Guild Wars 2

Go for undead runes and use the Geomancy Sigil for weapon swap to keep the pressure up on your opponent and trait towards tactics for quick breathing. Use Sword / Sword and Sword / Warhorn.

Edit: Get Dogged March trait for reduce impairing and trait for last stance. If you want to sacrifice some condition for more survivability then Rune for Melandru. This may make warriors become even more nasty, but I don’t care. We need to represent our class since we are the underdogs in Spvp / Tpvp.

Artaz.3819:

Healing Signet: Active, Steal Life from nearby foes and blind them (instant to 1/2 second activation (depends on life steal value and range), same cooldown)

Sounds more like a necro type of healing imo than warriors.

Kiyo.2673:

I’ve thought about using longbow as a weapon of choice, yeah. The problem is (and this is again from experience, but I may just be doing it wrong) I notice a rather stark decrease in my survivability when I switch to my longbow. That does make me wonder, though, if switching the 10 trait points I have in power so I can get the trait that gives you adrenaline on shout use…That could help keep the longbow fire field up.

I had thought about using sword before (and I’ve been experimenting with axe some, too). But wouldn’t you need to stack condition damage for the bleeding from the sword to be effective? The main reason I use mace, honestly, is because it can apply weakness to multiple foes. Those glancing blows can really soften the damage you take, though I suppose it’s a moot point if the enemies aren’t attacking you. XD

I’ll think about adding in signet of fury…Might be worth cycling out a shout for, we’ll see. Thanks for the tips so far! Hopefully the increase in vitality I’ll get from switching to sentinel gear will help keep threat. Any more tips?

Also, I don’t agree with the notion that warriors aren’t designed to, or can’t tank. Now, I may be a bit crazy (I loved deathknight tanking before there was actually an established tanking talent line, etc) but I love tanking, and I love warrior. I don’t think tanking is impossible, I think you just need a bit more out-of-the-box-thinking to warrior tank.

Sword does seem like it would have its tanking merits, though (being able to immobilize a small group of enemies could be incredibly helpful) but I wonder if axe might be a bit more effective without stacking condition damage. Thoughts?

Well I play a healing bunker warrior and when I do dungeons I tend to get aggro a lot. I don’t use shout healing though, but I do use banner regen combine with healing signet. My gear’s toughness, conditions and healing so my regen might not be the greatest cause when I have 25 stacks of life it only ticks for 300hps. The weapon I use is main sword for the condition damage/ immobilize and off hand is axe for aoe. My secondary weapon is Longbow for more aoe so when I use combustive arrow I switch to my sword and use savage leap to gain fire shield to combine it with axe aoe skill. I usually tend to keep aggro there and when my teammates go down I get more aggro there taking less damage because I have superior runes of mercy. You can say I am a offensive tank with the help of Dolyak SIgnet and Signet of Fury to keep applying more aggro.

Shinya.8014:

But make them smaller. Make them the size of everyone else. Right now they cover the whole screen!!

No way it shows their dominance and I like that. Charr and proud roar!

You’re going to need to use the longbow if you want to keep aggro on you for aoe. As for the weapon you may want to use a sword than mace since sword can hit multiple targets and immobilize them. They’ll start focusing on you more when you keep doing that and use Signet of Fury. So when you use your aoe attack for long bow or sword. You can switch to either weapon and activate Signet of Fury to have full adrenaline again.

Traitine.8713:

This is my Tank Warrior build:

http://www.constantwarfare.com/2012/11/squadcommander.html

Not sure how it does in PvE, but it’s PvE. How hard can it be? I found it great in WvW. I’ll be testing it in sPvP soon. Feel free to tinker with it to your liking.

You can test it out in Orr to see how it performs doing temples runs or event farming. I run a with T C H gear in Spvp and PVE. It is a challenge that’s for sure and with low regen ticks heavy hits / high conditions will take you down quick so stay on top of that. In pvp it is more of a challenge and I can say your worst enemies will be necros, mesmers, condi engineers and bunker rangers / rangers overall. Guardians and thieves can put up a good challenge though and forget about warriors. They’re a non threat profession so it can go either whoever slips up in that fight.

