Guild Wars 2

So with the new patch out (and seeing some of the posts here…), I’m trying to figure out where I want to go with a WvW build.

Here’s where I’m at:
- My only level 80 is my warrior
- I like to be able to do decent damage from afar (rifle or longbow — longbow AOE sounds nicer to me)
- I like to also provide support — Healing shouts, shake it off and wielding a shield (not sure what to use for main hand) so I can soak up a bit of damage to survive or buy teammates time.

With that said, is there a reasonable build for me to do this with for a Warrior in the new patch? Or am I insane and need to re-roll?

Thanks!

Can’t have that anymore.
Before the patch, I used to run 30-10-0-20-10 with full Knight’s armor+Soldier’s runes, Berserker’s trinkets and axe+mace as main weapon-set. Second set was quite flexible: Sword+warhorn for movement or Rifle/Bow for range were my favourites.

Now, the 10 points in Discipline are wasted, but the rest still works.
My traits are:
V, X, XI Strength
V Arms
none Defense
V, IX Tactics

Put those last 10 point where ever you’d like to. I, personally, will have to get used what feels like 15-20% less damage due to not having Hightened Focus (Discipline XII).

Just based off what you said, you could go 0/30/0/30/10

Arms:
-Deep Cuts III (Bleed Duration)
-Opportunist IX(10 sec Fury on Immob) 13 seconds from Boon duration every 20 seconds after Pin Down if you go with Burning Arrows in Tactics
-Furious XI(Triple adrenaline on crit)

Tactics, Sounds like you have that planned out already but I would suggest:
-Empowered Allies II (You and Buddies gain 150 power)
-Lung Capacity VIII (shout CD) or Burning Arrows X (bow CD/Dmg to burning targets)
-Vigorous Shouts XII (shouts heal)

Discipline:
-Inspiring Shouts IV(shouts give 8 adrenaline)

Longbow with Sigil of Earth for procing more bleeds to keep Attack of Opportunity up. Take MH sword for mobility and control since you want to rely on LB for DPS.

Berserker(squishy direct damage burst), Knights(tanky DPS), or Rampager(squishy condi/direct DPS) gear with Trinkets that give Crit Damage (prefer Berserker for the precision, but Valkyrie or Cavalier also have Crit Damage) slotted with Exquisite Rubies.

This will make you an adrenaline building machine provided you get your crit chance way up there and will allow you to drop that nasty LB burst whenever you want.

My advice may be a little squishier than you were looking for, but if you play carefully, the ability of a warrior’s damage to push back attackers is a fantastic asset to a group. Knights with Cav trinkets will be the tankiest of what I suggested, but I’d really recommend Berserker trinkets so you get that high crit chance and build that adrenaline.

And sorry I didn’t put it in a builder. I’m in South America right now so a lot of the US/European sites are getting blocked for varying reasons.

Thanks for the tips so far. I’m assuming the builder sites might not be completely up-to-date with the changes, so I’ll probably wait till I’m home to start lookin at all the traits and such.