Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone, just thought I would post my build here since I have been asked for it before. This is by no means a post saying this is the best build ever. I am just suggesting that you give it a look and if you feel like it try it out. This is not a team build. It can be used effectively in teams, but there are better weapons and traits for team play. On with the build.

I will start with the traits since that is what makes the play style of the build.

The trait distribution is 10/10/20/10/20.

Strength Tree: 10 Points: Adept trait: Restorative Strength
This trait allows the Warrior to get rid of the most damaging conditions to us with a heal. I will explain more later.

Arms Tree: 10 Points: Adept trait: Unsuspecting Foe
This allows us to actually deal damage against some bunkers after baiting out their stun breakers.

Defense Tree: 20 Points: Adept trait: Missile Deflection
Master trait: Shield Mastery or Sure Footed
Missile Deflection is one of the biggest things in this build. It will allow you to reflect poison shots (Rangers) and blinds (Guardian focus/Thief pistol). These can be major things that affect the out come of a fight.

Shield Mastery is only in case you want more blocks. This is what I personally use.
Sure Footed will let you stay in your stances longer; Why this is good is down below.

Tactics Tree: 10 Points: Adept trait: Leg Specialist
This trait works very well for only 10 points and can also change a fight if used in the right moment.

Discipline Tree: 20 Points: Adept trait: Signet Mastery
Master trait: Mobile Strikes
Signet Mastery is solely so we can keep our Elite up longer and reap the benefits of our runes (more about this below).
Mobile Strikes is to get out of bad situations quickly.

Now the traits by themselves do nothing without the right weapons. When using this set up with the follow skills and weapons you can really bring them out to shine.

Weapons: Mace/Shield——-Greatsword

Now I know most of you are thinking “Oh great, another 100blades noobzers”. This is a different type of play style and not a “Hit it now, hit it hard” build.

Mace/Shield…. this is your main set and will be using for the majority of the time.
Sigils: Mace—-Sigil of Paralyation
Shield—-Sigil of Leeching
The Paralyation sigil will increase your stun times so you can actually get some damage in, while the Leeching will give the Warrior a little bit of sustain. You should be swapping weapons as much as possible (when you need to, not just because you can) to proc this Leeching effect. Do not swap weapons solely to proc the leeching, that is a good way to die.

Greatsword—-Sigil of Strength or Leeching
I personally run strength over leeching. With the traits above and the constant critical chance we already have strength will give us a lot of might when we use one hundred blades. Go with leeching if you feel you need to heal more often and do enough damage.

Runes for this build are very standard.
Runes: Rune of Lyssa
Lyssa because this helps our passive critical chance, gives us a boon on heal for 10 seconds, and wipes all conditions on use of the elite skill.
The utilities will round out this build and then I will begin to explain how I play this build.
Healing Skill: Mending
You take mending because of the great connection it has with the Strength trait, Restorative Strength. This will allow you to remove all moving impairing effects plus 2 additional conditions. Also with out runes we will get a random boon for 10 seconds which is nice.

Utility 1: Bull’s Charge
This will round out our crowd control effects so we can bait out stun breakers and then finally hit them with the real one.

Utility 2: Balanced Stance
Warriors should not leave home without this skill, period. It will save your life more times than you can count.

Utility 3: Endure Pain
This skill will allow you a brief rest against direct damage which will be well needed in some matches. It is highly effective against the Thief and the “One Shot Build”.

Elite Skill: Signet of Rage
The only reason we take this skill because:
1) it has the shortest cool down of our elites.
2) Warbanner will not help you in a duel/most fights that occur.
3) Rampage is horrible. Point blank.

The build highlights are this:
1) You have 3 blocks: Mace 2, Shield 5 (these two things can turn a tide of a duel. Reflecting while blocking is a great way for Warriors to get conditions on others that we normal do not have access too. It is amazing against Rangers. Reflecting their poison back at them is one of the best ways to win the duel), and Elite skill boon buff form runes. (Please note: You can not block Necromancers wells. Do not waste your shield 5 on them).

