Guild Wars 2

What do you think about Warriors in WvW? In general, for attacking, defending locations, roaming around, 1v1, 1vZerg, skirmishes, etc?

I like both the Greatsword, Sword & Shield and Longbow. How useful are these weapons, and is there a must use weapon for specific situations?
In WvW I see alot of warriors with a bunch of different weapons, so I can’t judge which one is best or not… I also see alot of Rifles, because I assume everyone with a Bow is a Ranger… how useful is the Longbow?

Are there some specific builds considered the best for a role for Warriors?

I’m starting a Warrior mostly for WvW, so any insight you can share is also welcome!

I play a Guardian in WvW but I’m getting tired of just watching people range’ing all the time, so I’m looking for an alternative profession with melee and some ranged/AoE to play in the massive zerg x zerg battles and attacking/defending towers/keeps.
Would Warrior be a good choice? (Other options I’m considering are Rangers and Thieves)

longbow is king in WvW, you can more or less keep a wall on fire. Best weapon on both offensive/defensive siege situations. as for the rest – everything works in some situations, only noteworthy thing is warriors shining in mobility overall.

sword shield and long bow condition dmg all the way defending or attacking a keep long bow breaking up a group of people long bow.. 1 on 1ing it sword shield gap closers and still condition it works well together

The popular shout build with Sword+Warhorn and Rifle for roaming/Longbow for sieges is excellent in WvW. Great mobility, great support, decent damage with some investment in condition damage.

This thread should give you an idea where to start:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Yojack-s-Min-Max-home-of-the-Yojack-Build-2012-for-GW2

i use sword+shield/rifle, but i always carry a longbow for siege.

warrior is a very good roamer, as long as you know your class and the abilities of others, you should be able to beat most other classes in 1v1 (exceptions are thief and mesmer, but doesnt everyone have problems in 1v1 against them?)

longbows untraited 900 range makes it difficult to use in the field, compared to the rifle’s 1200.

if you like constant uptime on fury and swiftness you have choose the right class. if you want to just want to pwn people and be in general annoying class to deal with go thief.

all in all the top 3 classes for mobility are thiefs, ele, warriors. we each have great gap closers and while the other two classes have 25% passive runspeed with traits, we get 100% uptime swiftness with warhorn and signet of rage with lots of boon duration% and greatsword/sword for great mobility skills.

i love playing my warrior and have ruined a few thiefs but still find them to be the hardest class to 1v1 in WvW, mesmers a close second but they don’t rely on damage more than just confusing you with illusions which isn’t hard to determine which the real one is with conditions going.

other than that about 10% of the time you will find an ele who will just dominate you with d/d build and using aura for fury. but i feel like ele’s have a high skill cap so its not every one that can really dominate in WvW but you will encounter the ones that can shut groups of people down and are great killing siege with AoE.

wouldn’t recommend Ranger i had one when i started my first lvl80 and intill they patch them its just no where near the burst of rifle for ranged combat and warrior does way more melee damage and higher health pool. the trade off is range the rangers get 1500 with traits but it doesn’t make up for lack of burst.