Guild Wars 2

Ok guys, I get it. You love playing your warrior and other classes just don’t fit you. I agree, as I always get pulled back despite seeing its flaws. However, please go put some hard hours into another class. Realize how they have utility skills and healing skills that actually work with the playstyle of the class.

Most of our utilities are useless and leaves you struggling. Our healing abilities are downright terrible. Our best heal doesn’t even heal us for half hp and is on a 30 second cooldown. Which seems like an hour considering afterwards we still don’t have much to stay in the fight. Lets be honest about something. When you see a warrior pop Endure Pain, you already know the fight is almost over. Even funnier when you see a warrior trying to run away.

Before my questions I will say this. SPvP is a good place to balance classes. In WvW it does NOT matter what class you bring to a fight. I can auto attack all day in a zerg and as long as the other 30+ are doing their job, My AA will not be noticed. As long as every class can beat content, PvE is balanced. I’m sure Anet can balance the warrior without destroying the other 2. After all, most of the others do good in all three…

We are warriors, right?

Why am I not able to make someone bleed effectively, immobolize them, or send chills up their spine?

Why don’t we have a signet that allows us a decent heal for each attack? or an effective heal at all?

Why can’t we apply protection or retaliation properly?

Why is my ONLY useful trump card(elite) on the level of a regular skill?

Why do my shouts not debuff the enemy?

Why do most stances make such little changes in my fighting?

Why are we able to be knocked on our butts so easily?

Why are my “finishers”, powered by my adrenaline, so mediocre at best?

Why does adrenaline not affect my defense capabilities?

Why do we bring so little to the front lines of battle? Other than +1…

ARE WE WARRIORS!?

@ Lyonell

lol again I agree 100%. No need for me to write the almost the same exact post. About banners I feel the same way. They should appear on your back or something that makes them more mobile, while not hindering your ability to fight.

I will add that I think warriors should be more melee focused and range should should be more for openers or to keep a constant flow of damage if you do get out of melee range. A warrior should also naturally have a lower weapon swap so you can better adjust to any situation.

Sword off hand also needs to be adjusted. Swords are for condition damage and the 2nd ability Riposte is pretty annoying to try and hit someone with. Which sucks since you really need it to trigger. It’s way too obvious of a skill unless a player is just spamming attacks, but even then I have seen more aware players still dodge it after activation.

@Lyonell

I myself was trying to avoid going completely down the list, so I’m glad someone did. just like you I have tried EVERYTHING the warrior has to offer and the class just falls short in everything. Warrior has absolutely NO control over the battlefield.
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The GW2 Warrior shouldn’t be in this game. You rely way too heavily on support from another. You need more than dodge to effectively mitigate damage in PvP.

I’m really hoping Anet is looking at all these obvious flaws the warior has. Some people here seem way too happy about this less than optimal joke.

Am I the only one that feels like I’m a Giant vs Ant, when facing 1v1 against a “Warrior”? Just watching him struggle to keep his hp up while he misses most of his attacks is funny. It’s bad that you need an ally just to be as effective as other classes are alone. However, though they help you, a Warrior brings very little to the rest of the team.

At launch there was a good split(I would say more so in Warriors favor) of how many plate wearers were warriors. The fact that there is a major visual decline in the amount of warriors you see in SPvP is evidence enough. Glass cannon Warriors were seen as OP until players learned the game and removed more of the WoW mind state.

Again, Wv3 is NOT a good place to test your class. The Zerg will cover up any and all flaws you have. Being a true 80 and smashing a false 80 in the few 1v1 moments also don’t help.

Those that claim they are thrashing people in PvP, I would love to see some videos of yo in SPvP. See how “great” you are in the tourney matches.

Is it that hard to realize a Warrior has to put in twice the effort to put up a good fight? Most of it still relies on how nub the other is. Do you not think there is something wrong when most utilities are garbage and most burst skills are useless? I keep reading about the greatsword but do you not realize the Warrior is able to use a lot of other different weapons?

Even still what nubs are actually being killed by your crappy HB? Without haste the skill is a joke. I guarantee you are killing nubs, other glass cannons, or both.

HB is only slightly more useful with haste. Without it you are seriously asking to be pwned. Which(haste) is NOT on a 8 second cooldown. Also, HB became a joke after launch once majority learned the game. There is no excuse to be hit with hb outside of human error. Warrior glass cannons are only good for the “Surprise!” moments in a chaotic battle, with the enemies attention on someone else.

Toughness and high hp of a warrior means nothing in a game where damage is best avoided altogether. A guardian has less hp but has enough useful abilities to survive lifetimes longer than a warrior could ever dream of. I don’t see how this class is a “warrior” when they are so easily killed. Should be called Militia, as we all know Guardians are the true warriors.

