+1 phaeton
i’m pvp hammer warrior in spvp/wvw since the launch of this game, and it’s the slow animation of the hammer that make it balanced, you have to read your opponent move to effectivly hitting him. If you make it easy to use hammer would be OP as hell.
There are better builds than this. Looking through these forums even self styled ‘top’ warriors seem to be running underpowered builds, in their reluctant attempts to catch up with the meta….
I’m actually starting to prefer Hammer in both PvP and WvW, it feels so much useful in team fights because you can stun multiple foes. It’s slow speed makes it more difficult to use especially 1v1 but that’s not really important if your main strength is in team fights anyways. This is what I’ve been using:
I know some Warriors don’t believe in running double melee but between Warriors Sprint, Dogged March, Earthshaker, and Savage Leap I never find myself being kited. Worst thing is the blinds, what I wouldn’t give for the grandmaster minor trait to be the ability to resist a blind ever x seconds.
I’m not 100% sold on the Sigil of Battle but because I like the Runes of Hoelbrak (because they reduce the duration of condis without having to put more than what’s needed into toughness) but felt that I was under-utilizing the +might duration. You can keep a good number of might stacks on with this though even if you take Banner as your elite for the res instead.
Yeah I’ve been experimenting with this trait set for a few weeks. If you utilise the sustain right it can be really strong, especially if you get in scenario where it’s 1v2 and one’s a bunker. (recalls hilarious game vs bry)
If you pm ‘tobies’ in game right now I can tell you what runes/sigil/ammy I run though, definitely worth trying.
Sadly I’m on a looong Midnight for a few more hours and will probably need to sleep when I get home but I’m Burr Chillthorn if you wanna discuss Hammer later today.
I actually love Hammer vs D/P thieves because you can use Hammer Shock to clear the blind then use Earthshaker right outside the blind field, it throws off their stealth spam and really hurts their DPS because unlike with Mace you can do it consistently.
+1, with hammer we have a good way to counter the circle of blind of D/P thieves.
in spvp, i used to play a hard CC mace/shield and hammer, but recently i switched to sword/shield and hammer. i trade the 3sec stun for a 4sec root, but i gain a lot of mobility, a fast auto attack with a cc, and the stab 100% chance to crit after the shield stun, so it was definitly worse. It bring some fresh air to my warrior and made it my main again.
i’m playing warrior in pvp since game launch, i’have tried the skullcrack/100b build, and i have to say it’s really kitten and far from overpowered. With this build you are soooo predictable and people have sooo many way to escape the “deadly combo” and while you are doing it you are immobile, in pvp being immobile mean you are some dead meat soon.
Really don’t try this against brained ennemies you’ll only end frustrated.
i think to learn playing warrior, you first need to learn playing all the other class, because more than any other class, warrior kill or die is a matter of how you react to the move of your opponent.
8v8 isn’t pvp. It is just kittened zerging and shouldn’t be in the game.
1v1 5v5 8v8 50v50 actually is pvp, it’s just that 8v8 is revolving around the brute force you can dish with a group synergizing together rather than the “skill” of each of thoses players.
about blind thief problem, i play a build similar to this one, and if you don’t pay attention blind thief can decimate you, but if you stay out of the circle of blind, and aim the earthshaker out of the circle then the hammer have enough range to make you hit the thief, you probably won’t kill him since he’ll just stealth and retreat, but at least you can fight back.
I think to make warrior sustain in spvp it could have a kind of life leech, the harder you hit the more you sustain.
It’s relevant to the warrior background, it’s rewarding cause landing a good burst is not easy with all the way ppl can mitigate damage, and should not be OP if well-balanced.
I run a Zerker CC build in spvp and i love it, all the stun time + mace/shield defense skill give me a quite good sustainability while i’m doing big chunk of damage with the CC chain. I feel that i can stand my ground against any class.
I’m enjoying it rather than my old terror necro, because it’s a very dynamic and rewarding playstyle.
I’m playing with a mix fear/chill build in tpvp and doing very well in randomn match.
After that i don’t know how it’s efficient in very competitive match, but i find myself very usefull at disabeling other player capacity to play making them cheap target for my team (especially DD elem and tanky guardian they become really less survivable when i take care of them ), while making a fair amount of damage over time.
Well when i had the choice between run into a useless 99% chance of dying and being able to annoy a full bus of ennemies with siege weapon safely inside the fort… the descision is easy to make. Soooo sorry we don’t give you epic fight you’re so deeply searching for to satisfy your enormous ego.
terror work perfectly, it give the conditionmancer a kind of “burst”.
1.25 do not mean 2 tick of terror but 1tick+25% chance to have the second tick, it depend when you are casting terror in the “1sec alteration ticking window”.
It’s seems that the holy crusade to beat the dirty VS presence of T1 isn’t starting to well.
Still this week is pretty exciting and we wish you the best of luck.
You are affraid by unfair play of SFR and you react by playing unfair ?
Brillant.
