Guild Wars 2

ICEing.9237:

maha.7902:

You should be using rush off cooldown, when you run out phase 3 aoe you don’t blade trail or throw axe + impale, as mentioned dodge in to him. You whirled away once so when whirling in to him always click the skill instead of aiming with your mouse. Pre stack adrenaline so you open up the fight with berserkers power, push him before actually attacking, consider using dragon breath bun when killing transition grub then switch back to dps food so you get 200 power and your deeps food. If you want to go even harder, kill a grub before you even attack, but the amount of times lupicus just resets randomly just makes it a waste of time unless pushing for a record. Use hylek poison or med kit after going out of phase 3 aoe so you have swiftness and don’t need to eviscerate back in (taking ticks of damage makes him heal, don’t do it). Also, try conditions. Although I haven’t put too much effort in to it, post patch I have a 5:25 berserker lupicus and a 5:15 condition, both which I haven’t uploaded. To maintain might with strength runes you just do your regular rotation. Typing from a phone so probably made a bunch of errors and it means I couldn’t format my post nicely but I think I covered it all.

Ah ok I’ll try to apply all of this.
Last Q I have is, how do you deal with transition grub? Should I move back like I did in my vid or use fire elemental? I find using fire elemental, lupi eats the grub before I can kill it.

Do neither, instead pop an Ogre Pet Whistle that is also a stun break after the transition grub erupts. This way you’ll remain on top of lupicus and be able to keep dishing out DPS that will more often than not take the grub down before he can eat it.
Though beware the timing of the stun break, usually after transition into p2 good old lupi likes to slash you right off the bat if you’re in melee.
Also in p1 you danced around too much, try finding the sweet spot on it’kittenbox as you did for a couple of seconds and you’ll have more free reign to get some deeps in without worrying about repositioning the big bad wolf. You’re already doing a pretty good job in using your WWA to avoid most of it’s kicks and grubs so it should be a walk in the park.

Neko.9021:

If you PUG that much, maybe you should just join a guild? For myself, I don’t play dungeons frequently enough to be in that sort of guild, anymore, but if you PUG a lot, you should probably just have a guild to play with.

I believe he has trouble finding a guild that runs up to the hours when he’s available to play given the busy schedule he mentioned.

But yes, these days dungeon and general endgame PvE dedicated guilds are a dime a dozen in both regions I’d say and most are at least fairly competent in their craft. Chances are one could be a good fit for you Chef

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Sounds like NA has worse pugs than EU. And I thought EU Pugs were bad…

I was told the only thing that surpasses a NA PUG’s toxicity is their lack of skill or intelligence.
Then again I’ve never gone through the trouble of buying another account and joining a NA server to check out these rumors :P

Having a chance to get Rox’ Quiver would be neat as I wasn’t around for when it was on sale, I’m sure a lot of people fancy it as well.

That depends entirely on what you plan on doing with it.

I’m quite sure the exploiters themselves could post guides on youtube of how to do it and still not get punished for abusing it, it’s known to happen in other dungeons as well e.g. AC p1.
I wouldn’t hold my breath for a fix anytime soon, they’re obviously more keen on fixing issues like a small safe spot beyond the Claw of Jormag’s Ice wall where people could DPS it without having to deal with that boss’ ridiculous fear spam.

I’m speechless, you sir have won the weekly internetz award!

The truth is that in the current PvE meta, some professions simply bring more value to a group.
Necromancers bring nothing but single target DPS, while their DPS is actually respectable their lack of a cleave on their auto-attack puts them down even in this department.
Rangers bring decent party wide DPS boosts, but their need to rely on a pet that spends most of it’s time dead to dish out decent DPS makes them undesirable as well.
Engineers are a wild card and an underrated profession, their main issue being the fact that everything they do, expect vulnerability stacking, another profession does better.
Don’t ask me why a pick-up group wouldn’t want a mesmer especially for fractals now that a lot of projectiles are not reflectable, I guess this could be attributed to the lack of good players playing the profession in the pick-up scene.

NACotser.4125:

It usually comes down if you sacrafice yourself to a group of nearby mobs.

I just bugged somebody to join my party and it unbugged after exiting the dungeon then :P

Come on, going in and out of the instance by myself wouldn’t even work tonight. Had to ask a friend to join me in both leaving the dungeon for it to come down.

