Guild Wars 2

Recently, there have been a lot of really nice finishers being added to the game in the gem store, though you cant use them all unless you constantly switch from hero panel.

I was thinking, what if there was a feature (even if it cost gems or something) that let you choose multiple finishers that you already own, and whenever you finish something, it will randomly use one of them or use them in order/whatever so that you can see all the finishers you own without having to choose one. Similar to how people use multiple wallpapers for their desktop background and it goes through them as a slideshow.

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1. Game Modes
2. Attract people from other game modes, possibly related to #1
3. Balance

For PvE, Hammer isn’t really so good because its strengths come from its CC, both because it makes the enemy unable to retaliate as effectively and the Hammer trait lets you do 25% damage to disabled foe. So unfortunately, hammer isn’t really effective in pve because “trash mobs” don’t really need to be cc’d because they generally burn quickly, as well as anything important that you need to DPS like a boss generally has a lot of defiance stacks, so trying to CC it is generally ineffective. So, to answer your question, no you would not really be able to have comparable damage to axe/mace (Axe auto is very fast and does a lot of steady damage) with hammer because while hammer does hit hard, its slow (which can be problematic for having to cancel animations if you really need to dodge or something), and really shines vs CC’d enemies, which is unnecessary in pve.

If you really wanted to do it though, id say that what you suggested is fine, full zerk, getting the trait in defense wouldn’t really be worth it unless you are feeling particularly squishy, but a good majority of pve is dodging key attacks so zerk is generally preferred.

I feel like I had a similar problem with skull crack on a ranger, though I was not sure if i saw the Evade text, and I did not have time to check the combat log because I was in the middle of fighting but it has happened a few times where im fairly certain i hit them with skull crack, hear the the sound of it connecting, yet they are not stunned, nor do they have stability and my adrenaline is spent.

Hammer-GS or M/Sh – GS

I don’t like Axe/Shield as much post patch but if you are going to use those traits and full zerk then go all the way with divinity because melandru/hoelbrak is useful because you go all the way by stacking with dogged march and food, bring endure pain and know when to use it and shield block to save yourself, then i’d say bring bulls rush, and the third util is up to you but good choices are frenzy/stomp/balancedstance/dolyak sig/sig of might/ sig of stam, depending on if you know what youre up against, id say dolyak sig for anythign though since it will be your only stability and can bring sig mastery so you have sig of rage and dolyak, unless you prefer balanced stance.

I think thakittens important to note that this build is for the lolz. For doing more of a serious 1v1 where you intend to have an engaging fight, then a more defensive build would be used, but this is just more like, what kind of numbers can we see with the patch change.

Just curious but I notice that you sometimes don’t use Signet of Rage during your fights, if not using it in the middle, occasionally ending fights without it at all. Any reason or just prefer to use it when you need? cause Most generally use near the beginning to get a strong opening.

What happens when two warriors disarm each other? Can they have a manly fist fight with a cutscene? :o

Fav weapon is the GS, Fav skill hoever, dat Savage Leap, So good for jumping around where you’re not supposed to be

tbh I wasn’t expecting the problem to be fixed, they just need to re do the animations.

Nice Vid, I’m a fan of the Axe/Shield – GS roaming. I’m still playing around with traits after patch though, I tried some stuff similar but I went deeper into discipline for Mobile strikes and prefer last stand over cleansing ire.

Id like to duel you sometime while you’re still against TC though.

I can understand the movement of Zerker Power/Heightened Focus but my main concern is Cleansing Ire, because whats happening is they have tied condition removal to landing burst skills, which does reward us for doing dealing damage, but if we have a blind, or a cripple or something on us at the time when we want to burst, say Earthshaker or Eviscerate, I want that condition to be removed first.

And the problem I have with new Berserker Stance is that conditions don’t generally come in a 4 second window of burst like direct damage does that you can counter with endure pain, but they generally accumulate over time, but we will see how it is when the patch comes.

