Guild Wars 2

My warrior is built very similarly to the one here. It’s a great low skill-high reward build that will beat 90% of people you come across in WvW pretty easily. The thing I hate about it is that most popular roaming classes are thieves, mesmers, and warriors and most of them will be able to bug out before you can finish them unless you’re dueling to the death.

About the warhorn use: I used to use OH sword but find the warhorn SO much more useful, usually. Impale has a pretty obvious tell and most skilled opponents can dodge it pretty easily (and when they add the even bigger tell and 3/4s cast time to pin down it’s going to nerf LB pretty hard.) The block is nice but nowhere near as nice as traited warhorn with high uptime vigor (usually 100% with boon conversions), 6s base weakness (great against power builds), and the extra condition cleansing (never enough).

AH is fine in disorganized play and a couple of other specific cases. If your primary concern is keeping yourself alive, it works pretty well. If you want to be the best PvE guardian you can be, learn to run 20/25/0/0/25 or 15/15/0/20/20. In organized WvW I almost always end up running 0/0/10/30/30.

The biggest problem with running AH is that it’s a 30 point talent in the valor line, which is arguably our weakest overall trait line, and getting to it requires trading huge amounts of support for your party that is available in the other lines. Part of me wishes they would move it to grandmaster virtues and move or get rid of permeating wrath so at least people going for it would have the nice group support from that line.