[Motivation]
The Korean Gamer was watching ROMpage’s twitch, we were talking about warrior and mesmers, tourney stuffs and here is important part.
ROM said “Korean, you were settler shoutbow warrior right? I read your document in the Warrior forum”
Korean said “Yes… since anet nerfed shout I changed it to settler with on-kill sigil but I guess no one gonna use it..”
ROM said “yeah Korean. I might use your build but people like to damage, but it’s settler”
Korean said “Yeah, maybe I am kittened. Cya, ROM. I gotta sleep. Have a nice day”
ROM said “oh yeah, Korean, I hope to see you someday later!”
… and Korean was about to sleep on the bed..
Korean thought ‘Haa… Should I quit this game? I am so tired of this game… God… DD cele ele isn’t getting any nerf for more than year, and now Mesmer 20k dmg in 2sec.. and moreover my lovely shout got nerfed badly. What should I do?’.
Korean involuntarily was recalling back past memory on the bed, from the start of the game to now. Among those memory, there was one thing that comes into Korean’s mind like lightening.
Holycowow (AtoBoss.2906), Korean’s previous former dueling friend in dueling arena. He was saying “HAHAHA I am BEST WARRIOR in the WORLD with this!! LOOK this Korean! I even killed Vassangel with this!!”. Korean looked it. Oh, he was holding something on his hand, oh that was so tall.. which was banner!
[Brief Build Overview]
Tanky, supportive warrior build for PvP mixed with more offensive capabilities with a selection of Banners. The build aims from intermediate to advanced level of warrior users who want to migrate from Sword-warhorn weapon set (ShoutBow) to their preference weapon set while keeping Shout & Banner heals.
[Build Address]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xalCZqeNBX4IR7TNtgpcKGJVEHamzyVX8gizI89jEQc/edit?usp=sharing
[Play Videos of the Build]
- SoloQ on Ranked Arena (3 Rounds) :
http://www.twitch.tv/the_korean_gamer/c/7016394
- Play on Unranked Arena :
http://www.twitch.tv/the_korean_gamer/c/7003908
- Banner Shout vs Blind Spam Thief on Ranked Arena
http://www.twitch.tv/the_korean_gamer/c/7013701
- Banner Shout vs DD cele ele on Dueling Arena (2 Rounds)
http://www.twitch.tv/the_korean_gamer/c/7013695
[Winning Rate]
I have tested it in both ranked and unranked arena by only SoloQ (including match against premades). At minimum, I got 65%+ winning rate (more than 2.5 wins per 1 lose) in Ranked Arena and 70%+ (more than 3 wins per 1 lose) in Unranked Arena. If you run it in premade team, you can obtain higher winning rate than this.
[Personal Review]
First of all, I couldn’t be able to find real improvement of winning rate in both Ranked and Unranked Arena as compared to ShoutBow Build. But I am pretty sure that is because there is too many unpredictable things when you only solo-queuing. However, what I did see obviously are the improvement of dueling and support and DPS capability. So I would recommend this build to people who want to use different weapon other than ShoutBow’s Sword-warhorn/Longbow but also want to use Shout over Stance. I don’t think it can be meta and only few people would use it, but it can be a pioneer build for people who want to combine both zerker and support parts of warrior all together!
[Review from The Community]
ulchanar.4309:
The idea is nice, combining shout and banner heal wasn’t possible before the patch so this should definitely be tested. The low base crit chance is nicely compensated by precision from banner/sigil and the high Fury uptime.
bssbruno.1487:
Ok, I’ve tested the build a little more, so let me give some proper feedback:
Overall, as I’ve already stated, playing this “Banner Rampage Shout” is better than the shoutbow builds. First of all, the banner is a nice addition to team fights (specially since you can apply a regen of 18.000 hit points =o). It’s better than “Fear Me”.
The shouts are good for healing and buffing the whole party (and can even be used as an active healing, if you are desperate). Now I’m having A LOT of trouble to use Stance builds. The lack of healing makes me angry. =)
… and more!
Author’s other builds
- ShoutBow (PvP)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tOoHWBPY6kmYj4dlW6x0PwGfExKpBc1vAI4ZyT4LEic/edit?usp=sharing - GreatRifle (WvW)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZthFMxbmtP0nHxqfRC02JkmQM1MZ0XasAxztIAwaVQ8/edit?usp=sharing
Best Regards,
The Korean Gamer
My Stream : http://www.twitch.tv/eSportsKorea see me vs Tarcis, Chaith, Crysis and etc!
(edited by online.1278)