Guild Wars 2

Got him all geared out with zerkers armor/weaps/jewelry/ruby orbs with Mellandru’s and 0 0 30 10 30 spec (thank you warrior boards).

I’ve been running him in WvW and I definitely need practice but I can see the appeal. The movement is very different than my Mesmer.

What I wanted to share was the result of some informal testing I did in Orr against L80 mobs (Risen mobs). Basically I was running through Greatsword, hammer, and sword/axe/shield to see how fast it killed single mobs . I ran through about 10 iterations with each weapon starting off with bulls rush and running through the skills and using F1 each time. I wouldn’t switch and auto attack as required. Timing was on my iphone just as I hit the gap closer.

It turned out Greatsword was best at 10 seconds, followed by axe/shield at 11 sec followed by sword/shield at 13. I used all the skills in the right spots. Hammer was bad at 16 plus seconds.

I also did testing on rifle and LB. Both were around 16 seconds using the F1 skills.

All this is fine and dandy but there is a twist. I also tested out my Mesmer who has a “black water” toughness/condi stealth/clone death spec. This spec has a reputation for doing weak damage especially with staff. So I tested staff the same way as the zerkers weaps. I would drop 2 clones a phantasm/ chaos storm and auto attack. Using these rules mobs died to Mesmer staff in an averaged of 12 seconds.

Yup that is right between axe and sword and not too far off from Greatsword. Just dropping three clones and auto attack would take 15 seconds. This was better than rifle using F1 skills.

I thought these results were interesting and thought you might appreciate the irony.

So warriors don’t have the best damage? Shocker.

No seriously, welcome to warrior. You will love it. And that’s from somebody who started with mesmer also. Warrior feels more… active.

Cygnus.6903:

So warriors don’t have the best damage? Shocker.

No seriously, welcome to warrior. You will love it. And that’s from somebody who started with mesmer also. Warrior feels more… easymode.

Fixed.

Marsares.2053:

Cygnus.6903:

So warriors don’t have the best damage? Shocker.

No seriously, welcome to warrior. You will love it. And that’s from somebody who started with mesmer also. Warrior feels more… easymode.

Fixed.

Trolling much?

Heimdallr.7021:

Marsares.2053:

Cygnus.6903:

So warriors don’t have the best damage? Shocker.

No seriously, welcome to warrior. You will love it. And that’s from somebody who started with mesmer also. Warrior feels more… easymode.

Fixed.

Trolling much?

Naw, he’s just sick of getting kicked on a bearbow.

Each weapon’s damage is irrelevant. A strength of warrior is being able to swap weapons (Fast Hands) often to maximize damage output. Mesmer can get away with autoattacking more because the phantasms out are dealing damage. But autoattacking rather than swapping to your sword for a Final Thrust is just overtly hand-tying yourself.

Seras.5702:

Each weapon’s damage is irrelevant. A strength of warrior is being able to swap weapons (Fast Hands) often to maximize damage output. Mesmer can get away with autoattacking more because the phantasms out are dealing damage. But autoattacking rather than swapping to your sword for a Final Thrust is just overtly hand-tying yourself.

I could also have shattered my clones, swapped to sword/blurred frenzy on the mes. It goes both ways.

Nothing against warriors it is just a lot closer than I thought. I have been playing warrior quite a bit hence the testing. I am thinking these anet devs might know what they are doing actually

Flissy.4093:

Heimdallr.7021:

Marsares.2053:

Cygnus.6903:

So warriors don’t have the best damage? Shocker.

No seriously, welcome to warrior. You will love it. And that’s from somebody who started with mesmer also. Warrior feels more… easymode.

Fixed.

Trolling much?

Naw, he’s just sick of getting kicked on a bearbow.

Not really, HamBows aren’t a problem for my Lockdown Mesmer.

I just find it hilarious that someone is going from a Blackwater Mesmer (which is the cheesy easymode spec for Mesmers) to a HamBow Warrior (which is the cheesy easymode spec for GW2 in general).

Easymode much?

Marsares.2053:

Flissy.4093:

Heimdallr.7021:

Marsares.2053:

Cygnus.6903:

So warriors don’t have the best damage? Shocker.

No seriously, welcome to warrior. You will love it. And that’s from somebody who started with mesmer also. Warrior feels more… easymode.

Fixed.

Trolling much?

Naw, he’s just sick of getting kicked on a bearbow.

Not really, HamBows aren’t a problem for my Lockdown Mesmer.

I just find it hilarious that someone is going from a Blackwater Mesmer (which is the cheesy easymode spec for Mesmers) to a HamBow Warrior (which is the cheesy easymode spec for GW2 in general).

Easymode much?

quercus.9261:

Marsares.2053:

Flissy.4093:

Heimdallr.7021:

Marsares.2053:

Cygnus.6903:

So warriors don’t have the best damage? Shocker.

No seriously, welcome to warrior. You will love it. And that’s from somebody who started with mesmer also. Warrior feels more… easymode.

Fixed.

Trolling much?

Naw, he’s just sick of getting kicked on a bearbow.

Not really, HamBows aren’t a problem for my Lockdown Mesmer.

I just find it hilarious that someone is going from a Blackwater Mesmer (which is the cheesy easymode spec for Mesmers) to a HamBow Warrior (which is the cheesy easymode spec for GW2 in general).

Easymode much?

<insert something witty here>

welcome to the warrior profession (kina late but better now then never lol) try to ignore the trolls and general non sense that does tend to show up on the warrior fourms although if you do have a question feel free to ask.