[ = ] So your a Guardian eh? It’s ok kid, not everyone is cut out to be a Warrior. [ = ]
Please Rate My WvW Warrior Build [Shout Heal]
Warriors sprint only gives 10% movement speed, while swiftness gives 33%, with 30% boon duration and swiftness from warhorn, you lose the effectiveness of 10% movement speed 13 seconds out of every 20seconds since they don’t stack. I suggest 10 points into power for more health or berserkers power, so that you have some dps even with heavily defensive traits. Using sword for both mainhands isn’t the best since, the cooldown on skills don’t reset if you swap between weapons (its up to you, i just wouldnt do it myself) my suggest is mace for the extra block and possible need for stun to stop an enemy from killing a friend/ally. This seems like a tanky healer support build. I can’t comment much on how effective your build will be, but it seems fine enough to do what you want.
Yes I see you points, and they make a lot of sense thanks.
I have decided to put 10 into Strength but was wondering if the extra VIT for a tanky build would be better than the extra damage in the form of either Great Fortitude or Berserkers Power.
I will main hand a maced with my shield then as my primary weapon set since the mix of blocks and stuns will work well with my shield, and use a sword with m warhorn for the cripple and mobility for when I want to chase people down.
I’m not too sure what I should be doing in WvW with this build but I guess I’ll find out soon enough when I run about lol
[ = ] So your a Guardian eh? It’s ok kid, not everyone is cut out to be a Warrior. [ = ]
I’m running a Warrior build right now that is heavy on Shouts and it is somewhat different than this build.
This is my build:
Strength – 20 [Berserker’s Power, Death From Above/Slashing Power]
Arms – 0
Defence – 20 [Turtle Defence, Embrace the Pain]
Tactics – 30 [Empowered, Lung Capacity, Vigorous Shouts]
Discipline –
I use sword/warhorn mostly for my primary set. I also use the Signet of Rage elite skill. Using the elite skill and warhorn give you infinite swiftness, no downtime. So there’s no need for the discipline.
The ideal gear for this is Power, toughness, vitality. Currently, you cannot craft that gear, it is only obtainable through WvW, dungeons, and God temples. You cannot buy it.
In the meantime, on my quest for this gear, I have got a combination of Knights and Valkyrie gear for toughness and vitality, and just a bit of power to back it up.
The runes I use are Superior rune of the Soldier, it also increases toughness and vitality but the 6th rune bonus makes your shouts cure conditions. Your “Shake it Off” will cure 2 conditions, heal, and break stun with this combination of gear and traits.
Personally I don’t use Fear Me, I use On my Mark. Kind of useless in WvW by itself, but as a utility that heals and cures 1 condition, it has a much quicker cooldown than Fear Me. This build is tanky, you don’t really need to make people run from you, it will happen anyway haha.
The power traits gives back some of what you lose for going so far into defensive traits, mix that with signet of rage and for great justice being up so much, you will always have at least 3 stacks of might up and be doing a respectable amount of damage.
Also the heal skill to use here is Healing Surge, which heals a ton if you have full adrenaline and the minor traits in this build really synergize with that by giving you health regen while you have adrenaline, and you gain adrenaline when hit thanks to Embrace the Pain.
In my personal experience, I managed to fight a warrior yesterday who hit me 3 times with a full hundred blades duration. I don’t think they were a glass cannon build, but regardless, I came out of it with ~15k HP out of 30k. I was able to use my shouts to get me back up to ~19-20k HP. He then hit me for another burst and brought me back down to 15-16k and started to back off and use his own heal. I used healing surge and got back to full HP and my shouts were getting ready to come off of cooldown again. The enemy warrior went down real easy after that, because he couldn’t run away as I had infinite swiftness to catch him.
Also something to note, you can switch out Slashing Power for Death From Above when you’re under siege at a keep or tower and then just keep jumping off the wall onto the enemy and create a shockwave that knocks them down for 4 seconds. Great for harassing rams.
i run a similar build with hammer and sword/shield. traits are falling reduce dmg, missle reflect, last stand, merciless hammer, leg specialist, shout recharge faster, healing shout.
p/t/v gear with soldier rune, half ruby half emerald trinkets.
i use hammer for fights, always jump in and run in circles and stir some ape crap up, then switch weapon and shield block then jump back.
i dont crit alot, my crit only hits like 2k.
well with out any contribution into power, u get about 45 extra vit which is 450 health and far better off getting restorative strength or death from above. Restorative strength will help keep you from moving slow or death from above is great in wvw where u can cause stomps on enemy smashing gates to slow them down or save someone below where you are located. See what works for you, i forgot you arent running P/V/T gear, meaning that great fortitude will not give u much benefits unless you had over 2k power, meaning 1k+ health gain (not alot, but still not bad)
Yea I will try and get an even dose of Healing, VIT and TOU. I see a lot of replies talking about more offensive builds. Are tanky builds not really sought after in GW2? I’m still trying to figure the game out lol and wondering if my heavy defensiver build will help in WvW or just cause the enemy an extra 2 seconds of trouble while they burn me down…..
[ = ] So your a Guardian eh? It’s ok kid, not everyone is cut out to be a Warrior. [ = ]
Yea I will try and get an even dose of Healing, VIT and TOU. I see a lot of replies talking about more offensive builds. Are tanky builds not really sought after in GW2? I’m still trying to figure the game out lol and wondering if my heavy defensiver build will help in WvW or just cause the enemy an extra 2 seconds of trouble while they burn me down…..
Tanky builds are nice, but if you’re only a tank then you will just die slower.
The build I posted still gives you as much tanky-ness characteristics that you need, and focuses on shouts and adrenaline to give you power. Being a tank and also packing a respectable punch will allow you to be an unstoppable force.