Lets point out a few things here. First off war is bad at 1 v x so that’s our situation. WvW is always open to getting jumped by many players. blind isn’t OP but it can be if a class gets enough of it. If you are going to go full melee and roam I would have to suggest Sw/Sh and GS.
As far as what the Op asked (blinded at the worst time). It happens often enough to make it a pain.
I’d rather not use a GS. I’m just surprised there’s nothing a warrior gets to counter it. I know swinging once helps, but with a hammer that’s a long swing time.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Sight_Beyond_Sight
This was in GW1. Why not have something similar for warrior in GW2?
You have a play style similar to my own and a similar build to what I run. I would suggest Isolating one of the uplevels and falling back briefly using your sword to jump away from combat and get back in there when they are trying to get him up. Personally I ran gs/hammer or axe+shield/hammer. The greatsword is great for getting in and out really fast. Best of luck to you, I’ve stopped playing this class pretty much other then CoF and switched to main my thief.
I’ll never use a GS for combat purposes. Good luck playing a broken class with broken mechanics lol. I wanted to go big because I ususally play how you mentioned. I’m trying to get some frag vid footage
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2v1 and then lept off a cliff to avoid death penalty…more than I care to speak to
You lost because you don’t have ranged and are playing a zerg CC/frontline-spec that is highly vulnerable to blinds. In your case, you should of turned and went into Langor.
I was trying to point out that I got blinded at the worst possible time and that it’s too easy to get blinded during your peaks. Zerg frontline? I don’t play in a zerg unless I want a lot of loot and bad fps. Oh and that I wanna feel skilled because I need people to help me kill. No you can actually make that leap. I simply failed hard at it. I’ll record a clip of me getting away next time
The leap lands you on the other side, I simply pressed it too early because of fps issues. Recording lags me a lot.
Had I not gotten blinded, that battle would have turned completely in my favor of a 1v3. I just think it would be cool for an anti blind since we have an anti block utility.
ohh lord once I got over the giggles from a warrior using bolt and then the 2 Mesmer fights then you drop this golden nugget on me
“I’m not going to give away my build by any means. It took work to achieve this build. Self made and it’s the best I’ve played in my 800 hours as warrior”.
lol ty
I can help you make one. I’ve got a lot of experience with different builds. Add me in game, you know my char name I may in the future, but right now I don’t want to yet! Can’t make it that easy, gawsh.
If you move to SS make sure you carry that sigil of paralyzation so that your shield bash carries over to your back breaker.
That makes me think about something I heard of, maybe you can confirm it or invalidate it : When you gain a “XX%” bonus to duration, it’s only if the bonus is a full second that it applies.
For instance, shield bash is 1 sec. So adding 15% duration to 1 sec would not make a full second, and thus wouldn’t change anything. I don’t know if I’m clear in my explanations ? Please tell me if I’m not.Anyway, if that were to be true, it would be meaningless to use the superior sigil of paralyzation, wouldn’t it ? In that case, I think I would prefer to use a superior sigil of hydromancy.
While waiting for your answer, I’m gonna make some tests in the mists.
Thanks in advance for your input
It’s not the case. Do testing yourself as I have and you’ll notice that the .15 sec difference is invaluable. It allows you to chain a crippling slash, weapon swap, and then you can even hit with back breaker. I do know that for most conditions, 0 counts as another second because it doesn’t remove when it hits 0, but when 0 goes to practically -1 second. Stun duration stacking is different than boon duration, in that there’s not really a cap time. With condition duration there is a cap time for example. I believe you can’t go over 100% condition duration.
If you didn’t see what I wrote, it’s not a good idea to carry 2 active sigils. this means that hydromancy will conflict with intelligence because of the 9 second cool down that carries over between weapon sets. Swapping won’t reset it. You can test that too for yourself. I do know now that if you have 2 sigils of paralyzation, they don’t stack. You don’t need hydromancy for a hammer and s/sh combo either. You have enough cripples and immobilize to keep them relatively close toward you.
