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Sword/Sword builds
Hi,
Are these at all viable now for PVE/PVP/WVW? I’ve been a way for a while. I realize its not likely meta, but is it something that you can at least get good mileage out of?
Sword/Sword is a setup mainly used for condition/hybrid builds. Their efficiency directly depends on the target’s ability to manage conditions, i.e. dodging critical skills, and resisting, transferring or cleansing conditions.
In PvE, many people have reported success in using sinister-geared setups. I haven’t tried it myself, but I did solo some dungeon parts in the past, using condition builds, and it wasn’t that bad. Still, from what I’ve read, power builds remain king in that area.
In WvW, condition builds are very good for roaming, because many players don’t equip the tools to properly fight conditions (or don’t have the skills to). Condition builds are however useless in zerging or guild-run, because group composition provide frequent altruistic condition cleansing.
In PvP, sword/sword is rarely seen nowadays. While the current meta has a lots of conditions, there are actually many classes that perform better than the warrior in that regards, notably because the warrior does not have condition bursts (the Berserker line might change that, I haven’t tried). Aside from power warriors, you may find celestial / settler warriors, but they’d use shield/warhorn, for their utility.
In any case, if you have never played condition or hybrid builds before, give them a try. The game play is different from the usual power warrior, but you might like it – in which case you’d be viable in many game modes (although admittedly not optimal).
Regards.
In PvP the sword could be used but most dont since you simply dont do as much condi dmg as other classes. Even witht eh F1 skill you apply 10-12 stacks of bleeding but alot of classes easily remove it since its 1 condi and others simply blink/shadowstep/invulnerable/ that F1 skill. Also all it is melee range, you have rangers with there shortbow and traps and they dont need to be near you aswell as every other class where lies warriors problem.
You could try s/s in pvp but i warn you that it could get frustrating.
Sounds like its still pretty “meh” over all then. Shame. The idea behind S/S intrigues me, but it seems the implementation is still broken.
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I personally use Sword/Sword using Sinister stats for PvE and WvW. The combo is most effective in WvW I find for the reasons Elegie mentioned but I’d like to put more for the PvE side. Its particularly useful in the Silverwastes where the husks are more vulnerable to condi damage. And with Sinister stats you aren’t losing out on much DPS at all. I have a ton of fun running it and if the idea of a condi warrior intrigues you I’d recommend giving it a shot.
That being said it is not very effective in PvP at the moment. WvW is often quite different as the players aren’t as built around clearing condis. I’ve used it for an hour long small group fight and it absolutely destroyed other players there.
I used to s/s + lb celestial healing shout warrior. Was easy mode solo roaming.
Despite playing it horribly, people in wvw were asking for duels constantly. I think this was before shoutbow was a thing.