Guild Wars 2

I LOVE THE SKINS.

More skins like this! I really hope not too many flashy skins are added that will make the game into a huge frigging circus. The legendaries already have too strong of an effect to that direction

Hilarious thread, a player coming to complain about a warrior who uses a pretty common build by now. It is especially funny because the OP gives completely wrong weapons for what he is describing the warrior of doing

If you favor spvp and WvWvW go warrior for challenge/fun.

If you want a class that will always be reliable and viable go guardian.

warrior is more mobile and wether you win or loose depends on your ability to time your telegraphed animations right and know when to do your burst.
Guardian is mostly about knowing how to keep yourself alive and buff yourself and your allies.

Anyone who says go warrior for low skillcap in pvp really does not get warrior ; p

I would like to see dueling too, it also is a support to RP (since some like to duel to settle differences) and it is something fun to do from time to time.

There should be an option to turn off challenges though, for those who do not like it

No.

Just no.
NO.

I am using mace/sword and greatsword atm, it works well so far. On mace/sword i have two low cooldown blocks that work as a life saver and dps tool at the same time (deflect!!)

I have fought 5 people at once and still managed to spot and dodge the most predictable ability in the game, killshot.

How does one get hit by killshot.
And a thief can do similar dmg with a backstab that you can spam while in stealth till it hits and has almost no animation

(well it will hit unless you block, then thieves cant land backstabs anymore <3)
And you are quite wrong, the only reason an ability should hit very hard is due to a long dodgeable/blockable animation. More classes need to be like this not less :P

Hope you dodge the most obvious ability in the game next time, especially since you can blind often and have alot of endurance as a class.

Actually southsun survival is the only minigame i have really enjoyed so far in gw2, every kitten game is an exciting

<3 southsun survival.

Btw the headshot ability is only ok if the person you are aiming for does not look, otherwise you can dodge it easy. A red arrow flying at you is pretty easy dodge :P

New video released, it has a mix of me just starting to play the build and some footage of me after i got used to it. There are 2 parts to the video as i noticed shorter videos are watched by alot more people, and i can understand that. Sitting 30minutes in a row watching a video is a long time ^^ Anyway, here it is.
Part1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IferbUPtXc
Part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-d5wNL76Rg

Look at the description for more info!

Oh and that Mesmer won most duels, we had a few more than shown.

Fenrir.5493:

Gathslan.1870:

Fenrir.5493:

stefanplc.5234:

I’ve been doing sPvP every day so far, mostly on 1v1 servers but some hot joins too and every warrior is using some variation of this build even though initially some people didn’t really “appreciate it” to say so. It’s not quite at the level of engineers/necros/mesmers who in my opinion are at the top of the food chain but you have a pretty decent fighting chance. The more you practice though, the better it gets.

Its not like you discovered anything a lot of people know how 50% crit chance on stun worked, it is nothing new in this patch either, this trait was long ago here.

Lol? You could say that about any build then, oh hai look he is using a trait people know off, it is nothing new! Pretty hilarious :P

While im sure there are a few warrs who were using a build like this before patch, Matale is the first one to bring a spec to light that lets you do full 100blades on an opponent with little no risk or sacrifice :P

You are in love with him or something?

Yeah i am, he is handsome as hell!

That.. or i just have a low tolerance for bullkitten :P

Fenrir.5493:

stefanplc.5234:

I’ve been doing sPvP every day so far, mostly on 1v1 servers but some hot joins too and every warrior is using some variation of this build even though initially some people didn’t really “appreciate it” to say so. It’s not quite at the level of engineers/necros/mesmers who in my opinion are at the top of the food chain but you have a pretty decent fighting chance. The more you practice though, the better it gets.

Its not like you discovered anything a lot of people know how 50% crit chance on stun worked, it is nothing new in this patch either, this trait was long ago here.

