Guild Wars 2

For WvW you can also try Runes of the Privateer. They add less might duration but summon a Parrot (50%, 60s cooldown) which deals good damage and adds +10% to kittenness. They are a common choice for power mesmers, specialy in PvP. Don’t use it for PvE however.

Hm, thats funny because I thought the exact opposite.

Since phantasms do actual damage, their DPS goes up linerly with your DPS (based on power, crit %, crit dmg). So phantasm build would benefit more from higher DPS gear than from lower DPS with higher crit %.

But because clones do almost no actual damage, only condition damage, higher crit % would benefit them more because it means more on-crit conditions.

With phantasm builds you aim to have 3 phantasms up, but with shatter builds and high clone production you usually have 0-2 phantasms, the rest are clones.

So the dilemma is whether 5% higher illusion bleeding chance is worth 0,77% personal and phantasm damage, including shatters.

Hey there my purple butterflies fellows!

I am just making my first ascended armor (yes I am one of those guys who don’t farm for gold) and I need your help with choosing what armor to make:

Berserker armor + berserker trinkets: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fhQQJARWlknpMt1qxUNcrNipxg6yObOSGQDlMkxB-TVCBABYp8DgDogHPBAB3fIPdNbcJAC4AFUp6PnpEMAACwNvZ28mZzbezb+oH9oH9oHtbO0bO0bezSBYmwI-w

Assassin armor + berserker trinkets: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fhQQJARWlknpMt1qxUNcrNipxg6yObOSGQDlMkxB-TVCBABCu/woq/cmSQsU+BwBUwjnAQe6a24SAEwBKIAACwNvZ28mZzbezb+oH9oH9oHtbO0bO0bezSBYmwI-w

I am usually running shatter builds (Gs+Staff or Gs+Sword/torch) or power PU, and sometimes Phantasm builds but rarely.

As you can see from links above, full berserker has 0,77% better damage but assassin+berserker has 5% better critical chance. With “sharper images” this means that each illusion has 5% more chance for 356 damage bleed which is 17.8 damage benefit. With 2 or more illusions out, this damage is already better than with full berserker assuming target doesn’t have condition duration reduction. And to be honest even with shatter builds you have 3 illusions out almost all of the time. Additional bonus is on-crit sigils, but with high critical chance you are limited with sigils cooldowns anyway. Downside is also (0,77%) reduced phantasm damage.

What do you guys use? What am I missing something here?

Keiel.7489:

Zerg Pug, when you aren’t planning on blasting, more selfish and can do decent if caught by yourself in a 1v1 situation. Mobility is King in WvW, if you can move, you can stay out of circles, if you can stay out of circles you should be able to stay alive. 93% reduction on movement impairing conditions and 2 self stabilities should keep you moving so long as you use your stabilities smartly any not like a noob.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQJASRjMd04ZlHmhwJaAmgCdnHCTwx0OAUWFfOA-TFSBABUq+DaKBvSpSEPAguUWhnuAe2fAgLAApAYSYE-w

Thank you for this build, it looks awesome! Can I run this with more defensive armor/stats? If so, combination would you reccomend and what runes? Can I go full soldier with this? (yes I am new to warrior)

@wads: Thank you, that looks awesome!

Thank you all for suggestions, I will definitely try all of this out. As wads said I am looking mainly for a “trolling neverdie build” but other WvW suggestions are also welcome

Thank you I will look into shouts!

p.s.: Mesmer is my primary class and getting high toughness or speed is impossible there, so maybe I am trying to oversompensate here =)

Hello fellow Warriors! First let me say that I am very new to warrior (just came to 80 with my first warrior). I am trying to make the fastest and most survivable warrior for AC / Ram and trolling around. I am not looking for an “viable” build and yes I do realize that this build is absolutely rediculous for any actual purpose. I also do not care about DPS, it can be 0 for all I care.

This is my build so far: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJQQNAseRjMdU2ZZIOewJigfgCdMc75gpAQVaksJScA-T1RJABveKFA4JFkjyv9U/5IlgnpvJi9HCAgAcz2sNvZ28m38mH6QH6QH6Q7n/8m38n/sUAyqMC-w

Weapons are for speed: GS (#3, #5), Sword (#3), Shield (#4). Shield is here instead of Warhorn because of #4 movement and for better defense.

Utilities are Bull’s charge for speed, Balanced stance for swiftness, stability and stun breaking and Dolyak’s signet for stability, stun breaking and some bonus toughness.

Elite is Signet of rage for Adrenal health and swiftness.

Equipment is sentinel with Dolyak runes. Purity and renewal on weapons.

My question:
How much would I profit with “healing power” as a primary stat? Do Adreanal health and Dolyak runes profit from it at all? How much healing / s can I achieve with Healing signet + Adreanal health + Dolyak runes assuming full Cleric set? Is it worth it?

Note: as I said I just made it to 80 with my first Warrior, so all recommendations about how I can make this better are welcome (keep in mind that goal is to be fast and survivable so you can troll with ACs!)