Guild Wars 2

With with upcoming changes to Vigorous Shouts and Quick Breathing being moved to Adept I’ve started working on some rough drafts of possible builds. For any sort of tanky build you’ll of course need 30 into tactics but also 20 into defense for Last Stand if you plan of taking 3 shouts, you need some form of Stability. As to what shouts to take the two given ones are For Great Justice or Shake it Off. The last one is probably going to be personal preference. On my Mark will recharge twice as fast as Fear Me, but up to 3 seconds AoE fear is certainly good for clearing points as well. I’m also unsure on what Amulet to run. Cleric would be good for high heals but Valk gives you more power and critical damage, which means you should still deal some decent damage when you’re using Unsuspecting Foe.

Replace “Empower Allies” with “Quick Breathing.”

Build 1

Adrenaline gain on this one will be pretty low but you’ll also be using less because you don’t have a Longbow.

Build 2

More adrenaline gain here, no Fast Hands is probably going to be off the table no matter what build because I don’t like the idea of any stun based build without Unsuspecting Foe.

Build 3

A DPS focused build. With Restorative Strength, Berserker Stance, and Quick Breathing you should hopefully be able to keep conditions off you long enough to take down your target. I could actually see Bow + Sword/Warhorn being better considering how hard Arching Shot and Final Thrust can hit, not to mention Combustive Shot.

These builds are still fairly rough around the edges. I’m not really sure healing shouts will see that much use in PvP considering support isn’t all that popular, I don’t feel that healing + Regen alone will make Warrior good mid bunkers (you can get Protection from QB but you have to remove vulnerability and it’s not reliable), although they could be decent home ones. I do know it’ll give WvW Warriors a chance to change up their playstyle though.

Range on shouts and warhorn skills make this not as good as it sounds for group play. 600 range is pitifully small.

Yaki.9563:

Range on shouts and warhorn skills make this not as good as it sounds for group play. 600 range is pitifully small.

Yea 600 range is garbage is you play with a bunch of zerging militia who couldn’t make a melee stack if you taped them all together. If you run with a group that can make a proper melee stack for cleaving targets, then it goes from mediocre to amazing.

WH is the most underestimated weapon in the game. I kill more people roaming 1v1 on a SWH/H Shout Warrior than I do on my Condi Thief or Shatter Mesmer.

Optimal? Nope. Hilarious? Yes.

This game is more about experience playing something you like effectively than it is about running the “optimal” build. I am sure it helps that I have about 800 more hours on my Warrior than my other classes as well.