I’ll sign up as a mentor, for the dungeon category only though as my fractal experience is nowhere near where I’d feel confident enough about that I’d be giving people the best advice possible.

The 2 professions I can absolutely guarantee top-notch advice about would be Warrior and Thief as those are the 2 I’ve played enough. Though I’m very familiar with the remaining professions theoretically and extremely capable of pointing people in the right direction in terms of builds and variations of the same, just won’t be able to share those nifty tricks like I will concerning warrior and thief. I’m absolutely against exploits like no-clipping, arah skips with experimental rifles and all others that would break away from the intended game mechanics.
I play in the EU region, I’m probably always available to answer PMs and questions apart from the rare occasions when I’m actually doing something that requires my full attention. I’m more than willing to help people put what they’ve learned in theory into practice by helping them through dungeons step by step and making sure they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it so they can become as autonomous as possible. Checking back on them later to see how they’ve improved is also something I’d very much be up for, I don’t think there is anything more rewarding in this initiative than seeing people you’ve connected with achieve the goals they set for themselves.

Feel free to contact me to set up a trial and to discuss in which category of mentor I would be best placed.

Dub.1273:

But scepter is undeniably the strongest guardian weapon. :<

Agreed, nerf scepter please and especially condition builds! Here’s my evidence.

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Wouldn’t you be interested in mentoring for the Noob guild?

I suppose joining a larger platform for this wouldn’t hurt, where do I sign up?

If you’re running Berserker’s Power, using Arcing Slice is something I would not endorse unless you absolutely need the Fury.
If not, you can use it if you need the fury but it is a DPS loss compared to your regular greatsword auto-attack chain.

As it keeps being pointed out to me that I should venture out into the world and help a larger group of people improve and also given the disappointing state of the pick-up scene these days, I’ve decided to open the doors to my brain to any and all people that wish to get started or better at dungeons.

First things first, what do I get out of it?
Your improvement itself is the reward I seek for this initiative, making new friends also doesn’t hurt and helping to improve the overall quality of play of the community as a whole sounds extremely good to me. Revitalizing the arah pug scene is also a goal of mine, keep in mind that I will not teach you how to solo/duo any path there’s already enough people profitting from the community’s laziness to do arah and I intend to minimize not aggravate it.

What am I offering exactly?
I’m offering personalised advice (be your questions about gear, traits, utility/elite skill selection or approach I’m sure I’ll be able to help) and deep insight into every dungeon in the game (not the nonsense someone learns while PUG’ing like ‘stack here, stack there’ but actual teaching of the mechanics so you can beat stuff your own way).

Are there any requirements?
Well, being lv 80 is only solid requirement in-game I would enforce. Berserker’s gear with proper runes and sigils would be nice, but if you haven’t managed that yet it’s not a big deal. I expect you to play a melee damage build however as I will be helping you develop towards the side of efficiency and everyone melee’ing something while sharing boons is the most efficient way of taking anything down.
I’m offering continued assistance in helping you become a great dungeon player and it is not a 1-hour project so feel free to disturb my meditation whenever you have questions or require help.
You’re also expected not to have too much of an attitude, say you’re part of a batch of 4 people in where you’re the most experienced of the lot I expect you not to belittle your group mates simply because you’re farther along than they are, and be able to speak/type and understand english, I might not be up to type for the duration and will give you access to a public channel in my guild’s TeamSpeak server.

Will you do dungeons with me?
Yes, I will do both runs where I aim make you as familiar with the dungeon as possible and runs where I’d like to see how much you’ve improved since the last time we’ve played together.
Though, bare in mind that I have friends and guildies to play with as well so I may only be able to manage a few runs a day with you guys and also any paths that take extremely long to teach (any arah paths because of Giganticus Lupicus) or too long to complete (Aetherpath and Arah path 4) will have to be scheduled ahead of time for the reasons stated above. And don’t ask me to do fractals, I’m definitely not the right person to be giving lessons on that subject!
Also I’m only able to run with 4 people at a time when I find a measure of spare time to dedicate to this and you will have to take that into account as well.
As this moves forward, I expect to keep detailed schedules to give everyone a fair chance of taking part in it.

