Guild Wars 2

Double sigil of energy is a total must in my opinion.
for the others take fire/lightning. I most likeley take fire for the aoe.

For the runes I like to run with runes of the traveler. Most shatter mesmers use runes of strenght. But kitten that 25% extra movement speed is so usefull, you can use your portal and blinks for movement, but I don’t like to blow those cooldowns. I feel like my damage output is still enough with the traveler runes imo

about the positioning and such, it takes practice, de staff is very defensive as the greatsword is rather high dps if you tempt to use the blink shatter combo (instead of your blurred frenzy) it hits like a truck and it’s very effective The staff also gives you some condipressure and the greatsword gets you an interrupt and even a cripple in case your target tries to run away. I’d say don’t give up the practice on the double range, it’s much fun

When running hambow I like to switch out to the berserkers (altho I don’t run it very often). I like the evis build way more, as you may have noticed. I think hambows are doing fine atm, but the glory and fame was way higher before the patch. The lack of damage using a soldiers amulet is incredible in my opinion, as there are too many specs around which will rip off your might stacks. Try it on berserkers, I’m sure you’re going to like it (don’t mind your survivability, as your stances cover you quite much)

and Kite. Kiting does the job as you’re running zerkers and you feel like you’re getting in trouble, kite like you’ve never kited before ^.^

Those are just my 50 cents tho

I wouldn’t drop staff nor greatsword as a shatter mesmer tbh, it’s just the most effective…

Ovid! No, I’ll keep on playing mesmer just to annoy the kitten out of you

Yeah.. The mantra of distraction might give me a chance, altho they got tons of stun breakers aswell. Well not tons, but enough to break through the mantra :/

So I play shatter mesmer during tpvp’s quite a lot.
Alltho I feel I have to back of to warrior way too much.
I’ve been having a lot of troubles with sword/dagger thiefs,
if not thiefs in general. but let’s say sword/dagger thiefs in particular.

It’s a pain in the kitten when you see that all the shatters get avoided by dodges, if not by dodges, they’ll just run from them (as they have like almost perma swiftness with dodges) and then jump back on you.

I feel like if I meet up an experienced sword/dagger thief, there’s not much I can do.
I’m wondering if you guys feel the same pain as I do. Or got anything to counter it. Keep in mind that I’m a shatter mesmer, running tournaments, so I find switching out utility skills quite useless as I want to be usefull for the team.

Suggestions, tricks and hints are welcome

And you might take want to take a look at this forum:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Need-help-with-warrior-build-spvp/first#post4111985

Just saying… That some people don’t instantly get the hang of warriors, even Hambow

Cygnus.6903:

derbaer.1284:

Im a newbie hambow, too (main mesmer) and funny enough, didnt ask about the rotation.
What I do mostly is: bow F1 – bow 5 – swap – hammer F1 – hammer 5 – hammer 2 – hammer 4 – hammer AA

as a burst sequence. Anything that could bedone better here?

Try to end with hammer F1, you will have more adrenaline and thus more stun duration for more merciless hammer abuse.

Wrong wrong wrong

bow 3 should ALWAYS follow after bow F1 (bow 5 in between those is possible too)
and after that swap and instantly Hammer F1. This will give you 2 blast finishers into a firefield which means → 6 might stacks. Have fun

fumcheg.1936:

check video in my signature and say that warrior is not OP.

First thing I checked out was the build, try it against a high condi class,
condi necro or venom thief perhaps.

And you somehow need to get the hang of the rotation on a hambow,

which makes you able to ‘stun and kill’.

basically, it needs some practice.
And I’m glad to say that

Ovid.7135:

Vindex, shut up. I’ll fight you.

I giggled ^.^

And if it’s that OP whatsoever, then just play it.

If you’re looking to be able to beat everyone because you’re ‘Oh so OP’on that class,
just play it. Be the hero.

Looking at the info coming through right here makes me giggle a bit.
Comes down that the warrior is ‘superb’. According to you it has everything you need and even more than other classes. It’s tanky, high dps, much condi cleanses.. Blabla.

I’d say go for it. And no no, don’t fight against new guys in Spvp or hotjoin.
Try the reall kitten. Try to fight an experienced thief/mesmer. And with experienced I don’t look at the total matches played and such. I’m just interested in pure skill. Please try it and let me know how it went.

Again it dissapoints me calling warrior the easy class. I’d rather say it’s easy to get the hang of it. True. But it’s definatly not easy to be thruly skilled with it.

vincecontix.1264:

bigmonto.4215:

Yes we all know warrior has low skill floor. But at mid to high level play warrior is not over powered, it is on par or maybe under powered. So the question is should ANet balance the game base on low level plays now?

