Guild Wars 2

Okay so as of now warriors only have access to F1 for a burst skill. Right now stances seem to be complete garbage. So here is my idea. Why don’t we put the stances in f2-f4 (f1 still being burst with adrenaline). For example f2 would be balanced stance and would give your weapon a different set of skills which would be both offensive and defensive. F3 could be defensive stance, where you would take 10% less Damage while in this stance how ever your attacks are mainly defensive with less damage. Finally f4 would be be serker stance where you would take more damage but deal more damage. This would basically be just like the elementalist attunements. Instead of stances being utility skills it could be like mental skills or something. Idk not a developer, but I could see something like this balancing the warrior to be more effective.

Give me your thoughts warriors!!!

Defensive Stance would have to have heals/condition cures built in then.

Stances on the F2-4 have been suggested before and I do agree it makes a degree of sense, make it something you can toggle on/off and literally put your character into a ‘stance’.

I believe in original design (by the way they were described on the old design of the GW2 site) that stances were meant to be toggled, draining adrenaline as they went. I think it would help add some depth to the class, of course many will say we aren’t meant to have depth and are meant to be the ‘n00b’ class, but who wants that! (That’s what Rangers are for)

If they’re going to introduce stances, they should do it for more than just warriors.

It has been suggested on the elementalist forum for example to give them elite skills that put them in offensive/defensive/precision stance (mostly because all of their elite skills are crap). A similar idea for Warriors would be cool, but pepole would argue the last thing this class needs is more damage.

This late in the game though? I wouldn’t hold out much hope.

Call them combat “forms” so as not to confuse them with actual stances, and give them unique properties? Yeah, I’ve had a similar idea and have always thought it would be awesome and fitting of warriors as the supposed masters of weaponry.