Guild Wars 2

I’ve been wondering this for a while, I’m the only one that thinks “Berserker’s Power” and “Heightened Focus” are bad designed traits? Since we have plenty of Critical chance, Heightened Focus is almost ignored but Berserker’s Power feels almost mandatory in PvE. We are “forced” into NOT using Adrenaline, our unique hability, which seems kind of stupid IMHO.

Plus it give us so much power that the other builds feel useless… I would love to run Empower Allies or Quick Breathing for some support to the group but Berserker’s Power which take a full trait line combined with Forceful GreatSword (this only takes 20 points so it’s not that bad IMO) is just too good. With the other classes I don’t feel any other trait as mandatory as this with the Warrior. I guess it’s just a perspective problem.

I know the post ended up a bit messy but I would like to know your opinions.

Cheers.

Only the Axe was designed to be a spammable Burst, hence the Sharpened Axes trait. Everything else is situational use. For example, an emergency endurance regeneration through Building Momentum, but costing a sacrifice to get this. Or some on-point AOE pressure with Longbow burst.

Fortunately for PVE, none of the bursts are really worth using anyway, so even if this trait didn’t exist it would only really be benefitting Eviscerate – which is single target anyway.

If you want to take EA do so, I run 30/10/0/20/10. Ditch the Greatsword, pure Axe is just better. Reason?:

• Either you’re in an optimal group so have Might stacks anyway -> Useless Forceful Greatsword & Axe is higher DPS with an outside Might source.
• EA is even better in bad groups and the PUG roulette, it’s just a colossal team DPS increase.