Guild Wars 2

Great vid Gathslan! ignore the naysayers..this might be a mace build but it sure isn’t like the many mace/shield setups that myself and others use! i found it very enjoyable to watch i use a very similar build to this one but with a slight trait difference and utility setup. What runes are you using if you don’t mine me asking?

Lol, i didnt even bother reading past the first page of this garbage post. I don’t use the build that the OP linked but do use a modded version and it is a very fun warrior build that is very evenly matched against many class’s in Spvp and WvW. Like any stun build if you run up against it without the proper counters you will lose against it, but it finally gives the warrior some playability against class’s we would normally not stand a single chance against. The funniest part is that the OP makes it sound as if the stun + 100 blades combo = insta death..its far from that and ive fought many class’s that just simply shrugged off my 100b for the whole duration of the stun, even with me running a full zerk gear setup. The trick to winning against this build is timing and good use of your CDs and other CC abilities.

Been waiting for your next vid sanny and once again i am not disappointed bit left of center with the new build but man that’s some serious damage..expect axe nerf soon? :P

Nice vids mate! this thread was just what i needed to encourage me to look deeper into using different trait/weapon combo’s! thanks for posting them up. I really wanna try your GS – Mace/Shield setup as it seems to work well, but at the moment am trying to make GS/Hammer work again..atm i’m using a modified version of your build and swapping out defy pain & missile deflect for dogged march & merciless hammer, also using healing surge rather then mending. Have tried it out in WvW and seems to work okay but further testing required

Cheers.

I already posted this in the warrior bugs section but this urgently needs fixing!! currently i can rush or bulls charge a non moving target and Miss the target?? i can do this repeatedly..how am i meant to hit a moving target with these abilities if i cant even hit a non moving one!! the update was supposed to have fixed this problem..but it feels worse? i cant even seem to reliably hit a fleeing opponent with either of these abilities even if i’m almost right on top of them its ridiculous.

Rush and Bulls Charge not working properly! i can rush or charge targets that are standing still and regularly MISS my target or i can be right on top of a player or npc and have it not even hit them..I THOUGHT THIS WAS MEANT TO BE FIXED!!!??

Staggering Blow (Hammer 4 ability) rooting the player upon cast?? not sure if this is intended or a bug but its very difficult to use in its current state..

Daoshi.7618:

Furthermore its so much easier to clear the few conditions you may have using cleansing Ire and the longbow burst than being blocked, blinded, chilled, immob and or snared with melee based builds who not only cannot clear the condition but have a full skill cool down activated for missing.

With cleansing ire/dogged march/mobile strikes, being chilled/immobed/snared is not really much of a problem? blind is annoying too but really its a very obvious icon when the effect is on you..so its not impossible to work around.

Daoshi.7618:

We are definitely worse off than we were before given the AoE condition spam. Like Blackjack.2083 said, even getting the maximum amount of condition clear and combinations thereof you cannot keep up with the clear and sacrifice offensive capability.

Warrior is so absurdly broken if you don’t use a Longbow. I have been trying dual wield combinations the last two days and they do not do enough damage in a 1v1 situation let alone in a group, the sustain is non existant, and you still basically fall over if you take con clearing and defensive traits.

Warrior Meta = Sit back with a LB and hope people don’t notice.

Are you talking Spvp or WvW? because in WvW im not finding this true at all. I dont use a longbow and have no intentions of using it unless im shooting up or down a wall. Hammer/GS is still an excellent build even if you have to take 30 points in defense

Maybe its a latency issue that’s hard for the devs to fix? it seems that it works right about 50% of the time, bulls charge has a similar issue, i find that i will often hit the target with the knockdown but continue off course away from the downed player which is sometimes annoying.

I think many people will come to realize that there were many positive changes made with the introduction of this new patch. Let go of your old builds and discover some of the new stuff that has been changed and buffed. I am not an active Spvper so i cant speak for them, but in WvW i am really enjoying my warrior at the moment. Look beyond the negative and explore new variations of trait builds. Hammer is really powerful at the moment if you trait it right that’s all i’m going to say

To be fair you are a decent warrior but those fights took far too long..yes you beat the warrior in a 1v1 but it took a while and if that ele had shown up a bit earlier they’d have both gotten you or you would have had to run away. In the second fight with the ele you can see the warrior just standing off in the sidelines watching you go at it for a very long time with the ele. The problem is, it’s a tanky build that has survivability but no real burst making the fight go a long time or possibly end in a stalemate with you having to run because 2 or 3 more of the persons buddies show up to spoil your drawn out 1v1..

I want my old Hammer/GS build back.

I disagree, rifle is awesome sustained DPS in PVE. If you cycle it with a GS and trait crack shot you can use it to hit multiple targets at the same time..hitting 3 to 5 mobs at once with a 15k+ killshot is kinda nice and volley hits real hard if mobs are grouped up too. Rifle spikes more dmg then bow in my experience and i have both the fractal rifle and bow and almost always use my rifle. For PvP i don’t bother with rifle or bow anymore unless i’m attacking or defending a tower.

