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Hello warrior folks,
I tend to pvp with my necromancer more than any of my other characters. I usually don’t have a problem holding my own. Running a 30/10/0/0/30 death shroud build and being very strategic in my target selection, I usually end up somewhere in the top third at the end of a match. I’m generally pleased by my ability to not be useless. If I can’t outright kill a couple of medium or light armored characters, or a heavy armored character who I’ve managed to get the drop on, I am at least very, very annoying with the fears and the healing more with many conditions on me and the manipulation of the field and the damage.
Today I encountered many a warrior running with mace/shield or hammer. Sometimes they had both. It hurt. It hurt a lot.
To say I was stun locked was an understatement. When facing one of these guys, I was shut down. When the second showed up, it was just a laughably pathetic scene with me playing the role of a sad, kicked puppy. Probably one with only three legs. Maybe one of those stereotypical street puppies with a torn ear and a can-do attitude. My toolbar tended to just stay blacked out while I was knocked around. It was sad for my teammates to watch but probably pretty hilarious for everyone else. I felt very, very weak.
My warrior tends to be my pve character but being on the receiving end of these warrior beat downs has inspired me to at least try to start using my warrior in spvp, so I have many a question for you folks:
First, can you point me to post-December 10th pvp builds that make shiny shiny use of either mace/shield or hammer, (or both!) if possible? Given what these characters seemed to be doing to me, I’ve come up with this build (http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNApeSjcOxwtQyOMxBA0jr4aL1D6wLuUBxA) but I’m unsure if this would be a viable stun lock-y build. Might I get comments and suggestions, and perhaps rune/sigil advice?
Second, how well do these builds translate to pve and wvw?
Third, I’ve heard rumblings that hammer damage had taken a wee bit of a hit? If true, how has this affected stun lock builds?
Fourth and finally, how viable is the new healing skill in spvp? Absorbing all incoming damage for three seconds seems immediately attractive, but the low amount healed and the longish cool down make me wary. Adrenaline or regen still seem more useful for a survivable, smacking-things-around-with-a-mace build.
Thank you very much for any comments,
The sad, kicked puppy.
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The shield is cool but I don’t think it fits the engineer model though. Plus who would put a book on a shield?? I feel like its going to be ripped/burned/disintegrated if I try to block with it. :X
Not if it’s all, “Pew pew, ignorance! I repel you with the power of knowledge!”
It’s where we write down our alchemy formulae and blueprints for turrets.