Guild Wars 2

Hey all,

I have everything my warrior needs/wants atm, and I am planning on taking on the Spellbreaker next month. I mostly run WvW, with several nights a week spent running with my guild, and all other times I typically havoc or follow the PUG tag. My question is fairly simple, would I be better served running beserker or marauder armor? Maybe something else?

This is what I run currently:

Current Warrior Build for Small Scale and Organized WvW Guild Raids

The only difference is I typically run hammer instead of Sword/Shield with my guild. I have been tinkering around with more marauders lately to see if I like it, but I cannot make up my mind. I know the spellbreaker may benefit from more precision due to Sun & Moon Style off hand, crits heal & Pure Strike Increased Crit Dmg versus boonless foes with the possibility of taking Loss Aversion instead.

So moving forward, with spellbreaker and organized wvw does this build look better?

Future Spellbreaker Warrior Build for Small Scale and Organized Guild fights

Undecided on weapon combo for SB until I can try it out next weekend.

Hey All,

Currently looking for a dedicated Havoc guild in WvW NA – EST. I play all game modes, and although small group play is harder to find nowadays I know it still exists out there…. somewhere. I have TS and I am willing to transfer if necessary.

A little about me: I play in the evening for a few hours. I’m well-rounded in all game modes, but I miss playing WvW for the roaming and small group tactics: fights, PPT Havoc, and occasional zerg support. I have several fully ascended characters: Warrior, Revenant, Mesmer, Ranger.

WvW Rank: 1,161
PvP: Achieved Legendary Rank During Season 2 – 6,500+ games played
PvE: I play here from time to time for skins and masteries for all my chars.

Don’t forget to add when 4 Man groups get matched against SoloQ and DuoQ.

Please fix 4 man groups playing against Solo Q & Duo Q. This just isn’t right, it is prime time right now, and there are no excuses for this type of matching. Nothing against friends playing together but if MMR is “supposed” to be working, then games should not be blow outs. If you lose by 400+ you shouldn’t lose pips, cause that’s on the MMR.

Rest in Pip! Well, I don’t understand it fully, nor do I agree with it (maybe I would if it made more sense), but it is what it is. Just wondering if this is acceptable? Or is this normal?

As the title explains, how does a group of five soloQ get matched against 4 man group? More importantly, how does one actually think this is fair when creating a matchmaking system?

Can I post the account names of people stuck in my game too?

Stuck in match as well. I posted on account bugs too.

Stuck as well.

Can I list the people stuck in my match too?

Hey All,

I must say I am having a lot of fun with the new zerker spec. I have only had about 30 minutes to try this build out in hotjoin and so far I have had really good success.

I was playing arms, disc, zerk, but once I started playing better players I noticed it was harder to stay alive, and I had to keep endure pain on the utility (I wanted to try the physical 2.0)

I think rabid suits this setup well, but I’m thinking celestial and rampager are doable. I just need more time to try them out. Torch seems to favor damage so, as a condi build fire is just a bonus, provides fire fields, and a combo field – oh yea and a nice condi cleanse every 20 secs.

I wanted to take king of fires, but I found that the taunt seems superior, especially for comboing. Generating adrenaline without headbutt has been simple with this setup, making headbutt even more beneficial after landing all your combos – forcing them to eat all the condi damage.

Anyways, this is it’s infant stage, but so far I find this setup fun.

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Hey All,

I have two sets of ascended gear, one power focused and one dire focused. On that note, I think builds for power for zerker will self explanatory, but let’s see what we can come up with for a condition focused variant. I’ll start with two builds.

The first link is the version I am more likely to take. With signet mastery along with about 25% crit chance I can get a high enough number to make use of on crit bleeds. Since, bleeds are a wars best friend, (maybe fire now too) I think we can protect one or other when running a new condi build. This build is easy to maintain might as is most war builds that make use of fire fields and longbow.

My only fear is still getting bursted down, which is definitely possible. If that proves to be the case even with roughly 30k hp and 3400 armor, I would drop arms in favor of defense, take dogged march, defy pain, and cleansing ire. Either way this should be a fun build.

If we can get fast hands standard approved and implemented I would take discipline away.

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Ilias.8647:

@TheNatural

Did you mention any significant benefit from running a so high toughness/armor build? With all this damage around does it worth the effort to get armor well beyond 3000?

You know, I got this ascended gear set a long time ago and I bring it out of the bank every once in awhile to switch things up, but before the damage got really high with the latest tweaks I felt having around 3400 armor worked much better for protecting myself against bursty classes. Now I noticed the armor doesn’t save me as much as it used to.

