Guild Wars 2

returning the game after a year, what would be an ideal axe warrior build/gear? thanks

Main Warrior: 20/30/0/20/0 Pure Axe

In Strength you will take Dual Wielding, and Axe Mastery. The reasoning for these traits is fairly obvious and little explanation is needed as they are more or less simple DPS boosts.

In Arms, we will take Rending Strikes, Deep Strikes and Dual Agility. Rending Strikes will allow us to stack approximately 3 stacks of vulnerability against bosses and 6 stacks against trash mobs. This will increase overall team DPS, obviously. Deep Strikes will add 80 Precision to the build, which will increase it’s ability to crit significantly. At 25 in Arms we get Attack of Opportunity, which is 10% base damage modifier that is extremely Powerful. Lastly, in a Pure Axe build such as the Main Warrior is, Dual Agility is a 10% DPS boost and essential for making up the DPS potential we lose from only going 20 points into the Strength traitline.

20 in Tactics will allow for Empowered, which grants an additional 3%-8% base damage modifier. Additionally, we will have Empowered Allies, which provides 150 Power, which will go to close the gap lost personally by only having 20 in Strength, while also buffing the rest of the party by 5-10% DPS.

Just copied/pasted from Nike so credit to him

The traits would be 4/6/0/4/0

Armor would be berserkers if you want max damage, with Superior Runes of the Scholar
Axe should have force sigil or night sigil