Guild Wars 2

Yo!. With the increased population from the WvW “update” iv’e been enjoying the plethora of fights coming my way, here’s hoping it stays that way!.

Comments and questions always appreciated / answered. Hope you enjoyed!

Build link in the description.

-Cheers

Wow thats some insane sustain u pack for dealing strong pressure may need to check that out ! nice music aswell.

Barely made it half way through. So much random jump dodging and weapon stowing, it hurts me brain guy.

Nihevil.8024:

Barely made it half way through. So much random jump dodging and weapon stowing, it hurts me brain guy.

90% perma endurance regeneration (100% when activating a stance) means i can use dodges offensively when not using them to avoid damage, if you payed attention at all you’d see the dodges i were using were hitting 2-3k + via reckless dodge, the jump dodges increase the distance you travel while simultaneously evading which is obviously useful for hitting targets just out of range. The weapon stowing is purely to hide / skew animations that are important to land…warrior basics really..

How exactly does it hide/skew animations? I don’t see what you’re talking about, the animations don’t look like they are being hidden or even skewed. I understand if you’re dodging to do damage, but a majority of your sick strategic dodge jumping was just random kitten ing which did not benefit at all to the fight. I guess I shouldn’t of skipped wurweror bwasics 101.

Nihevil.8024:

How exactly does it hide/skew animations? I don’t see what you’re talking about, the animations don’t look like they are being hidden or even skewed. I understand if you’re dodging to do damage, but a majority of your sick strategic dodge jumping was just random kitten ing which did not benefit at all to the fight. I guess I shouldn’t of skipped wurweror bwasics 101.

Simply put, the more animations your character displays when using a skill the harder it is for your opponent to process which skill you’re using / about to use, stowing when finishing or while using a skill produces this effect. As for for “sick strategic dodge jumping” once again…simply put, you travel further when combining the 2 skills and as for them being random… if im not dealing damage with the evades im either using them to evade skills / re positionbut hey, thats your opinion i guess. It really is quite obvious when you think about it…i guess skipping wurweor bwasics was a bad idea huh?, cheers for the input nonetheless.

I enjoyed the video, personally.

While there are probably some dodges that could be saved (multiple dodges when stepping out of melee range), there’s almost always still one in the tank if needed. Keeping endurance below 100% is generally a good idea when playing a Strength warrior (+10% damage via Stick and Move), and playing such a high endurance regen build will require plenty of otherwise superfluous dodges.

As for extra weapon stows, I mean, what does it matter? There’s zero consequence to stowing weapons unnecessarily, unless cancelling out skills you actually want to execute. Didn’t see that here.

Thunder King, I still think you’d do better swapping your food for Golden Fried Dumplings. You don’t need the endurance regen from the food and, in fact, you’re not getting any of the benefit for more than 50% of the time anyway. Meanwhile, the dumplings would give you more might (more crits than dodges), help you maintain 25 stacks faster and longer (through both the boon buff and extra might), and it’d extend your vigor, fury, resistance, stability, and fury. Plus, it’s only 60% the cost of the food you’re using now.

Thanks for posting.

Choppy.4183:

I enjoyed the video, personally.

While there are probably some dodges that could be saved (multiple dodges when stepping out of melee range), there’s almost always still one in the tank if needed. Keeping endurance below 100% is generally a good idea when playing a Strength warrior (+10% damage via Stick and Move), and playing such a high endurance regen build will require plenty of otherwise superfluous dodges.

As for extra weapon stows, I mean, what does it matter? There’s zero consequence to stowing weapons unnecessarily, unless cancelling out skills you actually want to execute. Didn’t see that here.

Thunder King, I still think you’d do better swapping your food for Golden Fried Dumplings. You don’t need the endurance regen from the food and, in fact, you’re not getting any of the benefit for more than 50% of the time anyway. Meanwhile, the dumplings would give you more might (more crits than dodges), help you maintain 25 stacks faster and longer (through both the boon buff and extra might), and it’d extend your vigor, fury, resistance, stability, and fury. Plus, it’s only 60% the cost of the food you’re using now.

Thanks for posting.

Thanks!