Also, it is important to note that before the higher damage tweaks were implemented I used to run the longbow sword/warhorn combo for group support and for solo roaming. Particularly because I wouldn’t need warrior sprint, I could take shouts and trait the warhorn to convert conditions, keep vigor up almost all the time, and cover conditions with weakness too.

Plus with high armor and using the warhorn, I could conveniently convert condis to boons often, especially weakness into protection, which would make me kitten near invincible. I ran that before people named it shoutbow, but it was a great build and it was fun to play, you could even give condi PU mesmers a run for their money.

Elegie.3620:

You’d be quite a dangerous bunker with that beast…

Some thoughts on the build:

• Full dire is a great choice for this build, but it comes with a trade: you lose the sigil of incapacitation and reduce the value of Leg Specialist. Also, you cannot reuse the armor for hybrid builds (which would need precision).
• I know you like Heightened Focus (I love it too), but in that case I believe that Burst Mastery might be better: you want to use your burst skills as often as possible, not only for their damage but also for their synergy with Cleansing Ire, and for the longbow, the increased potential for blast/leap/projectile finishers. Yet, if your current rotations don’t consume burst skills as fast as you build adrenaline, then Heightened Focus can be better indeed.
• The Runes of Balthazar are quite an interesting choice, I’ve never tried it myself on a warrior, so have no opinion on their capacity. I like the Runes of the Undead, because they favor all types of conditions (burning, bleeding, torment), and all 6 effects are fully utilized. You could also use the Runes of Perplexity and exchange endure pain for Fear Me (an interrupt with zero cast time) or Stomp (to get another Blast Finisher), but that’d be “experimental” – and way more expensive!
• Your choice of sigils looks fine to me, although I’d consider using Geomancy instead of Malice, on the bow.

If you try that build, let me know how it works for you!

I second this, my 2nd set of ascended is full dire, and I love using it to roam with. My previous post was pvp focused, and my take on your wvw build is this.

I find that tactics isn’t as good as it used to be, so arms is your next best bet, + you can get precision without having to take it in your armor. I almost always have 4 stacks (3 is up basically all the time in combat) from the signet trait giving me an extra 300 precision. I like krait because bleeds is a warrior’s best friend.

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What’s up darkaheart,

Still waiting to see what server you go to :P

Anyways,

When and if I run a condi build in pvp this is what I run.

Offensive Version:

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With this build, and a proper setup you can stack 25+ bleeds easily. Especially with Frenzy.

Basically, use elite sig (krait stacks) then you want to land pindown, rush in swap to sword (hydromancy proc), sword 4, sword #5(if attacking) then flurry (+frenzy). Swap back to bow (geomancy proc) if needed, hit fan of fire and smoke to cover more conditions plus doom sigil proc.

I’ve seen bleed ticks up to 4600 if you land the full combo (harder to land everything on good players obviously). If not you can still maintain some good ticks.

The build has adequate cleanses, and if you run the defensive version (without frenzy) you have double endure pain.

As stated above, The Defensive Version is typically swapping out frenzy for another endure pain.

Is this good enough for tPvP? Probably not, but hotjoin, SH, and sPvP I have had some success with this build. Its the best condi build I have found to work for me thus far. Personally with how much damage players put out now my old condi (roaming/dueling) build I been running since year 1 with sword/wh and lb, (Defense, Tactics, and Discipline) is no good anymore. For obvious reasons, armor and shouts don’t do what they used to anymore to keep us alive.

Thanks for the input. Maybe I’ll just make another alt for roaming then.

Hey All,

I have a 2nd set of ascended gear (dire) for my war. Can this be used effectively for fractals up to level 50? How well do condi builds do in FOTM after the recent change?

Which items can the +agony infusions be infused with?

Thanks!

Hey Guys,

I’ve been playing a war since pre-release, and by far its my favorite class. I know I am waiting impatiently for the new elite to be released so here’s my thoughts on what it could be. My idea is somewhat research based, but at the end of the day who knows what anet comes up with!

I’ve noticed so far, many of the other profession’s elites, and their skills are closely tied to other professions, and some, if not many of them are skills from gw1. For example, Necro Elite “You Are All Weaklings” is a norn shout from gw1 (based on the wiki); the new guardian traps are similar to traps we have as well as some from gw1 too, and chronomancer was supposed to be released with GW Utopia.

My prediction, is wars will truly get an offhand, I could def see it being pistol or dagger (Torch gets the close 3rd). Given that they are weapons masters these seem the most plausible.

Looking through all the gw1 professions I could easily see (with the F2 screenshot from approx. a month ago) warriors getting some kind of new burst mechanic designed off of Assassins “Dual & Offhand Attacks”. These types of skills, which range from regular and elite style attacks fit in with the up close and personal warrior style, while possibly introducing some new higher skill ceiling to war. Here are a few skills that fit us:

Shattering Assault: Elite Dual Attack. Deals 5…41…50 damage. Removes one enchantment. Unblockable. Must follow an off-hand attack

Horns of the Ox: Dual Attack. Deals +1…9…11 damage. Causes knock-down if the target foe is not adjacent to any of its allies. Must follow an off-hand attack.

