Guild Wars 2

After this latest patch took place I feel out of place and lackluster when playing warrior in wvw.

Yes I have visited metabattle but there is nothing listed in the wvw section and I generally prefer theory crafting/making my own builds.

What are the current wvw builds for warriors, if any at all? I mean this mostly in regards to smaller-scale fights but also to the extent of Zerging; front-line builds, something useful for the party/group ect as right now I’m running a very selfish build and I think that’s where I am going wrong.

• is shout warrior still a thing?

If it helps at all I’m geared in full PVT (soldier’s) weps/gear etc as one too many times going full zerk just gets me insta-killed. Main weps I use/carry is GS + S/WH, Hammer and also shield if I really need that block. Unfortunately I have no ranged weapon because I have no clue what would be best on the field; rifle seems more like picking off singular targets as opposed to LB which I think people use for might blasting? I am not too sure on that one…

I noticed it doesn’t help that ANet has taken away healing power/condition duration/boon duration from trait lines so I’m feeling the hit even more and I have no idea how to compensate for that, given healing power scales terribly anyway yet I still feel inclined to run Healing Signet as warrior. Any tips there?

TLDR: any current good, viable WvW frontline warrior builds out there? Please let me know!

Going full zerk can certainly be intimidating when you aren’t used to it, but I’d definitely recommend moving away from the pvt toward a more damage oriented gear set in this brave new wvw.

As you can see from this thread here, the patch has really diminished the value of toughness, especially in roaming and small group wvw, and you’re only delaying the inevitable death rather than protecting against it by investing too much in toughness.

Warhorn got a couple of nefs, whereas shield got buffed. Gs remains a very strong weapon choice for what you want to do, as is hammer, and anything paired with shield. So I recommend dropping the warhorn in favour of any of those.

If you’re really not comfortable pushing yourself into zerk territory (or close to it), you could always see if a condi spec works for you as it allows you to get away with a bit more vitality or toughness and still be effective.

Craft someone weapons and armor for yourself (or have someone else do it), and see how it suits you. I recommend going carrion over rabid, and working in as much sinister as you can stomach, but it’s up to you. You could also mix in some rabid for the toughness if you want, or go full dire. I’d say go with whatever’s cheapest until you know if condis for you.

You’ll want to go dual swords and longbow and Krait Runes are probably your best bet. I’ve heard defense-tactics-discipline is better than working arms in there, but I haven’t tested it myself. Arms has some tasty bleed/condi benefits in it for the swords, so try a few setups to see what works.

If you want to stick power though, consider moving away from the pvt toward more zerk. Alternatively, I posted a build in another thread that uses valk gear that would give you vitality while maintaining really high damage, but do note that I haven’t tested it out yet.

Shouts have been scaled way back and I definitely wouldn’t recommend them, especially for roaming. You used to get about 1700 per shout with your gear, but now you’ll only get about 1000. And, like I said, warhorn has also been nerfed a bit as has longbow, in a weird way.

Good luck.

Choppy.4183:

Going full zerk can certainly be intimidating when you aren’t used to it, but I’d definitely recommend moving away from the pvt toward a more damage oriented gear set in this brave new wvw.

As you can see from this thread here, the patch has really diminished the value of toughness, especially in roaming and small group wvw, and you’re only delaying the inevitable death rather than protecting against it by investing too much in toughness.

Warhorn got a couple of nefs, whereas shield got buffed. Gs remains a very strong weapon choice for what you want to do, as is hammer, and anything paired with shield. So I recommend dropping the warhorn in favour of any of those.

If you’re really not comfortable pushing yourself into zerk territory (or close to it), you could always see if a condi spec works for you as it allows you to get away with a bit more vitality or toughness and still be effective.

Craft someone weapons and armor for yourself (or have someone else do it), and see how it suits you. I recommend going carrion over rabid, and working in as much sinister as you can stomach, but it’s up to you. You could also mix in some rabid for the toughness if you want, or go full dire. I’d say go with whatever’s cheapest until you know if condis for you.

You’ll want to go dual swords and longbow and Krait Runes are probably your best bet. I’ve heard defense-tactics-discipline is better than working arms in there, but I haven’t tested it myself. Arms has some tasty bleed/condi benefits in it for the swords, so try a few setups to see what works.

If you want to stick power though, consider moving away from the pvt toward more zerk. Alternatively, I posted a build in another thread that uses valk gear that would give you vitality while maintaining really high damage, but do note that I haven’t tested it out yet.

Shouts have been scaled way back and I definitely wouldn’t recommend them, especially for roaming. You used to get about 1700 per shout with your gear, but now you’ll only get about 1000. And, like I said, warhorn has also been nerfed a bit as has longbow, in a weird way.

Good luck.

Thank you for the informative response, I’ll try out zerk once again; it’s still insanely risky. I’m sure with practice I’ll learn to survive better with it.

Yes, I actually have an alt warri geared in full condition stats. It’s very fun but more suited to 1v1 or simply roaming as S/S is quite close-combat orientated and condis in zergs often get mass cleared by team support, unfortunately.

I’ll admit, with healing power removed from base line stats it’s even worse off now.. but I’m still curious about shout heals; perhaps they’d be more useful on Guardian? Either way, I will be sticking to a power orientated build.

It is quite melancholy of ANet to focus so much on damaging via this latest feature patch/pack with little compensation for defense, or for those that enjoyed running a bit more tanky gear. Oh well, I will find a way, eventually.

Thanks once again.

Hey, no problem. Btw, if you’re still doing zerg stuff then I assume pvt is still the optimal gear to run, and I don’t think the preference for trooper runes with shouts and h/s+wh has changed at all. So your gear should still be fine.

I don’t think anyone has shout heals like warriors did, except guardians whose shout heal skill applies to allies as well.

Also, fyi, the nerfs to warhorn were the number of allies affected was reduced from 10 to 5 and it no longer converts conditions when traited (just removes them now). Banners are also less now in that there’s no radius increase or CD reduction when traited anymore.

I don’t spend any time in zergs, but Guardians strike me as much better support than warriors. They also have completely broken burning (at least while roaming), so watch for that. Came across a duo of them yesterday that applied 11k+ burns per tick in a matter of a few seconds (burns stack intensity instead of duration now).