Mid to high level war is still very strong. Other classes can almost be just as effective but some require much more effort and have less room for error. No the game should not be balanced around low level players this is something the community needs to understand.
So is warrior op? not really, its just annoying that a bad player can still perform decently on a warrior though that issue is not exclusive to warriors.

Exactly. And it’s a shame for warriors who actually do train and play nothing else, because all you’ll hear is whining that it’s an easy class to play. And to be honest, no it’s not the hardest class to play. But if you end up against good players, you’ll see what you’re lacking. Skill. And it’s kittening me a lot that we’re considered the ‘stupid OP warriors that are so easy to play’

Untill you invite them into a duel and tell them to play the same build.
The whining started with hambows and now that we’re switching to alternative builds, they’ll start crying about just anything that looks slightly ‘too OP’ in their opinion.

There you got my frustrations. Peace out.

Too bad you guys are North-American,
otherwise I’d be totally up for it.

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

I’m an axe warrior and only reason I use eviscerate is because its a 3-condition removal every 8 seconds since I’m quite tanky, the 2-3k dmg I do with it is just a bonus

Wondering what build you run then…

Even with a soldiers amulet and 0-0-6-2-6 trait set up (which is quite tanky in my opinion) you’re able to blow of a crit up to 6-7k using the sigil of intelligence..

It was definatly a unicorn…

OMG! REALLY? SEND ME AN INVITE PLX?!?!?!?

It’s a bit of an odd question tho :p

just someone who has no clue about warrior.. Or lets say pvp

So far I’ve noticed quite much of them are running with soldiers amulet,
altho I’m afraid of the damage output, even with the sigil of intelligence when you don’t manage to land eviscerate for example, you’re totally screwed, isn’kitten

That’s exactly the kind of advice I’m looking for, thanks!

It made me wondering what build you are running with Pupi, could you post it down?

For some reason the sigils on the lb didn’t show (I took energy / battle)

Hello there I’ve seen quite a lot people running with axe/shield and longbow lateley,
now it seemed to be a even more than interesting build to me, so I tried to make one myself, as I couldn’t find one in here.

Any suggestions, improvements, or just out of the box, totally different builds (except for the weapons) are welcome

The build I use:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQNAT3ejMd0FaVImhwJagqgAdVQj6/+8UlA-TJxHwADOCAa2fAwBBQZZAA

Yeah I just compared with Carpboy’s build and found out that the quicker weapon swapping is just way more usefull (altho the immob. was quite nice aswell) but I think you miss out some kiting options, with such a long recharge on your weapon thingy, so you wont be quick enough to switch from bursting to kiting

Altho I’m a bit afraid of the damage output after doing some more matches,
as a condi warrior I hoped to be a bit more damaging, less bunkering, any hints/tips?

I tried it out Galsia…

It’s freaking awesome
(so far did it holding close tho, so I’m really curious how it’s doing in a teamfight)

so,

I found myself quite bored using the hambow build and found condi warrior quite interesting. I just made up a quick build, altho it could use some additions I think.
Any usefull advices I’d gladly take

So here’s the build I’m currently running with:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQNAscTjMdU4ZVIOewJigkABZrMnDUIhqtpmB-TpBHwAHOBAEOCAAeAAJLDE4QAIa/BA

Can I ask you which of the 3 builds posted do you prefer?

I’m toatlly in love with this build, altho I found myself more comfortable with shortbow / Sword/warhorn which works out fine as well, it made me less focussing on chills and getting the raven (for blinds) and the jungle stalker (for the might stacking)

Really enjoying this

@HeadCrowned About well of darkness/power I switch out suffering for power sometimes. I like to switch them viewing the other team, if there aren’t ‘big condi classes’ I like to take suffering, if they do have a lot of conditions I’d rather use power. Also I do use darkness for the safe stomp. For the staff I like the condi cleansing/transfering and the big wells also I just never use the fear togheter with the wells, because that would be dumb, just use it if they for some reason, be able to get a few caps on the point. I feel like it’s a bit too difficult to always meet up that close range on the daggers, but I think the staff/double dagger doesn’t make such a big diffrence. And about the blood magic trait, that’s a good point actually, definalty right there

@Alamore, I’m looking forward to have a look on your build

@Emapudapus, you lose a lot of toughness and protection duration using the traveler runes, I also use the warhorn 5 for lf generation , but the couldown on it is short enough to roam between points in my opinion

You just copied down the build I posted I suppose?

I think the focus on protection and toughness is a better bonus then the 25% movement speed on travelers, you don’t need it, since you’re supposed to sit on close and if you do have to move, you’ll have your warhorn 5

I also considered well of blood as a healing skill, but I think consume conditions is just way more powerfull, considering the conditions it removes and a lot of builds are based on condi’s since the new patch.

So I was a bit bored with the minion master bunkering close and found my minions getting bugged quite often when harrasing or supporting somewhere else.

