Ok so since the warrior gutting...?
Just play celestial strength rune ele, you’ll never die to anyone ever while you can kill anyone ever and you will never get nerfed because Anet doesn’t understand that it’s broken because it’s not as straightforward as duumfire or hambow.
Warrior builds are the same still.
Just play celestial strength rune ele, you’ll never die to anyone ever while you can kill anyone ever and you will never get nerfed because Anet doesn’t understand that it’s broken because it’s not as straightforward as duumfire or hambow.
Warrior builds are the same still.
I not even sure they understand those either. Hambow (the build everyone cries about) is the least affected from the nerfs. Try to figure that one out.
Be careful what you wish for, Anet might just give it to you “HoT”
“…let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die;.”
“…let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die;.”
Looks to me like Hambow or condi builds still run as you say accepting what the nerf does. If you did not like being pidgeon-holed into Hambow or condi & liked to craft something else (admittedly not as optimal as the metas), but relied on use of burst skills & adren those are basically gone (IMO). You could go with a bland build avoiding anything adren related, but to me that takes the whole fun out of Warrior… Actually the feature patch adren changes took the whole fun out of warrior for me, in truth.
My current new “build” is playing other characters with my warrior indefinitely retired, or in r/p crippled and in seclusion pending possible eventual? recovery from some great wound (probably some sort of backstab :P). I’ve been rotating through guardian & necro mainly lately with some engi here and there, loved the warrior concept so not really happy to settle with one but there you have it, when I’m not doing something else outside of gw2.
Looks to me like Hambow or condi builds still run as you say accepting what the nerf does. If you did not like being pidgeon-holed into Hambow or condi & liked to craft something else (admittedly not as optimal as the metas), but relied on use of burst skills & adren those are basically gone (IMO). You could go with a bland build avoiding anything adren related, but to me that takes the whole fun out of Warrior… Actually the feature patch adren changes took the whole fun out of warrior for me, in truth.
My current new “build” is playing other characters with my warrior indefinitely retired, or in r/p crippled and in seclusion pending possible eventual? recovery from some great wound (probably some sort of backstab :P). I’ve been rotating through guardian & necro mainly lately with some engi here and there, loved the warrior concept so not really happy to settle with one but there you have it, when I’m not doing something else outside of gw2.
>Ignore core class mechanic to not play the same setup that everyone was complaining about.
Sad but true.
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Zarin Mistcloak(THF) Valkyrie Mistblade(WAR) Kossori Mistwalker(REV) Durendal Mistward(GRD)
I used to think (build op, pls nerf) like you, but then I took a nerf to the knee.
Zarin Mistcloak(THF) Valkyrie Mistblade(WAR) Kossori Mistwalker(REV) Durendal Mistward(GRD)
I used to think (build op, pls nerf) like you, but then I took a nerf to the knee.
Build1: Hambow. This, as mentioned before, is kinda unexpected because the nerfs are targeted at nerfing Hambow, yet somehow making it the most, if not only viable build.
Build2: Sw/Sw and LB. See how the build is using LB again? And go full condi gear for that OPness we call condition damage.
PVE: basically still anything goes since its a 11111111 feast anyway.
However, an OP build is playing a ranger, trait for max damage and max range, and rapid fire away for free loot-bags. Or just play whatever professions that is good at dealing condi. You’ll be kinda useless at World Bosses, but hey, free loot-bags in WvW!
Build1: Hambow. This, as mentioned before, is kinda unexpected because the nerfs are targeted at nerfing Hambow, yet somehow making it the most, if not only viable build.
Build2: Sw/Sw and LB. See how the build is using LB again? And go full condi gear for that OPness we call condition damage.
PVE: basically still anything goes since its a 11111111 feast anyway.
However, an OP build is playing a ranger, trait for max damage and max range, and rapid fire away for free loot-bags. Or just play whatever professions that is good at dealing condi. You’ll be kinda useless at World Bosses, but hey, free loot-bags in WvW!
