Guild Wars 2

I was fiddling around with Warrior builds and happened to notice a few traits (and a few other things) that gave the warrior some nice regen abilities. I decided to put as many of them together as I could. This is all theorycrafting, but now I’m tempted to actually try it out in game to see how hard it is to die with this set-up.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/warrior/?8.2|c.1c.h15.e.1c.h1|4.1n.h15|1n.7m.1n.7m.1n.7m.1n.7m.1n.7m.1n.7m|41j.0.21j.0.31j.0.21j.0.31j.0.2v.0|a5.0.u18b.u57b.0|1l.2|5z.69.6g.62.6k|e

So the sources of regeneration are as follows:
-Regen from banners (130 hp/s)
-Adrenal Health (125-360 hp/s) (health regen increasing with Adrenaline)
-Dolyak Runes (30 hp/s)
-Mango Pie (85hp/s)
-Healing Signet (200)
-Sigil of Blood (30% chance 453 life steal on crit)

That’s 5 different sources of health regen. You could bump that up by another two if you wanted to bring a Guardian sharing the regen virtue and an water attuned Elementalist. But our total health per second comes to 570-700 hp/s without them and with only a little Healing Power. Use the Banner of Tactics for the regen and we’ll get a bit more and another heal option. Not to forget the 450 health every time Sigil of Blood procs.

Add on top of that almost 2500 toughness for damage mitigation and I would think you would have a hard time dying. Especially with Defy Pain activating at 25% health (should you get bursted that low) giving you time to regen up to 3500 health back.

Then again… with such a focus on regeneration and defense your offensive damage is taking a pretty hefty hit. Only 35% crit chance and pretty much base crit damage means you’re relying on little more than power to carry you through the fight which will drag out longer as a result.

This again… Its been done and tried before. I have even tried it myself. Its fine for soloing trash mobs. You can face tank 5-6 mobs provided your damage is great enough to kill them before you die. Anything else out side of this it doesn’t work well. And its not viable.

One thing to keep in mind adrenal heath is only working, and only effective at max adrenaline so don’t plan on using any burst skills. Ther dolyack runes are not worth it. I see you think that every bit adds up… but the dolyacks dont cut it.

Yeah, I kinda figured it might not be a new concept. However the search function on this site is crap so if I wanted to see any sort of feedback I had to make a new topic.

Wolfgang Hype.8970:

-Adrenal Health (125-360 hp/s) (health regen increasing with Adrenaline)

Don’t forget that Adrenal Health at max Adrenaline is 360HP per three seconds…so that’s about 120HP per second if your Adrenaline is full.

If we’re talking about PvE, having started farming a bit in Orr and Southsun (no magic find for me though…I like to have fun when I farm :P), something you might try out:
Omnomberry Compote and Raspberry Peach Compote.

With the sheer number of mobs you end up fighting, and how quickly trash drops, those foods can heal you for around 1000HP every time a foe drops that you’ve helped kill. It’s really noticable when dealing with escorts and such as this food has no internal cooldown. Drop 3 foes, get 3000HP. And with how things flow, it’s often non-stop waves that you don’t get much opportunity to rest between.

A regen Warrior isn’t quite effective unless you’re simply trying to delay your heal (or survive until it’s off cooldown). In PvP, I wouldn’t recommend it especially with a Rifle build (you probably won’t do much damage there). But Mending is a good one. Coupled with Restorative Strength, it often drops 3-4 conditions a pop on a 25sec cooldown.

Beyond all that, if you try, I’m sure you can accomplish something great with the build, just not with a Rifle…maybe a tankier weapon instead?

This worked a lot better with Omnom lifesteal food over Mango Pie…but it is basically just a sustain PvE build that is turned into garbage with one Poison condition. Great for PvE farming trash (which is pretty easy with just about any Warrior build honestly).

Honestly if you are doing PvE on killing mobs, just go full dps and take sweet revenge. Most mobs won’t kill you while down before you can use ability 3. Special note, even through you can rally make sure to use vengence to make use to higher rally %hp and 5 seconds of invulnerability.

I remember running that setup 1 week after realease!!! Memories!!!