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You have to hit. Tried few times without hitting and didn’t get the buff.
This is really good to know. Thank you for testing and reporting on it.
~EW
Unless you use the longbow burst skills.
Hi everyone. I have some suggestions that I want to put in here that I thought people might like, or might like to discuss. This is mainly from a PvP aspect, as it is the gamemode I am most familiar with, and I feel Zerker is in a decent spot in Pve already. As it is Zerker feels really weak in pvp compared to most classes, hence I feel the need for some changes. 
1. Make Burst Precision(100% crit chance on burst skills) in the Arms traitline so that the Decapitate (Axe primal burst, eviscerate with a shockwave behind target hit) shockwave also always crits.
This would make Zerker much more viable in teamfights with some strong aoe damage. Has clear synergies with Smash Brawler (Reduced CD on Primal bursts) ofcourse. Also people, take heed, the Arms traitline is strong. Try it out sometime.
2. Make some of the other heal skills better.
Mainly aiming for Defiant Stance (damage converted to healing for 3sec, similar to Revenant’s glint heal) and Blood Reckoning (increased crit chance and criticals heal you for 6s). I feel these both need to be instantcast to be viable. Especially blood reckoning seems like a really cool healing utility that would help with burst as well, if activated at the right moment.
3. Add another small class specific mechanic.
I’ve seen a lot of people talk about making fast-hands (5 sec weapon swap) baseline. Although I feel this might be a little too strong some other small class mechanic could be added in it’s stead. Perhaps give Warrior a 7 sec weaponswap to begin with, and give Discipline the option to turn it to 5. This would make a lot of other traitlines viable as we’re bound to multiple ones already. Discipline being a major one. It would still help as I feel most Warrior weapons’ usefulness are based on a fast weapon swap already.
4. Change some of the utilities.
I myself was especially disappointed with most of the rage skills. The elite headbutt is quite good, as is outrage for the 10 second stunbreak. They both have clear synergies with traits like Eternal Champion (might on stunbreak and stab on stunbreak and in zerk mode) or Rousing Resilience (health and extra toughness for 8sec on stunbreak).
I also think physical utilities need a change. These are MADE for PvP but have insanely long cooldown for the utility that they bring, especially since everyone always runs stunbreaks anyway.
5. Change some of the primal burst skills.
I’ve played warrior a long time and always really liked the burst skills that we have, but I was rather surprised that quite some primal bursts have such a different use from their normal burst counterpart. The main ones are the hammer, mace, and sword one. Although they all are quite good on their own, and have a spammy nature with berserker mode and all, they are so different that they don’t entirely make sense to me. Sword for example is still useable as a power weapon since you could cancel Flurry (Immob and bleeds based on adrenaline level) for just the immobilize. It was a neat little thing that you could combine with other weapons. The Primal Burst however, Flaming Flurry(block ranged attacks and shoot piercing fireballs that burn) , turns into a burnburst. Not bad in and of itself, but so different from Flurry that it becomes unusable in power builds, even though sword is quite good if you remain a core warrior. The mace and hammer ones have the same problem, though not quite as bad. Especially the mace has clear synergies with the strength traitline (confusion on interrupt, or weakness and bleed on any cc hit), but falls in kind of the same category as sword. It used to be amazing in Skullcrack(single target long duration stun) build, but now also forces you to have condition damage as a stat to make the primal burst Skull Grinder(short range daze confusion blind bleed and cripple with decent damge) viable atleast. Out of the three beforementioned, this is the most powerful one in my opinion, since the burst skill of this one is so powerful with condition damage and the Strength traitline. Hammer turns from a big aoe stun into a frontal cone kind of area daze and immobilize, of which the immob is easier to dodge even, and in my opinion, is weaker than a flat out aoe stun, as they are still able to cast skills while immobilized.
Overall I feel Warrior is very bound to certain traitlines because they are good on their own, but lack synergy between one another. The berserker traitline is a little bit different in this aspect, but not enough to “glue it all together” so to say, which could be another point adressed in balancing warrior out a little bit.
Well, these are some of the changes that I had in mind, what do you guys think?
Here’s how I run my warrior in PvP nowadays, to make it somewhat viable. It’s a bit of a yolobuild, but it gets through most of the tankiness of the metaclasses, while still having some defensive utilities. Mostly offensive though. Also super strong in some matchups in 1v1’s.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQRApc8enMdAtegdhAWhAElileAzIA0CXaI1geQO496md/uA-TpghwA1LDAY/BA
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I applaud you for using sw/t combo. Many burn guardians fail to tap into Torches full potential of 12s burn duration. At minimum, Torch should always give 8s burns, assuming the throw isn’t blocked
I’m incredibly new to the WvW scene so i’m very curious as to what kind of burn builds that can be had. I’ll give the staff variant a go when I get a chance :pI’ve had very poor experiences with Celestial amulets. It under performs in almost every aspect. The potential 4,867 damage on your sw/t weapon switch is nice, but because sc/f can’t do similiar damage, you’ll actually lose a lot of damage without gaining much of Celestial’s perks.
Try
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQRAsf7dlsApaolDxbI8DNR8QZ1IUdAUAP61/wMkDA-TJRHwABOJAILDA4JAEa/BA
You’ll do twice the amount of damage with viritually the same amount of sustains with a near 100% accuracy w/ judges intervention and flashing blade. That’s about 5408 condi burst damage in 4s, on each weapon switch.
Rune of Krait is used as a “finisher”. I mainly use it to kill almost any class that would be nearly impossible otherwise. d/d celes eles is a prime example.
I would use Balthazar runes if the perk Burn on Heal wasn’t dodgeable or blockable. It’s a close 2nd rune if you prefer that over krait.
Thank you for your compliment, and remarks on my pvp build. For my roamingbuild, I did not mean I used a staff actively in combat, I meant to say I swap to a staff to boost my swiftness duration just a little bit, or when I’m standing still to stack it up, to get around more efficiently. The build itself is fairly effective, but still not as effective as a direct damage guardian. In groups it is really useful though, especially if the focus is on you, since you basically hurt people by being attacked. The burn duration on the blocks is insanely long, and therefore quite effective.
As for your remarks, I understand them, but you will not have the same sustainability as with celestial while using carrion, mainly due to toughness and healing power. I might not be able to profit from celestial as much as other classes, but with the might stacking from battle, hoelbrak, and blocks I manage to do decent direct damage along with the burning ticks, giving me more options, which is what I prefer over higher condi bursts, although the bleedstacking with weaponswaps seems really strong as well. I don’t really understand your choice for 2nd major trait, shattered aegis. It does very low damage. Is it so you get extra attacks in so you can proc your passive burn more? I would still prefer the cooldowns from focus to be lower for more blocks and blinds.
Greetings,
Arddyn