Guild Wars 2

Caffeine.6724:

Was curious if anyone had a power build that uses gs and sword/axe as a setup? Just returning to my ranger, and am looking for a nice power build, that utilizes the axe offhand, and can be swapped for warhorn when/if needed

Hey!

I mostly spvp, and I usually run a GS/Sword+Horn build. I run a power build with perma fury (from Red Moa F2 + II in Nature Magic = 20 seconds of AoE Fury (I think), plus after this patch I will consider speccing deeper into Nature Magic for the 50% chance to get 3s fury with GS … don’t know if it will be worth it).

Anyways, I tried a few solo Q matches with off hand axe instead of horn.
Axe 4 is AMAZING … when it lands. Especially when you have a few opponents lined up. Axe 4 is also great for pulling away opponents who are rezzing their teammates and also invaluable in Skyhammer for pulling MULTIPLE people onto the glass floors.

However, axe 5 is very situational. I can see it being used to protect from cannons/treb/hammer(?) in certain maps, but I have yet to try it. I’m sure I’ll find better uses for it eventually, but the root scares me from trying to use it. Maybe in a 1v1 vs. ranged classes.

Also, I didn’t have Moment of Clarity traited, but I can see its synergy with the axe 4. Maybe a Axe 4 -> GS 2 -> GS 1s -> GS 5 -> GS2 combo?
That’s two mauls with 150% damage. Yumm (but just make sure to space out the Axe 4 from the GS 5 by at least 5 seconds because MoC has a 5 sec internal CD).

All in all, off hand axe exceeded my expectations. I don’t know if I like it over the horn or dagger, but I’ve been really rethinking using a horn with my own build because I already have almost perma fury, making horn 5 close to useless for me. However, the area healing from Horn 5 combod with the spring’s water-field is sooo much better than Axe 5’s healing bolts. That might be the deal breaker for me.

Turamarth.3248:

Just going by cds he uses this
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAnZSjgOxwpQuQMRBAkiv4S9YO3iD
The last 20 points are probably in strength.

Thanks so much!

Hey all.

I’ve been playing the warrior on and off in spvp. Maybe I’m just really stupid, but I feel like warrior is one of the few classes that doesn’t have only a few cookie-cutter meta builds to rely on. I’m still experimenting, which is something I haven’t been able to do much on other profs. IDK though. Not very experienced with warriors yet.

Anyways, I recently saw this video of an interesting Axe/Mace+Hammer build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnEx3xSvJtY
and I’m trying to figure out the build this guy used.
Yes, he’s very arrogant/sarcastic/funny/annoying, but his build seems to fit really well with my playstyle (warning: lower the volume in the first few seconds of the video).

Any help? All I could figure out was that he went at least 15 in Discipline for the reduced timer on weapon swap. Don’t know enough about warriors to figure out the rest.