Guild Wars 2

Are you addicted to the Tactics Trait line? I know I am. I simply can’t imagine a build that doesn’t max Tactics.

13 seconds Swiftness on a 16 seconds cooldown with Warhorn. A mere few seconds of downtime on Signet of Rage (with Signet Mastery Trait).

The list goes on. I fear I am limiting my build options, but kitten it, I am too addicted…

You can use 2 monk/water/air(or others) runes to max boon durations so you can start working away a bit from that tactics tree. I love the tactics tree too, but there’s other nice traits outside of it!

The only thing i always find myself taking is the Warhorn trait, i’ve come to love that trait so much, i just can’t seem to create a build without it now.

osif.8673:

You can use 2 monk/water/air(or others) runes to max boon durations so you can start working away a bit from that tactics tree. I love the tactics tree too, but there’s other nice traits outside of it!

I don’t really wanna lose the benefit of my lovely Soldier runes though…

What a dilemma.

I used to love it. Then I tried the DPS trees. No more tactics for me. Ever.

I fell in love with boon duration a long time ago when i was still pursuing the need for condition warrior to work, and it was the only way i could do it (1750+ condition damage). Of course boon duration has ridiculous amounts of bonuses, but i felt it wasn’t able to duel against other classes/builds that well and the lack of pure direct burst dps was far better at applying damage. About a month ago i changed to make a Dueling type warrior that changed my view on how to play warriors and no longer use boon duration, albeit i miss all the juicy bonuses from it, i don’t ever regret trying to use boon duration as a basis for any build. Even made a guide for it and explain how you can almost use it with any weapon/build you could want.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Boon-Guide-Universal-Build/first#post1244240

I think Warhorn is hilarious. I practically don’t swap weapons anymore, just my axe and my boon duration buffed converted conditions for me and my party. Maybe I’m just understanding more how conditions land but I hardly miss Mending or Shake it off.

don’t like it all too much to be honest, warrior boons last as long as most combat situations so I never felt the need for the tactics tree as the other trees had more useful skills.

Although I almost always get tactic 10 in pvp for the immobilization trait.

Amazing tree, minor traits though…

Most of my warrior builds are centered around the tactics line for the boon duration. On top of that, my various sets of armor use a mix of boon duration Runes. On one build, Might has a bonus of 65% duration, Swiftness has 65% duration, and everything else has 50%.

It boils down to:

• FGJ’s Might has a 41.25s duration on a 20 second cooldown
• SoR’s Might and Swiftness have a 49.5s duration on a 48s cooldown and 1s cast
• Between FGJ, SoR, Fury eventually maxes out

So, 11 stacks of Might, Swiftness and Fury permanently. I normally take Empowered for the extra damage per boon, which is even more fun when my guardian shout/altruistic healer is around… BOOOOOOOOOONS!!!!

Even for my burst build, I still drop 20 in tactics.
Leg specialist and empowered are traits that are just too good for me to pass up… for me :P

phantomFury.9168:

Most of my warrior builds are centered around the tactics line for the boon duration. On top of that, my various sets of armor use a mix of boon duration Runes. On one build, Might has a bonus of 65% duration, Swiftness has 65% duration, and everything else has 50%.

It boils down to:

• FGJ’s Might has a 41.25s duration on a 20 second cooldown
• SoR’s Might and Swiftness have a 49.5s duration on a 48s cooldown and 1s cast
• Between FGJ, SoR, Fury eventually maxes out

So, 11 stacks of Might, Swiftness and Fury permanently. I normally take Empowered for the extra damage per boon, which is even more fun when my guardian shout/altruistic healer is around… BOOOOOOOOOONS!!!!

O_O
You alone are easily stacking 10+ minutes of fury over the course, too hardcore -.-.

I just wish there were runes that added boon duration with something other than healing power.

The reason I’m not tempted to take boon duration in general (beyond the tactics line) is because Warrior doesn’t have many boons that apply to the party, unlike Guardians. 3 might stacks and short duration fury is all, vigor is up permanently anyway with warhorn 5 + all the bleed conversion.

