Guild Wars 2

Everything is viable.

Oke well maybe not everything. But with a ‘squishy’ build, you just have to pick your fights. I see that you have endure pain. You can still make it work. A GS has mobility. When you notice that you’re getting screwed you can always pop your 4 to slow the enemy followed by > endure pain > 3 > 5 and you should have a fair distance between you and your enemy. Stall, heal, go back in.

What im trying to say is…. You wont know untill you try for yourself.

About your skills…
Frenzy is kind of hard to hit without a solid snare/stun/knockdown … any kind of hard crowd control. You should try using it in combination with bullrush/throw bolas.
You could trade dolyak signet for bullrush/throw bolas/shake it off. But stability is handy aswell.

Oke sooo here goes.

I have fought against my friend, a thief (full exotic armor/weapons), does about 9~12k backstabs and bursts people down in about 2/3 hits when im with him in WvW.
I switched server, we went to the backside of a camp. And we fought eachother. His damage was crazy. It was strong. … But I won every single time.

Im a 0/0/30/30/10 GS/Rifle Warrior, 25k hp ish, power/vit/tough armor, power/pres/tough jewels. Shout orientated. Throw Bola’s works pretty good. You just gotta time your dodges and your 3 skill. It negates enough damage. Always keep spamming your autoattack when they are invisible. They still take TONS of damage because they have low hp.

I even got caught off guard by some thiefs when I was walking around in WvW. I was looking at the map and had autorun on. (yes im lazy so what?) But.. The thief bursted me down to half hp in no time(from 25k hp to about 12~13k). So when I shut down my map I already lost most of my HP. I just dodged and decided that he is a puny thief and started autoattacking. Healed myself with shouts, my own heal. Thief had blown all his cd’s and suddenly was screwed.

The most annoying part of thiefs for me is… Their stealth… They eventually realise that they cant kill a power/vit/tough warrior and decide to run in stealth. I usually chase the wrong way, but with 3/5/4 + bull rush/bola can get me near them in no time to finish them off.

Because lets be honest….. to take down thiefs with 10~12k hp… regular autoattacks are enough for us warriors. If it doesnt work… my only guess is that you are undergeared compared to the thief.

For me its the greatsword. I just got a thing for giant swords (insert overcompensation joke here).

But yeah, the mobility, the damage, sheer awesomeness. Still running around slashing people in half in WvW as a GS/Rifle shout based warrior.

I used to run the signet build while leveling up. I simple didnt really bother much with traits and skills and that seemed pretty straight forward. But now that Im 80 and doing WvW and other stuff I started looking into effectiveness.

Skills and traits

I basically run a GS 0/0/30/30/10. Shouts orientated build.
I have the signet cooldown trait aswell for Signet of Rage. Giving me a 39 seconds (without banner of tactics)uptime of Signet of Rage active with a cooldown of 48 seconds. Thats having a movementspeed buff, critrate buff, might buff almost the entire time! This added with the bonus damage for every boon. I dont feel like I need any more damage.

I also wear a banner with me during PvE for the occasional times that some healing is needed for people around me since im pretty much indestructable with my gear being Power,Vitality,Toughness orientated. The banner of tactics adds another 10% to the boon duration which is a gift. It turns the 39 seconds buff into a 42 seconds buff which means I have signet of rage active the entire time with interval of 6 seconds.

Running the cooldown reduction on both shout and signet giving me plenty of heals for myself, boons for my allies with for great justice and a nice cleanse with Shake it off which removes a condition to myself and everyone around me and it heals myself because of the trait. I can safely soak damage and dish damage.

I change the retaliation and boon damage traits in WvW into snare on cripple and endure pain, cus thats fun in WvW, lol.
In WvW, I have run into groups people would call me stupid for, and after being snared, slowed, knockdowned. I still managed to down 2 people or so and get out to tell the tale.
I have about 50% critrate because of signet of rage. about 3.5k armor. 3.3k attack. 25k hp atleast.

Of course this is still a work in progress, still trying out new trait combinations and skills but so far, for a GS, this is my favorite build.