Guild Wars 2

Even though I liked the video ( and I don’t think warriors are op), I don’t think this is proving much.
Your specc is so highly specialised in killing warriors (33sec stability, double energy sigil, high poison uptime, sword/dagger for extra dodges) against mostly Axe warriors that really depend on hitting that one ability.
I don’t duel, so I have no idea if that is common in OS, but with absolutely no condition removal I would never take that specc out for roaming and thats what makes the whole comparison uninteresting to me.
Every class has great dueling speccs, even more so when you build to counter your opponent.

Disclaimer: I’m probably ranting and this is not really important. Feel free to skip this.

The thing that makes warriors op in most players eyes (beware: personal opinion here) is the versatility they get with Defense + Fast Hands. Yes, I don’t like being forced to always spend 9/14 talent points exactly the same way to be viable, but you have to admit, that it almost got it all – sustain, condition removal, Warrior’s Sprint. It allows the warrior to fight almost everything on equal footing. Add to that, that warrior’s are more forgiving to play than other classes (yes, thats important. We’re not Sizer, we all make mistakes), the mobility they get with Melandru + Sword or GS and we have something that most people see as totally op.
(I think shadow arts thieves face the same problems btw)

Daecollo.9578:

Cluster Bomb is Slow, the slowest AOE in the game…

Thats why you use it in melee if you need to spam it. If you have to attack from range it still works out quite well with your initiative regeneration.

Shadow Refuge is on a LOOONG cooldown…

Thats because it is THAAAT good. Good skills have longer cooldowns. And if you’re not playing with idiots, you don’t need to rezz more than once a minute anyway.

Scorpion Wire Is ignored by bosses.

Guess why I mentioned trash packs?

Basilisk Venom lasts 1 second.

I had it last up to 5 secounds with venom share on the AC explo way 1 endboss. Thats ridiculously much considering a traited 36sec cooldown. Besides that it has 1.5 sec baseline duration.

Pistol offhand spammable smokecloud is cool, until you play a 80 warrior and realize 100b kills them, who cares about a stupid smokecloud if they are all dead?

Tell me more about how 100B insta-kills graveling-packs in AC. I’m also sure they’ll stop their knockdowns and bow down to the superior might of the greatsword warrior

I play an 80 warrior, thief, my first toon was a thief, and then I realized how useless they were in pve and rerolled to warrior.

No, you leveled a thief, it’s glaringly obvious that you never really played one (trying to imitate a warrior is not playing a thief – It’s ‘trying to imitate a warrior’)

Cluster Bomb is easily the best utility skill in the game, spammable blast finisher is sooo good. It also makes farming in Orr a joke as a single bomb is enough to tag a mob.
Did I mention spammable blast finisher?
Shadow Refuge is really good (why do you think it has such a high CD?) and makes rezzing people really easy (unless they die all the time, which means you just have to stop being bad)
Scorpion Wire is a great utility when you can split up hard groups (TA explo)
Basilisk Venom ignores boss-immunities (or at least the ones I tested it against, AC explo – I don’t like venom-share so I haven’t tested it that much)
Pistol offhand has a spammable smoke combofield that makes hard trashpacks ridiculously easy (gravelings in AC).

I play D/P + SB with 25/30/0/15/0 in explos and D/D + SB in Orr. I neither have problems staying alive in melee (besides some hard hitting explo bosses, like HotW way 1 endboss, where I have the same problem with my warrior), nor do I think my utility is lacking (seriously, spammable blast finisher).
I also think SB is superior to everything the warrior has to offer in terms of Orr-farming.