Like i said when you asked about the food choice before, it’s purely down to having the 90% regen passively when combined with stam sig, when the stances proc (presuming i use both of them at the same time) i have 12s of 100% endurance regeneration. If i run with the dumplings i rely on the vigor from the stances to get me near what i run passively which also has the possibily to be stripped / corrupted / kited out till the boon has ended.
The boon duration and 33% chance on crit for might is obviously amazing to run (which i do often), but in this meta against the classes we fight nowadays, you’re not going to be standing around cleaving and benefiting from the additional might stacks…even though might stacking was never really an issue in the first place.
I guess it comes down to personal preference, i’ll still run dumplings when i feel like it’s more beneficial to what im fighting.

Cheers for the feedback and suggestions Choppy, glad you enjoyed.

Thunder King.2936:

Nihevil.8024:

Simply put, the more animations your character displays when using a skill the harder it is for your opponent to process which skill you’re using / about to use, stowing when finishing or while using a skill produces this effect. As for for “sick strategic dodge jumping” once again…simply put, you travel further when combining the 2 skills and as for them being random… if im not dealing damage with the evades im either using them to evade skills / re positionbut hey, thats your opinion i guess. It really is quite obvious when you think about it…i guess skipping wurweor bwasics was a bad idea huh?, cheers for the input nonetheless.

“The harder it is for your opponent to process which skill you’re using”, seems pretty bs to me, it hardly masks your animations or even at all. Even if it did work it’ll work on terrible pvers running around in wvw, which is what you’re fighting, and redundant because you’re going to kill them anyway. I’m fully aware that you travel further while dodge jumping, i’m just stating that a lot of your random dodge jumping seems pointless and have hardly anything to do with “repositioning”.

great vid great warrior

You two, you don’t travel further when jump dodging…The only use of jump dodging is jumping as far as your dodge goes when you’re in combat and your movement speed is decreased. Jumping maintains your out of combat movement speed while in combat, so you can effectively jump as far using a jump dodge as you would be able to if you did it while out of combat, that’s the only redeeming feature of jump dodging. Jump dodging on elevated terrain will make you go a further or shorter distance depending on whether your jump dodging down a hill or up a hill respectively.

Rekt.5360:

Jumping maintains your out of combat movement speed while in combat, so you can effectively jump as far using a jump dodge as you would be able to if you did it while out of combat, that’s the only redeeming feature of jump dodging.

Thunder King.2936:

Rekt.5360:

Jumping maintains your out of combat movement speed while in combat, so you can effectively jump as far using a jump dodge as you would be able to if you did it while out of combat, that’s the only redeeming feature of jump dodging.

O yeah, props on vid too, you’re one of the only warrs I can stand watching as you don’t run gunflame cheese like most “pro” roamers. GG

Nice! The endurance regeneration is real! :O
I have to try that

@ Rekt

Thanks man, iv’e never been a fan of gun flame myself tbh, the play style is too rewarding for the amount of effort you put in.

Hai, questions!

1. How to get 2 ascended earrings that are zerker and have offensive infusion slot?
2. Damage potential really low. Only thing I see that ive never used is the furious sharpening stone. I see it used alot by duelers. Does that explain ur cleave power? Or do you just use it for some extra toughness?
3. How to manage without signet of might? As someone who has used both stamina and might…I find it terribly hard to justify getting rid of signet of might for wvsw. I mean have u tried replacing stamina with might on this build? Still get 40 endurance regen base and 90 potential….would let you capitalize on stick and move(+10% dmg) more as well. An unblockable really speeds fights up imo, prevents you from getting bogged down by too many enemies.
4. Dawn or eternity or whatever ur gs is really masks the animations. Is there some cheaper option I can use to the same effect? Don’t say volcanus thats not cheap
5. What special game keys do you use? You seem to use the “turn 180degrees” one…the “stow weapon” key obv…..what else?
6.What are your controls? Keybindings? How can I press so many buttons.
7. What are your basic movement binds? I mean I don’t have strafe rigtht or left binded. instead i use turn right and turn left and hold the mouse to strafe right/left. do you have both or just one?
8. Do you run Berserker spec? Do you find it better than vanilla?
9. have u tried scrapping ur endure pain since the patch? I find its not really needed anymore given defy pain procs at 50 and ur burst heals so much hp. And the fact its on a 60 sec cd and only lasts 5 seconds is usually detrimental to my overall killing power. Swap in a signet of might instead or frenzy.
10. Why not put bloodlust on ur axe? You seem to be fine at killing things, +250 power would apply to both weapon sets and is better than 5% dmg buff on the axe/shield (last time I checked).
11. I hope you run a nighttime axe with the sigil of night +10% power
12. Since you dodge so much. What would happen if you used runes of daredevil over strength?