Daecollo.9578:

To make this trait, combine “Missile Deflection” and “Shield Mastery” into a single trait.

Indomitable:
Each time you get a bar of adrenaline, you convert one condition into a boon.

Move Spiked Armor down a tick and give it stability or protection as well.

Last stance trait support us with stability so it only make sense for Spiked armor to gain protection boon. Everything else the idea is pretty nice.

Shinya.8014:

I’ve posted about this before.
You MUST do something about this, it can’t be that hard. Look at the size difference between Charr and Human in the select screen.
I know this Screen is not 100% in comparing your characters heights, it’s the same with Humans and Norns, but this is ridiculous.

Why can’t my charr wear that fabulous human outfit >_>. I want to look purrty too. make it happen Anet ;3

Anyways back on topic…yeah Charrs are thicker than Human size so that’s to be expected on the character screeen selection.

Weindrasi.3805:

I have noticed for a few weeks now that my female charr elementalist looks a little bit different. To double check, I looked through old pictures and found I was right. At some point, arenanet updated the tufts of hair on her face to be tinted with the black I chose as her fur pattern. I think it looks much better. Thanks, anet!

She’s a cutie

Awe.1096:

My win ratio in tournaments is around 30%. I never had such a catastrophic w/l ratio in any competetive game which I played for a longer period. I wonder why, hmm… :/

Yeah I do not care about win ratio much on leader boards since Tpvp are hot joins at the moment and which can be turn into premade with friends. I’ll still do the hot joins just to have some fun, but I will not take leader boards for pvp tournaments serious until they input another mode that can actual be counted to be put on leader boards. For instance like WoW arena teams where your team can be represented on the leader boards while Hot joins scores can be fit into another category.

Laserbolt.6731:

Some of those “Level 1”s could easily be rerolls on a second account. And the actual player would be much higher.

I thought people knew that logic already and 2nd its hot joins. I can agree that the new mode does make premade matches easily. I always get the It’s just a game phrase when I type in /map. wanna bet $500 they all going to be on the same team? Nobody wants to lose a good winning streak.

Fired statement is absurd because you know they have to test stuff out and receive feedback to do improvements. That isn’t rocket science.

Olba.5376:

Daecollo.9578:

One Word: Poison.
That is all.
If you really have played a warrior at all, you would know how much this condition alone wrecks us, no other class has as much fear as we do from it.

Dude, how about you try speccing for Quick Breathing, grab a Warhorn and watch as all poison ever turns into Regeneration?

I understand where are you coming from having the quick breathing trait, but in actual combat when those are on skills are on cool down. Conditions are applied pretty quick and that poison is now reducing the player’s regeneration boon.

Olba.5376:

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Now that is one condition wouldn’t mind having on warrior for sword weapon.

Well that’s one way to have Final Thrust make some sense.

I was thinking more of option 3 hamstring so the duration can last longer, but that can work too if it happens.

Daecollo.9578:

One Word: Poison.

Now that is one condition wouldn’t mind having on warrior for sword weapon.

shadowbrk.2438:

I like to do both PVE and PVP any tips on how i should put my traits what armor i should get. Weapon combos Please help me find a good build i die fast please help

The usual stats for tank build is Power, Vitality, and Toughness sets. I do not know the traits to make one, but I am guessing it have to deal with Power tree, Toughness tree for hammer I guess / combo it up with LB and the last tree is on you either Tatics or Discipline. Sorry I cannot offer any tips to help you out, but this is all i can bring up.

Goodluck

Paul Belz.7351:

Just a heads up, the facility entrance in Wayfarer’s Foothills has been explodified, but the Vigil have uncovered another one in Diessa Plateau!

Have fun

Yeah Charr land woot!

Test it out in the field before blabbing out nonsense

Epic.3950:

I guess warrior tanking is dead since nobody seems to care about it its a real shame

It’s not dead, but more like people are not interested in playing one / how it works.

Durzlla.6295:

Broham is pretty useless, now Rox… Rox is a BAMF and I love her and her poison barrage!

