Guild Wars 2

I’ve been messing around with a build editor, figuring out where I want to take things with my charr warrior as i level up (33 atm). Wanted a tanky mace/shield build (or at least one that somewhat compensates for warriors being so squishy) with the shouts (sans Fear Me!) and signet of rage. May or may not swap the hammer for GS, i dunno. Any input for a novice player?

step1 roll guardian. Aside from that, Warriors can do ok at this but usually gaining hate means dealing damage which means less hp and defense which is not wise. Sure warrior has more hp, but it lacks skills that do things like -33% incoming damage. Warriors are Damage Dealers and do not quite have the defensive capibilities others do, rather they are a heal sponge.

for pve its not that squishy at max level. Thats one thing about warriors at low level. You are squishy and you have to get hit to do damage cuz ur melee. When ur 80 u can run knights armor or PVT and have no defense or vitality traits and ur somewhat sturdy still.

mace on paper in theory you can have perma weakness on your target which in theory helps a warrior tank. In reality the attack speed is too slow and its not till the 3rd hit in the #1 skill you can get weakness. So

Point A. It takes too long to get weakness off,
point B: since its so slow you will might have to disengage before you can get it off. Point C: the damage on mace is low so it will be very difficult to generate hate based on damage with the mace.
Point even though weakness should cause most attacks that land on you to be glancing blows i doesnt always work out that way and you get hit for full damage anyways which defeats the whole purpose of using the mace in the 1st place. Which brings us back to point A:

Its a waste of time to use a mace unless you are using it in your off hand to knock down opponents, of traited for ref;ect projectiles and your using the mainhand number 2 skill for situation ranged attack blocking.

Best advice I have is to use knights gear, put endure pain on your utility, and get a shield as an off hand weapon for one of you weapon swaps. Learn to dodge beter. Those 4 things will increase your survivability a lot. Warriors are not tanks unless they have another class to constantly heal them like an elementalist then they can tank a little/.

Mace-shield warrior here. And yeah, I was sorely disappointed at my warrior’s ability to tank. I picked a warrior over a guardian because I want to carry a shield and guardians’ shield skills are garbage, but it wasn’t really a good choice for someone who prefers defensive gameplay, and it seems to get worse and worse. It’s like every patch adds new stuff that ignores block, and there’s simply no way for a warrior to get both the defense to tank and the DPS to keep hate.

Now, I’m not a huge fan of this game’s trinity-less dungeons, and I don’t PvP either so in the end I don’t care that my character is not as tankish as I wish she was, but as a tank you should really be able to spec into survivability and tank as well as a guardian. I mean, come on, since when are warriors squishy? I don’t really have high hopes though. Since warriors are such DPS brutes in PvE, I doubt that Arenanet will buff warrior defenses anytime soon.