I mean stick and move + sigil of night + bloodlust active 250 power + 180 passive signet of might = +20% damage, +430 power.
vs your +5% on axe only, +50% endurance regen….?
Is +50 endurance regen > +20% damage and 430 power?

I mean I run basically the same thing you do cept I’m power hungry and go for the 3k base power club….so signet of might and sigil of bloodlust. You have insane skill I’m just wondering if you could benefit more from more damage like Choppy was going on about, or….if you have this all figured out and we need to get on the endurance regen bandwagon. I only tried the 90% passive endurance regen for a bit a while back….and wasn’t impressed given how much it impacted my damage output. Honestly it was hard enough to get me to put the sigil of energy on my gs when I could run sigil of night on it instead….that is some amazing cleave power right there. I still swap back at night sometimes just to enjoy the sheer devastation the Gs can do with that +10%.

1. Woops, the double power infusions on the earrings was an oversight on my part (created the build link on my phone…kittens hard to click), i run with +5 power and a +5 toughness infusion.
2. While im in combat it’s pretty easy to maintain 10-15 stacks of might which puts me into the 3k power threshold which i don’t see as a loss of damage potential. The furious stones add additional crit dmg and bring you over 2.5k armor which is a decent amount to cushion you.
3. Depending on what im fighting i’ll swap out stam sig for might but that’s really only against builds that i feel like it’s necessary. Quite often in duels dragon hunters etc will ask / complain about running might sig so over time i learned to play passively and wait for a window to open where said classes aren’t using blocks. For roaming and outnumbered fights i can’t justify dropping a 12 condition removal + passive endurance gain util for a 6s unblockable on a 25s cd.
4. The only other option i can think of is foefire’s essence xD, weapon skins that produce a flashy effect when unsheathing / have trails are what you want and im not sure there is a gs that has that under 500g.
5. I use shift as my “look back” key and Z as my stow weapon key.
6. All of my utilities (including heal) are bound to buttons on my mouse, my normal attacks are set as default.
7. Here’s a link to my movement binds etc: http://imgur.com/a/PrEGa
8. I do play berserker, but after playing core warrior for almost 4 years it’s hard to move on…core is bae :p.
9. Endure pain is still necessary as a utility in this meta imo, in outmanned fights you can’t afford to run an offensive utility with the amount of damage coming your way (Unless you build for sustain which ultimatly lowers your damage). The new defy pain is defo an upgrade compared to how it previously functioned.
10. It’s unlikely that you’ll be running around with 25 bloodlust stacks on every engage, so air / force is a better option for damage imo. Also people see running stacks in duels as an advantage and often ask to remove them making the sigil redundant.
11. I have 3 ascended axes one of which runs with sigil of night :p.
12. With 70% crit chance and a sigil of intelligence the 6th bonus on daredevil is nullified. Strength is the best option for damage in prolonged fights with pack coming close behind.

Both stick and move and sigil of night are circumstantial, you’re not always going to be getting the 20%.
Even with so much endurance regen there are still windows where i can land a juicy arc slice / evis / whirl etc with the stick and move modifier, you just gotta time it right.

Energy on gs is just a personal preference, it allows me to pull off some unexpected dodges to bait out cds / land reckless dodges into skills ie Whirlwind / shield block for decent 2-3k+ hits.

Cheers for asking, hope this cleared up how i like to play warrior.

Thanks that helps me lots

Groundtargetting set to normal is kind of odd imo. i set it to one of the other 2 options so i dont have to double click or tap anything.

also the about face thing you have binded to shift. That is reallllllly realllly buggy. i just tried it and there were period where im smashing the button and nothing happens….i have to change the camera and then it works…..idk if you get these problems or i just happen to have a really picky warrior and keyboard and game that happen to combine to create frustrations galore.