Her name is Rox for a reason :P and I guess why she calls Braham cub lols. He is usually first to die xD.

SAtaarcoeny.8476:

So im rank 1 now despite playing with pugs and solo q ing and dcing (loseing 40 rankes even when i win) and playing on 1 account no matter who is on.

When they see your name all they going to do is

GW2 pimp status at its best.

Olba.5376:

Daecollo.9578:

Leo G.4501:

Daecollo.9578:

Leo G, you said before that Adrenal Health healed for 360 hp/s…

You didn’t read my post either. I’m looking at my post right now and I didn’t say that.

Nvm you actually corrected it.

Adrenal Health needs to heal per adrenal strike.
Healing Signet needs to be 463 hp/s. (to be on-par with necromancer’s minion.)

Um… What? “As far as I can see:”http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Summon_Blood_Fiend Blood Fiend regenerates HP based on the attacks it deals, not on a per-second basis. In fact, I checked all the healing skills and I did not find the number “463” anywhere.

Please cite your sources.

And besides, Healing Signet, like all signets, needs to have a good active. Right now, the active isn’t worth crap and the passive doesn’t make up for it. Heck, even Prayer to Dwayna has like double the healing of Healing Signet and no one ever uses that.

Nothing is wrong with the active if you take a look at other profession healing skills. When you have high healing power close to mending. It only needs a regen buff, like Adrenal health. Should the active have additional features than just healing? Sure that would be nice.

Leo G.4501:

Brutalistik.6473:

He is aware how bad Healing Signet is compared to Rangers regen. I don’t think you realize that Signet of the Wild, Troll Unguent and just regular regen boon heals a lot better than warriors Banner regen, Adrenal Health and Healing Signet combine.
Bunker Ranger > Bunker warrior and can tank / evade more than a warrior which makes them more viable for Tpvp.

Let’s not be coy here, a Ranger’s healing is one of its strong suits primarily because it has a pet. Skills like Heal as One, Troll Unguent and Healing Spring are as good as they are because they often have to pull double duty keeping the pet alive, keeping the ranger alive, both at the same time or individually. Because their utility and damage is split, and because they aren’t always free to swap pets (not to mention the plethora of drawbacks that discourage swapping or giving pets new orders), it’s important to be able to keep the pet alive.

A flat comparison isn’t fair same as it wouldn’t be fair comparing the ranger’s damage to a warrior without the pet.

You do not think warriors suffer the same in damage lost? As I said before you guys keep talking instead of experimenting. I’ve already done the gameplay on bunker healing warrior and know its flaws. To be honest I rather play a ranger bunker than warrior due to the survivability and the pressure I can put on my enemies. If bunker warriors were viable and okay then I would not be supporting threads like these.

Daecollo.9578:

I actually think ranger’s without a pet out damage warriors in pvp due to there attacks being a lot more mobile and far easier to hit with.

They are not aware of that because they do not do regular hotjoins or Tpvp on a bunker healing warrior. They just do not want to see a warrior become competitive / gain buffs.

Mrbig.8019:

Because it pushes people towards reactions like this one.

Now please aNet buff OH dagger and make S/D viable for tPvP,
plskthx

I get that all the time and heck when my fams plays on my F charr warr. The fam does it too and tells me my build sucks monkey brownies. I always say that’s what you get for joining Raging hotjoins you know whats in there.

Sebrent.3625:

Why exactly is Jon Peters even talking about this but we’re not seeing the same for Signet of the Wild?

He is aware how bad Healing Signet is compared to Rangers regen. I don’t think you realize that Signet of the Wild, Troll Unguent and just regular regen boon heals a lot better than warriors Banner regen, Adrenal Health and Healing Signet combine.
Bunker Ranger > Bunker warrior and can tank / evade more than a warrior which makes them more viable for Tpvp.

I can tell you are inexperienced with bunker warriors and their healing mechanics. You really need to test them out first before comparing orange and apples.