Lol? You could say that about any build then, oh hai look he is using a trait people know off, it is nothing new! Pretty hilarious :P

While im sure there are a few warrs who were using a build like this before patch, Matale is the first one to bring a spec to light that lets you do full 100blades on an opponent with little no risk or sacrifice :P

Sounds like the spec Matale put up on the forums(and videos to go with it)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/2-Videos-Matale-8-WvWvW-1vX-and-Duels/first#post2336806

And yeah i played it myself and it is insanely good (for wvw anyway :P havent tried in spvp yet)

I played a bit with your spec now, and it is amazing 0.o havent been able to solo 3players before with little problems and lots of hp left to go around (ofc they werent that good : P)

But yeah… you came up with a very good spec

Watched both of your videos and loved them! Keep making more

Ive started using the tricks too after seeing Defektives thread about it a while ago too, so youve got my thanks aswell. Does add quite a bit more depth to the class ^^

redslion.9675:

Gathslan.1870:

redslion.9675:

Gathslan.1870:

Gatsu.8430:

I agree with you.
Adrenal Health should not be based on Adrenaline, atleast. Just change its name.

Go home Guts, you are drunk(spelling your own name wrong!!)

On another note, hows Griffith?!

And yes the Warrior traits are weirdly thought out, now its more of a tradeoff than was before ^^

Miura is so slow and lazy now no surprise the main character might have forgot his own name… XD

Slow yes, lazy i doubt it :P His artwork goes far beyond any other comic i have seen so i can understand all the breaks. Doing artwork like that for a comic can be nothing but exhausting

Well, he now takes 7 month pauses every 3 chapters… and thelast chapter weren’t even that great, story wise…

I disagree with my whole heart and soul :P

But lets not talk about Berserk here, i mean it is the warrior forum after all : p

redslion.9675:

Gathslan.1870:

Gatsu.8430:

I agree with you.
Adrenal Health should not be based on Adrenaline, atleast. Just change its name.

Go home Guts, you are drunk(spelling your own name wrong!!)

On another note, hows Griffith?!

And yes the Warrior traits are weirdly thought out, now its more of a tradeoff than was before ^^

Miura is so slow and lazy now no surprise the main character might have forgot his own name… XD

Slow yes, lazy i doubt it :P His artwork goes far beyond any other comic i have seen so i can understand all the breaks. Doing artwork like that for a comic can be nothing but exhausting

Gatsu.8430:

I agree with you.
Adrenal Health should not be based on Adrenaline, atleast. Just change its name.

Go home Guts, you are drunk(spelling your own name wrong!!)

On another note, hows Griffith?!

And yes the Warrior traits are weirdly thought out, now its more of a tradeoff than was before ^^

Staggering blow is bugged now, you get rooted in place after animation for no reason whatsoever (you walk for a split second, then freeze for a second after) meaning any followup attacks after staggering blow will miss (i found if you press forward at right time the bug wont happen, but have fun doing that)

Yes they did, at least if the patchnotes are true.

They even said on a prodcast that they take notes of suggestions made by players on forums and talk them over during their meetings.. : P

But i have mixed feelings about the changes, ill only know for sure once they are live and i get to test 0.o Im sad ill have to drop leg specialist though

Yeah my character/class reflects my passions but not me directly i think, you can see what i base my character on in the video in my description, just look at the picture that covers the chatbox.(its made by me)

Close and personal type of characters, barbarians with little to go on manner but not stupid :P I would prefer a quick melee heavy hitter that is barbaric, but there is no such class in Gw2, warrior is the best choice after that.

Much rather have high quality cutscenes like this than drop them just so we could see our characters….

Storytelling>characters

Especially when the characters have all the same personality and same dialog and there are thousands of them trying to lie to themselfs each of them are the hero of the story.

Being the hero of a story does not work in MMOs :P

EmmoGee.1809:

Perhaps it’s just because the novelty has worn off. We’ve explored all there is to explore and now the game become people wanting their tier 6 mats and all that crap. Actually, thinking about it, legendaries are basically a major cause of our issues. They cause people to farm and that’s it. I had a friend who played every day for months since release and when he finally made his legendary, after months and months of grinding, he rarely plays anymore. But this is the real question – would people still be playing if items that take a long time to get (such as legendaries) weren’t in the game?