Temple Strike: Elite Off-Hand Attack. Interrupts a spell. Inflicts Dazed and Blindness conditions (1…8…10 seconds).

Golden Phoenix Strike: Off-Hand Attack. Deals +10…26…30 damage to target and deals 10…26…30 damage to adjacent foes.

Here’s a couple just to list for a thought. I know most of these are based on dagger skills, but some could easily be adapted to a pistol offhand too. I don’t have any names for these, no need to guess at that, especially since some have guessed the offhand could be called “Captain” which is very fitting too, as they carry sidearm pistols with a sword in combat (many years ago & there is a stat type called combo {power, PRECISION, toughness}). Just my two cents as we wait guys, I hope its good!

With this setup, wouldn’t It make sense to just go with GTX960 over the 970? I was recommended by someone else to get the 970 over the 960, but the roughly $110 price difference seems steep.

Also, which would be best for the 960 would the MSI 2GB or the PNY 4GB? Will the difference be that great?

Behellagh.1468:

You need to fix that @TheNatural. You replaced the GPU with an SSD, I suspect an editing problem.

Should be good now, thanks for the catch.

Hey all, thanks again for your input. Sorry I have been very busy the past couple of days and I could not comment on the things you all have said. I’ve updated my part list based on everyone’s feedback, please feel free to give more input.

New Specs:
CPU: i5-4690kn3.5Ghz 6MB Cached Quad-Core

Heatsink/Fan: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Fan
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI (intel z97, hdmi, dvi, 2xPCI-E, 6xSATA, 4xDDR3)
Asus Z97-P ATX LGA1150

Memory: 8GB (4GBx2) Corsair Vengeance 14900 DDR3 1866Mhz (16GB worth it?)
8 GB (2x 4 GB) of Crucial Ballistix DDR3 1866 MHz Memory

Hard Drive: 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA3 6Gbps Western Digital Blue

Solid State Drive: 128GB Crucial MX100 CT128MX100SSD1 SATA3 SSD?)
Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

Video Card: 2GB GeForce GTX 960 GDDR5 PCI-E Dual-DVI/HDMI
PNY GeForce GTX 970 4GB XLR8 Video Card

OS: 7 or 8.1?

Case: Raidmax Scorpio V Black (3 5.25, 8 3.5) 2 Fans, Audio/USB 3.0
Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case

Power Supply: 600watt Corsair CX600 V2 80 PLUS CERTIFIED

Thermaltake 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply[/quote]

I can’t get the old pc to run for 10 mins straight. Half the time it doesn’t make it to 2-5 mins before it freezes, or gets so slow its unbearable. A couple of weeks ago I was getting BSOD, then the video card went out shortly after. Just went haywire from there, I think I was rocking PvP too hard cause that’s where it all began. Some people are surprised that system last as long as it did. The tower is small and crammed, I haven’t opened it up but I bet heatsink may have been some of the problem.

By a decent bit better what do you mean?

Hey All,

My 3 year old Alienware Andromeda R5 finally died. Please look at my old build and tell me if this is a great improvement. Also, tell me if there is anything in the new build that can/should be changed. I play a lot of PvP and WvW. I want to be able to run high graphics (ultra isn’t necessary, not that I could run ultra in zergs/roaming anyways)

Old Specs:
i7-2600 @ 3.4GHz
Ram: 8.0 GB
Windows 7
GTX555

New Specs:
CPU: i5-4690kn3.5Ghz 6MB Cached Quad-Core
Heatsink/Fan: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Fan
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI (intel z97, hdmi, dvi, 2xPCI-E, 6xSATA, 4xDDR3)
Memory: 8GB (4GBx2) Corsair Vengeance 14900 DDR3 1866Mhz (16GB worth it?)
Hard Drive: 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA3 6Gbps Western Digital Blue
Solid State Drive: 128GB Crucial MX100 CT128MX100SSD1 SATA3 SSD
Video Card: 2GB GeForce GTX 960 GDDR5 PCI-E Dual-DVI/HDMI
OS: 7 or 8.1?
Case: Raidmax Scorpio V Black (3 5.25, 8 3.5) 2 Fans, Audio/USB 3.0
Power Supply: 600watt Corsair CX600 V2 80 PLUS CERTIFIED

Heyo,

I ran with you for the first time last night. Now that I’ve seen this post and know who you are I will check out some more of your vids. Maybe you should post some group vids, because I remember us doing work :P.

