Guild Wars 2

Drafigo.4690:

First off I have played turret engi since the day this game came out. I don’t usually play meta builds because well most of the time they are no fun. I also like to play builds I think should have been created just for the class ( turrets for engi, Minions for Necro, spirit weapons for guard and so on) I rate myself above average in skill and again I have played my turret engi since day one. I remember well over a year ago locking down points and having people call me cheesy for playing turrets in a conquest mode game (turret engi was way bad then). Since then there where some minor tweaks to the build and a huge surge of players started running turrets to counter Skyhammer. Then when these same folks started using this build in all matches everyone started to cry. Why you ask?? ( created a spread sheet the last 3 weeks to outline why I believe people hate the spec)

Reason one- 78.32% of all players I faced on point ran straight in and allowed my thumper turret punch them down.

Reason two- 69.99% of all players I faced ran on point and stood inside my turrets while flame turret and rocket turret just freely casted them to death.

Reason three- 64.92% of all players faced ran in and attempted to focus down my healing turret while taking damage from the other 3 turrets. once the healing turret was destroyed they where knocked back and kill shortly after.

Listen, These top 3 examples of players in TPvP arena’s fighting me is funny because these are good examples of what not to do when killing a turret engi.

Turret engi is designed to hold points and I do so very well. I always win the 1 on 1 matches against other turret engi’s, reason is because I don’t stand there and let my turrets auto attack. I use my tool belt skills and all combos available to turret engi. I also never leave my turrets I always pack them up and take them with me. People that die to the turret engi die because they make mistakes. The first one being the point is mine and you are not going to take it from me if you dive head first into my turrets and let me control the area. I have 1v2, 1v3, 1v4 players more then once because I play my turrets right!

What are we supposed to do them? Run away and let you dominate the point uncontested the whole game.

We are really strong in tourneys if played right with GS/Axe/shield.
We are not the best solo roamer as we are weak against some classes, however in my oppinion we are A+ when paired with someone else or in a zerg to take a vital point.

Any warrior will land a couple of full frenzied 100blades in any given game which will practically guarante an instant kill. Outside of 100b we have eviscerate burt from axes and stun from shield. Our survivability is pretty decent also with liberal use of whirlwind, shieldblock and dodges. Most warrior run 30 in defense so we are fairly durable and great at delivering killing blows and ressing.

It’s a myth we lack damage outside of 100b. Our GS autoattacks, whirlwind and Axe autoattacks does a LOT of damage. And with rune of intelligence on the axe we can deliver 100% crit eviscerates that hit for up to 8k.

Warriors also serve the purpose of “zerg dispersion” since nobody wants to be inside of 100blades range. Also, never open with bullrush until you know that your opponent has burned a stunbreak or teleport.

GS warrior is a good class in tournament games.

So if you can survive a player attacking your point for 20 seconds you get the equivalent of a kill in glory? I suppose that would be reasonable.

The problem is the mesmers ridiculous escape abilities. You can keep a 3 man crew busy by yourself by just going invisible/teleporting around.

As a warrior. Get full fury with GS. Swap to your Axe with rune of Intelligence for 100% crit on weapon swap. Hit Eviscerate for 8k damage. Useless?