I will try to learn from this and become a better warrior. Although it might be impossible with this keyboard and mouse im using
Jumping and dodging definitely aint gonna be happening tho…don’t have the timing for it and the button presses don’t always register properly on my keyboard :/

Also I find it kind of odd the people you play with complain about a 6s unblockable and bloodlust stacks….. on a warrior of all thing…
Just….!?!?!!? lol. Whatever, I obviously do not care for these opinions!

Hi,

Cerby.1069:

Jumping and dodging definitely aint gonna be happening tho…don’t have the timing for it and the button presses don’t always register properly on my keyboard :/

Yes, the keyboard really helps in this regard. I play on a laptop, and my jump dodges were difficult to make before. I’ve now bought a separate mechanical keyboard, and it works everytime (plus it’s very comfortable to work/play with). Only caveat is that it’s expensive

Cerby.1069:

Also I find it kind of odd the people you play with complain about a 6s unblockable and bloodlust stacks….. on a warrior of all thing…
Just….!?!?!!? lol. Whatever, I obviously do not care for these opinions!

The blood/corruption stacks is simply part of the dueling/GvG etiquette, from many years ago, so players abide to it whether it makes sense or not. However I don’t recall the Signet of Might being part of it, although I can understand if a warrior agrees not to use it when facing a guardian, as blocking is (was) part of their main mechanics.

Haven’t commented on the video yet, found it skillful and very enjoyable to watch, thanks for sharing!

I just have dodge bound to the V key. It lets me jump dodge just by hitting it and the space bar together, if I want.

Choppy.4183:

I just have dodge bound to the V key. It lets me jump dodge just by hitting it and the space bar together, if I want.

That’s exactly what I do. At first it seemed a bit unnatural since I was used to double tapping, but now I cannot do otherwise.

kitten guys can NA step up it’s roaming drama game. I’m feeling outclassed here.

Obindo.6802:

you blocked me from comment section, u say I’m trash when you haven’t won a single duel ever

So he basicly cried + blocked… that behavior is the same as people with l2p issues xd

Oh you took it to the forums i see :P, just to clarify like i messaged you before, im not here to rub peenz against eachother. Im sorry you took my joke in reply to what you were spamming in the comment section to heart, i guess you’re not the type to take a joke( i actually took the “KANGAROOOO” etc spam as a joke and found it funny hence the imgur i spent a whole 30 secs making). I also stated that i record every single fight i have with Cake guys, alot of them are actually chill and decent guys but you…holy hell, your ego is so high that snoop dog couldn’t compete, you’ve never killed me with a “one handed axe” the only duel iv’e ever had with you was over 6 months ago and after you lost you refused to do anymore because i was running last stand….funny enough the next day you dueled my friend Nas on his power necro using the same traits…which we found quite hilarious btw. Again like i said before, respect is earned my friend, not given, when you try to be all " xD xD KANGAROO WTS Grogert Bunnyborn" kitten in my comments section don’t ever be surprised if you get a bit of banter back at you.

Basically everything iv’e said here was what was sent to him via DM, and if necessary i’ll upload the fight and the messages that were pm’d the one time we dueled over 6 months ago.

Hope this clarifies some stuff.
http://imgur.com/SUddQzq <—— What i linked thinking you weren’t going to throw a hissy fit.

Ps. 10/10 image btw, still tickles me even now hahaha

http://imgur.com/nPJ0SZT

Elegie.3620:

Hi,

Cerby.1069:

Jumping and dodging definitely aint gonna be happening tho…don’t have the timing for it and the button presses don’t always register properly on my keyboard :/

Yes, the keyboard really helps in this regard. I play on a laptop, and my jump dodges were difficult to make before. I’ve now bought a separate mechanical keyboard, and it works everytime (plus it’s very comfortable to work/play with). Only caveat is that it’s expensive

Cerby.1069:

Also I find it kind of odd the people you play with complain about a 6s unblockable and bloodlust stacks….. on a warrior of all thing…
Just….!?!?!!? lol. Whatever, I obviously do not care for these opinions!