To end all this healing rate discussion just play a bunker healing build in pvp and tell us how far you go with it and then come back to the forums with results. I already gave mine because I play one and I can tell ya now a buff to our regen is what we need if we were to stick with the survivability utilities we have on warriors. If they can add Adrenal Health to the healing power formula as well then I am happy to say we got ourselves a decent bunker build. I’ve been condition down easily, burst down easily by glass cannon profs like mesmers, thieves and yes I use our condition removal skills, but it’s not enough.

Leo G.4501:

but don’t just buff it to make the class harder to kill as a base. Make bunker Warrior a viable build instead.

I doubt they would be hard to kill when they have pressure on them. Bunkers aren’t hard to kill with the right utilities that are applied on them like poison and cc.

Remember this is a warrior and we have don’t have any passive condition removal traits or skills. So to shut them down is quite easy.

GankSinatra.2653:

Brutalistik.6473:

Zinwrath.2049:

spectator mode simply reinforced that this was a bad choice for an E-sport.

You know what? When 2 years have passed and this game isn’t up to where it should be need on E-sport level then I probably still wouldn’t care. However saying spectator mode is bad choice for E-sport? How would you know what E-sport wants unless you work there? If E-sport came on to these forum and said spectator mode sucks skritt rations then yeah it was bad choice, but I would not think that.

He used spectator and found that the conquest mode (ping-pong, bubbleboys, and mindless aoe spam) was not fun to watch as he expected.

So they need to fix that issue so there can be less of that and also adding more games duh. I get that nobody loves to watch zergfest and if they did might as well install spectator mode for WvW. They get tons of that, but overall I don’t mind spectator mode, but saying bad choice for E-sport? I am like who are you? The leader of their company?

Zinwrath.2049:

spectator mode simply reinforced that this was a bad choice for an E-sport.

You know what? When 2 years have passed and this game isn’t up to where it should be need on E-sport level then I probably still wouldn’t care. However saying spectator mode is bad choice for E-sport? How would you know what E-sport wants unless you work there? If E-sport came on to these forum and said spectator mode sucks skritt rations then yeah it was bad choice, but I would not think that.

Leo G.4501:

Daecollo.9578:

A skill when it comes to mind should be made from the ground up without any stats and should be viable for all builds without any stats, stats should just “add-on” to what the current skill has, not make or break it.

First rule when you create an item, NEVER balance it around stats or it will fail.

That’s why the active should be improved.

No amount of sustain is going to keep a build with 22k HP, no armor, no blocks, moderate condition removal, and mainly offensive traits alive. Do you expect Healing Signet to perform miracles? Or play your character for you?

I do not think Healing Signet should perform miracles, but a nice buff for it’s regen can be nice.

emon.1863:

well, changing daily won’t change people! Even before TPvP was not part of daily , there were ppl who multi-cap points, rush’d solo svanir and dyed and much other hot join stupit stuff. I will say problem is in hot join, because you are allowed to do there this kind of things or in tutorial (ye,right…there was a great tutorial in pvp) where it should be explain’d that multi-cap ,won’t cap point faster.

Nailed it!

Daecollo.9578:

A skill when it comes to mind should be made from the ground up without any stats and should be viable for all builds without any stats, stats should just “add-on” to what the current skill has, not make or break it.

First rule when you create an item, NEVER balance it around stats or it will fail.

Well I’ll say this they are active on balancing stuff much better than Warcraft. So I cut these guys slack, but don’t get me wrong. I do wish it was done sooner than later, but I know they’re just taking baby steps to perfect every profession in game to be balance.

I just hope next patch have good results for bunker warriors tanky / healing types.

It’s premade easy now since you can choose what team you want to be on. For an example whoever that sexy player in the group leading in the scores in the 200s or 300s will most likely have followers. The other issue is friends joining on the same team which is a good thing, but also leads to premades and that same team winning all over again. If anything it does fish out the cry babies that’s for sure. I witness it today when my kitty was being played by my fam. Couldn’t take the heat, troll the peeps and left with defeat.

So yeah it can frustrate people that’s for sure when you enter zerg wars hot joins, but people keep forgetting these are hotjoins not organize arenas you can make. So expect none coordination from teammates who don’t follow orders. Go with the flow or go home.

