Guild Wars 2

Mesket.5728:

colesy.8490:

Stacking might and fury, chaining blocks, putting up reflects and positioning mobs is team work. J

If you truly need to do all that to complete a dungeon in this game you are worst than I thought.

I really want to see someone doing frac 50 without any team support, no boons etc.
No FGJ, protection, vulnerability, weakness, heals, aegis, reflects, blinds. etc.
It is clearly much harder that way and most people in this game wouldn’t be able to complete it.

Of course you’re batman just like everyone on gaming forums, and you could autoattack your way through frac 50 with white gear, solo, while watching anime on your second screen.
I don’t dispute that man, I’m totally convinced about that.

But, beside unkillable forum gods like Your majesty, we have the majority playing GW2 composed of normal, mortal peasants who would fail in those conditions.

Ascended Armor should be 3 Corrupted Obsidian Shards and 3 Globs of Ethereal Ectoplasm per piece.

And guess where you’d get those

Dear OP,

1) Legendary weapons aren’t necessary for anything.

2) If you have Laurels to buy trinkets but don’t want to buy them it’s not Anet’s fault.
Zerk stats will never get old, just buy zerk trinkets for your main char.

3) Ascended weapons will get to you naturally if you simply play the game.
Fractals reward them, world bosses reward them, champions reward them.
If you don’t do any of the above I wonder what you’re doing in GW2 at all.

4) That’s simply ignorant to say, since we don’t even know what will be needed for Ascended armor.

5) GW2 fortunately is a game where items indeed make you a tad stronger, but nowhere near dictate the outcome of pvp nor are required for content (beside AR trinkets for high-end fractals).
I wvw with exotics on 4 classes and I never felt weaker than anyone.

Finally, you’re not required to “do chores” at all to get geared.
You play the game normally and get rewarded with endgame gear.
You only do chores if you want to.

There was never a “you get everything handed to you without doing absolutely anything at all” sign on the game’s box.
GW2 allows you to either get stuff naturally by playing or to grind for it; either way you still get the best items.

My bet is he had 25 stacks of bloodlust, Assassin’s Signet+SoS traited (10 might), on top of the boni the others posted.
Much like we can Evis for 15-20k under particular circumstances.

I know, those “hey who stole my entire healthbar?” moments aren’t great but that’s WvW for you.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

You should learn how to play a warrior so that you don’t die. He asked what was the best, not what was the easiest. In addition, learning how to play a condition spec isn’t going to benefit you at all. Learning how to play a power warrior will translate into team play/high-end play if you wish to do that later on.

Also that build is really bad, but I guess I’m not surprised.

That’s not the point.
OP asked for the “best solo class” not “what deals the most DPS before dying while in a team”.
Warrior can’t solo some content such as some champs or events with tons of vets/champs, sone dungeons, etc… unicorn Thief can solo anything.

Also, note that opinions lose credibility if you post them in an uneducated manner, and insulting or insinuating one has less skill than you (unlikely, mained a warrior for 3000 hours), just buries your crediblity even further.
I suggest avoiding that kinda stuff in future.

More reliable version would be 30/30/0/10/0:
+5% (sigil of force)
+5% (Rune of Strength)
+15% (zerk power)
+20% (when your hp <50%)
+10% (vs bleeders)
+3% (endurance not full)

+58% with the only real requisite being that you sit below 50% hp.
Eviscerate would hit like 20k dmg.

The OP has a point since EP tooltip used to say “you become invulnerable for 4 seconds” but it was never true.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

You do no damage, while taking no damage. Seems pro. Compare any solo warrior kill(s) to solo thief kill(s).

Shoulda learn what you’re talking about before talking.

A Thief on unicorn build like this applies 20-25 bleeds permanently on an area and reapplies it constantly so removing it is useless, plus poison and torment.
It deals great damage and never dies.
A warrior might kill faster, but it can die. A dead warrior deals 0 DPS.

Thief with unicorn build is probably the most die-hard class in the game.
You can tank any amount of mobs because you’re virtually evading all the time, and should you deplete initiative you can just stealth off.

Love how people think Guard/War are the best defensive classes.
Never getting hit is better than getting hit for less / healing.

I love my Warrior, Thief and, to an extent, Guardian (I still feel Guardian needs work to become a finalized class).
That’s mostly because I play only melee, heavy armor or assassin classes tho.
I don’t like offensive magic, archery or machinery so it’s natural for me not to like Necro/Ele/Mes/Ranger/Engi.

Problem is a healing power Warrior deals no damage while other classes can offer similar support while still being more than a healbot.
Vigorous Shouts should at least give Vigor (duh) for a few seconds, now that would be a ton more useful.
1 additional dodge “heals” more than a few green numbers.

