Guild Wars 2

Greetings !

25/6: With the Sky Pirates update, this build has yet again been revised to the update traits.

Here to share my build for WvW which I have been running with a high degree of success. The core of the build focuses on utilizing the burst skills of Hammer and Longbow, melee/range control while running in a solo or zerg environment.

[Pros]
•High Damage fully buffed <3300 Atk Power, <60% critical damage, <50% Critical Chance
•: 2900+ armor, 25.5K HP, -65% condition duration(Setup #2)
•Longbow usefulness in keep defense or attack. Both Combustive Shot and Arcing arrow ignores line of sight. In addition, the weapon set allows easy tagging for WXP and Bag farm
• Superior area control (Pin Down, Hammer shock, Earth shaker)

[Cons]
•Inefficiency in disengaging in combat

[Traits]

0/0/30/20/20

Defense (30): Dogged March / Merciless Hammer / Cleansing Ire

Tactics (20): Stronger Bowstrings / Burning Arrows

Discipline (20): Warrior’s Sprint / Signet Mastery

[Utilities]
Heal : Healing Surge
1.- Balanced Stance
2.- Bull Rush
3.- Signet Of Fury
4 – Signet Of Rage

Balance stance – Stability for stunfields,fears & knockdowns

Bull Rush – Provides another knockdown and also used for disengaging

Signet Of Fury- Pre-engagement Aderenaline boost

Signet Of Rage- Fury, Might, Speed Boon

[Equipment]
Weapon (1)
Soldier Hammer (Pow/Tou/Vit) – Superior Sigil Of Impact ( 10% dmg inc to disabled targets)

Weapon (2)
Berserker Longbow (Pow/Prec/Crit %) – Superior Sigil Of Fire

Armor Stat / Runes
Full Exotic Soldier Set (Pow/Tough/Vit)

Setup #1
6x Superior Rune Of Lyssa (+165 Precision, All boons + cleanse on Signet of Rage)

OR

Setup #2
Superior Runes Of Melandru x 6 (+165 Toughness, -25% condition duration, -25% stun duration)

[Accessories]
6x Berserker’s Power/Prec/CritDmg (Exotic/Ascended tier)

[Food]
Bowl Of Lemongrass Poultry Soup (-40% Condition Duration) for Lyssa build or Bowl Of Poultry & Leek (-36% Condition) for Melandru, Master Maintenance Oil (+Precision)

[General Strategy]

1v1 : Open with Pindown from long bow (6 stacks of bleed, 3sec imobilize) – Combustive Shot (If full Adrenaline) else Arcing Arrow – Signet Of Fury – Switch to Hammer – Bullcharge – Fierce Blow – Hammer shock – Backbreaker – Auto attack (2-3) – Earthshaker – Auto attack (2-3). Keep your opponent within the circle of combustive shot when possible for effective DPS..

Group/Zerg : Open with F1 combustive shot – Arcing arrow – Signet Of Fury – Combustive shot. I chose superior sigil of fire is used for Longbow to maximize ‘tagging’ and scales well due to this build’s overall high attack power. Do not forget that Healing surge gives you 3 Bars of adrenaline as well, which allows you to cast off another Combustive Shot. Switch to Hammer when necessary.

I do my best to answer any questions you have regarding the build. Have fun!

Dont have time atm to read all that I’ll try to later, but from what I read…I’m t1 too I don’t think ranged is reqd, rarely use. My hammer build uses sw/wh for swap, condi removal, mobility, immob…I hammer bammer in middle of zerg til I have to gtfo and sw is godly for this, auto targeting off,de select & leap out to backline

This build works for me too.. thanks

In view of the latest changes to warriors, i revised the build slightly mainly taking 10 points from Berserkers Power to Burst Mastery. Given that this build expands adrenaline more often than not, the change to burst mastery, combining cooldown and adrenaline reduction provides an added advantage than before.

Thx, been looking for a longbow wvw build that uses Stronger Bowstrings. Most builds I see don’t use it and I like having 1200 range.

Build has been revised again in view of the Sky Pirates update.

Fans of Hammer/Longbow will be glad to know that this build has been improved by quite abit

- Hammer buffs – change to weakness condition, increased aftercast for hammer
- Warrior’s sprint can finally replace dependancy on SOR for movement
- Longbow has been given a huge buff
- Condition removal made even easier since the core of the build utilizes adrenaline

I have to say, this is good when you’re not alone. Really. Solo, you will die with this when you run into any player with half a brain who isn’t a warrior. And the problem is, you can’t do anythign about it! You have zero mobility..

And while I agree with you that hammer and longbow (mainly longbow) received nice buffs, hammer has some new problems as well. For instance, I don’t know if the delay after using staggering blow has been removed, because that skill is utterly broken otherwise. However, worse then that, the abundancy of viable stunbreakers that were added to several classes makes the hammer a mediocre weapon at best when you’re solo. And to add on top of all that, blind hard counters hammer due to the still slow animations. Longbow helps a lot with that, but I find either GS or Defektive’s sword/shield a better idea to run alongside longbow.

That being said, this is an original build. That helps. You will surprise people with the amount of CC you can dish out. Although I think this will work better with melandru, cavalier/zerker trinkets and zerker gear (vitality is a wasted stat on a warrior with such high base HP, IMO). Hammer is a really fun weapon to use. That counts for something to, right?

Embrace the pain IS cleansing ire.