No they would not play, many people who are just in the mindset of old MMOs will find the biggest grind there is in a game, and do it, once that objective is done they will quit. It is pointless and stupid yet people do it in every MMO all the kitten time.

Also really, i still play and the game is still magical to me, but this is mostly due to me always playing with a friend. Playing with people who are not even remotelly like minded as you will ofcourse get you to do things you do not want.. and hence make a painfull experience.

The magic in the game is still here, it just wont be there unless you play for the fun of it.

Makes perfect sense to me, your warrior needed more speed to to do the attack, so he had a little run back and forth to increase impact damage!!!!!!!

WORKING AS INTENDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah it is useless unless you trait it, you can see how nicelly it works when traited in my signature.
Our KB only hits one.. and our 3rd is suicide unless you trait it <.< But when traited it does become very good.

Nice start so far, i am having fun. I will share a deep confession of mine. I had a major facepalm when i noticed i still had a rare hammer equipped instead of my exotic one due to testing different skins last night…

Am i the only this has happened to?!

Today i had a moment where for the first time i actually got annoyed by a thief (usually i just mow them down, trouble starts at blind spamming)

There was this thief who did nothing but heartseeker through blind field to gain infinite stealth and was following me around like this while i was roaming, and whenever i found another enemy player to attack this thief would pop out of stealth finally and make a 2v1.

This is the first time i used a stealth trap.

the uprising.6317:

Honestly I think everyone would rather have WoW quests over how GW2 does it, there is barely any lore attached to hearts and dynamic events, stuff just… happens.

Yeah…. no, dynamic events>boring quests anyday anytime.

1ticket from my first crate.

Peetee.9406:

Tired of hearing these casual vs hardcore debates.

Casuals make up a majority of the player base, buy the fluff on the gem store, and pay for the bulk of new updates.

Hardcores push the content, force developers to make and develope new content, and are more proactive in identifying game issues.

A successful game needs both sets of players.

+100000000000000000000000

Updating mine, i was finally able to get all the pieces i wanted!

Culture norn t3 helmet, Orr chest/gloves/shoulders. Pit fighter pants, t1 culture norn boots.

I was able to finally get the look i wanted for my warrior!

WvWvW/Spvp /do dungeons and kit your character to the point he looks exactly as you want him/her to look.

fab.3298:

Be afraid Piken. The Asura have landed!

That is just horrifying….. i surrender.

terraxilia.8369:

Gathslan.1870:

holy kitten when did that happen!?! I suppose it explains why we cant catch up in points despite having more land than riverside during the hours when the sun is shining

today morning 9:07 am

Yeah i figured from the time on minimap 5seconds after i asked the question. ^^

PIKEYS LISTEN UP! FORGET WORK, FORGET ANY TYPE OF RL, WE MUST PLAY 24/7 FOR A FEW DAYS!!!!

I’m not joking.

ThomasKreshant.6572:

Have to say out of the two servers we’re facing.

I like Riverside better, much better attitude to the game.

I agree to a certain extent, i am from Piken but dont like to see the constant complaining from us, even if we think we play better or more honorably than our opponents whining about it defeats the purpose.

terraxilia.8369:

1 picture says more than 1000 words
Here u get ur rating pikens 0 points out of riverside

holy kitten when did that happen!?! I suppose it explains why we cant catch up in points despite having more land than riverside during the hours when the sun is shining

Xsorus.2507:

skinnyb.5920:

What needs to be changed with the Downed System is the fact that one person on your team dying has no cap on the amount of people they can rally on the opposite team. It’s very frustrating to have all of your efforts negated by one person dying.

how about that random animal that died that resses the guy you were about to down….that’s lovely.

Yeah, when there are animals around the group that gets downed first actually gets the upper hand, because they are the ones who will get ressed by the animals, the group that doesnt go down first wont have that luxury :P

AydenStar.4216:

WvW is about the blob and players of all skill level. WvW is not balanced around 1 vs the world but a team effort. I am sorry you can’t finish off players fast enough but to removing a core mechanic for group play so the lone ranger in gimmie specs can roam around WvW all day. LOL!