Hydromancy is only used if the weaponset you’re carrying lacks consistant snares/slows (like axe or GS).
Great video. I played Mesmer as my main for most of my GW2 play time so far, and it just feels so much more satisfying when/if you can win while roaming with a warrior. I’ve been using hammer/greatsword, but I really like the look of sword/shield along with it. Would love to know your build. I currently gear with zerker armor and mostly Cavalier trinkets, which works alright. I’ve been kind of all over the map with my build, though, messing with boon hate, trying various things, etc.
Great video, I look forward to more.
Mesmer is the best 1v1 class. It is on the borderline of overpowered. I can’t win against one who’s played mesmer as long as I have warrior. It simply isn’t in the rule book. I can only get them if they’re off guard. There are too many counters to a warrior that many professions have. The classes in order of highest difficulty, regardless of player skill are as follows: Necro (now… the condi stacks they put on are incredible and chill is stupid strong), Engineer (you really don’t need any skill to play this kitten class. Literally given everything ever the devs wanted on a demi-god.), Mesmer if built correctly, and Guardian because they are very tanky regardless of glass spec or not. Reminds me of 55hp monk builds in GW2. You can beat all of these classes, but it is very situational and you will find me running away from most of their battles when I know I cannot win. Simply the strongest classes
Greatsword is quite opposite the prefix of its own name. The only use, as mentioned in that vid, is to roam and cover distance very quickly. You can see how clunky and obvious the animations are and should drop it as a main weapon at any chance. Unless you plan on kiting people across the map with ease (except necros… chill to stronk), then you need to get rid of it. keep it next to your warhorn in the invis-bag Use it for running away.
I’m not going to give away my build by any means. It took work to achieve this build. Self made and it’s the best I’ve played in my 800 hours as warrior. It’s too universal. I will, however, give you some aspects of the build, and some important trait points later on. Get rid of your berserker armor and pick up valkyrie armor with lyssa runes. Start playing with that immediately. Superior sigil of paralyzation must be on your sword and shield. I run sigil of intelligence on hammer for a constant 4-5k every time I swap to it.
Keep trying different builds until you find a happy medium. I probably spent about 5g total resetting trait ponits, about 15x that amount buying gear and runes/sigils/weapons.
Stay tuned and observe play style closely.
Today I discovered a very rad little animation for the bolt if you’re a warrior. I haven’t tested it on other classes, because I’ve only got one. If your first hit with flurry is a critical while wielding bolt, it triggers a much more radiant animation, as well as a blatant hit sound per strike on the mob. I thought that was very awesome and it isn’t indicated on the wiki. Test it out yourself. You can guarantee your first hit is a critical via Superior Sigil of Intelligence on a shield swap or something. I think it would be cooler if this sound were to play EVERY time you hit something. As it is, I wish for louder hitsounds on all the weapons. It’s so damp
Anyway, great job Anet on this little gem.
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The Truth Warriors have been on life support and using items / food for crutches since the game started, when the developers decided to nerf and remove these items from gameplay, it greatly effected us moreso then any other class in the game ten fold.
We still use items to compensate for our weak class, like the shout rune build requires full soldier runes, 30 trait points, greatly lowering our DPS for half-* survivability.
At the post above.
To be able to compete with other classes we MUST have items… We simply just have horrible traits.
Every class should have the appropriate food and mechanic oils for their build. It’s simply a must. It’s free extra stats. why the hell not take it? The herb that happens man. There’s literally no downside, unless you are talking about money to spend, toward having food.
Second, Your interpretation of items can be considered that we must rely on a certain amount of rune sets that have been designated cookie cutter for a warrior. If by relying on items you mean A) divinity runes/glass red orbs (lol)
soldier runes (which ever remove condi’s on shouts) or C) some bunker stacking runes. Personally you all should start using Lysa runes. best thing ever for a warrior. Literally making a Matale 2.0 video because lysa is so good in conjunction with hammer and sword board.