Retsuko.2035:

I wonder how these changes is going to effect CoF.

Lol wtf are you serious..who cares.

Just when i start enjoying WvW on my warrior again they decide to mess up my trait build >< i don’t give 2 kittens about axe or sword i love my hammer/GS build and don’t want to be forced to play a cookie cutter dual wield build.

fony.5102:

Heightened Focus: This trait has been moved into the Grandmaster tier and grants 5%, 10%, and 15% critical chance based on adrenaline level.

Berserker’s Power: This trait has been moved into the Grandmaster tier. Damage bonus has been increased to 5%, 10%, and 15% based on adrenaline level.

Hrmm…smells of slight axe buffage with a hint of NERF.

Tyrannus Blade.3408:

Would a hammer of this size be big enough?:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M3_bgxLoqWA/UEMQ0PmCnVI/AAAAAAAAAHA/djSvxP_Bzb4/s1600/smough+and+ornstein.jpg

haha!..i think you are overcompensating!

On the larger class’s like Norn/Charr some of the skins are sized decently i suppose but when you see them on smaller class’s like humans/sylvari ect..most of em look like toy hammers.

Anyone else agree that all hammer skins aside from The Juggernaut are too small? they look ridiculous compared to a greatsword..both are 2 handed weapons yet the hammer skins look tiny!! it needs to be scaled properly in size please ANET! a Warhammer or Hammer as it is known in this game should be a fearsome weapon and should be sized accordingly.

Any US servers have Balth Temple uncontested right now??

Cheers!!

IdyllShade.7895:

Happened twice last night… no error codes were reported, the game crashed with the ubiquitous black screen. Mouse pointer active, sound playing, but no video. Alt-F4 and a client restart is the only fix.

I experienced this tonite while in a fractal. My screen just went black..i could hear audio but had no video. The only way to fix it was to reset my client which of course locked me out of the fractal.

Im using an AMD HD 7970 video card and its never had any crashing issues at all prior to this occurring.

This is so annoying.. last nite i was in fractal 2 and got knocked off a ledge and as i was falling to the ground (during which the map reloads itself) the game stopped responding and crashed. The result being i could not rejoin my group in the dungeon when i came back online. Not to be put off by this i joined another group for fractal 2 and tried again! this time myself and 2 others got Disconnected from the server during the final boss resulting in 3 of us not being able to get back into the dungeon to complete the fractal..

So in summary there are 2 issues at play here..1. The random game crashes while in a fractal..and 2. Server disconnects while in a fractal..both of which are causing lockouts.

Ahh..sigh that kinda sucks. Thanks for the reply!

Today i placed 4 identical lvl 80 rare Greatswords into the forge and was rewarded with 1 of the exact same type!!..is this a bug?? shouldn’t the forge upgrade the items you place in it and not give out a duplicate item?? was kinda annoyed to say the least..hope that’s not normal forge behavior?

Parisalchuk.9230:

LFk.1408:

Azelroth.6801:

Zeki I think you’ve missed the point entirely. No one wants it to be ‘easy’ – they just want it not to be a random occurance. This is the main issue.

If you don’t think people want it to be easy, you haven’t been reading.

This argument is flawed. Any player can put 4 items in the forge and get a precursor in 3 seconds.

This statement is flawed^ If it was that easy then this thread probably wouldn’t exist right? People do want it to be easy..they don’t want to have to earn the gold and then possibly fail on obtaining their precursor..they want a guarantee that they will get one.

I remain firm on my views regarding this topic. The only changes i would like to see regarding legendary weapons would be slightly better stats then a regular exotic..now that’s a topic worthy of discussion!

Perhaps its more of a case of the answer has already been given and no amount of pleading (complaining) will persuade them to provide you with an easier way to obtain your legendary. I’m not saying that some of the posts here arent constructive but really i think the way the precursor system is atm is perfect. Its not meant to be easily achievable nor should it be.

Archer.6485:

@Zeki

You are sorely misguided if you think having a legendary is any kind of indication of a pro player. I guess you could say the first few people who got it are good because they found ways to get rich. But now there could also be gold buyers or exploiters or people who’s guilds pooled the gold to do it.

The only people who you could at least consider to be pros in the sense that they put in the time and effort by farming are currently shafted by the high TP prices and the Mystic Forge RNG. Those are the people I would consider most worthy of a legendary as it exists now, but they probably won’t have it for a while.

Haha! nice troll attempt buddy. Nowhere did i associate the words “pro” with acquiring a precursor. Leave your ego at the door please, its not needed here.

This response will probably generate lots of HATE but..leave the precursor drop rate alone! don’t change it! i don’t want to see thousands of noobs running round with legendary weapons! these items are supposed to be unique, rare and desirable! easily obtainable should not be part of that list! not to mention the cheaters out there that could go out and buy gold illegally to easily obtain a precursor if the drop rate is changed. Make them work as hard as us honest players to achieve this reward!

