Guild Wars 2

Hi all,

can somebody give me a link to the commonly used, up-to-date, warrior beserker build?

Thx!

Warrior Zerk build

Some notes:

• Sigil of Fire is subjective, but I keep it because I’m using the same greatsword also for other PVE (instances and Fractal).
• Change banner accordingly to your team to avoid double banners.
• Someone may disagree about 20-30-0-0-20 idea, but the signet recharge cooldown reduction combined with Signet of Rage will let you keep more Might stacks, permanent Fury and having Swiftness very often. Calculations below.
• Signet of Might is a must after its buff.
• I don’t like Battle Standard. If your team has 4 Warriors, everyone can easily max Might stacks thanks to FGJ, SoR and trait. The only who may benefit from elite banner is the Mesmer (yes, I’m talking about COF P1 speedruns) but it is not worth to take more than one and probably there will be already someone else using it.

30-30-0-0-10 vs 20-30-0-0-20
Using 30-30-0-0-10 (like some Warriors do) will give you 100 more Power. Considering that your power is 2480, it means ~4% more damage.
With 20-30-0-0-20 you have 10% more Critical damage, so a critical hit damage will rise from 251% to 261%, a ~4% increase.
Thanks to Banner of Discipline, Fury and Heightened Focus (not showed on Hero panel) you will reach 95% critical rate, so basically every hit will crit. At this point rising Power or Critical damage is nearly the same.
So DPS speaking there is no difference BUT with 20 points in last line you can have decreased cooldown on SoR which will grant you more Might stacks, longer Fury, more Swiftness.

This is Strife’s build, there’s a link to a visual build in the beginning. Be sure to read the explanations as well, a build only is not enough if you don’t play it right.

Strife’s build

I wouldn’t advise to go full zerk from the beginning, but he says this also.

Sacrai.6280:

This is Strife’s build, there’s a link to a visual build in the beginning. Be sure to read the explanations as well, a build only is not enough if you don’t play it right.

Strife’s build

I wouldn’t advise to go full zerk from the beginning, but he says this also.

I’m don’t think he is asking for a good PVE build. Most probably he is asking for the common “zerk warrior” build that is requested for COF P1 speedruns.

But if I’m wrong, then give a look to Sonic Boon, it is the most used PVE Warrior build, used also at high level Fractals. Just apply some changes to it and it is awesome.

Sonic Boon – Shout Greatsword

Suggested changes:

• Use longbow rather than rifle.
• Don’t pick OOM, Instead pick Signet of Stamina to dodge more. You can also pick Endure Pain for hard situations or Balanced Stance if needed.

As traits I prefer 10-30-0-30-0. DPS speaking it is better and plus you can get trait XI “Furious” so you can fill adrenaline faster and keep using longbow F1 Combustive Shot to have a nearly constant combo field fire to use finisher blasts in it (area might). It depends on how you like to play.

I’m currently using Knight armor, and Berserker weapon and Jewels, not the hybrid mix you can find there. It is a matter of personal taste anyway, but I don’t see a valid reason to complicate everything just to have that mix.

Actually, I don’t find Sonic Boon to be a zerker build. You are going for 30 in toughness and are wearing runes that do not maximize damage.

Strife’s build is a dungeon oriented build and he is playing it in full berserker. So I guess it would be the best answer to this question if we are talking about dungeons.

However, I have no idea what build would be considered the cof p1 zerker build, and I honestly couldn’t care less as you could run that “dungeon” naked, it wouldn’t change anything.

Sacrai.6280:

Actually, I don’t find Sonic Boon to be a zerker build. You are going for 30 in toughness and are wearing runes that do not maximize damage.

Strife’s build is a dungeon oriented build and he is playing it in full berserker. So I guess it would be the best answer to this question if we are talking about dungeons.

However, I have no idea what build would be considered the cof p1 zerker build, and I honestly couldn’t care less as you could run that “dungeon” naked, it wouldn’t change anything.

Being only full-damage oriented may be good in some dungeons, but Fractal speaking you are going to be hated. Sonic Boon has 30 points in Tactics, not Defense. They provide you some area healing. Plus that build let you have nearly permanent 25 Might stacks, which covers all the “DPS distance” between other full berserker builds.

The damage difference is nearly unoticeable, but party helping and sustain are much higher.

About COF P1 the matter is not which build can do it, because as you stated any build can do it.
The matter is how fast can you do it, and that is the highest DPS build available.
If you don’t use it, you get kicked from speedrun parties. And without COF P1 farming, good luck doing fast gold

I am currently running Sonic Boon and thinking about switching to Strife’s build to test it as there is not much gear to change. I’ll see when I do if the damage is comparable or not.

From what I can tell, both builds nearly run the same utility so the impact on the party vs DPS should shift quite equally I guess.

my cof p1
30-10-0-0-30 axe focused builds. healing signet+ signets of fury +banner of disc +fgj + SoR. rune of scholar + berserker everything + sigil of smolthering + sigil of battle. don’t forget deepcuts ;D