Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone,

This is my first post on here, so I apologize in advanced for being a little new to forums, and if I’m posting in the wrong place.

I currently have a level 37 warrior who has been a GS and longbow warrior the whole time. Although I have no complaints about the current build I’m using, I’m very eager to try out a dual axe build because it looks very appealing to me.

I’ve created a build that I was going to try out here:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAnXTjkOJvNP6OMRCAzjiGKoTBqUFaLp4M0A

But, before I give it a try, I wanted to get some general feedback on the build from you guys to see if there needs to be any general fixing. Any constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated. I usually look up builds that I use and don’t really create my own, so sorry if my build needs some major work haha.

A few thoughts and comments about the build:

I will most likely switch between healing signet and healing surge, depending on the situation, although I plan to use healing signet most of the time.

I wasn’t 100% sure about putting shake it off in there, but I decided to go with it. The 3 other skills I was debating on using were either Berserker Stance, Endure Pain, or On My Mark, so maybe I should use one of those?

Also, I don’t really know what sigil’s I would use on my weapons, or what type of armor and runes I would use. I was thinking either Knight’s or Berserker’s armor, with some type of runes. Any advice on sigils and runes as well as jewelry would also be very appreciated.

Thanks in advanced for your critique and help.

OH Axe = worst weapon for warrior in this game (There is nothing worse atm).

shimzor.6057:

OH Axe = worst weapon for warrior in this game (There is nothing worse atm).

sword?

shimzor.6057:

OH Axe = worst weapon for warrior in this game (There is nothing worse atm).

Would you recommend I stick with GS then?

Lighter.5631:

shimzor.6057:

OH Axe = worst weapon for warrior in this game (There is nothing worse atm).

sword?

OH sword can block and with the dps on an axe auto axe oh offers nothing. Axe OH was used in builds before the life steal food got nerfed (fixed) because the spin offers a high number of hits per second, which allowed for a spike in self healing. These foods now have an internal cooldown so spiking how rapidly you score hits doesn’t help when it comes with a drop in dps.

Is the fury from axe4 not worth using?

Rebort.6295:

Is the fury from axe4 not worth using?

Not when you have FGJ and Signet of Rage up all the time anyway. Fury from Axe 4 is totally redundant and would give you a net drop in DPS compared to having offhand mace and including Mace 4 (vulnerability) in your rotation while GS attacks are on cooldown.

The offhand axe like mentioned before was only good with the food healing and if you are using the whirl finisher on top of a combo field (like the longbow fire field), but anywhere else, you are going to out dps with autoattacks from the axe or other abilities

I’m not sure what you’re trying to accomplish here. You’ve got some amazing weapons but you’re using them for entirely the wrong purpose. My axe/axe longbow build can be found here. Somehow I’ve got much higher power, much higher precision, much higher toughness, much higher condition damage and far greater critical damage. The only two things your build outdoes mine in are boon duration and vitality, which don’t best it by much.

Axes are meant to crit, so if you’re not planning on utilizing those crits to proc sigils or traited crit-based conditions on them I’d ditch them, same goes with having axes for damage, and not being a damage spec. Longbow as well. It’s for conditions, and it’s a utility, not a tanking tool.

To me it looks as though you’re trying to support your allies, and that’s just not what you get out of those weapons.

WHAT I USE OFFHAND AXE FOR:
When you use offhand axe, always make sure you have fury up before using the 5 skill. This can be obtained through the 4 skill. I personally rely on proccing bleeds and vulnerability on my enemies using the rapid crit succession that whirlwind axe gives, so to me it isn’t useless at all. It makes my build, so in the words of Zojja, thank you, “ignorant clods.”

Anyway, you’ve got to look at what you want to do. I can’t help you with your build because it doesn’t have a direction. You want damage, but you want shouts and boons, and you also want longbow range, and you don’t have Sweet Revenge which is a huge mistake.

Lighter.5631:

shimzor.6057:

OH Axe = worst weapon for warrior in this game (There is nothing worse atm).

sword?

Sword provides a block> better than axe #4
and a single target attack that does a little more than lvl 1 evis, i’ve gotten it to hit for 16k. 25 might that whole deal.
So it is actually a better pvp weapon and can be a better pve weapon since most mobs’ big attacks can be stopped with a single block.

on the other hand @ op just because axe has some nice traits in the str line doesn’t mean you should neglect better traits to get them.
Axe is mean to burst mainly the burst will be without a doubt your biggest source of dps and must be used whenever it is up. BUT you most also not neglect the huge damage modifiers such as beserkers power and H.focus.
20 points into tactics just for shout recharge isn’t that great, as a warrior FGJ is up enough to keep perma fury anyways, and even without shout recharge SiO is still your fastest recharging stunbreak, 25 seconds is pretty low, and if you want to run zerker or anything non tanky you shouldn’t be getting hit as much as you think you will.

I like a few different trait set up’s for axe only builds.
the first 2 require you to be spamming F1 every 8 seconds.
str10 with V
arms 30 with V, VI, and XI
Disc30 with V, IX, and XI
this build is best if you’re just killing single targets, things like cof P1 farming or hotw, mainly things with little to no mobs to deal with, even though you will be losing your adren a lot both arms XI and disc IX, with X will get your adren back up asap to make the most out of your str V and disc V. Axe 5 should be saved for only places that have 4+ mobs, otherwise the auto attack provides better damage to 3 or less, and the auto will still fill your adren just as fast against 3 mobs
-note since you are a warrior and runnign zerker your attack should be around 3.1-3.2k the extra 10 or 20 into str isn’t going to make as much of a difference as 20% burst CD or the extra adren on crit.
Next is
str 15, V again
arms 25, V and VI or III i don’t care i think VI is better since you will lack the utility of a shield or mace extra dodges are always nice also note that the 25 minor point in arms is better than both axe mastery and dual wielding combined (by 1% IIRC) regardless viking takes 20 into arms and neglects it for sweet revenge which is probably a completely useless pve trait, also again your power should reach 2k + (mine hit 2201) and your crit damage should be well over 100 making higher crit chance the best option to add damage rather than more power or crit damage, and the 15 point minor trait is just, needed, there is nothing worst than an eviscerate that doesn’t crit.
Disc 30, V, IX, XI again
this is a build better for places you fight a lot of unavoidable trash, you won’t need the extra adren to build from the arms trait because you’ll be hitting multiple targets more often, and the str 15 is a free dodge for every evis. which is nice against trash.

Either of these could be used with axe/mace and shield on swap. This would provide 2 sources of defiance removal blocks and of course vuln stacking.

lastly
str 30, V, VIII, X
arms, V, VI, XI
Disc 10, V
This build would provide the most effective power to a dual axe build, so all of your attacks including eviscerate should hit harder, however I feel the loss of burst cd and not building adren as fast would turn out less dps than the other 2, unless you never touched F1, then it might be better not sure. either way you lose fast hands in this build and I just don’t like that lol.
Build #1
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/warrior/?8.0|7.1g.h2.7.1g.h1h|7.0.0.e.1g.h4|1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7|2s.0.2s.0.3s.0.2s.0.3s.0.2s.0|a5.u56b.0.0.u59b|0.0|0.0.0.0.0|e

and lastly just so I am not trolled I personally use axe/mace +gs with the best dps set up 20/25/0/10/15.