It is not only a problem for solo roamers. It is also a HUGE problem for 10 people fighting 20, and so forth. Any type of outnumbered favors the zerg, therefore it is BAD and needs to be changed or removed. And the only reason to disagree with this is not because you are a team oriented player or any bull excuse like that, but because you are afraid better players might just beat your mindless zerg.

XII.9401:

Its a broken carry me class -worst most OP stealth class in the history of mmorpgs- so if you don’t win after trying, remember that Elder scrolls online is coming out and hopefully they won’t kitten up as much as the class devs here.

As you can see -like all the other game classes excluding the rest of the holy trinity (thief/mesmer/guardian)- The other classes have to work a lot around it and even spec certain builds traits for a thief. This is usually a red flag for a dev with normal cognitive functions that the class is broken. Sadly, not in this game.

The complaints are enormous about the thieves but they are either leaving it because : A. They don’t know how to fix it -I’m assuming this given the way they handled the orb hack- or B. They are too busy with PVE content. Either way, ESO is coming soon.

Make sure you are vocal about the class in the forums as when the sales/customer base plummets even more, they will be forced to address the issues the customers were most vocal about on the forums so make sure you keep thief nerf threads updated.

Good advice but i’m already calling it. ESO online is going to suck :P
even with its flaws i dont see why anyone is looking for new MMOs after Gw2

Gw2 is just so many thousands steps infront of anything that has come out and will come out for a long time… Eso online lol :P

You sure they came out of nowhere or was it just severe culling due to how many it was?

Also its easy to get through them, at least i had no issue doing so.. but maybe some classes do better at that than others.

rivurivurivurivu.3041:

you sir just made me dl gw2 again.
and try this build with my main
nice vid
for some weird reason i cant see your gear on the link.
do you run with soldier, knight maybe one of those with a bit of zerker ?

I run a mix of Zerker and knight armor And im happy my video had such a good effect on someone, welcome back and i hope you never want to uninstall again

Stelli.3607:

If you want to know, I have a human warrior sitting at level 80, fully geared up and at fractal level 20+ and already bought alot of laurel stuff for him and still started a new charr warrior…and for me…it was totally worth it

Now this is what i call following your heart!

doc phil.8015:

Very nice Videos and quite funny as well. I always wanted to try GS/Hammer, but I’ll have to figure out a way to get perma swiftness without losing too much damage, because I really can’t go without it anymore
And thank you for uploading the other links since here in germany we quite often get problems with you tube videos these days.

Yeah i’m aware of that, my best friend is german so i know when you guys cant watch a video of mine and find a way around it And perma swiftness sounds sweet, if you do find a way to get it without sacrificing too much let me know!

Cygnus.6903:

Thanks for the quick answer!

I guess I’ll try out perception on my bagged weapon. If anything, bloodlust is way more expensive, so it’s a financially beneficial choice as well. I don’t think I would want a stat-stacking sigil on my main weapons, as I get downed a little too often to abuse it like you can on other classes (mainly stealthy ones who can just bail).

By the way, I did adjust your build a bit, mainly by taking the signet recharge reduction in disc and switching out FGJ for Bull’s Rush. I find it so incredibly useful for getting to fleeing enemies (rush+BR is 2100 range, pretty much catching anything trying to run). But maybe even more to get out of really dodgy situations where you have more then one pursuer. With SoR on 48 sec cooldown I get fury for 33 seconds every ~50 seconds (can’t always pop it straight away), so that’s still 2/3rd of the time. I do miss out on Sweet Revenge, so who knows, might change it up again.

Thanks again, and maybe see you online then Pikey!

Alright, goodluck with your spec and tell me how it works out

SmoothHussler.6387:

Awesome video. I was watching and then all of a sudden BAM! Its raining bulls wtf lol

It is THE most brutal way a person can die in Tyria

Cygnus.6903:

That’s the thing. I find running with my warrior the most fun of all, even though I’m at best averagely skilled.

