Guild Wars 2

ADTempys.6382:

Berserker is insanly more DPS than play with discipline, if you want to have the pure DPS you can as warrior play with the berserker trait line instead of discipline with the traits 1-1-1. The cost of berserker is tat you have to leave fast hands so you will camp GS which can be annoying in some situations and you won’t get an fury by using f1 in berserker mode so you will have to swap the signet of might for “for great justice” in order to maintain fury for yourself.

DPS wise berserker is years ahead than the old warrior but you have t sacrifice utility to use it.

Or you could use F1 before entering berserker mode and use headbutt to instantly enter it right after that and the Fury buff from a 3 bar non-berserker mode greatsword F1 lasts just as long as berserker mode. As long as headbutt is off cooldown you can always have fury for your entire berserker mode duration doing it this way.

Greatsword has fury scaling per level, that’s why the damage doesn’t scale. Also, odds are we would see the stage 1 and 2 damage being lowered but stage 3 staying where it’s at now.

The above statement also applies to mace’s burst skill except the stun scales.

If the damage were to scale we would either get worse damage at the lower adrenaline levels or see the current scaling mechanic turned to crap.

Well, to be on topic yes, I do feel some weapons for warrior should have their auto attacks buffed in one way or another.

Axe: Buff it’s damage, this should be our best auto-attack weapon as it once was.
Greatsword: No, I personally think this weapon is in a good spot.
Mace: No.
Rifle: No.
Sword: Yes, but buff the condi side of it not the power side of it.
Longbow: Yes, make Burning Arrows baseline.
Hammer: No.

emkelly.2371:

Not sure how you are using a greatsword skill with a longsword, let alone applying bleed with Thousand Blades.

• sorry i meant flurry. (Obviously)

Many people suggest viper, or sinister. i suggested wonders for the survivability. if youa re really good at avoiding getting hit then sure, use vipers or sinister.

Right but you should still be swapping your runes to something else then because you are sitting around 140% duration increase yet it caps at 100%, that’s literally wasted stat points for no reason. You would get more out of the build swapping it around.

Also, you are losing damage to get a minor increase in survivability since warrior condi is more of a hybrid (they do a lot of base damage while stacking condi).

online.1278:

moderator deleted my previous posy, but if you think you are enough person to become Best Warrior NA, plz reply to this.

You really don’t need to use the forums to call people out. Also, didn’t you just say in the last one before it was deleted you wouldn’t do it again?

I would try something like this.

It’s what I use when I 1v1 with my friends and tend to have good success and they mostly play Necro/Reaper, Guardian/DH, and Thief/DD.

You could also try out Defiant Stance if you are comfortable with the match-up and can predict their burst. Not a lot of people seem to be aware of how to handle a well timed Defiant Stance in my experiences.

If you want to go for more of a condi build you could just swap the axe out for a mace and tailor the runes/sigils/amulet to that as well. Or you could swap out the greatsword for a hammer if you feel you could use more control.

emkelly.2371:

• Thousand Blades is crap, never use it unless you absolutist cannot help it. you can get maybe 1.5k bleed ticks off it though.

Not sure how you are using a greatsword skill with a longsword, let alone applying bleed with Thousand Blades.

Edit: Also, I would suggest Viper or Sinister as your amulet over Wanderer. Warrior Condi build is more of a hybrid than a straight condi so you lose a lot of output by not having the power from one of those two amulets.

Edit 2: Another thing to point out: Your build has way more burn duration than is needed (you are over 100%), may want to swap some sigils/runes/stats around.

Mazdan.2071:

I’ve been running a PS type of warrior in wvw only instead of GS, I run a MH axe with a sigil of strength and a OH shield traited. This along with For Great Justice and Signet of Rage does help stack might (8 off the bat and the others trickle in with blocks(shield) and crits from Marauders gear/Axe), and empower allies is up as well. I have rifle on swap because I find ranged very handy in wvw.
The shield allows for a stun—which sets up Eviscerate and it allows me to get into towers blocking and stacking might all along the way. GS doesn’t offer the personal DPS that MH axe does, nor the utility that shield offers in wvw IMO. This setup also works in pve well enough.

Hope this helps.

Problem with that though is you will NEVER hit 25 might stacks, which greatsword can. Due to that greatsword will achieve higher DPS.

Additionally, I am NOT looking for a non-GS PS build. The thought was what if/should arenanet allow us to might stack reliably with every melee weapon, not just GS, to open up more build diversity while maintaining our role in groups.

Choppy.4183:

Yeah, it’s been mentioned several times over the past year. It’s probably the best tweak for people who want to use PS in pve but who have a general aversion to gs.

Do know that if anyone is pressuring you hard to use gs now, it probably wouldn’t stop even if the trait was changed as suggested because gs would still be the better might generating weapon.

It wouldn’t be a power creep for the class at all, so I can’t see anyone being against it really.

Right, I started playing again just before HoT (before that last time I played was beta) and I am not against playing PS for the group support (in fact I like it because it makes me valuable to the group), I am just bored of greatsword and only greatsword being the weapon of choice for it. My thought process behind it was it doesn’t seem like there would be any power creep and it would give a little more freedom on weapon choice (increasing fun for me and possibly others) while still filling that group support role.

Another reason I was mulling this idea over is the fact that it wouldn’t penalize us (while being PS) for swapping weapons either so we could still swap for additional CC as needed (or any other reason we came up with / wanted) and still provide might stacks to the group.

What if the Forceful Greatsword trait allowed for ANY melee weapon to grant a stack of might on crit not just greatsword?

Now, this would not affect the +% damage or recharge reduction greatsword receives from the Forceful Greatsword trait, just what if the might on crit component applied to all melee weapons.

I personally love running axe/mace or axe/shield but it’s just not fun being told that I have to use greatsword, not because other people say it but because anet made it the only weapon capable of reliably stacking might on warrior.

What are all of your thoughts on this? (This is not intended to be a QQ thread or a spot to complain, just an idea I have been mulling over and would like to hear other opinions on it.)