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

You’re definitely the first person to think of this build shell.

runeblade.7514:

Wow, This build is so original,. even though I seen hundred of these with the same exact trait and weaponset a hundred times before.

OP definitely deserve ownership of the cloned original build.

I’m not sure why there must be always some people coming off like this.
“You didn’t create this first waa waa waa”, so freaking what?
We posted most builds for Warriors the first day of BWE1, so technically nothing after that day is original.
Get over yourself.

@OP why no Blademaster? Rending Strikes seem lackluster since your direct damage is bad anyways; crits on the other hand trigger bleeds.

andomon.8314:

Last night I bounced around between warrior, and ranger for like 6 hours trying to decide which one to go with. I find the ranger more fun but the warrior more powerful any advice you guys can give?

Problem is Ranger becomes terribly boring in endgame while Warrior is the opposite, boring in leveling phase and fun in endgame.

Also, Anet hates Rangers since GW1.
They make them the weakest / least wanted class for some never-explained reasons.

- Important: Don’t release this until you allow players to accept/decline, no auto-join / auto-merge.
It’s very exploitable and grief-inciting, plus it leads to embarassing situations where you get classes you don’t need etc. Mandatory.

- Fractal levels need all level brackets.
20-39 = No. 20-29, 30-39 = Yes.
Dungeons need Exp/Story distinction.

colesy.8490:

“It’s only a video game” was never a valid excuse for anything

True.
See how mad people get over the dumbest sports or games.
Hell I’ve seen people getting into a fight for a ping-pong match.

On GW2 release some dungeons were harder than now.
People now cry for content being too easy but when it is hard they cry it’s too hard.

Eviscerate 1HKO builds are completely unreliable.

To get those crits:
- you must be <50% health, you can easily die in 2 hits
- you must have 25 bloodlust, you go down and back to kill 25 mobs
- you must have full adrenaline
- OMM must not be on CD nor removed
- target must not have protection / aegis
- target must be stunned before Evis

Even those times you can get that scenario, it will still fail to crit a lot of times.
You could use Unsuspecting Foe to fix that, but you’d lose 20% damage on Evis therefore no 1hko.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Given that warriors themselves are actually a relatively low-DPS class

What.

I’d go with this:

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/warrior/?8.0|1.1g.h1.0.0.0|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7|2s.0.2s.0.2t.0.1g.67.1g.67.2s.0|u39b.0.0.a2.u68c|2e.1|0.0.0.0.0|e

When you unload Evis your E.Power will be over 9000 and you’ll hit like a truck.
Also pretty much guaranteed crit on Evis (very important).

Dogged March/Cleansing Ire are good if you plan on your opponent lasting a lot (i.e. anti-bunker), but if you want to blow up people you don’t need them.
At most grab SoS instead of SoM. SoS does the same without wasting 20 traits and a ton of dmg.

1. Spear Thrust: Pierce your enemy with your spear and cause Vulnerability.

2. Spear Frenzy: Attack the foes in front of you with a serie of strikes.

3. Phalanx Formation: You move 66% slower but gain protection.

Spear master race

Mace just needs the third autoattack faster. So does hammer.
Long melee casts aren’t very good on autoattack skills, maybe on cooldowns but not on something you use all the time.

Chuckdatass.6312:

You can check out Brazil’s DPS test he does vs giants. I have slightly different attack rotations but its more out of habit then knowing if its a min/max rotation. The main differences is I’m always applying blinds when I can with my rotations(except if it means breaking an auto attack chain).

forgot the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoXwp94Bltk

That vid gives a false sense of Guardian’s DPS because it uses Undead Slaying and Sigil of Night (+20% dmg).
Normally, your damage is 20% lower than that.

That being said tho, I recall coming here in February posting a Sword-based high DPS build with AH for dungeons, most praised it but a lot of people were still going on about GS here and GS there.
No. Sword master race. As boring as it is, as flawed as Guardian design is, Sword auto is the best DPS.

I seriously hope Anet is gonna do something about this at some point.
Guardian and Ranger are the only auto-attack classes left basically.
ANET shorten the cooldown of other skills and make ZD worth using.
Guardian is far from OP anyways, some buffs won’t make anyone cry.

I would actually argue s/x evasion builds are far more OP than stealth ones, but they are very underused as they require good skill and non-fat hands.

Initiative is actually like mana, a resource.
It’s good design but hard to balance, i.e. it’s very difficult to make it so no skill is best (or people spam just that), or that spamming one skill isn’t imbalanced, etc.
Cooldowns are easier to balance in comparison, but lead to spam-off-cooldown-skills behaviors (unless Warrior, since you can swap weps a lot).