ThrottleFox.2735:

Leo G.4501:

What did the Charr armor look like? That is, the armor made of Charr…

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Warrior_Charr_Hide_armor
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Warrior_Elite_Charr_Hide_armor

that means humans had charr burgers oh snap!

Windwalker.2047:

QQ i have the most hp and armor in the game and now i want passive heals of a guardian.
Look it up its on par(and better) with every other passive out there-
Ele soothing mist-80hp/s
Guard virtue of resolve 84hp/s
Regeneration 130hp/s
OH noes i have the hp regen of an ele with perma regeneration,the warrior must be the weakest PvE class ever.

That’s not very nice because for those who spec into healing builds won’t have high health anyway or good damage. In fact it’s a bit worst than guardians or any other bunker class altogether due to lots of damage lost. They really have a bad regen system with compassionate banner heal skill doesn’t support much either. Having a regen buff for those who wish to play a decent bunker build will be great for warriors. This leads to more accessible builds for the profession than your usual glass cannon or cc build in pve / pvp.

Daecollo.9578:

Warlord.9074:

Um if you have to use healing power so your terrible heals become less terrible but are still terrible and now your damage is terrible. Than you have traded being terrible for being terrible.

Might as well go Guardian, you can spec for tank+dps and have awesome heals still!

Yeah I have notice that which I why I went Shaman route for condition even though that doesn’t do well as much either. If banner Regens, Adrenal Health and Healing Signet had some buff then I can say we got ourselves a bunker warrior. We need our regen to be buff to counter condition damage mainly than burst damage. I wish our final attack on sword gave us a secondary condition like poison. That would be so much help in a lot of fights.

I don’t care about nerfs really because that just makes the player that wanted it look bad. All they just need to do is just buff other unplayable builds to counter it or more up the regen on professions that needs it bad. Might have high health, but with no passive condition removal traits or additional conditions to keep pressure on the target. That profession is going through the worst day of its life. One condition cannot do it alone and using a sigil / runes won’t make it better either.

That idea to me is competitive pvp

Shadow of Azrael.1205:

Latromi.2387:

I only play SPvP with friends.

Try tournaments then instead of mindless hotjoin zerg.

You still get those in tournaments, but not as often. Tpvp is a hotjoin now remember?

I’m sure a lot of computers or keyboards were broken cause of this. I’m not a fan of 1 vs 1 either especially against professions like mesmers or those that can give constant conditions. Playing as a healing bunker warrior protecting a node against those odds is like sleeping with the grim reaper at motel 6.

From experience playing a healing bunker warrior. It’s not all that great, but you do live more than anyone else in your group that’s not a tank. Conditions and really good burst is our problem because our regen with high healing power can’t counter it wow. You’re best with either a Ranger or something than warrior.

I like how Rox calls Braham a cub when she’s one too talking about brandy and all.

That last boss was amazing and when Braham spoke I thought the same words.

Whats a good fire build for a elementalist?

Anastasis.7258:

The signet build might not be work because we will not have stun break. If Anet change Dolyak Signet into stun breaker that might help. I’m still testing some other weapons on my AMC warrior build, which is really fun, and maybe I can find some way to improve my triple sword build idk.

Currently, Longbow/Greatsword on my AMC warrior build is OP in team-fight. No one can drop aoe dps more than us.

Then they would need to make it instant cast for Dolyak Signet to be a stun breaker.

Navzar.2938:

If you want it to heal more, get more healing power? I can agree too a bit of a buff to the healing power scaling though, or maybe a small increase to the active heal.

Doesn’t scale too well having high healing power. It only gives it a minor boost.

Galaxy.1043:

Can you tell me some builds for elementalist? Mainly focusing on fire. (or air)
Oh ye, and using staff.

