Warrior Experts - Is This WvW Build Viable?
A few suggestions from my end:
1. Try taking healing signet instead. It will offer superior healing, and the PVT gear should make you tough enough to not get immediately spiked down… unless of course the whole zerg focuses you, but that’s not in your control. It might come down to personal preference as to which you prefer, but I’d suggest giving healing signet a try. This also synergizes well with the thick skin trait since the passive healing will help ensure that the extra armor bonus is always active.
2. Unsuspecting foe might not be the best choice for this build. It is a handy trait, but typically it’s taken in conjunction with already high base precision and lots of crit damage, thereby giving 100% crit chance for huge damage against stunned targets. This can be augmented with the extra stun duration from sigil of paralyzation as well. Also, the condition damage from the arms line will do next to nothing for you.
I’d suggest taking greater fortitude from the strength line. Your high power will allow for a nice vitality bonus to make you even more durable, it will improve your direct damage, and the extra condi duration can help with the cripples you have (which don’t benefit from condi damage). Spending points in this line would also allow you to swap in the fall damage reduction trait in situations that you might need to jump off somewhere.
Another good choice would be inspiring shouts in the discipline line, which will synergize with all the shouts you have and allow you to burst more frequently. You could also try using warrior’s sprint in discipline, which will allow you to move around faster without swiftness.
3. Sigil of force might be a better choice than sigil of impact. If your targets are constantly stunned, then impact would work well, but force will apply in all situations are may be better during a large group fight, especially since the opposing front line may have stability up which will completely negate the effects of sigil of impact.
4. Leg specialist may be worth considering instead of empower allies. Both the hammer and the sword will provide means to cripple several opponents, and the additional control you can maintain with the immobilizes could be very handy. I believe empower allies only affects up to five people, but don’t quote me on that.
5. In the new balance patch coming later this month, the trait quick breathing is supposed to be moving to the adept tier, so you can take it instead of empower allies and swap the shield out for the warhorn. This would provide you with a lot of group support, being able to remove lots of conditions in conjunction with your shouts, and keeping your allies mobile and your enemies weakened. As such, you might want to start saving up for a warhorn.
(edited by Yamsandjams.3267)
@Yamsandjams – Thanks for the advice so far, it is extremely helpful. Since I do not have enough currency for the PVT armor, I can either go with +healing power +power +toughness as displayed in my link or I can go with +precision +power +toughness
Which do you suggest?
1676 power is way too low.
ok it’s support build but then don’t mix offensive trait.go full support. it’s useless to take Unsuspecting foe with that power and 24% crit chance.
10 in discipline give you more adrenaline via Inspiring Shouts.
why shield? you are support go WH and take the improvement on it… huge cond clean boost for you and the party. and from the 15th oct you can get shout cd and warhorn improvement.
the food is wrong too… crit chance too low for that
if you want to go full support take the omnomberrycookie, otherwise anything that giv +100 power
impact on the hammer is the same… you hit for too little.. 10% more on earthshake is not important for this build.better go full support
and ofc healing signet instead of surge…
also not a big fan of defy pain… last stand all the time… you will need it BAD!
edit: i see i was a bit too late
(edited by Boroming.8093)
@Yamsandjams – Thanks for the advice so far, it is extremely helpful. Since I do not have enough currency for the PVT armor, I can either go with +healing power +power +toughness as displayed in my link or I can go with +precision +power +toughness
Which do you suggest?
Well, I’d probably suggest the healing power version in this case. The precision won’t add that much to your overall damage output without rearranging your traits and the rest of your gear completely, and the healing power will help boost the amount of healing given by your shouts (in addition to your personal healing).
I haven’t really spent a great deal of time on support warrior, so I’m not sure if using cleric’s gear (healing power, power, toughness) is more common than PVT gear, but I think you’d probably be fine with either. A mix may even be preferable, but I just don’t have the experience to say one way or another. I would think that full PVT gear should still work out fine though since the shout healing is mostly supplementary. If you had more money you could probably experiment more freely in a WvW setting.
However, the Oct 15 balance patch will be changing some things relevant to this build, namely the warhorn trait but I believe it will also make shout healing more powerful, so there is a possibility that having some healing power stats on your gear may be worthwhile. If you’re a bit short on funds, you may actually want to hold off for another two weeks just to make sure that you don’t end up replacing any items.