Guild Wars 2

So this morning I unlocked my whole berserker spec,and was excited to take it out roaming finally, and I was a bit disappointed. Not with the spec, but the fights. I spent about two hours roaming trying to get some good fights, but I only won once throughout the whole time. It was against a core warrior who wasn’t a bad player himself. But I continuously lost to thieves, necros, engis, and mesmers. That’s all that really seemed to be out there. Is it the build I’m running, or is it a l2p issue? I know I’m not supposed to be good two hours after I unlocked the spec, but I thought I would do a little better than this. I run axe/shield and gs with full zerker and hoelbrak runes. Any help/tips would be greatly appreciated!

build seems fine if you got some additional cleansing from sigils.
i go for armored attack with knights gear on that spec, bit cavalier. also dropped endure pain for signet of endurance for bomb clear and more dodge spam.
zerker seems to lack damage a bit when not in zerker mode spamming burst, vanilla hits much harder (but its harder to land burst).
with current damage levels & balance in wvw the thought of going zerker gear as warrior strikes me as suicidal. all classes got kittentons of evades, invuln, stealth.. you can count on them outlasting your stances and then you are dead. and you’ll never kill a good mesmer (or chrono) with those weaopns, rest should be possible though.

oh and yes – 2 hours not enough. took me like 2 days to get familiar with zerker playstyle. i’m not the fastest man on earth ofc but 2 hours seems hardly enough to get a good feel for the combos. 2 hours is what i practiced at dummies before i took the spec out in wvw for first time xD

Thanks for the feedback. You say I won’t be able to kill a mesmer with those weapons, is there a better weapon set to go with?

Condition damage works better with the berzerker spec. Like a long bow and a mace shield combination.
As stated above power vanilla warrior is better than power berzerker warrior.

Zavik.9751:

Thanks for the feedback. You say I won’t be able to kill a mesmer with those weapons, is there a better weapon set to go with?

nah, not really (for power damage). rifle is good, sword is useful, mace is nasty.. but axe just hurts real bad. mesmer just op, nvm. maybe some condi builds can kill them, maybe rifle has a chance.. no kitten idea because i’m always dead after double moa with 10 torment & confusion stacks.

Steelo.4597:

Zavik.9751:

Thanks for the feedback. You say I won’t be able to kill a mesmer with those weapons, is there a better weapon set to go with?

nah, not really (for power damage). rifle is good, sword is useful, mace is nasty.. but axe just hurts real bad. mesmer just op, nvm. maybe some condi builds can kill them, maybe rifle has a chance.. no kitten idea because i’m always dead after double moa with 10 torment & confusion stacks.

I’ve seen some vids of a warrior named Hollts do some crazy stuff with sword, is it better than axe? Or equal? I checked it out, but the primal burst seems cc oriented. But then again I should run core for power huh?

On another note, how is condi warrior compared to power? I’ve seen a few threads that say it is pretty good and easy to learn.

Power warrior will beat condition warrior in a 1v1 because it applies more dps. Condi warrior has better spike burst. However, in the current meta, condi warrior has an easier time vs other meta specs than a power warrior.