I still don’t understand how people actually accept the garbage utilities that a warrior has. Have you actually played any other class? What scrubs are you fighting that actually get killed by you in SPvP? Unless of course you roll with your entire squad every match, so you sit back and wait to Surprise! people. Warriors are only good at newb smashing right now.

Look at all the heavy plate wearers in SPvP. Notice the major decline of warriors compared to launch. Most I’ve seen are guardians these days.

What Defektive said. Also, “99%” of commanders are not Warriors. People can like the class but that doesn’t mean it isn’t flawed. A warriors flaws are overshadowed in Wv3 anyway.

If a warrior doesn’t kill his target in a few hits, chances are he will be killed unless helped by an ally.

Please stop saying Warriors are “decent”, “fine”, “great” or anything other than flawed. Anet needs to know this class needs to be worked on. If all you heavily play is warrior than you might think warrior is decent. I thought the same until I branched out and learned the others. In Wv3 the flaws of a warrior is overshadowed by the other 20+ members you are fighting with. In SPvP they become more exposed as the fights are more contained.

Warrior burst skills are pointless. Sword(f1) leaves you wide open and axe(f1) is only useful if you go full glass cannon. Hammer is decent as it adds to it’s already good control but could still get better damage, since it’s a burst skill. Let’s not even talk about the last 2 weapons. Stances don’t offer much and shouts are weak. Atleast make shouts debuff also. Only the elite banner is useful. Warrior having banners and shouts, you would think they would be better at support.

Condition damage doesn’t even exist. Sure you can get your bleeds to do high damage, but good luck surviving long enough(even worst because any class can easily remove your bleed).

Warrior’s Flaws: You do NOT have control over the battlefield or any proper support to survive an encounter. The entire fight is dependent on how noob/newb the other guy is.

Damage: Needs to be tweaked by making bursts more useful. Auto Attack needs a buff since we rely so much on it.

Control: Abilities need to be more useful. This class is way too easily kited.

Support: Laughable…

Warrior was my first class and I loved it. Branching out to other classes I realize how pitiful the warrior is now. The warrior’s battle flow is very off compared to the other classes I played(every one except engi/ranger). Every time I enter a battle I feel like I’m on the other person’s time. I only gain control if he/she makes mistakes or a teammate helps me.

Most of the Warriors utilities are a bit… off. The shouts need to be redone so they buff better AND debuff enemies. Banners are even worst in my opinion. Is there a purpose to even using one besides the battle banner? Stances are lackluster as well. Berserker stance does exactly what signet of precision does, but slower and without the passive. Endure pain is on a 90 second cooldown… The warrior’s lack of only makes this a “pwease halp me guyz!” ability.

The burst skills for most of the weapons are also sad. Greatsword and mace(f1) are trash. Sword(f1) just begs your enemy to smash your face in with the long self-immoblize, which is easily avoided or cleansed if you mistakenly get caught in it. Lets face it, condition build warrior doesn’t exist if you want a chance against a skilled player.

The “Surprise!” Glass Cannon warriors are the only ones that will kill a skilled player in battle. Which is only because he would be pre-occupied with someone else before you sneak up on him.

I would like to play as my warrior but I find it only effective against noobs. Again, as a Warrior the flow of battle is never in your hands. You rely way too much on your team to be effective, which is not the same for the others. For other classes your team augments your abilities and not dependent upon them.

I actually laugh a little when I see a Warrior in SPvP now.

I was going to create a thread but seen this one. Anet seriously needs to get rid of PvE in a PvP environment. It is a really stupid idea to begin with. The only PvEing that should hapkitten taking over NPC camps. WvW doesn’t need the other junk to make it feel “alive” as there are already enough angry mobs slashing at each other.

Also, remove the jumping puzzle. I can’t stand reading people making a group to go “control” it(at the start of a match). At least only open it at the end of a match. We need the bots and these “Skritt” out of WvW.

edit: happen changes to hapkitten? bug?

I must admit I thought this network issue was pretty bogus. Thought maybe a loud minority was making the issue bigger than what it is(happens a lot on the interwebs). However, I recently have been infected with this…bug? Not sure really what it is. Past full 48 hours have been completely unplayable for me(and counting).

It started out as some crazy rubber banding, happening only occasionally, but the game would still be playable enough to be enjoyable. It then turned into massive ability lag where my skills would take about 20+ seconds for the icons to stop pulsing and activate. At this time I could still see players moving freely without any hiccups.

Now, it gets to the point where the world “fast-forwards” after about 15-20 seconds to catch up to where everything is. So in sPvP someone could be running towards me then when I go to attack nothing activates(just pulsating icons), but in a flash all the red numbers show up and then I’m dead on he ground.

Note: I can play ANY other game online without a problem. I’m currently forced to play BF3 until this is fixed and again no issues with it. This is clearly a GW2 issue and it really sucks I’m not able to enjoy the game because of it. Please find out what’s causing this and fix it.