Guild Wars 2

Hello!

I’ve been playing around with the thought of a support warrior! I’ve grown a bit tired of the basic GS crit build, and i wanted to know if its worth it to go support warrior?

Also i dont know if the Guardian can do the support role so good, that nobody would want a warrior if they could get a guardian for support.

- Mabubu

Of course Guardian is tons better for defensive support; even support Elementalists, Rangers, Necros, Engis and some Thief builds are much better.
For offensive support nothing beats a Warrior, we can provide up to 265 power to the team and permanent Fury.

Our tactics grandmasters’ benefits are not worth the big DPS loss, and are barely noticiable in a team setting – if you want to provide support, provide damage buffs and DPS.

^ what Hanna said.

I have also been wondering, if i wanna go for an offensive support warrior, what Orr karma set should i set for?

And thank you for the quick answers

Using healing shouts/banners and using them respectively as utilities is about as support as you can get. Whilst I myself haven’t used the warhorn yet I’ve heard nothing but good things on group condition reversal.

It is almost expected of a warrior to be a full zerker.

Once you group up and people hear you are anything other then a zerker you will likely be treated like someone with disease.

Sad part is, even if you are full zerker you will be treated badly by the group for “downing” much, if the squad gets wiped and you still alive (all that V &T) you will be cursed for not killing the mobs quickly enough.

We are in trouble either way.

I play a support warrior and i am doing quite well in fractals 35+. Never had complaints that i aint a zerc warrior.

I use sword/warhorn + longbow. 0/20/20/30/0 and with armor/food i run with a 90% boon duration.

I give the group perma vigor, regen, swiftness, might, 50% fury uptime and 1 bannerbuff. And with warhorn i convert 2 conditions per 16 sec in a boon.

My dps cant be compared with a full zerc warrior but then again it isnt ment to be.

It all depends on the kind of support you want to play. I play a banner warrior with banner of defense, bulls charge, a longbow for the immobilize, and a main hand sword for the burst immobilize (along with berserker stance), and sometimes a shield for the stun all while building as tanky as I can. I might not deal a whole lot of damage, but since I play a lot of WvW if I catch you you’re going to fall to my team.

Eldarion, what stats are you running on armor, and what runes/sigils? Im looking for a build like this as it seems it would work decently in PVP as well.

Yes, if you would, can you put up a build? Your setup sounds great.

I am a support warrior too.

My build is 10/20/0/30/10 for shout heal build. I run dungeon and WvW and both pretty good. I got 2 set of gear, cleric and knight set.

For cleric gear i have soldier rune for a more defensive and supportive approach ; the knight set with altruism rune and monk rune mixed upto 60% boon duration to get prem buff from signet of rage for a more offensive and mobility approach.

Weapon choice i switch between GS / 1h sword + shield / 1h sword + warhorn / rifle

Yea, as a warrior my dps is not as good as a zerker but hey we are soldiers!

WE SUPPORT EACH OTHER!

Foegrim.6549:

Eldarion, what stats are you running on armor, and what runes/sigils? Im looking for a build like this as it seems it would work decently in PVP as well.

K i am doing this from memory since i am at work atm. I use this build in PvE.
I hardly go WvW and never been to PvP. No idea if it works there.

Traits 0/20/20/30/0
Arms III Deep Cuts and Blademaster
Defence III Sure Footed VIII Last stand
Tactics II Empowerd Allies (or VI empowerd if other warrior use II) IX Quick Breathing XI Inspiring Battle Standards

Runes: 2x Superior Monk, 2x Superior Water, 2x Major Sactuary (40% Boon duration)
Sigil: Sword (Accuracy), Warhorn (Battle) + Longbow (Battle)

Gear:
Armor: Knight
Weapons: Knight
Trinkets: Precision/Thougness/Condition (Condition Major stat)

Food: Chocolate Omnomberry Cream (20% boon duration), Superior Sharpening Stone.

Utility: Healing Surge, FGJ, Balanced Stance, Banner of Strength (or other depending on group), SoR

So 40% + 30% + 20% = + 90% boon duration.

With the extra boon duration and use of my own combo field, sigils and skills i can stack myself with 25 stacks of might, perma fury, perma vigor, perma swiftness, perma regen. And to group perma might (210 (FgJ), 90 (Banner), 70 (Trait)= 370 power (even more with aura of might procs)), perma vigor, swiftness and regen with 50% fury.

Apart from the nice boons and power buffs i give to my party with my 2 warhorn skills (16CD) i turn 1 condition in a buff (burning —> aegis! very handy in lava fractal) with a 1200 range!

Stats with my own buffs/food: 3.2k power, 1.6k condition damage, about 85% crit chance (no extra crit damage), 3.2k armor, 22k health (This is without ascended earrings)
Another nice thing in this build is the stabilty with last stand and balance stand i get 32s of stabilty and 8 sec later another 16 seconds.

And if u guys start crying about low effective power i dont give a kitten. I personally hate all zerc warriors because 95% of them cant play for kitten.

Louis.3568:

I have also been wondering, if i wanna go for an offensive support warrior, what Orr karma set should i set for?

And thank you for the quick answers

None of them. The karma sets are terrible for practically any warrior build. Don’t believe anyone who tells you otherwise.