I was thinking about switching my gear to more zerker. It seems when I’m solo I can’t always hit my target enough to down them, while I can stay alive long. I would be aiming for ~2800 toughness but something like 85% crit damage and 30+ base crit chance. What are your thoughts on this and how do your stats compare?

Also, for the sigils I was thinking hydromancy on the GS (which is what I have now, and helps with kiting which is important on my server with all the RS blobs).

On the Hammer I thought about Impact, cause it can give me that extra bite when I get the shaker/breaker combo off. Do you think this would be worth it over Fire?

Perception does seem like a good sigil to get for my bagged horn or something to use when taking a camp, as my crit chance will be lower. But I’m not sure if bloodlust will do more for my damage regardless…

Wow, sorry for the wall of text..

I use perception because my crit chance is quite low(if you got high crit chance without perception you ofc dont need it), that together with my trait for higher crit chance while i got adrenaline and frequent fury i can crit often(not as good as full crit build ofc tho) my toughtness is a bit over 3k and my crit dmg is a bit over 70% (im not at home so cant check exact numbers)

You are going for more damage than me, this will work better than my spec for solo roaming. The reason i built a bit more tanky is just because i play with a stealthy thief so i need to survive longer out in the open.

Honestly i cant give you an answer about sigil of impact, i have never tried it, but it sounds like (on paper) it should be better 1v1 but worse for group combat as fire is aoe.

Hope that helped
And btw i am on Piken too!

Cygnus.6903:

Really nice footage, and skill. You actually got me to pimp my warrior into using him in WvW again.

Edit; what sigils do you use?

Sigil of perception and fire.

And thanks Warrior is fun in WvWvW, nothing quite as fun as getting away with kills on a class that cant stealth ;P

I renamed the thread so i can just post all my videos here(the ones i have already made and will make) instead of just spamming the warrior forums with a new thread everytime i make a new video.

1st vid i have ever made. This is more funny than anything else, and now watching this after a long time i notice the person is a commander, a very charming and respectful one at that!

And 2nd one most of you have already seen but putting it here anyway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juTKmgDPV_g

I would say go for a Char, humans in this game look like they will cry if they clip a nail. Charr/Norn are the only warriors who are actually warrior like.

But you made a thread about this before, people gave you your answer but you didnt accept it and now created another one. Even if people tell you what to pick and why you wont do it.

Take a step back, search your own feelings, stop being so indecisive and pick one.

Furajir.3815:

I lost it at the cow finisher, absolutely hilarious.

How do you feel you do w/o unsuspecting foe? I’m a similair build but I’m 10/10/30/10/10, I wanted to drop the 10 in arms and unsuspecting foe and put 20 in disc.

And I’m also sw/sh and hammer

But been trying 15/0/30/10/15 as of late, i like the more adren on wep swaps and the faster swapping.

Haha yeah the cows are pretty epic, gold well spent I dont like arms tree much, but my dps does suffer, altho i crit quite reliably when i got fury running. Which i get from the shout and our elite ofc. I need to still get used to timing the shout right, sometimes i forget all about it and sometimes i waste it, no muscle memory for it yet.

Dand.8231:

Props on the video Gath. Can you post your build? Sort of curious what you run. What gear do you roll too?

My build is in the video description

Bartlewe.6432:

Well done! Why do u prefer 4 divinity instead of full melandru?

My spec severely lacks precision due to no points in arms tree, so i need alot of it from gear : p

But that being said i doubt my spec is the most epic spec out there, its just what has felt right to me and worked for me so far

Callahan.3180:

I wanna duel you

I dont really do duels : p all the 1v1 in the vid are just random encounters.

Warrior roaming vid, it has quite a few fights of this new matchup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grbr4_DHS74

And for ze germans who wont be able to watch that.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x10hncl_warrior-wvwvw-roaming_videogames#.Uau8kUD0G6Q
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x10hpjf_warrior-wvwvw-part-2_videogames#.Uau8kkD0G6Q

Had to split it into two parts, and comment on youtube vid not on the other if you do : P
Oh and 2nd part on dailymotion isnt full quality rendered just yet.

Enjoy!

Edit: And thanks for all the great fights!