How do I sign up or get started?
Just add me to your friend’s list in-game, when you catch me online (I’m usually online from 15-16.00 GMT until late in the night) just chat me up with the usual like introducing yourself, what you would like to be helped with, what professions you play and that sort of thing. There’s no reason to fret about your experience or lack there of, that’s the exact reason you’re coming to me for help and despite Leo being my zodiac I’m quite sure I won’t bite (a nibble is all I’ll do in a worst case scenario).

To finish, I expect to receive a lot of requests surrounding Arah paths and I must inform you that we will not be ranging anything unless absolutely necessary such as not enough reflect or projectile destruction skills in our team composition for the armor carrier in SE p3 so guardians trash your scepters, mesmers store your greatswords away, rangers, warriors and thieves get those bows out of my face because we will not be ranging Giganticus Lupicus.
Also these first few days will be an adaptation period for me, I’ve never done something like this before in a free-for-all setting and we’ll see how it goes I suppose.

Thieves are in a good spot right now, especially in PvE.
They’ve been better off before with the ridiculous backstab damage they previously had but was due for a nerf and we all knew it.
Thief is the most versatile solo-play class in PvE, while unable to compete with professions that can produce and sustain might reliably like Warrior and Elementalist in the solo DPS department, a thief has a lot more tools at it’s disposal to stay alive.
In a group setting, thief along with elementalist makes for the best FGS wielder in the game and it’s DPS under optimal circumstances is not to be shrugged off. Did I mention everyone loves stealth to skip every annoying trash pack in the game?

As far as PvP goes, I’m not experienced enough in that side of the game to give a reliable opinion, though I believe the consensus is that if you can play you’ll be a nightmare for anyone to deal with and if you can’t you’ll get rekt 24/7.

I buy rares for 30 tokens that are over lv 68 and salvage them for ectos.
For the tokens that only let you purchase rares of a lv lower than 68, I just buy weapons for time to time and mystic toilet them in hopes the RNG will one day remember I exist.

Embrace The Bold.7619:

Veckna.9621:

Must be wearing Nomad’s!

Oh, please, we all know his bear form carried the team :P.

Mah gawd, Nomad’s Bear Form! I think we just discovered the new PvE meta.

*rerolls to cleric’s engi*

Must be wearing Nomad’s!

Tree.3916:

Veckna.9621:

EA is about an 8% DPS increase for the party as a whole assuming everyone is rolling a zerk build.

It’s closer to a 4% boost.

Assuming the average power of a zerk build to be about 2500, considering some builds do not go all the way into their power tree, EA is an exact 6% increase in power for the average used.
150*100/2500 = 6

This of course is subject to several circumstances and the bonus is less noticeable as your power increases via might or bloodlust stacking.
Still worth taking over a personal DPS increase in my opinion.

EA is about an 8% DPS increase for the party as a whole assuming everyone is rolling a zerk build.
Given how warrior is, under optimal circumstances and running it’s best personal DPS build, the 4th best DPS in the game I’d say it’s worth the slight loss in personal DPS if you’re grouped with competent players be it a PUG or not.
Just make sure there is only 1 warrior in the group with the trait as it doesn’t stack.

And even if one was to go for all-out personal DPS as a warrior, I’d recommend 6/6/0/2/0 instead of the 6/5/0/0/3 solo-play build as long as you don’t really need to a have block on switch or you’re in a half organized group you’ll have no need for Signet Mastery and Empowered is a 3 to 8% boost to your personal DPS depending on how many boons your group can generate.

For an EA build try 4/6/0/4/0, you’ll lose 5% personal DPS compared to 6/4/0/4/0 but you’ll be able to contribute vulnerability stacks which will more than likely be over 5 at all times giving you those 5% damage back and increasing your group’s overall DPS.
(And you can always use Arcing Slice without worrying about losing the Berserker’s Power bonus trolololol)

maha.7902:

Lindbur.2537:

You can dodge while stacking.

Confirmed exploit.

-GMB

You can even deal damage while dodging, now that’s taking the exploiting to another level!

P.S.: Necro master race.

A party, where? Is somebody bringing the booze or should I? :O

Oh my, toxicity level over 9000!
This is what I love about these forums, there’s always something to read that will put a grin on my face at the break of dawn.

