Guild Wars 2

Azure.8670:

yea… And warriors with full zerker do a lot of damage, they also die like insects. Run Arah, high level frac or CoE with that set up. My guild does CoE with 3 thieves using shortbows and s/p… survive better than any other class there and dps almighty. With that, DPS is also DPA… Damage per action. When my thief “escapes” its by switching to shortbow and using 3 attack which evades everything and keeps me attacking. Yea, warrior is good but doesnt outclass the thief at all

A terrible player with no situational awareness will die. They will die regardless of what build or class they are. I run full zerker in every instance, in every farm run, and I only die if the group dies; rarely am I the 1st one to go down. Sorry you’ve run with terrible warriors or only seem to get people who want to hold still and push buttons but your claim is false and just not the case if the player controlling the character has a brain.

As far as “escaping” goes if I end up pulling agg its a simple WW away, throw the GS to cripple or even switch to bow and immobilize. Hell if I’m feeling super spunky I can even endure pain and by then most of my CD’s are back up to get me further away. Nearly every encounter a boss has an animation precursor to a large damage ability, you can easily stand in 100B 2 or 3x before seeing that ability precursor evade out charge in and go at it all over again.

My solution to your problems, find less incompetent warriors. Not saying there mobility is better at all, I’m saying that there are ways to make sure you stay in the game maximizing dps output.

“To even get any where above 20k you need a lot of might. The highest i have hit on my glass cannon with soldier runes without bloodlust on 25 stacks of might is 21k and that was in pve”

I don’t know what you are doing wrong friend because my PvE warrior (I’ve only been playing for 2 months) Sig spec’d)) Just today had a 100B crit for 27600 while I was in HoTW. If I’m solo my top end crits are for about 22-23k. I have no legendaries or any gear that isn’t easy to attain.

I run Precision, Power and Crit dmg in every gear slot, and in every Gem slot (Gems are not all top grade gems either)

2,300 Power (before proc buffs)
70% crit chance
aaand I’m at work so i can’t tell you the rest of my stats off the top of my head.

Now, like i said this is a PvE character because of the obvious downsides that have been mentioned via rooting etc etc but as far as dmg goes its easy to push it above 24k in a dungeon.