Guild Wars 2

Hi folks, I know its end of the season 2 and I have been retired from guild wars 2 for a season, I just want to come out to act like a warrior savior like I used to be. If you still remember me (Hambow Meta and Shoutbow Meta), I’m Tarcis, from numerous but one of the top warrior in NA during 2014~2016 PvP. Now just a casual pvp player.

So after the patch, warrior’s sustain got a decent buff to where its balanced and still can be killed easily by burst. (Revenant, etc). It opens up a lot of warrior build diversity, so here I’m going to share with you the builds that I have tested and feel its decent and good in the meta.

1. MaceShield/Bow (Next Meta)
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNApeTnMdAdhgVhAukCElilqADpA0ACAK9gYXO4d02antA-TpRHABfXGIk9HA4QAE8DAQgTAQAHBAA

So far the best build that I found during these days. I have accomplish several 1v2s, 1v3s, and 1v4s with this build against well-known players from NA and EU. I think its far better than any other meta build atm. Nothing can beat you in 1v1. I accomplished these 1v2s 1v3s with 280 ping and 20 fps (playing in Taiwan, and on a business laptop). I give this build a 9/10.

Updated 5/12/2016- Since Merci Amulet is going to be removed, this build will still work and remain the same or even more powerful with Wanderer’s Amulet or Rabid Amulet.

2. BurnBow-
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAsfTnMdAdhgVhAmkCElilqADZx1ACAK9gYXO490uajtA-TpBHABA8AAgf/hAOCACcIAG4EAYfZAA

With tempest rune, you can provide decent healing to your teammate. The condition duration also helps you to maintain your burning stacks. Overall I rate this build 7/10.

3. Hambow Return.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQJASTjMdQXIWFCOeAnIGgCK9I29h4aiAIlxK/CWAA-TpRHABF8AAwvMgAXAAS2fAgjAQAHCAA

So far I feel hambow is back, at least for me. This is the new version of hambow with Demo amulet. With this build you can have 20+ Might with near 100% crit chance. Your toughness is also decent with doylk Signet. This build has potential to become meta but only if revenant’s damage is nerfed. So far I give this build 8/10.

4. Hammer/Greatsword Return. (Demolosher’s Amulet)
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQJASRjMdQXIWFCuhApIGICKLAigBQ/ipfKwW/FWBA-TJBIABAcIAWf/hBuAAE8EAAA

Tested a bit with this build. Personally I just go over old builds that I made in the past during my gw2 career lmao. Power warrior will not be good until maybe revenant get nerfed. This build is decent in solo q and its fun to play. I give this build a 6/10.

I will update more info once I have more chance to test builds.

Cheers!

Tarcis.

#WarriorSpirit
#BeWaterMyFriend
#TarcisAnastasis

GW2 Forumers,

The Earth Troll

2.7k armor
18.4k health
2.7k attack
1.7k condition damage
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Traits
20/10/30/10/0

II Burning Fire
IX Fire’s Embrace

I Zephyr’s Boon

II Signet Mastery
VIII Serrated Stones
XII Written in Stone

II Shard of Ice
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Gear
Full Carrion, including trinkets /w chrysocolas
6x runes of the undead
sigils of corruption & agony

Consumables
Rare Veggie Pizza, Master Tuning Crystal
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Skills
Ether Renewal
Signet of Fire
Signet of Air -or- Water
Signet of Earth
Glyph of Elementals
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Numbers to Consider:

Offensive:
no CD | stone shards- 10.5s bleed 3.8k | 900 range
16s CD | signet of fire- 17.25s burn 10.7k | 1200 range
3 11s stacks of vulnerability per signet cast

CC/Defensive:
16s CD | signet of air- 8s blind | 1200 range
24s CD | signet of water- 6.5s chill | 1200 range
24s CD | signet of earth- 4.75s immobilize | 1200 range
15s CD | dust devil- 16s AoE blind | 900 range
no CD | rock barrier (don’t hurl)- +250 toughness
50s CD | obsidian flesh- 4s invulnerability that you can heal through
25s CD | magnetic wave- 3 condition cures, 3s reflect

signets fire -> air -> earth = perma swiftness
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Your conditions last a very long time, cover conditions are almost always readily available and you have a lot of useful skills on low CDs.

This is not an original build, players have been doing stuff like this since launch. I posted this build before but I never made a thread for it and I’ve since changed it for the better. It’s not the new meta, it’s just something fun that was buffed a bit on the 4/30 patch. It’s also a (mostly) boonless build so it may not suffer as much from recent boon hate.

The Earth Troll never leaves earth attunement, gasp. Try it out—it’s an interesting change of pace and surprisingly effective.
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EDIT: I made a small change here; dropped 10 points out of Fire and into Water so that I could eliminate the mostly useless trait III Ember’s Might and take the trait II Shard of Ice—this will give you yet another cover condition on every signet while also providing some indirect group support (+% damage taken from everyone in your group). The +vitality & healing power is also nice, while the -10% condition duration is a marginal loss.

EDIT 2: Bleed duration runes are not necessary in PvE if you are running everything else because you will in fact be 35% over the bleed duration cap. I took out bleed duration runes and put in 6/6 runes of the undead for +toughness +condition damage. This leaves us at 90% bleed duration which is good.