Guild Wars 2

I’m leveling up a warrior, currently at level 35, and have a question. Will the character unlock skills/traits that will allow it to play significantly differently at 80? I’m using GS, A/M, LB currently, with FGJ, SIO, Banner of Displine, SOR and they are very effective.

However, I find that I am lacking any real mobility at the moment (I am coming from maining a Thief, FWIW). It seems that I pretty much switch between melee sets when skills are on cool down. Switch in LB when need to kite. Make sure to keep FGJ up, use Banner for hard fight, SIO and heal when needed.

Am I doing something wrong here? I appreciate any assistance!

Also, another somewhat related question. How does a level 80 sustain health? Use the big HP pool as a buffer and kill before being killed? Looking over the traits, I don’t see a good way to sustain HP.

The combination of GS 3 and 5 along with SOR for swiftness should get you pretty decent mobility. Warrior actually has some of the better mobility while wielding a GS when u compare it to some other professions. If you feel that you really need another movement skill you can try swapping out a utility for bulls charge (900 range “leap”).

As for sustain…

Yea there isnt much… the only real way to get healing or condition removal is to go with a shout build which sacrifices a LOT of utility/damage :(

Thanks for the reply – very helpful!

I guess that I am on the right track then and will just have to keep leveling up. I haven’t been using SOR for swiftness, so I’ll try to do it.

IMO gs + sword/wh is best for leveling warr, at least very fast leveling. Use all the signets and just hb everything, use sword/wh when u need to get out and kite a little while heal on cd. The mobility in gs 3 and 5, plus sword leap and swiftness get you from heart to heart, event to event in no time…I can get across a map faster than a thief (not in combat that is), by using SoR, gs + sword/wh, bulls rush…cycling them..
As an 80 warr you sustain health by dodging mostly. For my warr I wear zerker everything but have defensive traits for endure pain trait and use utility endure pain, so thats a lot of damage absorbed. I like to use vigor food (bowl of orrian truffle and meat stew, something like that i think) plus gs 3 acts as a dodge. Warrior is about killing before getting killed.

It’s a bit odd with Warrior and mobility. If you play GS + Hammer (or 1H Sword) for instance, you fly all over the place, but if you make sth. like a Rifle/Hammer build you’ll miss GS mobility (and Adrenaline gain of GS to fuel Hammer Burst skill). Axe/Axe, too, might be more popular if it had a movement skill other than the Burst skill (which is superb).

Greatsword + sword/warhorn is the best mobility set I would think.

Leap 2 on Sword is on a very short cooldown, Charge (swiftness) on warhorn, GS 3 and 5 for movement.

Depending on your traits you can get +30% boon duration so that will help with maintaining your swiftness.

Basically in wvw when I want to get somewhere quick I’ll swap in sword/warhorn and then:

SoR + Charge to stack swiftness
Leap + weaponswap
Rush + whirlwind + weaponswap

Then just keep spamming sword 2, warhorn 4, gs 3, gs 5 and SoR whenever they come off cooldown.

You’ll move pretty fast if you do this.