Guild Wars 2

Hey all

I’ve been leveling a WvW Warrior with a Hammer/Greatsword build but I need a little help picking between power,vitality and toughness stats or power,precision and toughness

Basically I just want to be a little tanky and dish out some nice damage and stuns whilst in WvW

I have a good idea but just need a little support thanks

soldiers with zerk trinkets and weps

Knights weapons, knights armor with lyssa runes, cavalier trinkets.

Knights armor with either 6/6 melandru or 4x resistance 2x melandru. Zerker weps, all Cavalier trinkets, gets you close to 4k armor, great crit % and crit dmg. Used that combo in this video. You can see the tankiness+dps.

It’s almost an impossible answer without knowing your server, your servers playstyle, and if you want to run with the group or be a roamer.

If you’re on T1 server in a Zerg, you will likely require a different stat combination than if you’re on a T6 server.

Out of interest, what are T1 guild group (zerg) warriors running since the patch? I’ve run hammer for a long time, but it’d be nice to check before I hit the “craft” button on my ascended set
I read somewhere that 3200 armor was a cap (can’t remember if they said hard or soft cap) – Is that right? Do people favour a few Sentinel pieces to maintain cap, or pick up precision gear?

@OP – Like Flissy said, it definitely depends on your playstyle. You won’t last long enough in Knight’s gear in the melee train, and roaming in full ptv is really stunting yourself.

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@OP – Like Flissy said, it definitely depends on your playstyle. You won’t last long enough in Knight’s gear in the melee train, and roaming in full ptv is really stunting yourself.[/quote]

I beg to differ. 4k armor with 40k effective health, not including HS and adrenal, which get even better the more toughness you have. Full PTV is only 50k effective health, and the FAR superior damage of knight/cavalier far outweighs the health.

Thanks for all your suggestions so far I’ll be sure to look into them

Cavalier trinkets, some parts Assassin’s to get a couple extra s on crit chance, Berserker everything else. 20k HP+3k armor+3200 attack and 40 to 50 crit chance (+20 with fury) with around 90% to 100% crit. damage is more than enough to zerg or solo.

Berserker Weapons, Soldier Armor, Berserker Trinkets

or

Berserker Weapons, Knight’s Armor, Cavalier Trinkets if you want to invest more into toughness and take away some crit chance, power and HP.

or

Berserker Weapons, Knight’s Armor, Celestial Trinkets as a middlegroud between the two.

These options are very common for power based builds for a lot of people and are all viable.

As far as runes go, Melandru is a very common choice because of the additonal toughness and the condition management it provides. It’s good rune for a WvW warrior.

IMHO basic rule of thumb for power based WvW warrior builds (full ascended gear)
- at least 25% crit chance
- at least 3500 attack
- at least 3000 armor
- at least 20K HP
- at least 50% crit. damage

Should be hard to miss these margins. If you fall way below these in a build you are trying to create a one trick pony, trying to maximize one stats, but usually sacrifice too much on other stats. You encounter a lot of different situations in WvW, so you need to be balanced a bit more.

In end you need to balance it our for your playstyle which stats benefits your more and shift them a bit towards it.

If in doubt go for more toughness as this benefits the majority of players more in my opinion when engaging an enemy zerg. I personally prefer a bigger HP buffer, but that’s my playstyle.

As far as traits go it depends on your choice of weapons mainly. Warrior doesn’t offer that much synergy compared to other classes here. I consider the trait lines still broken.

So I took some of your advice and put this build together would be grateful on any suggestions to improve it

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIEQJASRjcOJvNPGPMxBE0DNkLqizDqQJYCVh5A-jEyAYrhoRQgIEAZvioxWJLiGraBTVSEV7TKiWNA-w

Starduster.9746:

So I took some of your advice and put this build together would be grateful on any suggestions to improve it

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIEQJASRjcOJvNPGPMxBE0DNkLqizDqQJYCVh5A-jEyAYrhoRQgIEAZvioxWJLiGraBTVSEV7TKiWNA-w

No healing signet? :0 and shouts are pretty bad without traiting for them and even then… You’re toughness is to low, thats why cavalier/knight is better. And not using food gimps you a lot. 30 in arms without unsuspecting foe is a big waste.

Try this

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIEQJASRjkOBvpQGPMxBE0DNkLqC1D7oOijUBxA-jkBBYfBiIIQZmFRjtMqIasabYqYER1yAovAA-w

I went Valkyrie Armor with Melandru Runes, with mix of Cavalier and Zerk/Valyrie trinkets. 3200 Armor, 22k health (25-26 k with WvW bonuses and Guard Stacks), whopping 90% crit damage with a 106% crit chance with fury on a stunned or knocked down foe. Solid for roaming and still tough enough for zerging

Julie Yann.5379:

I went Valkyrie Armor with Melandru Runes, with mix of Cavalier and Zerk/Valyrie trinkets. 3200 Armor, 22k health (25-26 k with WvW bonuses and Guard Stacks), whopping 90% crit damage with a 106% crit chance with fury on a stunned or knocked down foe. Solid for roaming and still tough enough for zerging

This is pretty much what i’m using for WvW, finding it very good so far.

Soldier runes or gkick.

i use knights in pve and zerk in pvp cuz i from oakland

I use zerk trinket and weapons, knight armor minus zerk BP.

I use different stacking sigil to tweak my build. AP, Prec most of the time and the toughness one when things get more rough.

