Guild Wars 2

AlBundy.7851:

When playing a warrior it really doesn’t matter how good you play. Everything depends on how terrible the opponent you’re playing against is.

That being said sounds like the thief was just trolling you guys and never engaging without his movement abilities being up.

Solution: Reroll a thief to do the same, Reroll a healy guardian and troll it up around towers and keeps you own, reroll Bunker Ele or reroll a tanky mesmer and try to stealth drop combat and wp out if things get rough.

Rerolling wasn’t exactly what I had in mind. Although I have noticed it seems almost any other class at this point is in a better place then the warrior. The thief I spoke of was most definitely not trolling. He was clearly skilled based on his ability to counter almost every move I could possibly make. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t playing well myself, which he was nice enough to mention how well I fought. The mesmer on the other hand he wasn’t impressed with. My point is more despite having the help of another player, good or bad, I wasn’t able to overcome a thief playing at my best with some of the best gear. I come from playing years of World of Warcraft arena, battlegrounds, and world pvp. Stuns, fears, roots, ect. aren’t new to me. But based on dueling some thiefs for a few hours, both the double dagger and the pistol/shortbow builds before the patch, the only way I could win those fights 1v1 was with the Frenzy 100B. Now I don’t have it, and now I can’t win( at least straight up fights). I’d much rather have another build to try vs completely rerolling.

Wish I didn’t have to give up my rifle just to make a viable GS build though. Never fun to not have some range with fighting zergs. And yes, my OP is more about the WvW build I use. I guess I’ll give the sword shield/GS build a try. Not sure there are many other options with GS now at the moment.

Last night I got super emo almost to the point of slashing wrists over fighting a thief 2v1 with the help of an “OK” mesmer. We didn’t stand a chance. His pistol/shortbow build easily avoided my GS/Rifle build (not using the new Frenzy) for over 3 minutes of him training this mesmer while I run around like a chicken with his head cut off. Dunks him in stealth, then proceeds to show me a tier 1 class at it’s finest.

I don’t get it. Warriors can’t have a full Frenzy 100B with a Bull Charge for the “Stars Aligned” combo, but thiefs can’t spam stealth and teleport to guarantee a victory or at the least a guaranteed get away?

I love my warrior( a bit less now since the nerfs), but are warriors just the pve heros of this game or what? I broadcast each move I try to make and it’s easy for good players to avoid it. I have really good dps for the defense I get, making me feel I’m fairly balanced for the longer fights and yet I can’t win the longhaul battles. We had awesome burst before the Frenzy nerf, but I feel like my damage without it SO stable that predicting and avoiding it is too easy for most players on most classes. Deep down I don’t want to play anything else but my warrior, but at the same time I don’t want to be a sub-par class. Can I get a little warrior motivation here? Maybe a link to some awesome new post patch build? I love greatsword, but this change feels like I might just have to retire my “Buster Sword” for good.

Bolas do go hard.

Easy answer…… unless your target is REALLY bad…….. no.[/quote]

I feared as much. Considering you have to straight up BAIL on some fights because an enemy zerg shows up, I don’t see me ever changing to a non-greatsword build.(Mad dashing getaways a must imo)

How do we remedy this without re-rolling or switching to another build all together?

I’m afraid I have to agree with the majority on this thread as well. I’ve been running GS/rifle build warrior since I hit 80 for WvW and this change seems like a step in the wrong direction. I really don’t have proof on if the distance abilities are cut in half while using frenzy but I admit it sure does feel that way. As for the 50% damage increase we take.. I’ll go as far to say its obviously the worst draw back compared to other versions. (hunter, thief) Considering most good players fighting against warriors can easily identify the buff/debuff of frenzy, it always felt to me like frenzy was more the flip of a coin rather then a guaranteed win. With this change can we even get an entire hundred blades off on a target now?