Guild Wars 2

So, decided to play around with my warrior a little tonight as it’s been about 6 months since I last played it, and decided to put together a build that focused on some group support and ranged dps. My guild, when we have the people on to do a small roaming group, is usually not ever more than 5 people on, so I end up solo/duo/trio a lot. Most of my guild is into Thief right now, so since they’re focused more on melee’ing, I figured I’d try switching out of my Thief and Ranger and giving my Warrior a go.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-s;4VKkN0_4FL-60;9;5T-T9;156A;158B3;06-k0S;1CqNYCqNYBBlr0-g290;1kVq0u1zY4_Aa6Z-870HV8aNX8ay

Weapons: Rifle, Sword/Warhorn weapon swap for sword charge mobility, swiftness for group, as well as vigor for group, weakness on enemies and condition cleansing.

Sigils: Bloodlust/Battle for Might on swap, although really up to preference

Armor: I went with full Berserker to maximize my damage output from range

Runes: Went with Soldier for the shout condition removal bonus

Primary focus of this build is to provide group with vigor and swiftness through the Warhorn, while also putting Weakness on the enemy when they close on you to keep your survivability up. Shouts to heals and do condition removal for the group. Rifle for high burst damage and spreading bleeds, plus a Kill Shot that manages to hit multiple targets for 10K+ is a thing of beauty.

The first trait in Tactics can really be left up to you for your choice, as 1, 2, 3, and 6 are all very good choices. Rifle has the knockback and cripple, S/W has weakness, a nice execute to use at enemy low hp, and the charge on a short cooldown you can use to either close the gap or widen it if you get caught in a bad way in melee. On My Mark utility can be substituted for Fear Me to add in some extra cushion if needed. I’m pretty sure that about covers it for me tonight.

Feel free to give me some constructive feedback or questions you may have. I am by no means a Warrior expert, especially considering I’ve just returned to the game after about a half year off, but the build worked well enough for me solo roaming tonight. Had a lot of 1v1’s and only lost 1 to a very well played warrior, a few 1v2, 1v3’s that I still managed to eek out, and then a 1v1 that quickly turned to a 1v8 or so and managed to get away with all the mobility offered in this build. Was a fun first night of testing that went well, considering I didn’t even have my small group this build was meant for.

EDIT Food Buffs: Currently using the level 70 Squash soup for Precision/Crit damage, and the level 60/65(whichever it is) Sharpening Stone. I’m too cheap to buy the level 80 versions, although the level 80 Power/Crit squash soup would be preferable, but about 5x’s as expensive.

-Drop rifle, take Longbow. You will do fine with longbow if wearing zerker. Longbow is superior against groups and is relatively fast in rotation compared with rifle. Rifle 3..pew…pew..pew..oops wait..they dodged in the middle =/.
You can fire your arrows and switch and use warhorn then switch back again.

-The lack of endure pain or AOE knockbacks might be problematic if you are being focused. The rifle knockback won’t help against multiple targets.

-No stability. One ring of warding and you’re kittened.

-Stacking sigil weapons: Stack on NPCs near spawn and leave the weapons in your bags. Use different weapons with weapon sigils when you can afford them. If everyone in your group carries stack weapons and drops them in their bags after, stacking should be very fast as soon as you take off from spawn.

-Your shouts won’t heal for much. Wear a zerker amulet in spvp and test out how much healing you get using your build.

What I hate about shout builds is that they heal for little and you have to sacrifice a lot to get that build.

Think your armor is to low a thief/mesmer would down you in secs.

No stability. I would change “On my mark” for EP or balanced stance/Doly signet or if you want to keep 3 shouts “fear me”

If I were zerg surfing, I would for sure be using Longbow instead of rifle, but mostly plan on using this build for solo/small group roaming with the guild, where we focus more on single target bursting our targets. The should healing is about 1.2k per, which isn’t great, but it’s enough to make a little bit of a difference in the middle of a fight since they’re on semi-short cooldowns. As for stability, all my shouts remove conditions, which includes stuns/roots and such as well. But it’s like I said in my first post, this build is more just a guideline for what I just threw together last night. There are plenty of interchangable bits to this build to suit your needs however you see fit.