I tried to set up the good old wellmancer build.
It seems to be quite decent, altho there must be some tweaking done.

Any suggestions I’d gladly take

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNBmODbkjmWarpxoG+bTMMUSvCZQ5OdOEE/QUBAA-TZBEwAr2fgxRAQbZAAPAgHXEAA

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/lfteam/EU-ReVo-PvP-guild-recruiting

You might want to check this out
Altho we’re a mixed European (even some Americans)
we got a bunch of Belgians and dutch people over here, including me

Mijo.3274:

Hi guys, i’m actually running this build
It hit pretty hard but is not as extreme as your Diva, that’s why i want to ask you:
With that kind of build what do you do when you see that the enemy team have 1+ thief? Honestly, a SP zerk thief or a backstab one will make your full match almost unplayable if he is half good (depends on the map of course, forest is the best map for zerk staff).
Another question: why do u interrupt your meteor shower at half the cast? i always knew that if you interrupt it the number of meteors will decrease, isn’t that correct?

To be honest, I tested both builds out and I prefer yours.
I only switched out the cleansing fire for lightning flash and the healing skill for ether renewal.

As the topic title says,

I’m looking for a decent close point holding build on a ranger.
I know that spirit ranger was the kitten before, but I somehow hate the lack of mobility.

I’m not sure what rangers are running atm to bunker up the close point, but I just like to be able (if it is needed) to jump in on mid to help a bit out, but getting back to your close point before the enemy player does.

Any suggestions?

This is ridiculous..

and not a single move was made by Anet so far.. Thank you

No. It’s not.

My swag is making the pain a bit less worse, but…

GET US OUT NOW

taking a powernap togheter, it’s good for your skin

And it seems like it’s not the only word you can’t spell…

Maybe they want us to switch to WoW..
Because we’re too fabulous for Gw2

My swag is slowly dieing..

Help this tiger getting out of his cage :/

Swagging..

WE’RE DOOMED

Still having fun tho…

BurrTheKing.8571:

I would ditch the offhand axe, even with the Whirling Axe’s damage being higher in PvP its DPS is still lower than just auto attacking. With a shield or sword you have some defense and a way to set up combos.

I agree with the use of Mighty Defense, it’s strong with runes of Strength because each attack is some 11 seconds of might and vs a Thief or other fast attacking foes you’ll find yourself grinning and going “my turn.” I actually prefer LB with axe but depending on your team the GS is good for roaming and has good combo capabilities.

This is what I would run

I’m still wrestling between Great Fortitude and Short Temper. Unlike LB, GS w/o the trait doesn’t give any Might. That being said ST is more situational because some builds have no blocks at all. It can be great vs Guardians or other Warriors because you can just AA away and get free might and adrenaline.

A good combo is swap to axe while under pressure -> Shield Block -> Shield Bash -> Eviscerate -> Swap to GS -> Whirlwind -> Bull’s Charge -> 100b. Hit that and most targets are dead.

If your team has a Ele or Thief I would suggest leaving roaming to them and run something like this that gives you tons more sustain while still having good damage.

I made a few changes in the traits and found this build working out very well, it takes a while to get used to the rotations and adept to certain situations, but I like it, thank you

Elegie what kind of build are you running right now? If I may ask

Or at least something with axe/shield…

At least I’m trying to find some variants on the hambow build or condi builds

Hello,

I’ve been sorting out much on the warrior last days and as doing hambow I wanted something more challenging, something more out of the box.

I know in the past there have been some quite nice axe/shield + gs builds.

Now well, I’m looking for those.

1.Is it viable to run with a Gs + Axe/Shield?
2. Are there any warrior masterminds running around with some sort of build with at least the greatsword?

I never really used/mentioned axe but anyways,
the settlers is a good option indeed, altho I feel like lacking damage at that point.

A good close point holder for me is one that can actually kill people and keep it a kittenallenging while still having enough survivability.

For the missing spirit, the storm spirit’s role isn’t that great, I’m sure that that one can be taken out

Just my opinion tho.

Hello there,

I’m wondering what the chances for a spirit ranger are atm for bunking the close point.
I know that before the patch it was quite awesome because of the double even triple(if you were lucky) resurection. And altho you were quite bunky, the chances of killing someone were quite big because of all the conditions stacking.

I used to run it with runes of the forge and carrions amulet, short bow and sword/dagger.
as utility’s the healing spring, stone, sun and elite spirit and then the signet of the hunt to get some mobility as you could move between the mid and close point.

So what are the chances right now for it?
If there are any better suggestions to bunker up the close point, let me know

Just keep in mind that mobility is something very important to me, because I don’t like to sit on the close point during the whole match as you would become useless if they just ignore it.

Regards,

Vindex