graph that shows that there is a drop off point where stacking Vit steadily starts to lose out faster to Toughness when you’d keep stacking it?
I’ve seen similar discussions about power and critting builds (although those are not specifically for the warrior).
It makes sense that when you have let’s say enough power to hit for 100, a 50% crit chance and 100% crit damage, that you’ll do 150 damage on average, based on luck.
It also makes perfect sense that if you stack power high enough, you can just do a base 150 damage through power alone, regardless of having a crit chance at all. The latter is more reliable, but former allows for prettier numbers, since crit damage is something that stacks well and can offer a huge damage multiplier when you do crit.
But then, building for crit requires stacking two stats, while power is just a single stat.
I do have a two things in my build that require a crit rate to viably go off (bleeding and vuln on crit), and warrior’s have more of these traits that proc of crits, so having some precision/crit rate regardless of crit damage seems important again as well.
So unto the conclusion. I want to get this set right. I’ll hang on to my berserker set and I’ll always have my tanky healer set. I’d love to build a set now that’s more or less in between. Good to very good DPS and decent survivability.
I was thinking of AC (Power/Tuf/Vit) type of gear or Knight’s with for both either Dolyak, Warrior or Soldier Runes (I love swapping, so Warrior seems good)
In the latter case, I do get a little more Precision, giving me a few more options on the trinkets since I do still hope to aim for having an unbuffed 30-40% crit rate (before sigils of accuracy/fury/food, etc.)
I hope someone can explain a few things about the stat priorities to me and come up with a decent advice.
Thanks in advance!