Guild Wars 2

Hello. I am relatively knew to GW2, so I would like to ask for some feedback on my PVE Warrior Build.

What I am thinking is GS/Rifle with 20/20/20/0/10.

My skills are Healing Signet, Signet of Fury, Dolyak Signet, and Battle Standard. I am trying to decide on what my 4th skill should be, maybe a CC like Stomp or Bulls Charge?

I picked the Signets because of the passive precision, the Dolyaks damage reduction and stability, and the Battle Standards all around group benefits.

From what I can gather from a few dungeons I will need a ranged weapon for a lot of instances where I just can’t get within melee range, but I am worried this build neglects the rifle too much and focuses too much on the GS.

Any and all criticism and advice would be a load of help. Thanks in advance.

20/20/20/0/10 is a pretty solid combination for GS/rifle build, but I would personally use 20/20/0/20/10 for that boon duration and infinite fury and might up-time. Also Defensive is more a trait-line used with defensive weapons such as Mace/Shield/Hammer

That said, under NO circumstance should you ever run 3-5 signets (3 is stretching it, but I digress), including Signet of Rage. But I strongly suggest Signet of Stamina. Dodging (damage mitigation) is very important, especially in the harder dungeons

FGJ is a MUST for any lvl80 Warrior, it’s way too efficient to not have it on your utility bar.

So with FGJ, Signet of Stamina you need one more, I’d go with Endure pain for the “Oh crap” situations.

Thank you very much for the information.

I will use that skill setup, seems like a much more efficient option.

Also I was thinking of 20 in defense purely because of the toughness and toughness on cc that it would give me, and in every dungeon I seem to be cc’d to death. Is it really not useful unless I am using shields and maces?

Jshway.7623:

Thank you very much for the information.

I will use that skill setup, seems like a much more efficient option.

Also I was thinking of 20 in defense purely because of the toughness and toughness on cc that it would give me, and in every dungeon I seem to be cc’d to death. Is it really not useful unless I am using shields and maces?

If you feel like you’re getting CC’ed to death, you can switch out Endure Pain for, Shake it Off! 20 second Stun-breaker cooldown. Really nice

Jay.3284:

Jshway.7623:

Thank you very much for the information.

I will use that skill setup, seems like a much more efficient option.

Also I was thinking of 20 in defense purely because of the toughness and toughness on cc that it would give me, and in every dungeon I seem to be cc’d to death. Is it really not useful unless I am using shields and maces?

If you feel like you’re getting CC’ed to death, you can switch out Endure Pain for, Shake it Off! 20 second Stun-breaker cooldown. Really nice

Ah alright. One more thing, sorry to bother you but will I even need the signet of rage or banner if I can keep the boons up constantly from FGJ?

And I got to thinking, will I really need the 10 points in Discipline? I really only got it for the crit chance with adrenaline, and at the moment I have 50% crit rating. That will probably change at 80, but I am not sure. I could certainly use the points elsewhere to fit my defense and boon needs.

Use SoR (Signet of Rage)because your build is more damage focused. FGJ + SoR + Forcefield swords = 100% Might + 100% Fury up-time… PLUS your partners get 100% might also. You can also switch to a warhorn and get 100% swiftness up-time for traveling purposes.

The 10 points in discipline is just your preference. You can switch it over to 30 in tactics for healing shouts and put all shouts on your utility, or you can put your SoR on short cooldown for more DPS potential, or the extra critical chance. Do whatever you think feels right

Ok, thanks so much for your time man. I was hard pressed to find help in game.

Have a good one.

I’m not sure about the traitlines but there are 2 nice traits that give u perma-fury even with +0% boon duration. 1st is when u cripple a target u apply 1sec immobilize and second is u gain fury on immobilize. Goes great with GS and axes and rifle. And might on crit is nice too. U can keep about 7-9 stacks on u all the time plus all other might that fies in the air anyway plus warbanner/signet plus sigil of bloodlust gets u nice might. Takes ‘for great justice’ off your bar and gets you space for some other utility.
Anyways u should adjust your utilities to situation. If you go for boss with a lot of conditions take 2 condi-removals. If a lot of cc i’d get balanced stance (for a lot of cc i love endure pain [oh kitten button], shake it off [low cd stunbreak], balanced stance [dont interrupt my HB!]; sometimes i’ll get sth more offensive instead of endure pain). The set above would be somehow ok for unknown situations ahen u dont know what to expect. For easier bosses i’d take elite banner and banner of discipline for increasing all party DPS. For harder i’d take banner anyway to res quickly if more than 1 person goes down [u can prevent party from wiping and reseting boss. they like u a lot in such moments :P] (now i’m waiting for all: l2p noob, wiping on boss is so noob, only noobs wipe – but u know u get noobs in pugs and u want to do the dungeon anyway :P ). And perma-swiftness for everyone for longer skipping ^^ (I’m warbanner fangirl, yep :P). But u can always ignore party bonuses and take signet. Though i didn’t see any sign of it doing anything to my adrenaline?