2) You have a evade: Greatsword 3 (do not use this skill after one hundred blades just because… that is a MAJOR WASTE of this skill. Keep it locked away for when you know something big is coming your way. Such as a Guardian Greatsword 5, Thief with Basilisk, or the epic way to use it over a Necromancers well bomb. This is one of our only defense moves, do not waste it).

3) You have 1 Daze: Mace 3 (This can be used to bait out stun breakers. Don’t ask me why. Some people panic and use a stun breaker on this).

4) You have 3 Stuns: Shield 4 (awesome skill that will break immobilize for us plus stun the target for 1 second plus with the above set up. This is another skill that is used to bait out stun breakers). Bull’s Charge (this is also a immobilize breaker and stun break baiter). SKULL CRACK mace f1 (this bad boy right here is what gives us the chance at taking someone from 100% to around 40% in one go if you have baited all of their stun breakers. Simple bait, then land this and swap to greatsword and one hundred blades. With this build you will have a 97% chance to critically hit someone who is stunned).

5) We have 2 ways to gain Stability: Balanced Stance (for stun heavy foes or to break out of a Thief’s burst) and Rune of Lyssa boons on elite.

6) We have 2 ways to wipe a great deal of conditions. With our heal combined with the trait and our elite skill. It is basically a full wipe of conditions every 25 seconds and 48 seconds (plus a boon every 25 seconds for 10 seconds and all boons on elite useage).

The Best way to make this build effective is to use your dodges wisely. This is very important, DO NOT FREAK OUT AND USE EVERYTHIGN AT ONCE. Warriors do not have a multitude of “oh crap” buttons. If you are stunned, use one stun breaker; not both.

That is all I have for now guys, best of luck in game.

so how are you landing mace auto attacks exactly?

^ I agree with scotto, mace is easily kited. Also, are you running soldiers or berserkers?

Scotto.3609:

so how are you landing mace auto attacks exactly?

GS 4, GS 5, Bulls Charge probably. I’ve been using mace/shield + GS recently and I will definitely try this build. It can be difficult to catch the more slippery classes, but you have to use GS mobility and 5 second swap aggressively to stick to your target. It’s very easy to want to waste your shield bash and skull crack out of frustration.

The best warrior build below:

I would start with

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/guardian/?3.0|2.1g.h1|b.1g.h15.d.1g.h1|1g.a7.1g.7o.1g.7o.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7|3s.0.2s.0.2u.0.2u.0.3u.0.2u.0|0.0.u56b.u378.a6|55.7|w.11.z.18.1i|e

This build gives you a ton of healing and front line staying power. Get that symbol down from the Auto Attack Chain and live in it. Note the runes and increased symbol duration as this keeps your Protection going. You can also throw on the Signet of Judgement with Protection for 43% damage reduction all the time. Other melee will benefit from your Symbols also.
I run Zerker gear here because the damage reduction takes care of you quite a bit. Mix in some Soldiers if you feel you need to.
This build also supports GSword and Staff quite well. It doesn’t have the highest DPS but its not bad.
After you get used to Hammer you can move into a higher DPS build quite easily.

xiv.7136:

The best warrior build below:

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I would start with

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/guardian/?3.0|2.1g.h1|b.1g.h15.d.1g.h1|1g.a7.1g.7o.1g.7o.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7|3s.0.2s.0.2u.0.2u.0.3u.0.2u.0|0.0.u56b.u378.a6|55.7|w.11.z.18.1i|e

This build gives you a ton of healing and front line staying power. Get that symbol down from the Auto Attack Chain and live in it. Note the runes and increased symbol duration as this keeps your Protection going. You can also throw on the Signet of Judgement with Protection for 43% damage reduction all the time. Other melee will benefit from your Symbols also.
I run Zerker gear here because the damage reduction takes care of you quite a bit. Mix in some Soldiers if you feel you need to.
This build also supports GSword and Staff quite well. It doesn’t have the highest DPS but its not bad.
After you get used to Hammer you can move into a higher DPS build quite easily.