On a more serious note, exploited run selling is the only thing that ticks me off as I do not find it the least bit funny that people are able to profit from exploiting without any repercussions although the buyers are as much to blame as the exploiters themselves, people need to be conscious if they’re buying exploited runs or not which is easily done by making sure there’s a waypoint unlocked at Lupicus. And the exploited run selling problem extends well beyond Arah, open up your LFG on AC and see the amount of thieves selling P1 for even less than you get from your daily reward *hint*

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Veckna.9621:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

That’s not how Phalanx Strength works, it only gives 6s might for any might application. FGJ gives might for 25 seconds on a 25 second cooldown which means the “6 stacks” you’re getting is actually closer to 3.7 stacks on average in reality.

Don’t mean to burst your bubble, but…

10.5 / 1.75 = 6. Sounds about right.

Yet one would not consider might duration without the extra duration from runes or traits when looking at a phalanx build.
Making the assumption that the extra stacks produced by the Phalanx Strength trait would only last 6 seconds a bit puzzling.

Embrace The Bold.7619:

Svetli.4276:

no
go berserk

if you run phalanx you generally are berserker -.-
OP it’s only worth if your pug doesn’t have might stacking capability (basically no eles).

Assuming you come across the extremely rare elementalist who can actually stack might :P
Even then, an elementalist’s might stacking method is largely dependent on the entire group to help out with field blasting making the odds of coming across such an organized group very slim.
Phalanx is, in truth, much better when PUG’ing in horribly disorganized groups as long as they’re conscious enough to stack to share boons.
If you’re unsure of what build to use for this purpose try this.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

That’s not how Phalanx Strength works, it only gives 6s might for any might application. FGJ gives might for 25 seconds on a 25 second cooldown which means the “6 stacks” you’re getting is actually closer to 3.7 stacks on average in reality.

Don’t mean to burst your bubble, but…

Everything that’s wrong with PUG’ing in this game starts with the inability for people to communicate with one another. Whenever you join a PUG it feels like everyone is there to handle their business with the less possible contact made with their group.

My sample size is a bit small as most of my PUG’ing happens through the PUG adventures activities I take part in with my guildmates and even then this lack of communication is very noticeable especially in CoF P1 when we’re planning on FGS’ing the final boss and the pick-ups rush off to the middle and start whacking it.

The content is old, not poorly designed or easy. The vast majority of the PvE community still will go nowhere near Arah even in groups while some are able to legit solo it while having a cup of tea.

Feeling jealous of people who’ve spent hours and hours of their lives mastering these encounters to be able to exchange their abilities for in-game currency is just silly.
To be honest they should even get rid of all the phases of dungeons that require more than 1 player to complete to further incentivise people to solo them and hone their skills.

Whenever you see a massive increase in sales of paths of a specific dungeon it usually means there’s something shady going on there.
The AC no-clipping skips are well documented and it’s sad that people even post videos of themselves doing it on youtube and are yet to be banned.
To answer your question: Thief is the most common exploited solo profession choice because of the ease with which they can no-clip themselves by using Infiltrator’s Arrow. In terms of legit solo runs warriors and elementalists are the most popular choices.

Zephyric Reaper.3049:

Veckna.9621:

Yet I find it a lot easier to solo it on my thief due to the unreal number of skills with evade frames e.g. withdraw and roll for initiative, won’t even get into the acrobatics tree.
Smoke screen blocks Mai Trin’s lightning shot -> shadowstep ability and well stealth makes cannon phase a walk in the park literally.

Though I must agree that it is out of line when compared to the other final fractals, they’ll need to either buff the remaining final fractals or tone this one down a bit.

You don’t need that many evades as long as you’re fast enough to walk off of horrik’s circles. What I was saying is that smokescreen has a higher CD than her shadowshot, thus, a thief can’t solo Mai Trin, unless you play stealth to recover CD’s for which will take forever to complete.

I’ll assume dodging her shadowshot is out of the question then when smoke screen is on cooldown?

Yet I find it a lot easier to solo it on my thief due to the unreal number of skills with evade frames e.g. withdraw and roll for initiative, won’t even get into the acrobatics tree.
Smoke screen blocks Mai Trin’s lightning shot → shadowstep ability and well stealth makes cannon phase a walk in the park literally.

