Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone, I’d like to ask you a question about warrior.

Let’s imagine the following tpvp scenario:

I am a warrior with 2-handed sword. I have just downed an enemy, and one of his team mates is starting to ress him. I don’t have ways to get quickness (let’s put they are on cooldown). I can’t stomp him befor he gets revived.

Big question:

What should I do?

I was thinking: may I use 100 blades?
The idea is: given its amounts of damage and the fact it’s AoE, I should be able to damage both the resser and the one being ressed. Ok, if the ressed is gonna go down before he finishes, we are all very happy. So, let’s assume the resser survives 100 blades (Or stands long enough to ress the other one, putting me again in the same problem, except my 100 blades are now on cooldown). In this case, the problem is: what happens to the one behind ressed? When my 100 blades ends, did I manage to deal more damage than the one healed by the resser? Or I just wasted my time?

If that doesn’t work, is there another way I can get out of this other than being forced to fight two people (probably straining myself to death) or having to use cc weapons/utilities?

And a more general question:

Let’s put I found a team mate being downed by an enemy which is at low health. Another enemy is coming. Should I take down and try to stomp the first enemy, risking to get into the situation I described before (but being able to kill him and ress my mate if I succeed), or should I revive my ally?

Thanks for your attention.

(and yes, I need to learn to play.XD)

Pro tip : Don’t use GS.

Go for hammer, and bash those guys in the ground.

You’re welcome !

You failed to mention a key factor: What was your 2nd weapon?

When dealing with an enemy rezzing, you have three options: Quick/Stability-spike the downed player, down the rezzer, or CC the rezzer.

Hammer is fantastic for stopping rezzers in progress
F1 Earthshaker: stuns, which interrupts rez.
#4: AOE knockback, which interrupts rez
And #5 Knockdown, which interrupts rez

You can generally Stun/Knockback/Knockdown, pop stability, and spike the downed guy before his buddy can return to rezzing.

If you were running Rifle, you can even use #5 which is a knockback, and then spike.

Until they pop stability and laugh at your silly CC. Yes, hammer can be used to interrupt resses though (you’ll also want to be providing steady dps over the guy so that when they do pop stability they don’t want to hang out there to res).

Yes, HB can be used to stop ressing. It will outdamage the guy ressing, but more often than not it will simply make the resser not want to stand in your channeled HB allowing you to cut down the downed’s health significantly. I also seem to kill a lot of people doing this during teamfights with all the screen clutter they don’t realize what’s happening until it’s too late.

Stomping or ressing depends on the situation. I’ve made the wrong decision before and made the right decision. Generally ressing is the safe option.

Thanks everyone!^^
I asked because sometimes it may happen than the ressing one is a guardian using blocks. Hammer does no good in these cases. And doesn’t fit in my build. Hundred blades won’t damage him, but it will sure damage the downed enemy.

redslion.9675:

Thanks everyone!^^
I asked because sometimes it may happen than the ressing one is a guardian using blocks. Hammer does no good in these cases. And doesn’t fit in my build. Hundred blades won’t damage him, but it will sure damage the downed enemy.

a guardian wont be able to block all your attacks whilst ressing… all theyd have access to is aegis (at max… it would be 3?); with the new signet of might active you could hit through that or have a necro buddy fear them

… stability res… thats when you go full dps on the resser

Yeah, but with a hammer it would mean I should first use 3 auto attacks, then a cc.

With 100 blades I may be able to down the guardian.XD

Go adrenaline build, Hammer main, Longbow off.
Combustive Shot the resser & ressee, then Earthshaker.

nothing you can do but put the most damage on the reviving one, or bull charge if off cd

Mungrul.9358:

Go adrenaline build, Hammer main, Longbow off.
Combustive Shot the resser & ressee, then Earthshaker.

I then may just go hammer + mace/mace or shield and spam stuns until there are two downed enemies.XD

That works too, but the Adrenaline gain isn’t quite as good as it is with Longbow.