I’ve never been able to make sw/sw LB work, but I had a pretty successful sw/wh LB build for WvW before the nerf. It’s now unusable because it’s so hard to land a combustive shot at full adrenaline. Back to playing thief/guardian for me until ANET makes some sensible changes by giving a 10 sec count down before adrenaline starts draining.
Engineer – Thief – Warrior
I prefer axe/sword or axe/shield myself. Shield helps with setting up and landing eviscerate. Also axe is much better at generating adrenaline with sharpened axes.
If I could work in the new trait duel wield agility I think that would be fun but you’d have to sacrifice either damage or survivability to get it.
I realize this isn’t very meta but I play what I want. Which is why right now I prefer ele to warrior. Sad. Elementalists seem like they have so many different possible buiilds that synergize well while anet has done everything they can to get rid of synergy within warrior builds. And that is ironic considering their goal of trying to nerf hambow..
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Build1: Hambow. This, as mentioned before, is kinda unexpected because the nerfs are targeted at nerfing Hambow, yet somehow making it the most, if not only viable build.
Build2: Sw/Sw and LB. See how the build is using LB again? And go full condi gear for that OPness we call condition damage.
PVE: basically still anything goes since its a 11111111 feast anyway.
However, an OP build is playing a ranger, trait for max damage and max range, and rapid fire away for free loot-bags. Or just play whatever professions that is good at dealing condi. You’ll be kinda useless at World Bosses, but hey, free loot-bags in WvW!
I’ve never been able to make sw/sw LB work, but I had a pretty successful sw/wh LB build for WvW before the nerf. It’s now unusable because it’s so hard to land a combustive shot at full adrenaline. Back to playing thief/guardian for me until ANET makes some sensible changes by giving a 10 sec count down before adrenaline starts draining.
Offhand sword is just to stack that torment (which also got nerfed) and provides a good to have block just in case. Pretty much we are shafted into playing condi-based in WvW now to be able to get some lootbags. Hambow is pretty much used everywhere from PvP to WvW, most would know how to counter it.
Well combustive shot is still “landable” – just try to shoot it closer to you, which reduces the long telegraphed attack pattern, and make that travel animation less noticed. And hope it doesn’t bug for whatever reason cause I had combustive shots disappear into thin air and my adrenaline gone (and no its not been reflected, blocked, etc). If you miss, just curse the game and use the fire field to get some might.
Build1: Hambow. This, as mentioned before, is kinda unexpected because the nerfs are targeted at nerfing Hambow, yet somehow making it the most, if not only viable build.
Build2: Sw/Sw and LB. See how the build is using LB again? And go full condi gear for that OPness we call condition damage.
PVE: basically still anything goes since its a 11111111 feast anyway.
However, an OP build is playing a ranger, trait for max damage and max range, and rapid fire away for free loot-bags. Or just play whatever professions that is good at dealing condi. You’ll be kinda useless at World Bosses, but hey, free loot-bags in WvW!
I’ve never been able to make sw/sw LB work, but I had a pretty successful sw/wh LB build for WvW before the nerf. It’s now unusable because it’s so hard to land a combustive shot at full adrenaline. Back to playing thief/guardian for me until ANET makes some sensible changes by giving a 10 sec count down before adrenaline starts draining.
Offhand sword is just to stack that torment (which also got nerfed) and provides a good to have block just in case. Pretty much we are shafted into playing condi-based in WvW now to be able to get some lootbags. Hambow is pretty much used everywhere from PvP to WvW, most would know how to counter it.
Well combustive shot is still “landable” – just try to shoot it closer to you, which reduces the long telegraphed attack pattern, and make that travel animation less noticed. And hope it doesn’t bug for whatever reason cause I had combustive shots disappear into thin air and my adrenaline gone (and no its not been reflected, blocked, etc). If you miss, just curse the game and use the fire field to get some might.
Stealth nerf to ham bow they never mentioned (or long bow in general). 10% chance of broken bow sting when using long bow skills, shots don’t fire.
(this is sarcasm, but just another bug warriors have to deal with)