Guild Wars 2

Hello everybody, I am currently leveling a Warrior and will be focusing on WvW once I hit 80. What build is generally the best for warriors and what play style?

You must find your own playstyle and your own weapon set that you like. Can’t make a build and call it the best, especially in WvW where everyone can do multiple roles.

CoaxialMazer.9140:

You must find your own playstyle and your own weapon set that you like. Can’t make a build and call it the best, especially in WvW where everyone can do multiple roles.

Yeah, I understand finding your on niche as a player but I guess what I meant to ask was, what role does the warrior generally fill in WvW? I see a lot of warriors get face slammed in zergs due to them needing to fight front lines.

It really depends on what you plan to do in WvW.

I’ll give you my example: I run with IRON, which is a dedicated WvW guild. This means that whenever I’m in WvW I will be running with a zerg + a build that is needed. IRON expects all warriors to have PTV (Power/Vitality/Toughness) gear because we need a lot of health when hitting other Zergs. The role of the warrior in an organised zerg is to absorb damage, and survive as long as possible.

I use a shout build, which means that I traited that shouts: Heal, Reacharge Quicker, give adrenaline, and remove a condition (Superior Rune of the Soldier). I also have Clerics trinkets so the shouts heal more.

Every warrior is required to carry a Hammer. This is because they give great CC to a warrior. The second set is customizable but I run with Sword/Axe, because the sword has one of the best Burst skills, and a leap finisher, and the axe has whirling axe which deals out good amount of damage and gives a ton of adrenaline.

Remember this is a Zerg build not a roaming/small group build.

For my roaming build I run sword / shield + GS. Armor is a mix of berserker and knights with lyssa runes and trinkets a mix of berserker and cavalier. My traits are 20/0/30/0/20. The focus is to deal a lot of damage, be mobile and be able to take some hits.

GS+Sword/Shield, 20/20/0/10/20.

Oneironaut.3597:

Yeah, I understand finding your on niche as a player but I guess what I meant to ask was, what role does the warrior generally fill in WvW? I see a lot of warriors get face slammed in zergs due to them needing to fight front lines.

All you need to withstand damage is Endure Pain + Shield Block.
Any passive survivability will sacrifice damage unnecessarily.

As for zergplay I have a 450man WvW guild and Warriors run full zerk with GS+Hammer.
We Earthshaker in, EP, WA through zerg, Bladetrail and bullfrenzyHB the leftovers.
Guards usually drop line behind them so they can’t escape the carnage.