Guild Wars 2

I’m kind of interested in what kinds of slot skills people choose in PvP and why. I feel like warriors have a lot of nice choices when it comes to slot skills so I’m having issues on deciding which ones are nice to use.

Bulls Charge, Frenzy, Endure Pain… like all the cool kids used too.

wasn’t frenzy nerfed?

I take Bulls charge, Balanced stance and Fear me, playing primarily as roaming dps. Bulls charge has awesome range and often in team fights people wont see it coming then you can follow up with half a 100b if they stun break or land a full 100b in some situations. Balanced stance is a no brainer, it helps you stomp and get out of situations where you could get combod down, some people take endure pain over this but the increased 50s cd leaves you vulnerable for longer and in most good teams they will have condi heavy classes which endure pain doesn’t resist and you can still get burst down. Fear me comes in handy in many situations, resing a downed ally, pushing people off point for a cap but i use it mostly after an enemy has used a stun break/has no stability when they are at 50% or so hp then follow it up with an axe 3 (traited for immobilize) to almost always land an eviscerate and finish them off.

what heals do you use?

also why not dolyak signet instead of balanced stance?

I take mending for the condi remove, slightly shorter cd and the fact that in most cases when you need to heal you wont be at full adrenaline anyway. The adrenaline gain from the heal does help in some situations but i find mending to be more useful.

Dolyak has a cast time and if you’re against good players you wont get it off without being stunlocked and owned. It also has a 20s longer cd.

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also why not dolyak signet instead of balanced stance?

In order of importance:

Balanced Stance breaks stun, Dolyak Signet does not.
Balanced Stance is instant on use, Dolyak Signet is not.
Balanced Stance has a cool down of 40 seconds for 8 seconds of stability
Dolyak Signet is on a 60 second cool down for 8 seconds of stability.
Even with signet mastery trait you will only get Dolyak Signet down to 48 second recharge, which is still worse than balanced stance.

All around the only thing Dolyak Signet does that Balanced Stance can not is add 90 passive armor….. which is useless in almost all situations. Hope that helps.

Links:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Balanced_Stance
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dolyak_Signet