Guild Wars 2

Hello, I was thinking about lvling my war, it’s only lvl 3 atm.

I watched some videos etc, and saw greatsword especially has a lot of “character locking moves”. Let me explain, asian mmo’s generally have a lot of skills locking their character to the ground, and not allowing the player to move during those skills. I find this absolutely dreadful.

I’m leaning towards a zerker warrior (wvw), maybe pvt if it works, but seeing a zerker war still has more hp and armor than my carrion thief, I might do it.

Will I be forced to play in a way that locks me out of free movement non stop?

assume this is for wvw since you mentioned it in your post. And since you said you have a carrion thief much like the thief the warrior has skills that ppl hardly use like the locking in place skills you just don’t use them usually. But unlike the thief being low risk high reward warriors are high risk low reward

Hmmm good warriors have to stay mobile. We really only have a few key locking moves: 100b, killshot, some slower hammer skills. Out of those, in wvw you’ll find that 100b is very very situational. Most likely you’ll be moving all over the place with whirlwind, rush and other moves. That’s because unlike other classes warriors don’t have access to gimmicky tricks (stealth, in vulnerabilities, blinks) or protection. So staying alive really relies on your active positioning, dodging and really using the few survival skills we are given (shield block, endure pain and balanced stance). If you get locked down as a warrior you are dead.

I see, I’m just curious as I saw the charge attack it awkward at best as well as some more attacks I couldn’t name myself. I found warrior a little boring but I liked the cleaving potential it has, while being quite tanky for a zerk class.

I could use some more info (I mainly wvw, some dungeons as well) I know war is top tier in pve. A lot of people seem reluctant with wars in wvw, but I see a lot of them.

I mainly have to choose between leveling a warrior or Engineer right now, maybe even a necro but I have 0 exp with those^^

Probably go with the engineer it has a way higher reward when played well than the warrior.

Every class is top tier in pve the people that complain about pve class balance will suck on any class they play no matter what. That really shouldn’t be factored into your decision.

Yocairo.4257:

Hello, I was thinking about lvling my war, it’s only lvl 3 atm.

I watched some videos etc, and saw greatsword especially has a lot of “character locking moves”. Let me explain, asian mmo’s generally have a lot of skills locking their character to the ground, and not allowing the player to move during those skills. I find this absolutely dreadful.

I’m leaning towards a zerker warrior (wvw), maybe pvt if it works, but seeing a zerker war still has more hp and armor than my carrion thief, I might do it.

Will I be forced to play in a way that locks me out of free movement non stop?

Armor and hp in this game don’t matter in damage soaking when it comes down to it. What matters is if you have protection up.

Stealth in this game is the most broken and OP stealth in the history of mmorpg -I played DAOC, WoW, AOC, Warhammer online and SWTOR pvp heavily-.

We have two of the longest position locking moves in the game: hundred blades on the GS and the burst on the rifle. I rarely 100b without frenzy and a single thief heart seeker does the same damage instantly with no channeling.

Even with higher armor, berserker warriors are the easiest things to take down in PvP. That’s because you don’t have mitigation tool. And you have to be in melee, thus eating more projectiles attack and having less time to react to enemy actions.

They bet on damage, hoping they will deal enough of it to down you before you down them. This works decently in group fights, IMHO.

The problem is that Greatsword is basically a MUST HAVE in PvE, WvW, and PvP. Mobility in GW2 is too important to pass up. 100b is great if you can land most of it.

Hmm thanks, guess i’ll make an engineer. Warrior seems off putting:P