Guild Wars 2

Okay, so after some testing, I think I have decided this build, while cool, is simply not as high of damage as I would like, although the survivability is admittedly quite nice.

I’ll just run the old greatsword//axe/mace until I figure something else out, I guess. Alas.

If anyone has any further thoughts/suggestions, please feel free to let me know. My warrior is stagnant, and that makes me sad!

Lorelei.3918:

I put my build in the build post. I overcome the need for being a hybrid by being a tank…

Yeah! I was running something like that before; it was pretty cool. Sadly, though, with an organized group I really just didn’t feel like I was doing much, because my damage was so awful. When things are that easy, if you’re killing things faster, you’re mitigating more damage really by making things dead than by being alive longer to endure the more damage the enemy throws out, if that makes any sense… I would like a fun supporty build again though—it was pretty cool while it lasted.

Ozzrel.9825:

You can’t expect to do axe kind of dps (lets face it: axe is king of dps), but you can do pretty good numbers…

Thanks for all the advice! I really appreciate it. I’m currently running three different rune sets, two of each, to achieve +45% bleed duration. Then I’m using condition damage food. If I could find something to make my burns better, that’d be cool, too.

Does anyone know, or know how I could figure out, the specifics for which stat points I want/need? E.g. should I do three pieces of carrion, three of berzerker, or something?

I love fast hands—I use it in basically every build I do make, usually—I am currently something like 0/20/0/20/30, but I’ll have to check later after work.

I’ll pick up an extra sword, I didn’t consider using it for single target. I keep a mace and shield on me, luckily.

Thanks again for the help! I’m getting closer to figuring this out.

Loading.4503:

Get some berserker gear and switch your sword and axe around…

Ha, that does sound entertaining! XD Thanks. Let me know how it worked out for you!

Thanks everyone for all your advice! I hope I can figure out what stats I need and get a nice build up and running for this. I want to love my warrior again—hopefully with your help I can.

Ozzrel.9825:

If you want to get the most out of sword…

You’re absolutely right. Right now I’m wearing rabid gear (that Galanth’s set, or whatever it’s called from the trading post). I’m actually doing all right damage. But of course, that’s on conditions. The toughness is nice, so I’m at least somewhat tanky. I’m really lacking power though, so I do my best to stack might and have might-on-swap on my longbow.

Do you have any thoughts on how to go hybrid but not being horrible? I know I can’t do the FOTM damage right now, but perhaps at least ~10% away from that could be acceptable, especially if I’m bringing something more to a group (e.g. more might stacking, fields, etc.).

Warlord.9074:

There is a zerging build that is kinda fun…

I was looking for a PVE build, but I do love me some WVW, so it’s exciting to see that this build could potentially work there! I hadn’t even considered it, honestly.

Thanks a lot, gentlemen!

Howdy folks:

I adore using that combination of weaponry on the warrior: sword in my main hand, an axe offhand, and a longbow in my other weapon set. I love spamming the longbow burst ability, jumping in with sword-2, and then axe-5ing, and then using the sword burst. It’s just…so satisfying.

I am familiar with this build: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6SAPzcn2jc But it seems out-of-date now, and focuses on conditions, which worries me greatly. Is there any way to make it work now?

I admit, I could very easily give up the main hand sword, but honestly mace is underwhelming (sadly) and dual axes just lacks mobility, and the burst doesn’t do as much damage via conditions, which I’ve noticed these weapons can really pump a lot of out. I know conditions aren’t as strong right now, though, which does make me very sad.

Really I’m just so kitten tired of axe/mace//greatsword I’m just looking for any other combination of something different to do. I tried a cleric-gear shout-heal and soldier runes build, and that was okay, but it’s really just not necessary in almost every PVE setting…

Anyway, any thoughts on how to make such a weapon setup work in PVE? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Thanks, everyone. <3

Sadly your trick did not work, Naked Fiddle. I both added a silent mp3 manually just using a media player and with the playlist editor I put in my original post, yet the order of songs is still the same. Drat!

Naked Fiddle.6809:

I don’t know if this still works (I did it in Beta Weekend 2), but

make a dummy mp3 for the first song in the playlist. I did it with a second of silence. This works because the first song is always played first, and /then/ the whole playlist is randomized.

Let me know if this still works!

I will try this! Thanks so much. I’ll report back if it fixed it or not.

As the title asks. I have custom playlists set up, but I have hours worth of music in each of them. I’d love to instead have the songs be randomized, as compared to just playing in an order. I’ve noticed every time I load the game, it’s always the same song (the first song in my MainMenu playlist).

Any way to do this? Thanks a lot, folks!

P.S. I used this tool to build my custom playlists; I highly recommend it!

Can we have the spell effect retical that appears when you don’t have quick casting on to appear when we hold down a button for a skill?

I relate this to League of Legends’ skill shots showing the indicators when using quick casting.

That’d be just lovely.

Thanks! <3

I have this same issue. My particulars are listed here.

I hope we can get this figured out, good sir!