Good video and music. Now I can see what you were talking about when you said shouts work great with my build.

I need help running HOTW. I have completed all paths, but it seems the dungeon isn’t played as often as the others and I only need 200 tokens more. Any help would be appreciated. Sitting inside ready to run p2. Would like to run it twice along with p3. Please give me a hand, will be online today.

Hey all,

I’ve heard some good things about YB, and I’m considering the server move. Any great roaming guilds? Looking for a new home/guild. PM or whisper in game if you want to know more info than the short tidbit I’ll include below.

LF NA EST 5-930pm (Weekdays) I try my best to pay when I can, but I can be pretty busy.
Weekends I typically play more often.

Main War. Lots of WvW exp
Level 62 PvP
I like to PvE too, mainly for the APS. Most of all though, I prefer a good roaming guild, or if a larger guild needs a gank squad member I can fulfill that role too.

I have been moving around a lot to try and find the right home, and I can’t find it. I’m looking for a stable guild – possibly one that has been around for a long time, or at least one that doesn’t plan on leaving anytime soon. I recently lost a lot of really good players(roamers/pvpers)/friends/guildies to other games, so I need a home.

What I am looking for:
NA Guild EST
Type of guild: LF (1st) Roaming, (2nd) Zerg Busting, (3rd) Zerging
Active, Close-knit, skilled group (quality over quantity),
TS/Mumble users, Preferably Mature – No (Drama/Crazies/Screamers)
Looking for competitive players with good attitudes, it should be a fun environment. Not looking for guilds that want you to conform to their every will, but that doesn’t mean I’m not flexible with my approach to certain WvW situations.

If a larger WvW guild has a roaming component I’m certainly open to that as well.
Currently residing on DB, I can transfer.

What I can offer:
Main Warrior (Well-Rounded EXP) – Thief, Mesmer, and Ranger geared too.
Rank 59 PvP
GvG & Zerg Busting Exp
Most of time I’m Roaming in WvW, so I’m accustomed to 1v1s, Small Group, & Skill Groups.
Have Commander Tag, rarely if ever use it.
I do PvE from time to time, much less than I used to.

Let’s keep this simple. I have been moving around a lot to try and find the right home, and I can’t find it. I’m looking for a stable guild – possibly one that has been around for a long time, or at least one that doesn’t plan on leaving anytime soon. I recently lost a lot of really good players(roamers/pvpers)/friends/guildies to other games, so I need a home.

What I am looking for:
NA Guild EST
Type of guild: LF (1st) Roaming, (2nd) Zerg Busting, (3rd) Zerging
Active, Close-knit, skilled group (quality over quantity),
TS/Mumble users, Preferably Mature – No (Drama/Crazies/Screamers)
Looking for competitive players with good attitudes, it should be a fun environment. Not looking for guilds that want you to conform to their every will, but that doesn’t mean I’m not flexible with my approach to certain WvW situations.

If a larger WvW guild has a roaming component I’m certainly open to that as well.
Currently residing on DB, I can transfer.

What I can offer:
Main Warrior (Well-Rounded EXP), Thief, Mesmer, and Ranger geared too.
Rank 59 PvP
GvG & Zerg Busting Exp
Most of time I’m Roaming in WvW, so I’m accustomed to 1v1s, Small Group, & Skill Groups.
Good Builds
Have Commander Tag, rarely if ever use it.
I do PvE from time to time, much less than I used to.

Hey All,

Its The Natural from Relentless {ONE}. I’m originally from Darkhaven and transferred to SBI a long time ago. Then, I left for MAG to do some Gold League Roaming and Dueling. If there is one thing I can say about SBI its this, this is one of the best WvW communities I have ever been apart of. If you are looking for a home, this is a great place for PvX and just all around good camaraderie. One thing I have noticed after leaving SBI and returning (after many months) is that I have seen many of the same guilds remain (with strong presence too). There are really some top notch people here looking to make your time here at SBI worth every moment. As for WvW we cover all the bases, so come join the fight.

Just a tid bit on {ONE}, We are looking for some solid players (all classes atm) to help cause havoc and supplement our zerg (take out small groups within enemy zergs). We have mostly Mid to Upper Level PvP players and experienced roamers, if you’re looking for a home please give me a shout and we can work it out. If you are in TS feel free to stop by.

Hey all,

Looking for a new server. I talked to a few of the leaders from VR just a few moments ago and I liked what they had to say and their attitudes towards MAG. Anything anyone can add to help me choose MAG as my new home? I zerged quite a bit back when I was on DH, but once I moved up to a new server I roam/havoc more and I haven’t quite found a good niche/guild. If you need anymore details of what I like to do, and what I’m good at please send me a message or party up with me. I am currently guesting on your server.