Guild Wars 2

SO I’ve been reading the forums and there are lots of different builds but they tend to be for specific purposes. What I want to know is what is an all round build for warrior, including traits, skills, armor, jewels, and weapon stats. Something that I can use in say Cursed Shore karma farming, then take along to help out a guild mate in a dungeon, then go off and play some WvW, without having to refit, reskill, or retrait.

Currently I use a power/prec/tough armor(pack runes) + jewel set with 4 signets in the skill slots, I did have 5 signets but the healing signet was not giving me enough health for the recharge time. I have a greatsword and a rifle and I have traited for the signets, and the weapons.

For karma farming I switch out the power/prec/tough sets for power/prec/mf (with pirate runes)

Weapons are spec’d for MF.

With all the “rage” towards Warrior builds that “don’t help the team” I tried to adapt by using the toughness set and pack runes, but since I still get “rage” for my build I figure I may as well ask for an all round build that I can use with minimum of fuss in all parts of the game I play.

A lot of people are using 30 in tactics, 25 or 20 in arms and 15 or 20 somplace else. I don’t use this build except just the healing shouts part for dungeons its an all around build. I just can’t find a way to put it past myself to spec 30 points in a support trait for 1 thing that most of the time I do not need and that does not fit my play style. I over half way to T5 in realm avenger and I casually play wvw never used healing shouts.

20/30/0/0/20

Handles many builds, but other than that there is not one build that can work with everything.

Schwahrheit.4203:

there is not one build that can work with everything.

Unlike most every other class. : /

Try 20/20/0/30/0.

Lets you grab both the main GS traits, as well as healing shouts. This gives you good versatility in PvE. You can change your gear accordingly to the situation (ie soldiers gears + soldier runes if your only melee and/or tank, or zerkers gear if you just need to dps) Healing shouts is always useful in PvE, even without +healing gear.

Edit: You’re getting “raged” at for your build because full signet builds are a sign of either 1.) selfishness or 2.) a complete lack of understanding of the game.

Take a look at 2 similar skills: Signet of might vs For Great Justice. Signet of might gives you a passive 90 Power at all times, as well as 40 prec if traited for (which most signet builds do). For Great Justice gives you 105 power at all times, as well as fury (20% crit chance) for about a 3rd of the time. FGJ also benefits your entire party, meaning you can maintain +525 power collectively at all times, as well as add some fury uptime to everyone. If you trait healing shouts, Not only will FGJ also heal everyone, but you can maintain 2 stacks of it a 3rd of the time due to the +boon duration. I think its pretty obvious which one is better based on that. So even in a SIGNET BUILD, FGJ IS A BETTER SKILL. This is why people dislike seeing signet build warriors. Its a huge tell that the player does not know what hes doing really.

I dislike signet build warriors. Because things like shake it off, for great justice, and a lot of other utility either have shorter cooldowns, or offer some kinda more useful ability than a signet. This is especially the case in PVP and Dungeons. If you off soloing trash mobs in orr it doesn’t matter. I think signet passives and traited signets are great for leveling up because they give you a substantial boost at lower levels though. When you get 80 you dont really need those passives, and by then you have un locked better stuff. Whenever is see a Zerker signet warrior the 1st thing that comes to mind is failure.

I found 10/30/0/30/0 works amazingly well for me.

30 in Arm: I can have any 2 weapon trait between greatsword / 1H sword / rifle or i can have both longer bleed and vulnerable strike combo for any weapon choice.

Getting 30 Tactics means i am very flexible in terms of supporting. It just take you 30-40 sec to tweak around your slot from shout heal to regen banner. Shung it off is a god send trait in heavy condition situation. Combined with shout heal it is free heal with 1 condition removal. I use fear instead of On my mark too. A well timed fear saved my team from wiping in dungeon countless of time.