And 100 blades is actually Omnislash.
GW2 Warrior just takes the most bada/ss Warriors from all the fantasy world and skullcracks them into one class.

FYI guys, there are healers in GW2 if you want, assuming you get 1500+ healing power.

Engineer bomb healing permaregen elixir turret.
Staff Ele Aura share cleansespam.
Mace Guardian with Virtue share/Bow/SoFaith/Protectionspam.
Even a healspec wellomancer can heal decently.

Tanking in the form of permanently luring all mobs on one guy is, however, pathetic design and gimmicky and needs to stay in the WoW tombstone.

Einlanzer.1627:

No offense, but you clearly don’t understand what I’m saying.

I love when someone disagrees with someone else and they start saying “you don’t understand”.
One can understand and disagree at the same time.
He just doesn’t like your Unload redesign proposal, nor do I.

Also, one fundamental concept.
Skills in GW2 are not designed to be an alternative to the main DPS skills, nor to be rotated.
They are meant to be situational; you use unload for DPS, headshot for Control, vital shot for Condition dmg, etc.

The only class that defies the concept is Elementalist who needs to rotate all their skills to deal decent DPS.
If you want to use all your skills a la WoW you can roll an Ele, so you can play piano with your numerical buttons and believe that makes you a pro, instead of having to use your skills intelligently.

sorrow.2364:

Yeah, I remember those times. But, apparently, you can’t remember what happened after those complains.

- Frenzy was nerfed, in fact quickness was nerfed and its effect halved.
- Backstab combo was heavily nerfed. CnD damage was reduced, Mug damage doesn’t crit anymore

Nice try twisting around facts.

Here are the real facts, for a change:
- Frenzy wasn’t “nerfed” due to Bull→Frenzy+HB. The nerf was made in February, 7 months after the whole complaint about it, and it was a nerf to quickness across the board unrelated to bull+frenzy+HB.
- Backstab wasn’t nerfed at all. You’re twisting around words. CnD and Mug were nerfed because combined with BS they could 1shot people, but that was unrelated to backstab itself but to the excessive damage of CnD and Mug.

Endure Pain is the best Warrior utility for both PvE and PvP, I never run without it.
Balanced stance is almost always on my bar in PvP too.

Zerk stance is good if you’re using adren but, in my opinion, unnecessary if used for anti-condition.
I’ve always said Warriors have enough condition removal before Zerk stance was changed, and I haven’t changed opinion.

You mean Strength?
That line gives you a 15% dmg bonus, a 3% one, a 10% one (GS), a 5% one (dual wield).
If GS you get +28% dmg, if dual wield you get +23%, else +15%.

It is intented that in order to get the most power or defense you must combine multiple lines; else people would just grab the damage line and the defense line together and get the best of both worlds.

“we needed 5 people to kill a warrior”

I can’t stop laughing
I can picture it “LF2M to kill a Warrior, need Guard and Ele”.
WvW scrubs give the best laffs.

They are not allowed =/= they don’t care.

They have a policy that there are no refunds of gems because a majority of refund requests were from people who “changed their minds”.

In my job there are a lot of things too I cannot do even though I could, because it would create a precedent and then people would abuse it.
“but you refunded gems to this guy so why not me?”

Some things are just everyone or nobody.

Reminds me when people cried about Bull→Frenzy→HB.
Backstab has been cried about for months and still untouched.
Anet said “we won’t nerf this, you will have to l2p”.
People l2p’d or quit. Complaints stopped.

This is the same story, there are hard counters to this build so you either l2p or quit.
It’s how GW2 works.
Else go back 2 blizzard where anything remotely brain-intensive to counter is nerfed to the ground.

sorrow.2364:

Yeah, L2P here and L2P there said by people who none knows. Anyone here feels entitled to say L2P, because people are convinced to be the best players around and other players should always learn to play if they bring up a possible balance issue regarding their beloved profession. It’s not that I’ve already rerolled warrior in PvP because it is insanely easy to play and OP and I’m sick and tired to met 4-5 warriors at least in every SoloQ match.

Now I’m only expecting to get insulted by private message ingame by some mature warrior-forum frequenter.

Profession subforums have always been biased and most of topics moved from sPvP to profession subforums have always ended up with everyone disagreeing with the OP, even when something really turned out to be really overpowered. ALWAYS.

I don’t want to waste my time trying to argue with some people that will always find an excuse to justify their new toy.

Moving on.