Soldier runes seem great but removing just one condition invariably means you’re removing bleed which gets instantly reapplied, though it is nice on Shake It Off because you remove 2 conditions which greatly increases the likelihood of removing one that actually matters.

Evalia.7103:

You alone are easily stacking 10+ minutes of fury over the course, too hardcore -.-.

Actually furry stops stacking past 2-3 minutes of duration, swiftness too. All the boons have soft caps where if your duration is over that cap new attempts to apply that boon do nothing till you fall below that cap. Still you can keep it up constantly on yourself and can even do the same for your group as long as your willing to pick up the banner of disciplin and cast the 2 skill every 10s along with the standard FGJ spam.

Personaly I love the boon duration on the tactics line, the minors of the line kinda blow but the majors have several very strong build options. I tend to play more of a support role however, currently runing 0/0/20/30/20 with hammer, axe/warhorn, and healing banners. Not particularly high damage on my own but providing a good bit of CC for my team and alot of boons/converted conditions an tough as nails to kill.

Going 30 tactics for boon duration is like going with a blonde for an intellectual talk.

Seriously, rune of the monk/sanctuary/water = 45% boon duration = full upkeep of SoR.
And then you can go deep into the real Warrior trees.

Red Falcon.8257:

Going 30 tactics for boon duration is like going with a blonde for an intellectual talk.

Seriously, rune of the monk/sanctuary/water = 45% boon duration = full upkeep of SoR.
And then you can go deep into the real Warrior trees.

But then instead of “sacrificing” Trait points for Boon Duration, you’re “sacrificing” proper Rune slots for Boon Duration, are you not?

Red Falcon.8257:

Going 30 tactics for boon duration is like going with a blonde for an intellectual talk.

Seriously, rune of the monk/sanctuary/water = 45% boon duration = full upkeep of SoR.
And then you can go deep into the real Warrior trees.

This sounds like someone who’s never actually done this. 40% is the max boon duration you can get from runes. And the tactics line has some of the best major traits a warrior can get.

Some of the worst minor traits too, sadly.

Planning on a boon duration build myself when my warrior hits 80. Been playing around alot with it in sPvP to test damage, staying power and uptime on boons.

I will probably go with 70% total, 30% from trait line and 40% from runes (2 monk, 2 water, 2 major water). This would give me 100% uptime on SoR, both for swiftness, fury and might. I just really want the swiftness since I plan on running axe+axe/shield/mace and a longbow. And there just isnt room for warhorn.

So far I’ve enjoyed it in sPvP, although, fury and might from SoR hasnt been 100% uptime, but along with FGJ it works. Will be better in the open world though, since you get the full 15% bonus from superiors aswell as the option for major.

Attack is at an acceptable level, so is my life. Crit damage will be much higher in open world. Planning on a 10/0/0/30/30 spec. Not sure on the empower trait or the shake it off trait. Would be nice with 2 shake it off, one auto and one self cast. Third utility is taken by the endurance regen/condi removal sigil. The shake it off trait seems nice, would give me one more shout heal too. Empower would only give me +6% damage when running alone, guess up towards 10% in a group.

I’m reading old threads like this and can’t find the +boon duration trait in the tactics tree – was it removed?

Nevermind, it’s the passive trait, phew.

Warrior is my first toon and i’ve been invested 30 tactics with shout heal once hit lv 60 and no matter how i retraited to different build, i end up going back to tactics. I really love the build with soldier runes and shout heal, short CD, heal, buff, condition removal all in one.

Agree minor trait is meh tho

i was reading and thinking those guys are so old school then i checked the date xD

shame on you Smochi.5081 :P

LOL 15characters

My warrior breathern have evolved into mindless dps machines these days

Travis the Terrible.4739:

My warrior breathern have evolved into mindless dps machines these days

They pretty much always been except for a few pioneers coming up with ingenious builds. I think that is what the community wants also, many of those pioneers often get flack from their party for not running enough DPS in their builds. It all stems from the “LF1M Warrior Full Zerk png gear or Kick!” mentality.