Guild Wars 2

I want to play a support role. Warrior feel very dps forced. The other roles are not as fun to play as other classes to me. I enjoy playing support on my guardian, but he already 80.

The healing skills I feel already heal very little, and the regen from banner of tactics seem pretty stale. Can’t save my team with that.

Well how about a trait that allow our heals to heal nearby ally instead of regen boon.
This could really enhance the option of playing group support role for this class.

In the future I would like a new weapon option for warrior that’s 2hander and with support oriented role. Maybe short bow or something… How about staff for warriors? Idk just something that’s support oriented

They are called shouts, look into them. :P

go for healing shouts or re-roll as guardian.

If you want healing/defense oriented support, just re-roll now to guardian. The best group support a warrior can give comes from heavy CC and making people dead really fast; which I consider great because you are entirely removing a source of DPS from the fight.

Healing shouts are okay, but the only shouts you’d really want to consider blowing on CD are FGJ and OMM. SIO and FM are extremely versatile shouts best saved for certain situations. Also, with heavy healing investment, you are only looking at + or – 2000hp heals per shout. That divided by FGJ and SIO 20sec traited CDs assuming you use them ASAP comes out to roughly 200hp per second per shout. That’s hardly gamebreaking. I’ve fought some good hammer/shout warriors and they definitely fill a nice role, but I’ve never seen one who can heal through my dps, damage me fast enough to scare me off, or CC me away cause I run with BS. That considered, it is my personal opinion, healing shouts are best left alone in favor of more dps or CC.

But to all you shout warriors, I love you guys! Keep on keepin’ on!

Well you know if ANet would actually, I dunno, make warrior healing shouts worth a kitten… especially since wars are in desperate need of sustainability options instead of GC Herrderrblades being the best choice in 99% of all build options.

And do something about banners being clunky, unwieldy messes…

Until then though, yeah probably better off rerolling guardian or ele for decent support/healing playstyles.

the only time healing shouts really shine is in bigger groups since you heal everyone in the area for 2000 so if you have three of ’m… The survivability you create with multiple shout wariors is awesome! Same for multiple D/D healing elementalists.

Regen with banner is great eh. Of course you can’t counter DPS burst right in your face, but placing a banner healing 250/300hp every sec in the middle of a room is great.

Or you can also shout if you prefer, heal around 1500/1700 easily, remove condition with soldiers rune etc…

Stop saying reroll guardian, warrior is a very versatil class, fun to play and absolutly acceptable as a support member.

People often tell me shouts/banner/condition removal are very welcome.

When you finish a dungeon with 0 downed and everything went smooth it’s a great satisfaction. You might not DPS like a mad man but you’re condtributing way beyond brute force.

I see people down on healing shouts, but with a 3-shout investment, you bring a lot of healing to the table:

Regular #6 heal skill heals yourself for roughly 6k every 30 seconds

3x shouts heal for roughly 4.5k every 25-30 seconds and heals up to 5 people in a small radius. That’s kitten good considering shouts are worth using by themselves.

The problem with a support warrior is that you don’t bring a lot else. There’s some condition removal and buffs, yes, but the best support comes from AE/group reflect or block.

Now, if they added a group aegis 30-point trait to Defense (aegis on shout or aegis on banner summon/#2), then maybe warrior would be versatile enough with support to not have everyone go 30 tactics.