Though I must agree that it is out of line when compared to the other final fractals, they’ll need to either buff the remaining final fractals or tone this one down a bit.

We all know the only reason rangers have become such a discriminated profession in PUGs is the existence of this little newbie friendly build called ‘bearbow’.
Most of the people playing ranger at this very moment are utter beginners as having their pet tank their mobs for them is much more handy than having to dodge and employ other ways of avoiding damage. This has lead to some excellent ranger players being put in the same boat and a profession that actually has something to bring to a group being left to rot in the shade.
I just wouldn’t say Necros are more desirable than rangers for 2 simple reasons:
1. Necros don’t have cleave damage in their optimal berserker’s builds;
2. Necros hardly have anything that contributes to the group’s performance, their best skill in this regard might be Well of Power and it still is easily outclassed by other professions’ similar skills.

Oh and the little AI issues with the pets do weigh in mind as well, it’s not fun to have a rogue jaguar aggro every mob in the dungeon that you were planning on skipping.
But I’d take a ranger over a necro any day of the week

Don’t try to facetank a thief with pistol offhand instead make them come to you, overextend themselves and overspend their initiative.
Then you’ll find you have a pretty decent window to be more agressive.
Thief is rather trivial to deal with, given even most warrior builds more oriented towards survivability can put a heck of a dent on their health pool with each hit and how much a thief’s burst has been nerfed since release.

YAWN

Finally something more entertaining than Lupicus, guess I finally have a reason to lv up my fractals reward level.

Where are all the casuals burning ArenaNet t-shirts by now?

Mai Trin it’s always been one of those bosses that I’ve felt is much easier to solo than to do as a group mainly because of the cannon phase.
Good job on the kill.

Inb4 I feel convinced to craft another ascended set in which I’d stick scholar runes into QQ

2% less damage, still leaves Scholar Runes eating dirt in sub-optimal situations.
Though it was expected and the 4-piece bonus nerf is rather negligible outside of a PvP scenario I’d say.

dutchiez.7502:

Records should be reset when they cannot be replicated because of changes, such as AC p2 breeder not being hit by the traps anymore. Before the spider queen change you could fgs her and ice bow her in the open, after the spider queen change you can fgs her and ice bow her in the open. What “most groups” do is completely irrelevant, it’s about whether or not the old way is still possible.

Ice bow isn’t even needed in any half decent group tbh, after the ferocity change it melts so quickly that having 2 eles would mean it would be dead before it could even pump out anything.
I see your point on the ’what’s worthy of resetting records for’ part and the p2 changes do impact that path’s time in a major way.

Dub.1273:

Not like the spiderqueen change changed anything.

Check out the previous record and see the difference. While in timing it may even have cost them seconds to stack and FGS rush it down instead of just melting it down with pure deeps out in the open, the changes have made most groups change their approach which impacts timing wether one likes it or not.

And yes, it’s arguably the worst timegate in the game.

Congratz, finally someone bothered to make an updated record run as the folks at gwscr have been slacking and the AC records should’ve been reset as soon as the spider queen changes hit.

Very impressive Goku, a few more things going your way and perhaps an entire minute could be shaved off that.
Regardless, congratulations on the impressive time

roachsrealm.9284:

AC p2 Champ Graveling at the spike traps no longer takes damage from the spike traps. you have to burn it down regularly. Caught us off guard on our full dungeon clear last night.

It has been like that for a while now, since May 23th or whenever the previous patch before the June 17th one was.

Pull him towards the Lyssa statue that is located by the gate that will open once you kill it, this way you avoid risen hands respawning and knocking your behind into the dirt and you will also be able to LoS his life drain.
His fetid blast needs to be predicted, try backing off a bit in between his spell casts just because there is no set rotation that he follows and I’ve seen him cast it up to 4 times in a row which amounts to 20k+ damage.
It takes a while getting used to, but once you get the hang of taking preventive measures to avoid it like WWA, dodge or sword block at the right time it becomes fairly easy.
I remember it took me several attempts to get it down the first time and ever since I haven’t wiped a single time on it.

Xcorpdog.2840:

I always counted at least 5 spiders, 2 far and up towards the boss spawn, one close and up the short steps, one by the door and 1 to the left of the door you walk down from. It’s been like that since at least the revamp way back, if not launch.