I cant believe what im reading. Viz players from Grandcross confirming they exploit Glicko to prevent a server to go up to T1. The whole reputation of Vizunah is destroyed.
I hope Anet is reading this.
Wat
We’re helping Elona to have fun reading message on the forum like this one.
corupt boon, turn to DS >fear and chill. Quit DS then use staff fear and evrything you got. After that if all of your skill land effectively you should have take the lead on the fight.
(work very good with damage on fear trait and 2 second fear)
Fear will prevent condition removing to fast, and chill will prevent them to run away and spam skill to fast.
From my experience of fear/conditionmancer bunker elem is a breeze to fight (except some very skilled once).
Corrupt boon + fear is good, cause fear prevent alteration removing and skill spamming, so they drop pretty fast. And even if they survived i can still finish them faster than they are on me. Smarts one will just run away.
I have played a warrior since release and i like it. But since my necromancer is 80 i find it waaay more effective and usefull with condition build. With some practice you melt any bunker build appart it is very satisfying.
Just a matter of point of view : the ennemy side always seems bigger than your own side and it’s often not the case. And secondly this a game of “take and hold” so i think it’s kinda smart to stay in keeps defending and and go fighting in openfield only when there’s a need for it. If you didn’t understand it yet.. i’m sorry for you.
And for the “fun factor”, we have a lot of fun to see you crush on our doors
Every serious WvW guilds and players on VS condemn any use of hack or spy, but we can’t control everything. It’s pointless to come cry here, just report.
Well i’ll point the obviousness:
The pic is showing you that you can have a sight of view inside a keep, so you can use arrow cart inside without any hack. But maybe i should have not telling you that xD.
Really now? You DESTROYED Far Shiverpeaks server with your PvD tactics in the first months. You forced other servers to search for counter measures, or they would suffer the same fate:
- Blacktide – guilds rallied because XAOC could counter you in the morning
- Desolation – RUIN
- SFR – PRX
And now you complain that you want your old opponents back? What opponents? The ones who got tired of you fight-at-night-upgrade-toT3 tactics?
Are you aware that every top server in EU is actively looking for a night cap guild only because they want to have the SMALLEST chance of winning versus Visunah?
Do you have the slightest idea how frustrating it is for the rest of us to fight you? To lose guilds moving to NA only because they are SICK AND TIRED of the Vizunah playstile? To have half of the community wishing to drop tier only to get away from you?
You have NO IDEA about this do you? Please stop being condescending towards other servers when Vizuna single handedly killed the EU bracket!
Oooh i feel so guilty as a VS player, really sorry.
And personnaly i don’t care about NA guilds, there is no unfair or dirty or boring playstyle there’s only ways to counter it.
here is an idea… why not make the points equate somehow to the number of opponents on the map… so you score less if there are fewer opponents to fight and score more if there are greater numbers of opponents. That would equate to servers being placed according to player skill rather than making it a numbers game.
I don’t think devaluating the point incoming of peoples playing during your night time (when maybe it’s their day or playing time) is fair.
I’m a regular VS WvW player and i have to say SFR and Deso (specialy Votf and IRON) are beast on the battlefield, i hope our PU bus could have as much discipline as yours when it come to open field battle. Hopefully some leads on our side are working on it step by step to educate players. Our force now i think come from our defense and coordination, we learnt to be as effective as possible at taking and keeping towers cause we faced lot of very aggressive server reaching T1 weeks after weeks and by this way maybe you made us playing like that.
Anyway the battle this week is very entertaining just like weeks before, and i’m enjoying it. Cheers.
And please stop all the nightcap cry. Day for some ppl are night for others.. the word Nightcap should not even exist on this forum.
When the FS server was in tier 1 I used to play against VS and hated it. After not playing WvW ever since we are matching them as SFR (transfered here when it was still tier 5) I decided to give it a try and I was within an hour remembered why I left any WvW match against VS in the first place.
The only time they will fight me outside the zerg is:
a) They outnumber me three to one.
b) They run a bunker build.
c) They have NPC’s to back them up.
In every tier I had epic 1vs1 fights several times a day but I have never seen one with a VS player. Whenever I’m winning one of two things happens;
1) They alt + f4 (even after the recent changes).
2) They run and come back with more.
I have never encountered such a cowardness except from them and it’s the reason I dropped from WvW in tier 1 on FS and I will do so again when SFR ends up another two weeks in tier 1.
Any other tier provides epic battles in WvW at times, but tier 1 against VS is just a sad state of “PvP.”
You can call me a hater or whatever you want, but that’s how I see it and seeing our WvW population changes, I am not alone on this matter. I hope we drop back to tier 2 soon.
I don’t see any cowardness in evrything you say (except altF4 but that’s an other story), just common sense in mass pvp fights. Maybe if you want “epic 1vs1” you should try Spvp? cause in WvW 1vs1 is useless and unproductive and that’s why most of the time you won’t see anyone in VS going to fight alone.
European ladder should belong to European players and American ladder aswell belong to American players. Other ways there’s no point in calling it like that, just make an international ladder with international servers.
