Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I was AFG from a bit before HoT until recently. I used to play my warrior as power zerker with GS + axe/mace, fast hands rotations or PS, banners in groups, all that kind of thing.

Lately I’ve played him in HoT, open world and story. It seems like every time I try to settle down and do some rotating I find myself in a red ring, or the mordrem sniper blinks out of 100B. So I lose a lot of DPS whilst avoiding and chasing.

This is a good thing of course — nice to have foes that aren’t just hitpoints. But I wonder should I just be living with this, is there a better way?

Should I consider range (I don’t know of any decent ranging builds but it’s been a year)?

I gave Sinister condi with Aristocracy runes a go back in the day and it didn’t impress me except against husks, but it is at least steady damage application when it’s connecting, and not so dependant on getting a key skill off, and there’s a bow.

Or is there some tactical insight that has just flown straight over my head, a way to apply melee DPS when everyone is moving?

So, basically, I need to get better at playing warrior when it’s not just a single stationary target golem, or a lone dungeon boss who’s aggroed on the ele. Advice appreciated.

If you’re using GS/Axe+Mace, you should have plenty of movement skills to keep up with the mobs. Just save your GS3/GS5 when you need close gaps.

Keep your rotations on stationary targets basic (GS2 + Burst), so that you can save your other weapon skills’ cooldowns for movement. When someone moves, use GS4 for extra ranged damage, then GS3/GS5 as necessary, or swap to Axe and Burst if you need a leap and you have the adrenaline.

Headbutt is another great skill for many reasons, including the movement feature. Use it liberally. The stun can stop mobs dead in their tracks. You should be able to keep up very high dps even with mobs that move around. GS burst on in Berserk mode (Arc Divider) has such a long range and high damage that you should be able to cut through open world mobs like butter.