I think you are lost, this is a guardian build.

Summer.6728:

xiv.7136:

The best warrior build below:

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I would start with

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/guardian/?3.0|2.1g.h1|b.1g.h15.d.1g.h1|1g.a7.1g.7o.1g.7o.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7|3s.0.2s.0.2u.0.2u.0.3u.0.2u.0|0.0.u56b.u378.a6|55.7|w.11.z.18.1i|e

This build gives you a ton of healing and front line staying power. Get that symbol down from the Auto Attack Chain and live in it. Note the runes and increased symbol duration as this keeps your Protection going. You can also throw on the Signet of Judgement with Protection for 43% damage reduction all the time. Other melee will benefit from your Symbols also.
I run Zerker gear here because the damage reduction takes care of you quite a bit. Mix in some Soldiers if you feel you need to.
This build also supports GSword and Staff quite well. It doesn’t have the highest DPS but its not bad.
After you get used to Hammer you can move into a higher DPS build quite easily.

I think you are lost, this is a guardian build.

That’s the joke lol

Scotto.3609:

so how are you landing mace auto attacks exactly?

You are not understanding the build if you think the Mace/Shield is the damage of the build.

That is your defensive set. You start with it and stay with this set so you can easily bait out stun breakers and block/survive long enough to actually have a chance at killing the foe.

You will be switching weapons a lot though. Every time you stun them (aka shield bash and bull’s charge) you should flop to greatsword. Most of the time just seeing the greatsword is enough to bait out stun breakers (Save skull crack for when they have no stun breakers) from most people. You can auto attack some with the greatsword but when they start to apply pressure on you again you switch back to the defensive set.

As I stated in the original post this is not a “hit them now, hit them hard” build. This is a defensive style of play. Instead of being the one to cause the action you will be reacting to it. This lets you control the flow of the battle a lot easier than trying to lead with offensive measures. Reacting to the situation is the reason this build was made, not to try and auto attack someone to death with a mace.

In case it is still blurry, you should not be auto attacking with the mace. If you are, you are playing the build wrong.

Check out my warrior pvp build….3.5k views, good feedback! works well!

Good luck!

HARRELSONNN.4872:

Check out my warrior pvp build….3.5k views, good feedback! works well!

Good luck!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGnL4yNHpDg

I don’t mean to belittle your build or anything but you just showed us footage of you in hotjoins winning matches that you either joined late and your team already had in the bag or you greatly outnumbered your opponent(s) anyway.

In ever single one of the instances your video showed the warriors specific build would have zero impact over any other build at all.

That being said if you show me footage of you in a LEGIT tourney match winning in 1v1s and/or making an impact in 2v2s up to 5v5s then I’ll gladly say you;ve got a good build, otherwise I remain highly skeptical.

But anyway thnx for all the info Vanthian, I’ll prob try this build out. I know, I know….. I’m probably just about to go torture myself some more with warrior gameplay but I CAN’T HELP MYSELF!!!!!!!! I just like the warrior class too much… no matter how much Anet screws it over… and over… and over…… ;-;

EDIT: Also ummmmmm… what amulet are you using? lol

[/quote] I don’t mean to belittle your build or anything but you just showed us footage of you in hotjoins winning matches that you either joined late and your team already had in the bag or you greatly outnumbered your opponent(s) anyway.

In ever single one of the instances your video showed the warriors specific build would have zero impact over any other build at all.

That being said if you show me footage of you in a LEGIT tourney match winning in 1v1s and/or making an impact in 2v2s up to 5v5s then I’ll gladly say you;ve got a good build, otherwise I remain highly skeptical.[/quote]

I know about the mistake on the footage( beginner mistake). Ive been using the build for several months, (updated it due to patches) I dare say its one of the best 1v1 builds for warriors. And very well at surviving multiple enemies. Read the comments… people who have actually used the exact build. After all, its a burst/tank build. Have a good day.

