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For all warriors a must see!!
Wanted to post it here if some didnt watched it :-) really awesome made!!

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/390pb1/i_made_another_song_this_time_about_warriors/?sort=new

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Epic song indeed.

This needs to be shown in the next Point Of Interest™©

Other than the lamenting of previous DPS numbers (it’s not like Warrior is weak right now), it was enjoyable.

Nice work! I’ll like & sub!

Edit: I just realised it’s not your video. Thanks for posting it!

Love it! and yes we have a right to lament our previous DPS cause it was awesome. The reason we aren’t weak is because the warriors that are left are the ones that stuck with the class through thick and thin and got good out of making the best out of a bad situation. We got nerfed so bad even Rytlock doesn’t want to play warrior anymore.

@Julie Yann:
Do you really want to talk about nerfs to someone who plays Mesmer too? ;-)

I am well aware what Warrior damage used to be. The continued viability despite said nerfs says much about how it used to be pre-nerf.

Sebrent.3625:

@Julie Yann:
Do you really want to talk about nerfs to someone who plays Mesmer too? ;-)

I am well aware what Warrior damage used to be. The continued viability despite said nerfs says much about how it used to be pre-nerf.

FWI We were less viable pre-dps nerf, for the first year we were the a joke. A joke with amazing killing power but no sustain. They nerfed the crap out of our DPS and gave us Cleansing Ire and Healing Signet buffs. Now we are reduced to stupid shoutbows, hambows, and banner bots with phalanx strength. Add to that the adrenaline decay and stability changes which is were a direct kick to the privates. At least Mesmers still feel like Mesmers. Warriors feel like some half baked Guardian, we just want to feel like warriors again.

Been here since beta. I know how it’s gone. Warrior wasn’t a joke since it was a key part of the early tourney teams since someone that couldn’t dodge/block out of Warrior attacks due to some CC was dead meat. It’s fluctuated from there, but always been viable.

Are you going to say that it’s worse to be pigeon-holed into particular builds for each meta as opposed to not being part of those metas?

If you look at the builds for each of the classes in each meta, their is very little, if any, variety for several of them. This is not an issue restricted to warriors. It also doesn’t mean that other warrior builds aren’t strong. They just aren’t as strong in each of those metas as the current metas builds. Heck, shoutbow (with elementalists) has mostly killed condi builds from the current sPvP meta. That is power.

Sebrent.3625:

Been here since beta. I know how it’s gone. Warrior wasn’t a joke since it was a key part of the early tourney teams since someone that couldn’t dodge/block out of Warrior attacks due to some CC was dead meat. It’s fluctuated from there, but always been viable.

Are you going to say that it’s worse to be pigeon-holed into particular builds for each meta as opposed to not being part of those metas?

If you look at the builds for each of the classes in each meta, their is very little, if any, variety for several of them. This is not an issue restricted to warriors. It also doesn’t mean that other warrior builds aren’t strong. They just aren’t as strong in each of those metas as the current metas builds. Heck, shoutbow (with elementalists) has mostly killed condi builds from the current sPvP meta. That is power.

If you go digging back 2 years worth of threads you will find that warrior had no place in high level PvP until we got healing sig/cleansing ire and until then warrior was only strong vs nubs that didn’t know how to dodge a skullcrack.

I was glad to have a place in the meta after those changes but being locked into a blackhole trait (CI) for 2 out of 3 game modes has taken it’s tole and it seems that every change Anet has made since then as further increased our dependance on that black hole (looking at you adrenaline nerf).

I’m not saying our current builds aren’t strong, hambow and shoutbow are both really good in group fights. It’s just that shoutbow is the g@yest (I lack the vocabulary to find a better adjective) of all warrior builds and hambow being a close second. Those 2 builds are getting buffed with the upcoming trait changes.

When it comes to PvE, we used to be at the top of the DPS scale with Eles and Thieves. Now our damage is quite mediocre at best and our main job is not actually killing but to increase everyone else DPS.

All of this so we could have a little sustain in PvP.

I don’t give 2 fecal matter about the threads. I was watching the tourney matches and Warriors were there right out the gates when the game launched.

Plenty of Warrior builds are actually strong in sPvP, not just those alternatives you mentioned … it’s just that shoutbow is that much stronger.

Lamenting that Warriors don’t do as much DPS as Elementalists and Thieves when those two are made of paper (Elementalist less so) is a bit silly, don’t you think? I’d love to see the Math for if you’re so adamant about it though.

That all said, I’m right there with you with being tired of the lack of build diversity … though, as I said, it’s not just an issue on our Warriors. Here’s to hoping that the upcoming Specialization changes provide an improvement in this area.

Amusingly, you know who has the most build diversity in any given meta? Those classes who aren’t part of that meta ;-)

Warrior’s were “good” at launch cause players didn’t know how to dodge properly or use stun breakers.

I gotta admit though, sometimes I miss the old Frenzy Bull’s Charge + 100b. Once people figured out the mechanics of the game they became obsolete.

@BurrTheKing:
Hey, don’t forget Bola! Remember the videos that came out to teach people the animations for Bull’s Charge and Bola’s so that they would know what to look out for? Lol!

I believe you are right as far as 1v1ing Warriors because many people didn’t know and weren’t used to the combat style yet.

As far as group fights, I think Warrior did and still does scale very well into large fights. Team fights, someone can help hold down some poor sod for a Warrior to go ham on … or a Ham warrior can do that for someone else ;-)

I think this time is for good…

People, try to not ruin the topic by talking about balance.