Guild Wars 2

So i finally decided to try out warrior and its quite good, but i dont know what im doibg wrong..i keep getting downed or defeated all the time. ive heard so much talk about “omg their survivability and burst iz op”.. The damage seems ok, but im not convinced about the survivability part.. Im around level 15 atm, and tbh even ä my thief dies less (im just missing engineer now, i have the other classes).. Tried different weapon combos and one is either gs or hammer with a bow or rifle (aoe vs 1v1).

give me newbie tips please :p

Try sticking to sword/warhorn and riffle –

I usually dodge a lot when i’m using my warrior, and she’s pretty nice in the early games till 80.

But it’s an acquired taste.

The other option is to do a 5 signet warrior, whereas you get the signet trait so it cd’s fast, and 100b things to death.

At low lvls all you need to do is get a GS and use all signets then get the “Deep Strikes” trait in the Arms tree as soon as you can.

You’ll kill everything so fast that you won’t even have the chance to die.

Ofc once you hit lvl 60 signets stop scaling and get worse and worse until they’re almost all useless, so I’d recommend switching somewhere in between 60 and 70 lol

Sounds useful so far

since you’re level 15

a) make sure you use power/vitality armors
b) use healing signet, its still OP on low levels
c) your first 15 points should go to defense line to adrenal health trait.
d) never ever use frenzy at these levels.
e) get ranged weapon (rifle/bow) and use it to soften the enemy before melee engagement or kite it.

on low levels healing signet+adrenal health= soloing champions

Try GS for burst and longbow for a bit of AoE and survivability. If you are interested, message me, Ive played warrior along time and could help you 1 on 1. Good luck.

My advice to a new warrior: Do not go Greatsword and full zerker. There’s much better ways to get much higher DPS if you need it, and your mobility is kitten as a GS warrior reslulting in death. If you’re into WvW, any good player will see rush and 100b coming from a mile away and there are infinite ways to mitigate or avoid that damage, and once you’ve done that you have nowhere to go with your rotations. I’d suggest axe/shield with longbow secondary. You’ve got good survivability with the longbow’s mobility as well as the damage mitigation power of the shield. The axe is there purely for burst when you need it. Rifle has the same issues as GS in that your mobility is limited even though the projectiles travel faster than the longbow, and it’s single-target just like the effectiveness of a lot of GS skills (you don’t have an AoE pull like the guardian so often you’ll only be hitting one enemy at a time with GS). Personally, I run axe/axe longbow because of how effective axe 5 is at quickly maxing my adrenaline and often I’m waiting for the eviscerate cooldown to end at the rate in which I use the skill. For a new warrior, I’d suggest you run cavalier armor (You can’t buy this. You’re going to have to run dungeons for the power/toughness/crit damage gear, sorry.) with either rampager or rabid trinkets depending on how much toughness you want. Both give you nice precision and condition damage, it’s only a matter of power over toughness. Once this is done you should have a pretty balanced build with great survivability and high crit damage, as well as being fairly mobile and able to run circles around standardized GS warriors.

As for your traits, run 30/20/0/0/20. The traits you pick should be fairly obvious other than Death From Above which comes in handy more than you know.

Hope you take my advice to heart,
Ferrum.

Could you use knights gear in the interim? (im still using them!)

I would roll Guardian atm, Warrior isn’t in a very good place.

fost.9167:

Could you use knights gear in the interim? (im still using them!)

Honestly while leveling I’d go with the power, power/precision, and only when you hit 80 should you get the cavalier gear. p/p/c gear is honestly the fastest to level with. You’re so limited in builds before 80 that it doesn’t matter up until then.