Maybe try actually informing yourself instead of going down the easy path to ask for nerf?
Stability counters this build, and poison makes healing signet a joke.
If you run without stability in PvP it’s not this build’s fault.

You didn’t even try to ask for advice.
You came here with self-righteousness and know-it-all arrogance, then you complain you’re treated with the same manners?
I sense bad parenting.

Got bashed for being zerk.
Reach imbued, everyone but me dies at last minion pop.
Solo the last 20%.
Give the finger to team, grab chest and log off.

Dungeon drop. All right, perfect.

Why can’t you just accept how RNG works instead of making speculations or even going as far as posting a speculation as a fact.

JKwervo.7852:

If you don’t mind me asking or at least showing how….would you explain what gear and traits you used to get to that amount?

Is that with food/oil as well?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQJARTjkOJvZPuQMxBAjifA6ogKmUPsbu2A-jQCBYLBiIIQJPFRjt2NsVXBp8Ka6aYKXLqWFDQKA9EGB-e

49% base crit
+8% from food
+20% from Fury
+15% from H.Focus
+8% Banner of Discipline

100% crit chance and 264% crit dmg

or

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQJARTjkOJvZPuQMxBAzjfAqI1D7mrtUByA-jACBYLBiIIQJPFRjt2NsVXBp8Ka6aYKXER1SBonwI-e

Alternative version aka classic 30/0/0/10/30 boredom w/o GS trait.
It has 95% crit chance and no GS trait, but gets zerk power/emp allies.

What’s the best way to get them without crafting?
I don’t want to get 250 of this and that.

Because human master race.

We should run troll groups that do the rotation backwards so the champ farmers are left with nothing and they rage like mad.

Soldier, sword+shield, 30 def, 8-11 might, permafury, emp allies, g.fortitude etc.
0% crit dmg bonus = poor dmg tho.

People will tell you otherwise because they think what they are told to think, but here is some data for you.
GS+Axe deals about 4k DPS.
With Sw/Sw+Rifle you sit on, 400-800 DPS from torment, 1.5k from bleeds, 2k direct damage’s DPS.

Overall it’s the same DPS.
While it’s a bit slower to build up, on the bright side it will keep dealing DPS even when you’re not hitting anything, while direct damage builds deal 0 DPS when they are dodging, running away etc.

Caramel Ham.4891:

Also, I don’t get what you mean by “Guardian wanna be Warriors”. Do you mean that Guradians have poor dps? If so, that is not true. I run a GS, 1h sword/focus dps build with full zerk except for glove+shoulders being knights, that can deal a ton of dmg and also have support in the form of wor and strength in numbers….which is what is mostly needed in dungeons.

*edit – typo

You can twist a die on all sides but you’ll never score a seven.
A full DPS guardian will always, objectively deal less DPS than a focused warrior, regardless how much effort you put in brainwashing yourself otherwise.
Likewise a support Warrior will always, objectively support worse than a guardian who can instead make a team almost immortal with his tools.
I simply don’t like people who play inefficiently in my teams but you’re free to do so in other teams with people who don’t care if you’re playing inefficiently or not.

We both own the game and paid for it so we decide who is worth playing with, and who is not.
I’m fully aware there is a group of “sonic boon” warriors playing nurse and “full dps” guardians doing no support and trying DPS, I’m happy you guys have fun and I know trying to tell you otherwise would be like trying to convert a muslim to christianism so I let you have your niche and go my own ways.

You’re right OP, they are not releasing a beta, buggy feature to everyone immediately with the risk of screwing up everyone, what a bad company.
You should definitely freeze your subscription.

There is nothing in the gem shop I can’t easily get with gold to gems.
So far I got the infinite tools, the bags, the bank slots, and a server transfer with gold to gems.

We talked this to death already.
To death means that, the final deal was already given on this.
And the final deal is that GW2 does not need to be like a traditional MMO, since it isn’t.
Everyone needs to both tank, DPS and heal – instead of being locked into just one of those roles.
The only way to change this is change video game. No other way is possible.

It’s possible to get 100% crit chance and get all your hits to deal 150% dmg + critdmg multiplier.
I.E. my Warrior has 100% crit chance and 240% total crit dmg which means I always deal 2.4 times my normal damage.
There is no internal cooldown on critical hits themselves or their damage.

zencow.3651:

It’s only going to get more predictable with the addition of casting windows :P
I do hope cast times get improved once that happens.

Playing Warrior significantly improves your yelling skills.
“I PRESSED F1 TWO HOURS, AGO ARE YOU GONNA JUMP HIM OR WHAT?!?! GREAT NOW THE ENEMY IS GONE, GOOD JOB THERE!!!”