Guild Wars 2

Has anybody tried such a tactic of intentionally letting your health get low, so as to trick people in to expending their time / health / cooldowns to finish you off?

The past two weeks I’ve been intrigued by the 20 Tactics ability “Desperate Power” (20% damage when under 25% health), and a natural choice to try this strategy is to spend 10 more points and go for the regeneration banners. Since I lack creativity, I then pick adrenal health and the regeneration signet. I don’t go for dolyak runes however, favoring eagle right now. I don’t even bother with condition removal these days to be honest, since warriors are focused in team fights I will have conditions on me even with the shout runes and mending and traits for it.

So then where to spend the remaining 25 trait points? Personally I put them in Arms since I feel handicapped without the option to switch to rifle. Then axe/warhorn for up-close pressure and dodging (way better than the shield block, IMO).

Any ideas for things that would better synergize with such a tactic (besides get a Guardian friend). I’m wary of going full defense since I just play public games atm, so I do need to apply pressure somehow.

Um… as a warrior, if you hit 20% hp a single burst attack from a thief/ele/guard/mes/necro/engi/ranger/warrior will drop that to 0% before your regen ticks UNLESS you hit endure pain and are at 0 conditions and nobody puts a condition on you.

Desperate power is a noob trap and needs to be reworked to something better. No point in picking that over leg specialist.

The only classes that I’ve encountered that do that are other warriors (very obvious and avoidable), rangers (not too common, and very vulnerable when they’re doing it), and thieves (who indeed throw a wrench into the tactic). But no warrior build will really survive against a competent thief, Hammer builds are only useful on thieves who don’t use blindness, i.e. almost never.

If your enemy’s HP is also less than 1/2 this might be alright. I could see hitting 25%, Endure Pain, and trying to Burst them down. Other than that I don’t see much viability.
That said, try to make it work. I’d love to see more builds working for people.