Guild Wars 2

At work and not much time to read the build thread stickied up top, But been wondering if we could be super defensive/survival build like the other profs?

Thanks in advance for the answers!

No, we don’t.

You can go super defensive, but you will be about 1/3 of a bunker that Guardian/Ele/Engie are.

Well about the most bunker-“y” build that I have been able to come up with is one a shout build with Soldier Runes for the armor.

Traits wise I have seen that 0/0/20/30/20 seems to work well and below are the skills traits I use:

Defense Tree:
Missile Deflection: This can be pretty hilarious when fighting a rifle warrior when they try to Kill Shot you. I ran into one 1v1 and he tried it, I deflected it back to him and he kitten near 1 shot himself, was luls. In general though it’s great because of so many of the ranged cripples and snares that get thrown at you if you are running away. I have sometimes thrown ranger nets back at them and rooted them with it, more luls.

Shield Master: gain 90 toughness while holding a shield. This was the best choice I could see that meshed with the build going this far into defense.

Tactics Tree:
Leg Specialist: The weapons in my build all have a cripple so adding an immobilize makes them that much better.

Lung Capacity: In a shout based build having them recharge 20% faster works wonders.

Vigorous Shouts: Shouts heal and with the soldier runes you also remove a condition making this probably one of the most synergistic combos I have ever seen in a build.

Discipline Tree:
Mighty Defenses: gaint might on blocking an attack, notice that this means for every time you see “Block” meaning if you were to block an attack like HB from another warrior and blocked the whole attack then you would gain 8 stacks of might. This is a godsend when fighting lol-steal thieves using lol-stolen whirling axe then lol-dagger storm. By the time I am finished blocking either of those attacks I am almost at 12 stacks of might just from that, not including other sources.

Inspiring Shouts: Getting adrenaline from shouts definitely helps since you will be using them so much.

The healing skill of choice, and is usually a no brainer in PvP or WvW, is mending for further condition removal. For shouts I go with shake it off (removes 2 conditions with soldier runes), For Great Justice for the Might and Fear Me (works great for holding points or going in a large group and fear bombing them to separate them). For elite skill I go with Signet of Rage for obvious reasons (all other elites are pretty much useless in PvP is why).

For weapons I go with Axe/Shield and Sword/Shield. In axe and sword I use superior sigis of battle because it works so well with the trait skill fast hands which makes weapon swaps happen 5 seconds faster and it builds 3 stacks of might on a switch (in total you can gain six stacks from doing this by switching often). In shield I go with sigil of bloodlust. You wont be getting a lot of individual kills but helping get kills builds stacks. For Jewels I use healing jewels to make shouts heal for more.

All in all this build is one that will make you stay alive longer and will also make you stronger the longer you are in a fight (building might via blocking, weapon swapping and self buffs. Not unusual to reach 25 stacks of might in this build).

One last thing, this is all assuming sPvP. In WvW you can actually use this build even more potently with a knight set and some food buffs. You can get a crit rate of 50% unbuffed and still have high toughness and vitality.

I mean to add in last post, this bunker build won’t be quite as potent as guardian or other bunker build but it does work very well. The major issue with Warriors is that they are kind of in a weird middle ground so they don’t do any one particular thing well.