Guild Wars 2

When I solo(am 32) do I use healing signet, endure pain, For Great Justice, signet of might and battle standard(for veteran/champion monsters). Should I change anything to run Ascalion Catacombs?

I also use sword/horn as swap to get around fast, anything better in dungeon?

I have also one trait point in reckless dodge.

for low level PvE…it doesnt matter, in all seriousness run what you want.

Battle Standard outside of groups is pretty useless though, and I rarely ever use Sig of Might, other than that, do as you please.

If you want speed running or max efficiency for dungeons though, swap your sword for a GS, and the offhand axe for a mace, done.

You actually have a lot better of a mindset than most people around your level (and higher) have. You won’t need battle standard really, swap that for signet of rage. Also I recommend banner of discipline for champs, if not then perhaps just for great justice + signet of might + signet of fury or if you want swap one of the signets out for bull’s charge in open world for even more mobility, since you don’t really need anything else anyways.

For dungeons, however, you will want to by default use for great justice, signet of fury, and banner of discipline/strength depending on whether or not somebody else has one of the two banners covered. The reason you want for great justice over signet of might is because you want to make sure you have fury at all times.

Weapons of choice are typically GS and swap to axe + X.

X can be anything depending on the circumstance — if you need a block, sword offhand. If you need more mobility/a blast finisher/weakness go for warhorn. If you need to contribute more to a boss’s vulnerability stacks or to cc mobs go for mace offhand.

Thanks greatsword + axe works well together indeed.

I now do now:

Signet of fury+For Great Justice→Rush(only when needed)→Arcing Slice→Hundred Blades→axe swap→Dual Strike→Whirling Axe→Cyclone axe→axe auto attack until fury is gone→GS swap

Err… almost.

You don’t want to be activating signet of fury, it’s there for the extra precision. You also don’t want to be using your burst skills once you get to higher levels and can use grandmaster traits because you’ll have access to a trait called ’Berserker’s Power’ which will give you 15% extra damage when your adrenaline is full resulting in a large DPS loss every time you use a burst skill.

Also, axe offhand is really bad. Whirling axe does less DPS than the autoattack chain. #4 is fine for the extra fury but generally speaking you’ll be wanting to make use of GS as much as possible anyways, so mace offhand would be better so that you can apply vuln and make the best use of the time you aren’t on GS.

Keep in mind that the advice I’m offering here isn’t going to be applicable until you have the option of making use of more traits, so for the moment what you are doing is going to be sufficient for open world leveling.

Most dungeon groups can run at full speed with warriors on full dps. Some cannot and in those cases a hammer can be useful for a bit of crowd control.

That’s not helpful advice… doing knockbacks and negligible damage isn’t going to be helping the party cleave mobs down.

Actually PUG groups tend to think they’re elite zerker superstars but they can’t defend themselves without a guardian. If you keep blind faith in dps regardless and eat the dirt with them then you’re just as bad as those PUGsters. There’s nothing wrong with a hammer at the right times.

Kolpo.2713:

Thanks greatsword + axe works well together indeed.

I now do now:

Signet of fury+For Great Justice->Rush(only when needed)->Arcing Slice->Hundred Blades->axe swap->Dual Strike->Whirling Axe->Cyclone axe->axe auto attack until fury is gone->GS swap

Eventually you will have enough crit chance and adrenaline gain to not even need to use Sig of Fury (extra crit when unused).

Replacing offhand axe will help you out a bit more, there is no utility, and low damage (Whirling looks like it is dealing damage…but you actually do more just with auto-attacks)

And more times than not, you shouldn’t ever use the GS burst skill, Axe burst is better in every single way (except fury, which doesn;t matter with high crit + sig of fury…and you have plenty of it from FGJ + Signet of Rage)

So more or less, replace the offhand axe, and try to not use GS burst skill. bam, you are good to go.