Guild Wars 2

Zerkbow – 11/4/2015

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQJASTnMdAVhglkCehAElilqATpHE7eAILuGQA4d0mantA-TpBBwAcuAAAeAAeOEA12fIzRAAcZAA

Edited for Final build tweaks.

Tbh the only thing I see this being good at is stacking AoE might with Rupturing smash into scorched earth :/ I mean sure the 2 sec Immob might help u land a CC chain but you could do much more if you swapped the LB for a GS and used that 2sec immob to land a partial 100b instead. If used at the start of berserker mode with quickness you could theoretically land a full 100b with a 2sec immob, still idk :S scorched earth is very bad, you can just walk out of it, unlike the small constant pressure Combustile Shot provides by covering the whole flipping point Scorched earth does very little. I mean the daze duration isn’t even long enough to hit with 1 hammer attack too.

This is better than anything else right now.

Rekt.5360:

Tbh the only thing I see this being good at is stacking AoE might with Rupturing smash into scorched earth :/ I mean sure the 2 sec Immob might help u land a CC chain but you could do much more if you swapped the LB for a GS and used that 2sec immob to land a partial 100b instead. If used at the start of berserker mode with quickness you could theoretically land a full 100b with a 2sec immob, still idk :S scorched earth is very bad, you can just walk out of it, unlike the small constant pressure Combustile Shot provides by covering the whole flipping point Scorched earth does very little. I mean the daze duration isn’t even long enough to hit with 1 hammer attack too.

That’s what oldschool hambow was all about my friend! The good warriors might stacked with hambow! I’ll have some footage soon.

I can attest to this build being good, its a hell of a lot better than mace/ sword

HatSimulator.9362:

This is better than anything else right now.

Eh I disagree, This:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAR3enMdAVhglkCehAElilqATpHE7iBIFgGQA4d0mantA-TpBHwAu2fgwFAowDAAwRAYwBBoZZAA

works far better I find. Pretty much perma fury with the runes of rage and the new buff to fatal frenzy without using arcing slice even once. The build has ~240% crit dmg in berserker mode and you can whip out 6k+ arc dividers and decapitates on light armors easily(arc divider crits hits heavy armors for up to 6K when they’re above 50% HP and when under 50% hp it just mows stuff down lol, I’ve hit a reaper necro for 7.2k with arc divider). You can immediately stunbreak headbutt with outrage into berserker mode and land a full 100b while they’re still stunned thanks to quickness. When they near 50% you can shield bash->swap->100b with heightened focus proc or keep cleaving with axe auto for some good dmg.

The same setup works great with mace+shield too. It’s essentially 1 sec daze every 2.5seconds that also blinds and applies 8 seconds of cripple lol you absolutely destroy classes with no stability in 1v1’s because of the daze spam. You also have 2 reflect on mace+shield. I played GS/ham for 2 days before hammer got buffed and found it really underwhelming compared to regular hammer warrior, but Idk it may be just me, I’m not rly a fan of hammer.

lol hahaha cool bro

Pretty much need hoelbrek for this with how many reapers are out there and engis, almost everyone is condi and i only die to condi

Ya’ll need to show some respect to my man Interpretor. Bomb kitten warrrior boiz this build makes it too pro-leagues.

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HatSimulator.9362:

Pretty much need hoelbrek for this with how many reapers are out there and engis, almost everyone is condi and i only die to condi

Strength are better, run the same build but use Brawlers Recovery instead of Destruction of the Empowered. It will keep you from getting blown up by burn guardians and warriors. That was my only counter and after I switched it wasn’t a problem.

Strength is more overall constant dps, 5% dmg under the effects of might and increased might duration. Hambow is about using your fire field to stack might while fighting.

I can’t agree with Blood Reaction over Dead or Alive.

Velimere.7685:

I can’t agree with Blood Reaction over Dead or Alive.

How so? Elaborate please.

Interpretor.3091:

Velimere.7685:

I can’t agree with Blood Reaction over Dead or Alive.

How so? Elaborate please.

A 7% to 14% increase in critical damage will never be more important to me than an “OH KITTEN” proc in PvP. I’d absolutely definitely take Blood Reaction in PvE for sure, though.

I’d probably run the build like this.

Dead of Alive is shet, you get 5k hb back and instantly die again if you are going against any competitive player

Going to have to agree with lighter on this one.. Dead or Alive isn’t going to keep you alive for very long after it procs. If you are being focused, you aren’t going to have time to react to anything for that 5-7k hp to even matter. You have double endure pain, which is more than enough to counter any burst done to you. I always thought dead or alive was supposed to be used situationally in raids. Dead or alive would be a cheesy 1v1 dueling build trait, but other than that, Blood Reaction is a huge dps increase and much mor valuable to you especially with this build.

• you are in zerker mode I would say ~60-70% of a fight and with fury you have a 60% crit chance,including the MINIMUM 3 might stacks you have by using berserker. On top of all that and the quickness buff, you’re gonna be swinging your hammer like crazy and pumping out a LOT of damage and control with the hammer. Blood reaction is actually one of, if not THE trait that makes this build so viable.

