Until there are any updates on warrior toughness/armor values I don’t think you’re going to see any changes in our squishiness.
I have run shout heal before, it’s very lackluster. It doesn’t heal for nearly as much as you would expect a 3rd tier trait should. Not to mention building in to tactics is a huge loss of damage.
Where’s the group support? (FGJ?) Thief can do the same with a 10 point trait investment. Ele/engy/even ranger waterfield offers much better support.
Where’s your mobility? As a roamer spec you need mobility, this spec has less mobility than a BM ranger. If you’re purely teamfighter spec, what do you have to offer that an HGH engy or ele can’t?
How do you mitigate damage and deal with teamfocus? Do you rely on fear me as a defensive tool? What happens if people have stability. What about pressure from ranged or condi specs. How do you deal with getting CC’d/immobilized?
I guess your main burst is lbow F1+lbow 3, pop two shouts and swap to eviscerate considering your sigil choice. Do you rely purely on mace 5 and lbow 5 hitting to do any damage. Why is that burst more useful than for example mesmer izerker to doubleshatter or thief clusterbombing and swapping to instaspike?
How does your ranged sustained damage compare to mesmer/thief/HGH engy/S&D ele and how does your melee damage/survivability compare to S/D or D/P thief for example.
Why the fury on immobilize if you only have one source of immo and you’re also using FGJ and SoR? How often can you pop your vengeance in tpvp setting?
I’m not really sold by this spec.
Wow, I did not expect to get so much speculation from just giving some simple input on a play style that’s working for me.
I half expected if people were interested, they would try it out.
I’m not exactly sure what you’re trying to compare this spec to either. It’s a glass cannon spec definitely, but instead of being a one trick pony glass cannon there are a few other tricks in the book that are somewhat less predictable than bull rush>frenzy>100b.
The point of this build is that you can deal outstanding damage without ever having to enter the fray. This also doesn’t mean that once in the fray you are SoL, Axe/Mace prove to be extremely effective for dealing lots of pressure.
Basically you’re trying to stun/snare the enemy before going ham on them. The Mace stun can be tricky to land but if they don’t have their stunbreaker up you can swap to Greatsword to chunk their Health with Hundred Blades to immediately get them on the defensive.
“Fear Me” has been a life saver in most team fights and is fantastic at CCing the enemy off a bridge/cliff.
It’s a really balanced build but I find it a lot more fun than being a glass cannon.
Edit: For some reason the link is not displaying 30 traits
What it should be is:
30 – Strength … III … V … IX
10 – Arms … IV
10 – Defense … V
20 – Tactics … I … VIII
Plug these in to see what the stats come out to be if you want.