I don’t have any problems with this build, but I think you should make it clear that Bull’s Charge is a knockdown… and not a stun. As a result, while it baits/burns stun breakers, it will not trigger the +50% crit of Unsuspecting Foe. Someone should correct me if I’m wrong here.

matthen.5024:

I don’t have any problems with this build, but I think you should make it clear that Bull’s Charge is a knockdown… and not a stun. As a result, while it baits/burns stun breakers, it will not trigger the +50% crit of Unsuspecting Foe. Someone should correct me if I’m wrong here.

That’s true. Unsuspecting foe only works on actual stuns. The skill has to say it’s a stun to work.

That video is horrible. Shows you in battles in which your team is always outnumbering the enemy.

2 methods of condition removal is hardly enough. Anyone with a condition build and decent skills will wreck you.

Finally, what Vicarious says is true. This build doesn’t really offer much more or anything distinctive over every other build.

Yawn, yes its absolutely terrible.

lol, someone having a bad day and taking it out on someone else?

When did I state it was for tournaments? Is it the best build out there? Guaranteed not.

Its for reference.

HARRELSONNN.4872:

Yawn, yes its absolutely terrible.

lol, someone having a bad day and taking it out on someone else?

When did I state it was for tournaments? Is it the best build out there? Guaranteed not.

Its for reference.

Actually, today was one of the best days I have had this year.
It seems like you are taking it personally, and for that, I apologize. I did not mean any personal insult. I have nothing wrong with you, but with the build, I have quite a few complaints.

1. I never accused you of saying that this was for tournaments, so I’m not sure what you mean by that comment..
2. I never accuses you of saying that it was the best build either…
3. It is not a good video for reference.

Allow me to explain point 3.
The video shows primarily larger battles with multiple people. More often than not, you are outnumbering the opponent by quite a bit. In this circumstance, any build could look good. If you wanted to a good reference, there should be some fights where you do significantly well solo against a decent opponent.

The other reason that I’m not too enthusiastic about the video is that this build, as the other guy stated, doesn’t really bring anything new to the table. Your build seems to be spread a bit thin trying to achieve multiple things… but the biggest issue if condition removal. It’s impossible to be competitive with so few unless you are ridiculously skilled… in which case you could make anything work.

Well, have a good night!

i assumed you would be auto attacking mace primary as you said somewhere you should stay in that set the majority of the time and because the 3rd chain is a beast if it lands and i really wished someone figured out how to use it… but from what ive tryed to re read (i know you have it in a good layout but i just cant seem to concentrate atm), your entire build is a watered down version of 100b?

From what i can picture in my head you are faking people out with weapon swaps to GS and fake stuns, slowly prodding their health down enough to finish them off with a partial 100b from a 2 sec stun from bulls charge or mace f1 that is so slow it hardly lands all the while you are somehow sticking to people like glue with ur only slow which is from GS that lasts 4 seconds.

Not poo pooing the build, just trying to understand how it would work. If the above is not accurate then i dont understand how if you are not atleast bursting in some form, why the enemy doesn’t just kite your auto attacks, burst you to use ur block/endure pain, avoid or just take the few moves you have that aren’t an auto attack and just out health you to death?

A video of this in action would be very helpful.

Scotto.3609:

i assumed you would be auto attacking mace primary as you said somewhere you should stay in that set the majority of the time and because the 3rd chain is a beast if it lands and i really wished someone figured out how to use it… but from what ive tryed to re read (i know you have it in a good layout but i just cant seem to concentrate atm), your entire build is a watered down version of 100b?

From what i can picture in my head you are faking people out with weapon swaps to GS and fake stuns, slowly prodding their health down enough to finish them off with a partial 100b from a 2 sec stun from bulls charge or mace f1 that is so slow it hardly lands all the while you are somehow sticking to people like glue with ur only slow which is from GS that lasts 4 seconds.