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In regards to the 20/0/20/0/30 Hammer/GS Build, Do you think it would be worth moving 10 pts from Discipline or Str Trees to Arms for “Unsuspecting Foe” making it so that Earthshaker always crits (since I think it applies stun before damage), and the Backbreaker will crit if you follow up.

Also, What would you do traitwise for an Axe/Shield – GS, Either with a full zerk setup or a Knight/Cavalier/Zerk Mix, cause I have both a Zerk and a Mixed set, the Mixed set with Melandru/food for condi’s

1) Spending 10 points to get some unneeded precision and a trait that only benefits one of your skills is a bad choice.
2) As for the Axe/Shield-GS set it would really depend on what you plan doing. Be it roaming I’d suggest more dps, be it more group oriented I’d suggest balanced.

For your second comment, In regards to Roaming (Axe/Shield – GS), what do you think a dps as opposed to balanced traitline would look like?
I can’t seem to decide on what I want to give up because I feel like
Forceful GS, Slashing Power, Last Stand, and Mobile Strikes are all incredibly useful master traits but can usually only pick up 2-3 of these

In regards to the 20/0/20/0/30 Hammer/GS Build, Do you think it would be worth moving 10 pts from Discipline or Str Trees to Arms for “Unsuspecting Foe” making it so that Earthshaker always crits (since I think it applies stun before damage), and the Backbreaker will crit if you follow up.

Also, What would you do traitwise for an Axe/Shield – GS, Either with a full zerk setup or a Knight/Cavalier/Zerk Mix, cause I have both a Zerk and a Mixed set, the Mixed set with Melandru/food for condi’s

Most thief spec’s are troublesome indeed, I’ve dueled a fair amount of them and its true that the matchup is very unfavorable, the s/d set is really annoying because they will likely have an available stunbreaker on the shadow return from their sword or their shadowstep utility so its hard to keep them in place and they evade from their #3 a lot so getting damage in is really challenging.

Also, 2 sword setup isn’t particularly strong, Savage leap is useful but offhand sword is meh. Assuming he dodges the obvious attacks like savage leap, rush, bladetrail etc, all you’ve got left is Whirlwind and autoattacks and you’re probably not going to bring him down with those two.

The support that you bring to your team is a going to be generally healing like regen from the banner trait or shout heals as opposed to the boon support that some classes like guard’s can bring.
You can tick a good amount of healing on your party if you want to, but other classes do it better. So, I think the idea is to let the warrior do what it does best (damage) and let other classes take the support role if they want to.

Sigil of Smothering and Sigil of Night for the 2 weapons if you care enough, those 2 stack in there, 2 smothering do not.

I see Arah Pants + Mixture of other things a lot,

Usually see Arah/Gladiator/Vigil/Barbaric/Named Chestpiece, and the other pieces are up to you really,

Also : http://www.gw2armor.com/

Attached what I use, Its Draconic Helm, Human t3 Shoulders, Gladiator Chests, Arah Gloves, Arah Pants, CoF Boots

The offhand axe like mentioned before was only good with the food healing and if you are using the whirl finisher on top of a combo field (like the longbow fire field), but anywhere else, you are going to out dps with autoattacks from the axe or other abilities

I do the same, I just carry a warhorn in my inventory open that is moved all the way to the side so i can switch it in for swiftness while I run around. Generally I swap the axe in and out too for a sword just in case I accidentally run into a sticky situation, since savage leap and charge will get you pretty far. But in any engagement, you probably want the axe/shield.

Maximum Height Norn with a Charrzooka, for that extra lolz rifle model size, or asura if you dont want to be spotted.

You can do some pretty good single target dps with rifle and have some fun with the F1 Killshot, but as it is right now, (in PvE) using a ranged weapon for warrior is more of an secondary set to switch to when you want to duck out of melee range and breathe /heal up etc for a moment, or when a boss fight just requires the range. Using solely a rifle is something that maybe works in s/tPvP and WvW but you will get squished because you have to go glass to deal the damage. But there are some funny videos of rifle warriors getting KillShots for around 20k in WvW on glasscannons/uplevels so that’s always fun.