The blood/corruption stacks is simply part of the dueling/GvG etiquette, from many years ago, so players abide to it whether it makes sense or not. However I don’t recall the Signet of Might being part of it, although I can understand if a warrior agrees not to use it when facing a guardian, as blocking is (was) part of their main mechanics.

Haven’t commented on the video yet, found it skillful and very enjoyable to watch, thanks for sharing!

^This

And thanks!, Dragon hunters are hit and miss whether they let you run might sig or not, i’d say the majority of them aren’t bothered buy it but i take it off just to save hassle.

Nice play even better play list.

Straegen.2938:

Nice play even better play list.

Thanks! Iv’e been really getting into Soulchef lately, really enjoying his tracks

Thunder King.2936:

Oh you took it to the forums i see :P, just to clarify like i messaged you before, im not here to rub peenz against eachother. Im sorry you took my joke in reply to what you were spamming in the comment section to heart, i guess you’re not the type to take a joke( i actually took the “KANGAROOOO” etc spam as a joke and found it funny hence the imgur i spent a whole 30 secs making). I also stated that i record every single fight i have with Cake guys, alot of them are actually chill and decent guys but you…holy hell, your ego is so high that snoop dog couldn’t compete, you’ve never killed me with a “one handed axe” the only duel iv’e ever had with you was over 6 months ago and after you lost you refused to do anymore because i was running last stand….funny enough the next day you dueled my friend Nas on his power necro using the same traits…which we found quite hilarious btw. Again like i said before, respect is earned my friend, not given, when you try to be all " xD xD KANGAROO WTS Grogert Bunnyborn" kitten in my comments section don’t ever be surprised if you get a bit of banter back at you.

Basically everything iv’e said here was what was sent to him via DM, and if necessary i’ll upload the fight and the messages that were pm’d the one time we dueled over 6 months ago.

Hope this clarifies some stuff.
http://imgur.com/SUddQzq <—— What i linked thinking you weren’t going to throw a hissy fit.

Ps. 10/10 image btw, still tickles me even now hahaha

Yes they were and if you consider that picture to a random as banter then, lol, each to their own I guess.
My ego is huge cuz I don’t appreciate malicious implications? Logic right there.
As I told you, those are wrong fights, we’ve fought numerous times and the fights I refer to were during last summer so wrong fights. I think the ones u remember are the west of SM? And I didnt loose any of those unless my memory fails me.
The principle of not running stance traits is because its a mirror matchup if both remove those traits, it remains a mirror and neither party has kitten themselves, but offers a more active and not passive proc stances gameplay. Thusly this only applies to warr v warr as mirror matchup is opportune. So it does not apply against other classes.

This back and forth between YT messaging and Forums, wanna stick to one so i don’t have to keep repeating myself? :P

Indeed it is common ethics to run whats normally acceptable and back then triple stance was used extensively.
I even have recordings vs exy, vaanns, wana all using the same traits i was using…if you had asked me to remove / change my build i would have done without questioning it np.

The one and only fight we’ve ever had was on 10/17/2015 over 6 months ago behind windmill, myself, Walk guildies and Cake guys were there dueling aswell. If i had lost a duel to a “one handed axe” warrior i would have probably quit the game there and then.

And as for the image…yeah i guess it doesn’t suit your humor and i can also see why you’d think it would be inappropriate given that we don’t know eachother, the same way i didn’t necessarily think what you were commenting was appropriate but assumed you’d be alright with such humor given what you were posting.

Agin…hopefully this clears things up a bit. Drama isn’t something im interested in.

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Thunder King.2936:

This back and forth between YT messaging and Forums, wanna stick to one so i don’t have to keep repeating myself? :P

Indeed it is common ethics to run whats normally acceptable and back then triple stance was used extensively.
I even have recordings vs exy, vaanns, wana all using the same traits i was using…if you had asked me to remove / change my build i would have done without questioning it np.

The one and only fight we’ve ever had was on 10/17/2015 over 6 months ago behind windmill, myself, Walk guildies and Cake guys were there dueling aswell. If i had lost a duel to a “one handed axe” warrior i would have probably quit the game there and then.

