For the added challenge, I’ve been running a Sinister necro, with a mix of rabid and sinister ascended trinkets (collecting stuff for the remaining sinister gear), AND commanding Breach/VW runs. Although very squishy, the condition / power damage hybrid spread makes her very effective against all mobs in the map.
That’s not to say a Sinister equipped Warrior is the way to go. A zerk warrior, or zerk anything, must pay attention to their environment because they’ve sacrificed all of the passive defense in order to maximise offence. In most other maps, this isn’t a big deal, but SW offers probably the most challenging environment (relatively speaking) for inexperienced zerkers.
Greatsword is handy because of Whirlwind attack, while Forceful greatsword will allow you to gain might as you attack but you really need to keep up the attacks for that to really be useful. Now the problem here is that your best might + vulnerability generator (Forceful greatsword + Rending strikes) is hundred blades which roots you to one spot making you incredibly vulnerable to teragriffs, thrashers and wolves. Also, while you’re channeling HB, you could get hit by slinger rocks and basher immobilises. Interrupting hundred blades reduces your dps output because your final strike does a lot of damage. Arcing slice is your burst skill on GS and hits 5 targets around you. Quite good all in all but if you’re going zerk, you’ll be taking the grandmaster trait Berserker’s Power which puts a flat 15% boost to your damage output with full adrenalin. It doesn’t combine with arcing slice, so you’ll have to make the judgement call whether you want to use your adrenalin or keep it while you’re fighting. However, the nice extra from Arcing slice is that every target you hit has a chance of granting you Fury, which is a 20% increase to your crit chance, and each hit can stack fury duration.
Personally, I’d go Axe / Mace. A/M drops a lot of vulnerability in a hurry, cyclone axe, crushing blow combined will drop 12 stacks of vulnerability on 3 targets, which other players can capitalise on. Combined with the Rending strikes trait gives you can drop a lot of vulnerability quickly. A number of good traits synergise with axe /mace: Dual wielding, Axe mastery in the Strength line and Dual Wield Agility in the Arms line.
Some sigils combinations are meta at the moment,
Fire and Air is the most common one.
Force and Night is another common one, but Night will only be useful half the time
Other commonly used sigils are
Bloodlust (generate stacks on kill up to 25, grants up to +250 more power resets if you go down or swap out the weapon),
Battle (Gain 2 stacks of might for 20s when you swap to the weapon),
Energy (gain 50% of your endurance back when swapping to the weapon).
Strength (60% chance to gain might for 10s on critical with an internal cooldown of 1sec)
However, it never hurts to look for another synergies thatwork well in Silverwastes but not necessarily elsewhere. Superior sigil of impact will boost your damage against knocked down foes by 10% and this synergises well with Tremor (mace #5). The teragriffs automatically get knocked down for 2 seconds when they get hit by cripple, chill or immobolise. With tremor, you can double that to 4 seconds of knock down. This is a lot of damage that can be dished out with an axe especially if you fire off an eviscerate. For example, you could even go something as odd as Intelligence (next 3 attacks crit) /Impact. Swap to A/M, knock down something with Tremor, then Crushing blow, Eviscerate for serious damage. Good for burst but that’s about it XD
Or another odd one, though I wouldn’t recommend it :p , is Superior sigil of incapacitation/Impact. This would work well against teragriffs. Incapacitation has a 60% chance to inflict cripple on critical, which basically gives you a knock down on them when they charge, impact then boosts your damage. And for real oddness, swap to a second set of Axe/Mace with Intelligence/Impact and do the above.
Typical warrior utilities in other areas are usually shouts like For Great Justice and Shake it off. In SW, you have the opportunity to run other utilities. Throw bolas, Bulls’ charge, Fear Me! and Stomp are all good options for helping with crowd control. At times, the mordrem come in big mobs and breaking them up is very helpful. Most warriors will run Banners of strength and/or Discipline but you don’t have to be bound by that stereotype. If you take utilities like Throw bolas or Stomp, then the Physical Training (+100% damage -20% recharge time) trait in the Strength line is a good option to take.
SW is a good place for trying other combinations with warrior simply because the variety of mobs is greater there
