Warrior is a fun class, but with the recent shoutbow nerf, how can warriors become a support class if someone wanted to be tanky, give boons and do decent damage? I took elements I enjoyed from particular builds and crafted my own tank support build.
With AOE might stacking, blocks that grant might, reflect projectiles, stuns, empowered allies for more damage and the banner of defense for give your teammates and yourself a little more survivability, you have sort of an inverted AH guardian that tries to overwhelm your enemies with stats.
This build has very high toughness, vitality and decent power. You wanna stick to the big fights, swap weapons a lot, you get AOE might from both the minor trait and the sigils. You also get might from blocking which can be especially hilarious. I’ve had instances where I’ve blocked with the shield or mace, only to have it reflect back at them and give my allies a bunch of might stacks. Jumping in front of your allies to absorb hits like that is important. You can also get fire aura via the burst on lb and the 4 skill on shield
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ALTERNATIVE SETUPS:
I use Dolyak rune because it gives the proper stats and buffs your passive healing a little over 400, with the minor trait might stacks also give you healing power so even though you have 0 (haha), the extra is welcome.
Two others I’ve liked so far is rune of the sanctuary and mercy. Sanctuary gives you some neat things like a last resort stability, mercy is if you like to fast rez people, which you will have a little over 4k toughness when rezzing so you’ll take hits pretty well.
If you don’t like empowered allies, sometimes I take shrug it off to give a small AOE condi cleanse. If not hammer works fairly well just switch the trait for hammer cd as it’s more important to land interrupts for your team.
This build has no stability other than the skill on the elite banner, but can generally take enough hits. This is the tank build I use, I’ve had some success with it and it’s pretty fun. I may find ways of improving it later. I’m not gonna be that guy that calls it omfg ultimate legendary warrior build but yeah, fun stuff lel.
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