And as for the image…yeah i guess it doesn’t suit your humor and i can also see why you’d think it would be inappropriate given that we don’t know eachother, the same way i didn’t necessarily think what you were commenting was appropriate but assumed you’d be alright with such humor given what you were posting.

Agin…hopefully this clears things up a bit. Drama isn’t something im interested in.

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Thunder King.2936:

I even have recordings vs exy,

Have we dueled? :o kitten must’ve missed that xD

I ran the core build in earnest on my new asura warrior. And I don’t think it ideal at all for damage, but I’m having a ton of fun on it on the asura. Dodging all the time and always in the air doing acrobatics is satisfying especially with my build alterations to be more roamer/mobile.

I switched bull rush for endure pain….I’m still pretty adamant on endure pain not being needed/optimal (If im heavy zerg fighting or defending an objective ill sub it back obv). i love bull rush atm….so much funs with that 3 second stun and shorter cd. And I stick to sword/shield with heightened focus same as you in the alt build. It’s a ton of fun. The lack of power from signet of might is definitely noticable make no mistake on that…so is the lack of power from the food item. But its really really fun…expensive though to buy that food. 18s or so each…36s per hour of food uptime :/ Not like anyone plays wvsw expecting not to lose money tho haha.

gonna try and switch the sigil of energy to the sword/shield though. I think that will improve the stick and move uptime on the GS….making damage much better, and it frees a damage sigil spot on the gs so even better.
Do you or anyone on this thread have some opinions on the sigils i got here? What would be the best sigil combination given the build? Intent is same kind of fights u show in ur video.

This is what I’m thinking of trying.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJEQNAR8ejMdQZHWFCGeAnIGICK9Lm+pAPhXYFsAICGAA-TFDEABps/AAHkA3uAAPcEEYS5Xiq/k9BEoDNMufgANDQ8AAaTHwWKBDAgAczbmNbzgje0jO0hO0uuNv5NP6NLDQ1CA-w
I just want advice on the weapon sigils
I’ll have to do a bit of unnecessary cleave but I think freeing up bloodlust’s spot on the GS is worth the trouble given how little I die/get downed.

Lordmoppdog.6341:

Thunder King.2936:

I even have recordings vs exy,

Have we dueled? :o kitten must’ve missed that xD

Apparently so ^^

Cerby.1069:

I ran the core build in earnest on my new asura warrior. And I don’t think it ideal at all for damage, but I’m having a ton of fun on it on the asura. Dodging all the time and always in the air doing acrobatics is satisfying especially with my build alterations to be more roamer/mobile.

I switched bull rush for endure pain….I’m still pretty adamant on endure pain not being needed/optimal (If im heavy zerg fighting or defending an objective ill sub it back obv). i love bull rush atm….so much funs with that 3 second stun and shorter cd. And I stick to sword/shield with heightened focus same as you in the alt build. It’s a ton of fun. The lack of power from signet of might is definitely noticable make no mistake on that…so is the lack of power from the food item. But its really really fun…expensive though to buy that food. 18s or so each…36s per hour of food uptime :/ Not like anyone plays wvsw expecting not to lose money tho haha.

gonna try and switch the sigil of energy to the sword/shield though. I think that will improve the stick and move uptime on the GS….making damage much better, and it frees a damage sigil spot on the gs so even better.
Do you or anyone on this thread have some opinions on the sigils i got here? What would be the best sigil combination given the build? Intent is same kind of fights u show in ur video.

This is what I’m thinking of trying.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJEQNAR8ejMdQZHWFCGeAnIGICK9Lm+pAPhXYFsAICGAA-TFDEABps/AAHkA3uAAPcEEYS5Xiq/k9BEoDNMufgANDQ8AAaTHwWKBDAgAczbmNbzgje0jO0hO0uuNv5NP6NLDQ1CA-w
I just want advice on the weapon sigils
I’ll have to do a bit of unnecessary cleave but I think freeing up bloodlust’s spot on the GS is worth the trouble given how little I die/get downed.

I’d run with intel and leeching on my sword shield set and stick with hydro energy on gs. You could swap out energy for air but apart from that i wouldn’t change anything.