Not poo pooing the build, just trying to understand how it would work. If the above is not accurate then i dont understand how if you are not atleast bursting in some form, why the enemy doesn’t just kite your auto attacks, burst you to use ur block/endure pain, avoid or just take the few moves you have that aren’t an auto attack and just out health you to death?

A video of this in action would be very helpful.

That is actually about right. It is more effective than you think.

Sadly, Warriors only have two major ways of dealing damage. Either go axe and auto attack & Eviscerate or go greatsword and hundred blades. You can try out hammer but it is so slow. You will be hard pressed to do decent sustain damage on top of the hammer f1 burst. Where as with greatsword you have a okay auto and a decent burst skill.

Skull Crack is actually much easier to land than you think. After you bait all the stun breakers they usually resort to back peddling. It is really easy to smack someone with it in that case or you can precast before you are in range. Since the animation of skull crack is not well known and is kind of hard to see not many people dodge it. Although, the best way to land it would be to waste their stun breakers then use your greatsword 4 to immobilize them (throw it so it goes in the open so it can hit them again on its way back) then hit them with skull crack while they are immobilized.

Also, around 30% of your damage should come from Greatsword auto attacks. How I play the build is generally this….

Mace/Shield start——>get close to Shield Bash—→Switch to Greatsword—>100blades (they will waste a stun break)—>auto attack while keeping on them—→whirlwind when they use their burst or cc—→ switch to Mace/shield for blocks and leeching—→Daze them while using their channeled heal or skills—→Bulls Charge and swap to greatsword for hundred blades (waste stun breaker)—→Switch to Shield Mace—→Shield Bash (waste last stun breaker—it has been at least 20 seconds at this point)—→dodge get in range and skull crack—>swap and hit with full hundred blades—→greatsword 4—>auto attack—→whirlwind to stay on top of them dodge cc—→switch to mace—→daze—→ skull crack—→bulls charge—>greatsword (if they are still alive at this point) hundred blades—-blah blah…

Now that is a perfect fight with me dodging and evading all the dangerous things. You have 3 oh crap buttons. One for direct damage and two for conditions. Most of your healing is coming from swapping weapons a lot, but the majority of your health is saved by good dodges and timed evades.

matthen.5024:

I don’t have any problems with this build, but I think you should make it clear that Bull’s Charge is a knockdown… and not a stun. As a result, while it baits/burns stun breakers, it will not trigger the +50% crit of Unsuspecting Foe. Someone should correct me if I’m wrong here.

That is why I use the bull’s charge for baiting and not actual cc. As to it affecting the Unsuspecting Foe, I honestly don’t know because I use it to bait. I will test it out later today to see.

Edit: Bull’s Charge does not gain benefit of Unsuspecting Foe.

Vicarious.3047:

But anyway thnx for all the info Vanthian, I’ll prob try this build out. I know, I know….. I’m probably just about to go torture myself some more with warrior gameplay but I CAN’T HELP MYSELF!!!!!!!! I just like the warrior class too much… no matter how much Anet screws it over… and over… and over…… ;-;

EDIT: Also ummmmmm… what amulet are you using? lol

No problem. I am using a berserkers amulet. You could go with knights if you want more toughness, but you will give up a lot of your damage and health and only gain some more armor. I find that high health helps more in sPvP with Warrior since you already have decent armor with your traits and the base armor.

Y u steal my build bro? I use pretty much the same exact thing although i forgo leg specialist for the 10% GS dmg trait in str. I also use Valk. Ammy as i loose next to no damage and gain a huge boost to survivability. As long as i always toss out a HB after every stun i land, they will run outta breakers before i fall. I also still use frenzy over endure pain. It can make all the difference in a duel IF used properly. Going
Skull Crack- 3/4th a HB- Bulls rush- Whirling Atk- Rush/2 auto swings is pretty much a auto gg against all classes assuming no breaks. And if they somehow managed to survive you could switch to m/s again and chain it into a shield bash or rupt their heal with pommel pretty much sealing the deal. Its a sweet build, i was gonna do a write up myself but now i don’t have too.

Ps: I also use addren. rush instead of mending.