And before anyone says it..No i don’t have my precursor yet either but it gives me something to look forward to and work towards every time i log into the game. Dont feed the “I WANT I WANT I WANT” babies in this game Anet! make it hard! make it worthwhile!

Cheers.

Its pretty obvious that some people don’t read the thread before they post. If you look about 16 posts up from this one you’ll see i already posted the answer on how to fix it. Turn your sound quality slider back 1 notch or to the halfway mark on the slider bar.

I put this in the game bug forum but figured i’d put it in here too.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Annoying-Warrior-whirlwind-volley-skill-bug/first#post393444

I run a GS/Rifle build with traits specced into “crack shot” and fast hands works really well for single target dmg but if several mobs are lined up then the pierce effect from crack shot will hit all mobs that are lined up with each other. If you pull off a volley shot when mobs are piled into a bunch it can yield some good numbers. If you Cycle GS/Rifle properly you can put out a ton of dmg. Rifles are awesome imo.

Just noticed this happening after the last patch download, but if you sometimes use whirlwind then quickly weapon switch to rifle and activate volley, the character gets stuck in the whirlwind animation and will spin like crazy on the spot while firing off volley and every shot will fail to register and not hit the target at all..

I submitted a bug report about this recently, but have found that if you set the sound quality slider to halfway the bug no longer occurs..many of you having this problem probably have your sound quality slider set at MAX which is when the problem seems to happen.

Well..i just had a go at Simin. This encounter is ridiculous!..we tried in vain for about 3 hours before we gave up..we were getting everything from random sparks to a bad spark that just refused to path correctly around the statue and go down which of course resulted in Simin regening a crap load of health. I’m willing to admit that this encounter could definitely use some fine tuning..

In my experience its because the EM mode of the dungeon is very hard!! most casual players just can’t complete it..which is not a bad thing really..at least you don’t have a zillion players running round in a full set of arah armor like you see with the CoF dungeon set.

This is awesome news!! i was so disappointed to hear about the crappy end reward considering how much time you have to invest to complete the full story. Glad i waited at the Victory or Death part! but not so glad i already did Arah story mode before getting to the end part of the storyline quest and discovering i have to do it all over again ><

No stun Breaker = noob..sorry but um l2p..and yeah what the hell is all this kitten blah blah about?

Naraldeth.3862:

I am a 5 signet Stacking 92% Crit warrior with a Greatsword. We are born damage dealers. Banners are extremely lackluster in both effect and range, physical skills are completely and utterly useless (since they are usually forms of minor CC). The only real support warrior build is to go Sword/Warhorn or Mace/Warhorn where you can use shouts with 30 points to heal..barely.

Dungeons are 5 man teams, and warriors are barely capable of setting up combo fields inside their comfort zone.
My teams much prefer me to melt bosses than to do weak damage for the whole fight, there are classes better skilled for support. If you’re rolling with Guardian/Ele/Necro, you’ll already have nearly every single field in the game up, as well as boons and heals from everywhere, Necro also has mad condition cleanse and so does the guardian and Ele’s are so unintentionally stacked in support its crazy…they don’t just chain fields, nearly every move they perform has an effect (stun/shield/regen/burn/swiftness).

I really don’t see the point of playing anything other than a high dps yield.

Leave the support warriors for WvW

QFT^

Couldn’t have put it better myself.

I’ve been contemplating getting a set and mix/matching the pieces to get the stats i want off each vendor then adding my chosen rune..

I was planning to go with a Precision/toughness/condition dmg & Power/toughness/vitality mix

Something like this:
http://www.gw2db.com/items/65461-heavy-mortal-helm
http://www.gw2db.com/items/65445-heavy-aurora-pauldron
http://www.gw2db.com/items/65405-heavy-rubicon-breastplate
http://www.gw2db.com/items/65370-heavy-armageddon-gauntlets
http://www.gw2db.com/items/65372-heavy-armageddon-leggings
http://www.gw2db.com/items/65404-heavy-rubicon-boots

And Rune Choices:
http://www.gw2db.com/items/49541-superior-rune-of-lyssa
http://www.gw2db.com/items/49495-superior-rune-of-balthazar
http://www.gw2db.com/items/28081-superior-rune-of-infiltration

I wanna use it for WvW/ PvE with my GS/Rifle Build..yes i know another GS noob haha..anyway what are peoples thoughts? or maybe should i just save the karma and grind out a dungeon explore set?..

There’s nothing wrong with using a signet/GS/Rifle build in dungeons..its high dps and good survivability if the warrior plays well and uses his Dodge, condition cures and self heals ect..i"m not going to halve my dps just to throw in a few group utilities just to please some random squishy in a dungeon :P

PvP is another matter entirely, the 5 signet build will not work..