Guild Wars 2

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I’m very new to necro, went straight to reaper after using the insta-80 booster, since then, after a few adjustments, I’ve found this build is a lovely mixture of everything I need to play in both PvE and WvW with little or no adjustment.

The sustain is very good, reaper shroud with the might sigil and I often see 25 stacks of might solo, which makes up for the dmg, I’ve yet to get ascended gloves, helm, boots and shoulders, but this is the end result I’ll use until I can get better items.

Trev

Thanks Carpboy, I see a lot of activity from you here sir and it’s good to know you’ve had a look chap=)

That is a bursting beast of a build sir, the damage from that looks sweet and it’s a better all rounder for the main part, thing is, when the stomp and bulls charge work, it feels great, people don’t expect a stomp when you have a greatsword, nor a charge when you have a hammer, I just really want it to work hehe.

But still, not all builds work no matter how much you want them to, down to the sheer damage and extras to the burst skills, I know I’ll likely be trying your build out next regardless, just gotta get me some gold from dem dere hills!

I’m going to copy that build for the future I think, especially as it involves getting another set of armour, very doubtful I’ll go for the ascended armour, but weapons and trinkets are worth the effort as not bad upgrades frankly.

Thank you very much chap, I may put another build I’m working on here, but I think it’s a bit of a troll build, but it could be very strong if you’re defending a keep, it’s just that that will make you a bit too specialised methinks. I’ll dig it out of my brain over the next few days (work quite a lot so not much time to get on, which is why my reply is so long in coming.)

Once again my friend, thank you for the build, haven’t actually tried a full burst tree build yet so some more replayability for my warrior is coolio.

Ta,

Trev

zone.1073:

New warrior weapon: Staff.

1. Slap opponent with stick.
2. Hop toward opponent with stick.
3. Poke opponent with stick really hard.
4. Throw stick at opponent like a javelin.
5. Helicopter Spin stick around to block and reflect things, like a ninja turtle.

F1. Poke and push opponent away with stick.

I’d love it even better if they used these descriptions

Trev

Hello All,

This is kind of a (Very manly warrior-type) plea to my fellow warriors for feedback and advice….

I’ve been playing about with a few builds over the last few weeks since I came back, WvW has a long way to go but it’s improved for the most part so my few friends and I have been enjoying roaming around (3-4 of us most weekends) I’ve been chatting away to them thinking what could work best with them, but still give me a good chance in solo mode.

Firstly, I’ve not given this build enough time to be changing it for a while, so I’m not up for any major adjustments as frankly, I want it to work as it’s bloody great fun=)

Secondly, I’d like to know if anyone else has uses anything like this build and regardless of that, any warrior insights that may help it, I know the items could use improving, but I can’t be bothered with ascended armour and have only found or brought the items there, I spend most of my time skint atm as I’ve been buying lots of different armour sets to try different things out(Zerk’s and soldier sets of exotics, plus 6 soldier runes(I know, I was getting used to stuff again!)

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You’ll of course notice it actually has no condition removal I’m as of yet too sure what to do about this, but it’s not been too much of a concern in the 5 or so hours in WvW I’ve given it except on the occasional 1on1. Most of the time my friends can remove them ( No idea on their builds for the most part but it’s Mesmer, Mage and Necro that I run with, mage uses d/d, necro staff and something, I dunno, he’s a lil shortarse and the mesmer mostly uses greatsword, if that helps.)

Sorry to bang on a bit, don’t often post much so want to get me message across the few times I do, I find a couple of paragraphs with a bit of your personality put in can help people “get” you a bit better.

Thanks all, I’ll reply to any queries and if you have a good look, it’s appreciated.

Trev

Seems simple as to what is being brought to the table, all 3 shouts not only heal but are excellent for group support, especially if you’re the target-caller, you mark target(lil heal) buff your friends (lil heal) and defend everyone around you against conditions, even converting some of those conditions into boons, therefore strengthening the group as a whole, controlling the ebb+flow of conditions on a bigger scale, such as this, is going to make a big difference in WvW, add the runes and sigals and those lil heals also remove a condition from yourself, your topping up your heal every smack and getting so many crits as well, it’s gotta make a lovely synergy with the signet and adrenaline-based regen trait.

I’m so intrigued with this build, haven’t got to a position I can try it in yet, but loving WvW as much as I do (more-so when the nuances get sorted.) I can see this giving me and my friends a good time=)

A true support build for the warrior, kudos to you Yojack, hope to see more fresh builds like this.

Trev

@ TheMerc, fair enough if they actually do use other skills for anything other then running off.

But how many people in WvW have you seen do this?

And where in the post I quote is it even implied they do anything of the sort? It’s not about being coy, it’s simple, skill should count more then one-trick-ponies I agree, but again, that’s not the rule here, the rule here is that MOST warriors who use GS/WW/frenzy don’t do much else, because really, to get good results in WvW (I don’t know about SPVP), you don’t have to. It’s making people lazy and giving our class a poor representation, I’d love to run around pretending I’m Cloud, but I’d rather have the option of all those other weapon combo’s being (seen as?) just as viable and useful as each other, just different in flavour.

You honestly going to state that all the other weapons are even remotely as popular as GS? Even put together, I bet the GS outweighs them all put together in amount of warriors using it. That is not an effect of anything else but imbalance. That cannot be what ANet wants to see, and shouldn’t be what we as warriors and players in general want to see ether.

Trev

Elrohin.1409:

I’ve seen Greatsword used in PvP at great effect, have you seen Frenzy+Hundred Blades?? my god…it decimates anyone its in contact with. With the right skills and traits such as Throw Bolas plus the trait Leg Specialist, will give you ample time to drop the combo every 60seconds, pretty much killing your target. O_O

Don’t forget whirlwind afterwards, then you can go and run off to wait for the 3 cool-downs before doing it all again?

Is that fun? Only feeling like 2-3 skills are going to net you a kill? Personally, I think that’s what’s wrong with the class, greatsword is seen as the only “serious” choice.

Trev

I’ve read quite enough of my fellow class trying to defend this issue.

14k dmg from HB, plus a whirlwind with frenzy on is very OP.

Before you moan and carry on defending it, ask yourselves honestly, do you actually enjoy being a one-trick pony in PVP? Ask yourselves this as well, do you just find yourself waiting for cooldowns on the said moves so you can run back in, get a kill, then run off again for the cooldowns?

This is the issue, if 95% of your class is using the same weapon, only using two moves from that weapon in order to get a kill (Or even to feel that’s the only way you can get a kill…) SOMETHING IS WRONG.

Perhaps other weapons need to be brought up CLOSER to great sword/HB standards. But I assure you, hundred blades, ether with the combo of WW and Frenzy, or without, WILL be nerfed.

To be able to drop any player down so fast cannot be considered fair coming from one class.

All A-Net and indeed, anybody needs to do, is look at the combat log next time you get hit by it, or use it and ask yourself if that much dmg should be delivered in that short-space of time.

I don’t want to feel pushed into one weapon, there’s so many weapons for the warrior, we can’t allow ourselves to get pigeon-holed into using only one option for melee!

Bump up the other weapons slightly, and bring down the damage of HB, it is ridiculous still. Make sure that warriors cannot do such stupid damage even with frenzy, in such a short space of time, that’s the real issue, not the amount of damage dealt, but the space of time in which it’s delivered.

Again, how much fun is your class when all you do is wait for 3 cooldowns before you feel “viable” again?

Trev