The enemy is the one who must be under 25% hp , then you get quickness, not yourself

just btw, has been asked alot, use search function but basically just slot ruby orbs into armor for cheap and effective, Runes of Scholar are only more effective if you keep their 6th effect active for more than 30% of the time, and that’s basically it. For Trinkets, just full zerk stuff with exquisite rubies slotted if its an exotic, if its ascended then zerker/zerker will be the two stat combinations.

Well, from my experience, Leveling warrior isn’t going to be particularly exciting. Just equip Greatsord, Healing Signet, Dolyak Signet, Signet of Fury, Signet of Might, and Signet of Rage, Take the adept trait in Arms (I think) that gives you +40 prec per unused signet (you’re basically never going to use any of the signets except maybe SoR because swiftness) and at least 15 down Defense tree for “Adrenal health” minor trait, with this you can basically just walk around auto attacking things and pressing 2 even with high level mobs. Please do note unless the patch on the 30th changes a lot of things, the signet master warrior loses effectiveness around 60-80 because the bonus precision isnt worth your utilities, so switch it up around there.

Your three main options would probably be Full Berserker (Pow/Prec/Critdmg), Knights (Pow/Tough/Critdmg), and Soldiers(Pow/Tou/Vit).

If you go full zerk you must know how to dodge attacks etc for whatever content youre dealing with, so its realistic that you can use knight/soldier set to get used to content

The Knight set is just usefull for the toughness though some people say it does not add survivability while gimping your damage so its up to your own opinion. Some people like the math/theorycraft on this but idk.

The solider set would mean you probably wont die, you may even choose to spec into shout heals or something a bit more supportive because you wont have so much damage compared to the other two sets.

Or you could go with a mix of whatever but you’d have to have someone do some math about that.

Between ruby orbs, scholar runes,divinity runes and maybe eagle runes.
Ignoring the price difference, what is best for full zerker setup, general PvE dungeons and stuff, some FotM, light WvW roam.

As of right now, I’ve been using Full Zerk on mostly all content including up to FotM 30 where I am now and random other content, however, I’m considering picking up a new set of Armor and Trinkets for a more supportive type Warrior for Shout/Banner Heals etc. And I’m wondering if i should just stick with the Zerker or maybe have something to switch to when i’m trying to familiarize myself with new content/dungeons/High FotM and get into those PuG’s where i’m the only heavy armor.

Also, if I were to get a set, what Armor stats/trinkets am I looking at?

The Elementalist Elite Fiery GS has a rush-like ability that resembles our rush but has a Guardian GS leap attached to the end of it. Not sure if this has been suggested before but I know that there are complaints about rush never hitting anything because of the anim at the end so this would be a good use of an animation already in the game.

So, Recently while I was bored killing centaurs for Krytan Killer Daily and when you use Evade/Dodge key during Whirling Axe(Axe Offhand #5) channel, the endurance is used but WA animation is not cancelled, and you do indeed move in whatever direction you would dodge in so I’m wondering if this actually provides dodge frames or if maybe the WA animation should not continue but is bugged and isn’t doing damage or something. Or is this something that im just late to the party.

I get this often during CoF 1 runs, to fix it you have to got to your hero window (usually H) and click on the switch weapons with your mouse. I’m not sure what causes it.

Is there a delay between finishing the cast of the spell and when the banner lands that you could get downed in between that time and get res’d?

I have been generally been using PPC (zerker) gear because I got lv 80 about a month ago and been doing some CoF farm but I’m wondering could I stick with this stat combination for almost anything and just switch up traits/weapons or what are other common mixes I should have an armor set for in the case that I want to switch to be more defensive or maybe endgame Fractals or WvW. For example looking at other builds and guides, I see common mixtures are like PPT and PTV but what mixes will I very likely need and will run into in a build in the future. (Also if theres a prefix/jewel associated, it would be awesome if you could name that too, e.g. Zerker/PowPrecCritdmg/Ruby)