Guild Wars 2

So, I was experimenting with survivability / support type builds on my warrior and guardian, now I realize guardians are more of a support type class, but it’s just rediculous how much better guardians are than warriors. The best build I could get for my warrior was a AOE healing build with banners using vit power toughness gear. Using two banners. I was loving that build until I decided to test out my guardian. I got on, built for shouts, longer symbols etc. Used a Hammer and Staff in dungeons, put on my Toughness, Power Vit set, and got a tonne of passive condition removal. And then Bam, I can give about as much healing to my group, I have a tonne more defense than my warrior due to 100% protection boon up time and having a full set of Toughness vit gear. And most mobs attacked me because most mobs are programmed to go after the player with this highest vit / toughness, which was great because I could just sit there with a constant suply of heals and protection and just face tank everything. I didn’t even need to roll. Not even bosses could take out 10% of my HP and my group could just Spam DPS without any second thought.

How is that balanced?

@redscope, Like I said, I have tried multiple builds and practiced on them continuously to try and see if I could find a viable pvp build. But nope, still get hammered by just about any decent player no matter how good I am. Also, I don’t play glass cannon builds.

The gold is nothing, I was simply testing out builds for sPvP AND WvW. They are different, if only slightly. Secondly, I know how to play, so that isn’t a problem. It’s just the fact that we are incredibly underpowered, sure we have some nice damage and survivability but other classes just screw us over on both of those fronts other than PVE but that’s not what this thread is about. A guardian can survive a hell of a lot better than us and still deal out similar damage, and a thief can deal out double our damage and still have a hell of a lot more survivability with stealth skills all over the place if you build for it. Which as it turns out, is one of the best builds because you can hit people in sPvP for 5-10k. I my self once hit a warrior for 19k Backstab, mind you he popped frenzy but that’s only 50% extra dmg, that’s around 10-12k normally on someone that’s supposed to be wearing full plate.

The only time I use a greatsword now on my warrior is in my pure pve dungeon dps build. The skills are pretty much useless outside dungeons and leveling. I haven’t ever been beaten by another warrior in 1v1 using a greatsword. But to answer the question, yes, it’s still screwed.

In my PVE build, full berserker gear, I can get off 20-30k 100 Blades. I can only hit 2k-4k Auto attacks. Mind you this build could never ever be used in any type of PvP and you’d probably get one shotted by an decent thief.

EDIT Forgot to add, this is a pure dungeon PVE build. Not fit for events or questing of any kind. You get destroyed if any mob focuses you.

130 for sword, 200 for Melee 2h weps in my opinion.

WvW or sPvP, it doesn’t matter what build or how you build, you are gonna get destroyed, when it comes to 1v1 UNLESS that player is simply put, bad. I have been playing since launch as a warrior, got him to 80, and tried many different build in sPvP and WvW. The only viable build I have found for PvP is a WvW survivability build that only works in WvW because it require high stats from exotics and a lot of toughness and vitality. I understand we are good in PvE but that’s not everyone’s cup of tea, and besides, once you get all the gear you want there isn’t much else to do but WvW at the moment. I’ve tried popular builds posted on here, and experimented for hours trying different gear sets, different trait lines and skills spending a lot of gold trying to come up with the perfect build for WvW and or sPvP. In sPvP, one of the best builds I could find was a shout hammer build to at least survive a Mesmer or Thief for longer than 10 seconds but in the long run it’s a frivolous effort on my part. Sure, I get the off kill every now and again, and when you look at those PvP videos of warriors playing you think, well these guys are actually pretty decent, but those videos are meant to make them look good. Any good player can destroy you. As for WvW the best build I have found is a survivability build that constantly relies on my banners for their heals. But once some one realizes I am relying on my banners for healing all they have to do is start kiting, even if I pull out a gun or close the distance they just start the fight again because it just doesn’t have much damage and going for a damage build in WvW is just plain silly in my opinion because you die way too fast, especially if a thief comes along.

Simply put, Warriors are incredibly underpowered (in pvp) and you’re kidding yourself if you think they are good, and decent player will wreck you.

Sorry if this is the wrong area, I didn’t know where else to put this. I was previewing items today just 2 minutes ago when I must have accidentally bought one of them using up my all my Ascalonian Tears but 10, when I was actually saving up. I accidentally purchased the shield when I didn’t even want it, can I please get a refund so I don’t have to farm it for another 3 days to buy the Greatsword. If it makes any difference I haven’t even equipped the shield and I made this thread a few minutes after it happened.

Thanks.