Guild Wars 2

And by fun I mean something we haven’t been using over and over again….

Weapons we don’t seem to use:
-Sword OH
-Axe OH
-Mace MH OH

Weapons we seem to use:
-Gs
-Axe/Shield + Sword/Shield
-hammer
-Rifle (gimmick build)

Anyone have any of the forgotten weapons in any of their ‘viable’ their builds? i.e. Condition sword user or some other weird build I can’t think of. I would love to use Sword OH (dual swords if possible) in wvsw…..anyone have a build that works?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQRAsf8XnEdAdhgdeAmkCEliltA7Nz+ZLtI/tAQoTJGU6KBA-T5gAABA8AAgZ/B9LDAA

I run this in PVE and a very similar build in PVE

I like the nom nom noms of torch5 and axe 5. you can add another stun break by swapping berserker traits.

For 300 gold I will give you a viable wvw build with Double sword

@ Emkelly
That build is not good for wvw nor pvp

this thread said fun. it never said viable

by fun he doesnt mean necessarily useless. He asked for PvP, and WvW. You talking about PvE…
He asked ‘’ Anyone have any of the forgotten weapons in any of their ‘viable’ builds? ’’

Most warrior weapons actually do NOT need much buffs. The main problem of the warrior problem is lack of sustain and I am afraid the new patch will only slightly fix this problem. The original vision was that warrior could stick to melee and stay long time in combat, now it seems Arenanet is pushing warrior to become hit and run burster (aka thief without tons of evades and stealth) or long range sniper, who kites away from melee (using rifle).

I have been advocating that warhorn should be buffed or the nerfs to it should be reverted. Reasons:
- even with quick breathing trait, the warrior’s warhorn is weak at the moment
- just removing a condition and not converting it into boon, plus lack of + 20 % boon duration (deleted trait), makes it good only for running and very defensive builds
- vigor was nerfed a long time ago
- warhorn #5 does short time AoE weakness, give it more offensive role
- now with the high burst damage meta and celestial/settler/soldier amulets gone, shoutbow+sw/wh won’t be back anyways. The loss of the amulets pretty much deletes that build

Hi,

Cerby.1069:

Weapons we don’t seem to use:
-Sword OH
-Axe OH
-Mace MH OH

My signature has two builds with some of these weapons.

“The Finisher” is a power PvP build which lets you finish target under 50% health, basically using Axe #5 to grind a target’s HP, then obtaining unblockable/quickness for sword #3. It also offers a bit of sustain, with the mace/shield utilities, stances and Rousing Resilience (which triggers on activation of Balanced Stance, without a need to break from stun).

The build only works in PvP, because of the Axe #5 buffed damage there (but this may change next update). A Berserker variation, exchanging the “unblockable” from Signet Mastery for more damage, control and sustain might be:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQRAsX5enMdAlhgVhAmkCElilrADJAkASdvf2S7rVJH06aBA-TpBHwANLDM4gA0a/hDHBAAPAACnAAA

“The Tormentor” is an expensive condition WvW roaming build, based on hard control and confusion. It sustains mainly thanks to passive stats and weakness (in other words: not a lot). It leads to considerable burst damage when you manage to land an interrupt – but classes with good stability uptime will counter it pretty hard.

Both builds are entirely melee, with average condition management and mobility, meaning natural counters in kiting and/or condition heavy classes. They’re solo-oriented, thus intended for fun and not coordinated play (forget HL WvW roaming or PvP). They’re pretty old, so could maybe benefit from recent amulets / gears. They’re decent, I’ve had plenty of fun and success with them, but they’re not the strongest warrior builds in their respective categories.

Have fun.

I’ve never run the build linked below, and I’ve only guessed at it, but I recall some people I know getting some decent results using something like this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQRApf8enMdAlkidhAWhAElilrADJAkASdvj2T7rVJH06qBA-TpRAQBe4EAAgDCg+KDwhHAAIOCALc/BA

The pvp players were of high quality, and so was the one person I know who was trying it out in wvw. The wvw version used Defender runes.

Anyway, I’ve probably butchered it, but I think the general concept was:

• Break stuns for fun and profit (armour, personal and group heals)
• Keep that Fire Shield up as much as possible
• Berserk mode gives you lots of condi application

You have:

• decent direct damage
• decent control
• good defensive capabilities
• decent movement
• good condi diversity and damage

Early results seemed fun and promising, but I have no idea if they stuck with it.

EDIT: I see the chassis it’s built on is very similar to Elegie’s two builds.