Hmm…I made this using a lot of the advice from this thread but I’m finding some of the initial contact damage on this build lacking. In a sustained battle I build up might and vulnerability and with Fury on things get nuts. But it just doesn’t have the initial oomph I’d want in the first few seconds of a battle:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQJARSjkOpwxOyQMxBE0DNsK4CjifAIOKoCmA-j0yAYrhoRUAoKYkFICESCsIaslxioxqYw0nLqWpC4SKiWtUAMJMC-w

It’ll be a bit till I can finish a full ascended set.

karmaepsilon.2894:

Hmm…I made this using a lot of the advice from this thread but I’m finding some of the initial contact damage on this build lacking. In a sustained battle I build up might and vulnerability and with Fury on things get nuts. But it just doesn’t have the initial oomph I’d want in the first few seconds of a battle:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQJARSjkOpwxOyQMxBE0DNsK4CjifAIOKoCmA-j0yAYrhoRUAoKYkFICESCsIaslxioxqYw0nLqWpC4SKiWtUAMJMC-w

It’ll be a bit till I can finish a full ascended set.

The reason is all of your gear has Power as a secondary stat. Mix in some PVT or Valkyrie and replace those sapphire jewels by something that has Power as a primary stat and you should see some nice increase to your initial DPS.

Hi i’m really new at running a warrior and found it really fun but i need advice if i’ve setup my build correctly. appreciate the help http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAS3ejkOpwxOyQMxBE0DNsK4C1j5wOijUBxA-j0CBYLERz0yBmqAjABhIAK5pIaslRFRjVxATfaR1qYAeDMa1SBonwI-w

Chiemoi.3509:

Hi i’m really new at running a warrior and found it really fun but i need advice if i’ve setup my build correctly. appreciate the help http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAS3ejkOpwxOyQMxBE0DNsK4C1j5wOijUBxA-j0CBYLERz0yBmqAjABhIAK5pIaslRFRjVxATfaR1qYAeDMa1SBonwI-w

Thats pretty much right i just made a few minor tweaks.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAS3ejkOpwFPCPMxBE0DNsK4C1D7wNijUBxA-j0CBYLERz0yBmqAjABhIAK5pIaslRFRjVxATfaR1qYAeDMa1SBonwI-ws

karmaepsilon.2894:

Hmm…I made this using a lot of the advice from this thread but I’m finding some of the initial contact damage on this build lacking. In a sustained battle I build up might and vulnerability and with Fury on things get nuts. But it just doesn’t have the initial oomph I’d want in the first few seconds of a battle:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQJARSjkOpwxOyQMxBE0DNsK4CjifAIOKoCmA-j0yAYrhoRUAoKYkFICESCsIaslxioxqYw0nLqWpC4SKiWtUAMJMC-w

It’ll be a bit till I can finish a full ascended set.

Thats because your crit dmg is complete trash. Healing power is such a useless stat on warriors, and exquisite jewels give the best stat-per% crit dmg. Aim for at least 3k armor, 2k power, 35% crit chance, and 70% crit dmg.

Carpboy.7145:

Chiemoi.3509:

Hi i’m really new at running a warrior and found it really fun but i need advice if i’ve setup my build correctly. appreciate the help http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAS3ejkOpwxOyQMxBE0DNsK4C1j5wOijUBxA-j0CBYLERz0yBmqAjABhIAK5pIaslRFRjVxATfaR1qYAeDMa1SBonwI-w

Thats pretty much right i just made a few minor tweaks.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAS3ejkOpwFPCPMxBE0DNsK4C1D7wNijUBxA-j0CBYLERz0yBmqAjABhIAK5pIaslRFRjVxATfaR1qYAeDMa1SBonwI-ws

Thanks man, really appreciate the 2nd opinion, i will immediately try this out.. im worried about the speed increase but at the end of the day sharpening axes seems like the perfect add to the build. Just got my warrior to 80 so its time to start playtesting

Carpboy.7145:

karmaepsilon.2894:

Hmm…I made this using a lot of the advice from this thread but I’m finding some of the initial contact damage on this build lacking. In a sustained battle I build up might and vulnerability and with Fury on things get nuts. But it just doesn’t have the initial oomph I’d want in the first few seconds of a battle:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQJARSjkOpwxOyQMxBE0DNsK4CjifAIOKoCmA-j0yAYrhoRUAoKYkFICESCsIaslxioxqYw0nLqWpC4SKiWtUAMJMC-w

It’ll be a bit till I can finish a full ascended set.

Thats because your crit dmg is complete trash. Healing power is such a useless stat on warriors, and exquisite jewels give the best stat-per% crit dmg. Aim for at least 3k armor, 2k power, 35% crit chance, and 70% crit dmg.

Cool. I wanted to get a firmer opinion before I bought the trinkets. Cause I’d seen people toting Healing Power on the trinkets only as a solid option but when I put it together it looked exactly like this: very lackluster.
sigh Sadly now the problem is you can’t get Exotic Cavalier trinkets outside of karma buying.

Chiemoi.3509:

Carpboy.7145:

Chiemoi.3509:

Hi i’m really new at running a warrior and found it really fun but i need advice if i’ve setup my build correctly. appreciate the help http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAS3ejkOpwxOyQMxBE0DNsK4C1j5wOijUBxA-j0CBYLERz0yBmqAjABhIAK5pIaslRFRjVxATfaR1qYAeDMa1SBonwI-w

Thats pretty much right i just made a few minor tweaks.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAS3ejkOpwFPCPMxBE0DNsK4C1D7wNijUBxA-j0CBYLERz0yBmqAjABhIAK5pIaslRFRjVxATfaR1qYAeDMa1SBonwI-ws

Thanks man, really appreciate the 2nd opinion, i will immediately try this out.. im worried about the speed increase but at the end of the day sharpening axes seems like the perfect add to the build. Just got my warrior to 80 so its time to start playtesting

The reason i got rid of warriors sprint was with signet mastery and signet of rage you have lots of swiftness uptime. Dont need warriors sprint IMO.