You lost me at huge DPS increase, fury, and 60% crit chance.

I guess I gotta experience it for myself.

Would you mind dueling my vanilla Warrior build against this build of yours?

Sorry my writing is horrible. This build has a 37% baseline crit chance and With fury (+20%) it is 57%. Baseline crit damage is 197% and with blood reaction it increases eve more (I’m not at home so I can’t tell you exactly).When you activate Berserker with changes to eternal champion you also get 3 stacks of might. Activating Berserker also gives you quickness. Also, hammer trait also does 20% more damage on targets who are dazed and stunned. Strength runes also give you a 5% damage increase under the effects of might.
Basically all of these components are important to your damage output, since you don’t have any support except for might stacking and your hammer, you need to be able to produce damage. Berserker is meant to be a brawler, a heavy hitter that controls the fight with the hammer. You can still survive burst with your two endure pains, you get stability while in berserker, a stun break that is on 10 second cool down and conditions shouldn’t be an issue with Berserker stance, brawlers recovery and cleaning ire.
The build offers heavy physical dps with medium condition damage and poison with your sigil. It gives you two defenses against a burst and you are considerably durable already with the celestial amulet. And you have many defenses against conditions.
Also, yes I can duel you. Just add me in game and contact me when I’m online.

Okay. I guess at this point I’m not seeing where the fury is coming from.

I’ll add you and message you later today when I’m on if I see you online.

You’re right there is no fury in this build. It’s under the assumption that you’re gonna get fury from outside sources but I guess i shouldn’t assume. This build is intended to be in a team fight, however it’s still effective on its own. Still 37% is still worth the extra crit dmg, I’m getting 4-5k crits with arcing slice, hammer 5 and headbutt. Im also getting anywhere from 500 to 1k burning ticks.

I don’t understand why people are trying to make Berserker happen , he is not going to happen at least on its current state.

Berserker as a trait line is just inferior compared to Strength , Berserker’s weapon is useless (Torch offhand 2 skills lol) and Berserker’s Utilities are underwhelming too. Outrage instead of Balanced Stance ?

You don’t have Stability on demand , you get Stability only after you get interrupted which you don’t want since your skills have high value and getting interrupted destroys the pace , your Finish etc.

Vanilla builds are way better right now but sadly even those aren’t enough vs the new necros/engis etc.

You get pulsing stability every 3 seconds while in berserker, which has a pretty constant uptime (around 60-70%) which is rediculous. With this you have more uptime stability than any other class in the entire game. You don’t need the stability outside of berserker because you have 4 stunbreaks. Outrage is every 10 seconds and if you are really getting stun chained you have endure pain. Also if you didn’t know, headbutt also breaks stuns and snares. So you have 4 stunbreaks and two of which grant adren. which you need. You also do they large majority of damage while in berserker so it’s not a damage loss at all. Try the build.

EDIT: I have also learned that Berserk can be activated while stomping and ressing, so there is a stability stop and stability res for you if you wish.

Angelos.4539:

You don’t have Stability on demand , you get Stability only after you get interrupted which you don’t want since your skills have high value and getting interrupted destroys the pace , your Finish etc.

Vanilla builds are way better right now but sadly even those aren’t enough vs the new necros/engis etc.

Vanilla builds are not better at dueling, and playing against a good DH or Druid will illustrate that for sure, that much I can tell you from personal experience. The pulsing stability every 3 seconds in berserker mode is literally the ONLY thing that will give you a chance to beat a DH who uses traps while you run a full melee build in a 1v1 (if you run ranged well RIP, Longbow on guard trumps all ranged war weps by far, you can even argue gun flame is amazing and crap like that but a DH has more than enough projectile blocking to make sure you won’t deal any significant damage with it).

Other wise even with last stand and balanced stance you still get knocked around all over the place once those two are on CD, berserker mode actually allows you to get in the DH’s face and stay there for a while, also unlike last stand which will proc at the first knockback/pull/daze and will essentially go on cooldown in situations you wouldn’t have wanted it to pop, you lose nothing by having the auto stability + stability on stun break. Since that means you can just shrug off most CC while in berserker mode and use Outrage which is crazy good for a 10 sec stun break anytime. Heck getting caught in dragon’s maw is nothing fatal on berserker. If berserker mode is active you just walk out even if you’re out of dodge rolls, if it isn’t bump once in the barrier and break the CC immediately with outrage, get stability and get out, then your stun break is off 10 seconds later, if you were running a vanilla war you’d have to use balanced stance…then wait its relatively long CD.

Berserker also majorly screws regular warrior in duels pretty much because of the same thing. Normal war requires CC to land its burst, try landing a hammer CC chain on a berserker or a shield bash→eviscerate lol your first cc with get eaten by stability and he’ll dodge the rest. Meanwhile you have at most 2 reliable sources of stability which have relatively long CD’s.

The only problem I have with longbow right now is how clunky it is. If you have a target and you use the longbow berserk elite on it, if it’s not directly in front of you it doesn’t go off and it’s very buggy. Any suggestions!?