Guild Wars 2

So I have had an 80 thief for awhile and I am considering getting my warrior to 80 to play for a primary basis of PvP. I would prob go for a bunker build with Sword/shield and switch to rifle. I do alot of WvW and in small groups but primarily I’m wondering how warriors are doing PvP wise. I’ve fought many warriors on my thief and I can usually win unless I can get stunned easily or by another person while he unleashes the kraken on my face. Anyways with the information I’ve retained from the other threads it seems warriors are not doing so hot in PvP atm along with nearly complete focus on rifle/longbow builds. Any tips for a sword and board build? Thoughts suggestions if I should do this or a specific way I can do it more efficiently?

My main is a GS, I only use sword and board for following:
- leap (with mobile strikes)
- immobilize and swap into 100b
- shield bash
- shield block
- sometimes the cripple

My main damage comes from the GS though.

knight.4379:

So I have had an 80 thief for awhile and I am considering getting my warrior to 80 to play for a primary basis of PvP. I would prob go for a bunker build with Sword/shield and switch to rifle. I do alot of WvW and in small groups but primarily I’m wondering how warriors are doing PvP wise. I’ve fought many warriors on my thief and I can usually win unless I can get stunned easily or by another person while he unleashes the kraken on my face. Anyways with the information I’ve retained from the other threads it seems warriors are not doing so hot in PvP atm along with nearly complete focus on rifle/longbow builds. Any tips for a sword and board build? Thoughts suggestions if I should do this or a specific way I can do it more efficiently?

We don’t do well in sPvP, that doesn’t count WvW.
WvW-wise Warrior is pretty kitten good.

I use GS+Sword/Shield and it works pretty well for me.
Sblock to nullify their initial burst, Leap in, Hamstring, bait dodges, stun+flurry, switch immediately (as soon as the first hit of flurry lands) into frenzied HB, stake.
Balanced stance when you are CC’d.
If things are getting bad Endure Pain, detarget, Rush/Leap/Whirl away.
Mobile Strikes removes immobilizes when you Leap/Rush/Whirl so it’s pretty much impossible to lock you down.

Bolas/Bull are also so good to use but I got TIRED of them bugging out and failing so I refuse to use them until Anet decides to give us these fixes.

HannaDeFreitas.4236:

knight.4379:

So I have had an 80 thief for awhile and I am considering getting my warrior to 80 to play for a primary basis of PvP. I would prob go for a bunker build with Sword/shield and switch to rifle. I do alot of WvW and in small groups but primarily I’m wondering how warriors are doing PvP wise. I’ve fought many warriors on my thief and I can usually win unless I can get stunned easily or by another person while he unleashes the kraken on my face. Anyways with the information I’ve retained from the other threads it seems warriors are not doing so hot in PvP atm along with nearly complete focus on rifle/longbow builds. Any tips for a sword and board build? Thoughts suggestions if I should do this or a specific way I can do it more efficiently?

We don’t do well in sPvP, that doesn’t count WvW.
WvW-wise Warrior is pretty kitten good.

I use GS+Sword/Shield and it works pretty well for me.
Sblock to nullify their initial burst, Leap in, Hamstring, bait dodges, stun+flurry, switch immediately (as soon as the first hit of flurry lands) into frenzied HB, stake.
Balanced stance when you are CC’d.
If things are getting bad Endure Pain, detarget, Rush/Leap/Whirl away.
Mobile Strikes removes immobilizes when you Leap/Rush/Whirl so it’s pretty much impossible to lock you down.

Bolas/Bull are also so good to use but I got TIRED of them bugging out and failing so I refuse to use them until Anet decides to give us these fixes.

Ha, looks like we’re playing almost the same warrior! I used to do leg specialist too, but I found it too hard to give up 10% damage or mobile strikes..

peter.9024:

Ha, looks like we’re playing almost the same warrior! I used to do leg specialist too, but I found it too hard to give up 10% damage or mobile strikes..

I gave up on leg specialist too, the other choices (10% dmg, 4s haste on 25%, Mobile strikes) are just a ton better honestly.
Sword takes care of legs well enough on its own :p

since op specifically mentions sword/shield+rifle, im going to point out that 1h sword is essentially a condition weapon (unless you use it just for the flurry immobilize like those guys..) so its not that great with power only.

aKIRA.7123:

since op specifically mentions sword/shield+rifle, im going to point out that 1h sword is essentially a condition weapon (unless you use it just for the flurry immobilize like those guys..) so its not that great with power only.

So does the cond dmg at all keep up with other classes?

i admit, bleed specs wont kill people as fast as gs or axe heavy direct dmg builds, but it does work. you just have to really watch out for those condition removals.

hybrid builds arent a terrible idea for sword tho, but if you start to move too much into cond dmg then youre getting away from being a support/tanky build and more a cond dps build.

a hybrid build works pretty well in WvW so long as you don’t go for some funky set up and try to split the difference 50/50

the longsword actually has pretty decent ratio’s and is totally viable weapon for a none condition based build. against squishier targets i’ve crit for 4-5k with the longswords final attack on the auto attack.

personally i’ve never had good luck with sword and board/rifle. now sword and board/longbow has some serious potential. one good combo i’ve found that simply destroys other warriors is to start with a pinning shot followed by a point blank bolas chained into a flurry with your choice of attacks in between.

after all, too many people underestimate the severity of immobilize, and don’t realize that you can’t just stun break out of it.

Fiorrello.8126:

a hybrid build works pretty well in WvW so long as you don’t go for some funky set up and try to split the difference 50/50

the longsword actually has pretty decent ratio’s and is totally viable weapon for a none condition based build. against squishier targets i’ve crit for 4-5k with the longswords final attack on the auto attack.

personally i’ve never had good luck with sword and board/rifle. now sword and board/longbow has some serious potential. one good combo i’ve found that simply destroys other warriors is to start with a pinning shot followed by a point blank bolas chained into a flurry with your choice of attacks in between.

after all, too many people underestimate the severity of immobilize, and don’t realize that you can’t just stun break out of it.

That’s why mobile strikes is never coming off my trait selection. A warrior that stops moving is a dead warrior.

Hm. Ill try to focus on more bunker than dps. Something that can outlast most classes. Feel like it’ll be a whole lot different than my thief who is moving 24/7 :p

Fiorrello.8126:

sword and board/longbow has some serious potential. one good combo i’ve found that simply destroys other warriors is to start with a pinning shot followed by a point blank bolas chained into a flurry with your choice of attacks in between.

absolutely. now that pindown has 6 stacks of long lasting bleed, its practically a condition dmg kill shot. i always keep a longbow in my bag, but it usually only comes out for sieges and dungeons. since the change tho, im seriously considering dropping the rifle altogether.

pin down+bolas+flurry is like…11 secs of immobilize, plus more if you have condition duration.

knight.4379:

Hm. Ill try to focus on more bunker than dps. Something that can outlast most classes. Feel like it’ll be a whole lot different than my thief who is moving 24/7 :p

in that case, you might want to take a look at hammer or mace. sorry for sort of talking you out of sword/shield but i really wanted to get the point across that the weapon set isnt very tanky/supporty