This is what the guy ask and none of yal even answer it. What the heck?? I am curious too about what is a good build focusing on Fire or Air. Any weapon to be honest and please be really descriptive about instead of this is faceroll and that. Nobody doesn’t want to read that, but only which build is efficient for fire or air.

atheria.2837:

Acandis.3250:

What zone said. Why would you think a 4k heal would ever be on a 10s character specific CD. That would be ridiculously OP

Doesn’t have to be AOE for gosh sakes – can be limited to the holder and the creator – how about thinking outside the darned box for once here.

That would be nice being only limited to the holder and there is FenGuild idea allies gets half of the compassionate banner skill heal. That way some people won’t view it as a OP ability which it isn’t when they try out a healing bunker warrior.

FenGuild.1097:

Well I understand the OP point because bunker warriors are really crappy to play overall. Their condition system is about as crappy as a thief since they have nothing passively to remove it off let alone cool down utilities. I rather have a guardian or elementalist to take healing regen job than a warrior because lets face it. Warriors profession is not compatible in the pvp field especially as a bunker and their burst heals are horrifically disgusting . It’s actually funny to see one in action and sure they can probably beat a few professions such like wars and thief only, but that’s their potential.

How often do you see a bunker healing warrior participate in pvp anyway or in pve? Not many at all cause it is mundane to play one lols.

Bunker warriors aren’t crappy at all when you learn to play them. You just have to know what direction you want to take them. For instance I chose the healing route, but with the confusion of the compassionate banner skill bugged. I did not think it would change to this which why I was upset just like the elementalists. To me like any other class that have good regen or burst heals. I thought Compassionate banner would make up for it. I can say without healing signet and the banner trait regen. There isn’t much for bunker warriors in the battlefield because adrenal health is not connected with healing power.

zone.1073:

It is a 2k heal currently, counting regen.

Do you think it will get there in a tight situation in 7 secs and I am not talking about stationary fights. I’m speaking in both fields pvp / pve.

Edit: You also have to remember not everyone is going to pick up the banner and have the same result of healing regen either especially if the high healing power player is not presented there.

zone.1073:

4k healing to potentially 5 players = 20k HP healing.

A teammate picks up the banner and uses the healing = another 20k HP healing.

Another teammate picks up banner = another instant 20k HP heal.

Etc.

Yeah, no. Not going to happen. Also, I think the banner actually was buffed, though. It used to heal for 450 HP (not including Regeneration). Pitiful, yes. Now it heals for 900 HP, so double that.

I highly doubt everyone would receive the same of amount healing when using compassionate banner unless everyone in that group happens to have healing power. If that would be the case since then it should be a shared cool down. I know for sure everyone want roll a healing warrior because they’re use to them being a monster truck profession than a muscular medical field nurse in heels.

Being solo with this build can be rough because you are not putting a lot of damage out as other professions. If the heals have to be very low they can at least buff Healing signet regen and Adrenal Health a bit. If 4k is a lot for compassionate healing when having high healing power then reduce it by 50% making it 2k. Otherwise there is really no point on making a bunker healing warrior.

That is one way of cutting off the diversity build for them.

I wish they could just give an explanation why they think that’s a suitable heal for that skill for a healing bunker banner warrior. 900 healing for a skill is not an appealing number for those with a high healing power.

Before the patch it said on the tooltip for compassionate banner depending on your healing power to heal for 4k when you use it. However the tooltip was bugged and it only heal for 900hp.

After the patch the tooltip for compassionate banner was changed to the bugged data that heals for 900hp. I am confused why the tooltip change to 900hp heal instead of corrected healing for 4k hp.

I play a bunker regen warrior and even though they can only do, but so much in competitive pvp / pve. Having compassionate banner healing for 900hp instead of the actual tooltip that was displayed for more than 5months is really upsetting and absurd. I can’t keep my teammates up and myself using a heal like that in tight situations.

Roll a different profession some may say? In that case don’t make anything for a regen warrior at all like get rid of the healing power stat in banner of tactics skill and replace it with condition duration so that compassionate banner can add more conditions on to a player / npc.

I understand the devs are always busy with their stuff, but if they actually take the time studying every possibility profession build in the game. I’m sure the game would be a lot better than waiting every month for more disappointments each patch note that are displayed for professions.