I’ve always counted 3 until the last patch as I’m usually the one pulling the room during our runs.
Another thing that has seemed to weird to me is the ring of fire boss on SE p3, his damage output seems to have increased because he’s casting a triple fireball attack now in melee range that I believe he did not cast unless you were outside of melee range before. I could be wrong of course, I just felt like the group was taking too much damage too quickly these last couple of days.

It’s sad to see dungeon solo’ing being looked at as just another way to turn a quick profit.
What happened to the pure enjoyment of challenging and pushing your skills to entirely different levels I wonder *sigh*

Tree.3916:

Looks familiar.

I’m perfectly aware Nike had released a build with similar traits long ago though his final PS build was a Fast Hands variation that I don’t agree with, in truth the trait selection for this build is a no-brainer for most people who can read tooltips I never claimed it to be the next groundbreaking discovery within the warrior profession’s boundaries and it had been thought of and shared closely with friends since about April 17th as it was clear to me ever since I got a look at Phalanx Strength when it was released.
Releasing it simply because there have been people with questions about it and not everybody follows youtube channels also it appears PS builds have been buried in these forums with the passage of time.
Moreover, anyone who’s read recent discussions on the matter should know people’s greatest questions have been about sigil and rune selection and if Fast Hands would or would not be recommended which I have addressed.
My sincerest apologies for contributing to the knowledge pool

In the wake of a discussion about variations of PS builds and seeing how it generated the interest of the warrior community I’ve decided to release the PS build theorycrafted by yours truly.

PS build by [QQ]

Explanations and goals
This build is mainly a support build capable of capping out your entire group’s might stacks at about 90% of the time during constant DPS, although with the mindset to offer as much might production to the group as possible with retaining as much personal DPS as possible a few noteworthy selections were made.
Note that I do not endorse this as a competitive choice for the sole reason that you are unable to provide permanent fury to your group as an Elementalist with Persisting Flames would, this build’s practical application is largely tied with PUG’ing and can absolutely carry horrible groups.

FAQ
1. Why those sigils on greatsword instead of Battle and/or Strength?
A: The choices I made on the sigils, sigil of night or dungeon specific and sigil of force, carry the hopes of sacrificing as least DPS as possible. I felt confortable with the might production while using Greatsword without having to rely on a sigil of strength for the extra might stack at about every 1.6 seconds or sigil of battle on switch at every 9 seconds.

2. Why Axe/Mace on switch in a build without Fast Hands?
A: The Axe/Mace on switch were included to provide a basis for a Fast Hands variation that can be applied in situations that demand it. Trait-wise I recommend taking 1 point out of Arms and into Discipline and dropping Rending Strikes to get Fast Hands. In fact, this is a greatsword camping build as you deal the most damage and produce the most might while doing so and I would not recommend a Fast Hands variation unless absolutely necessary.

3. Are Strength Runes absolutely necessary?
A: If you want to optimize your impact on your group’s performance, yes. Strength Runes provide the best might duration in the game (that affects all might produced by you) with the least DPS loss, in most situations they prove better than Scholar Runes even in terms of DPS.

4. How much DPS does this build pump out with such support oriented traits?
A: I have not ran the numbers but I was getting around 35k Hundred Blades in Crucible of Eternity on the golem, therefore in sub-optimal circumstances. Then again, this is not a DPS build but a build one would use when playing in a horrible group that needs a lift, I use it quite often when playing PUG roulette.

5. Strength Runes are quite expensive, are there any alternatives?
A: There are 2 alternatives and each have their own drop-offs: Hoelbrak Runes will nearly give you the same might duration but you will lose considerable DPS and Scholar Runes will sharply reduce your might duration but give you better DPS depending on circumstances (when below 90% health Strength Runes pump out better DPS).

6. Why those choices of food?
A: Truffle Steak is the standard food choice for most PvE players in terms of efficiency vs cost and it happens to help this build reach 97% crit chance under the effects of Fury and Banner of Discipline. Sharpening stones are just put in the place of specific potions of slaying that I would recommend as an optimal choice.

7. Why use these utilities?
A: For Great Justice! produces 6 stacks of might on cast for your entire group and also some fury uptime and both are valuable DPS boosts. Banner of Discipline increases your group’s chance to critically hit (170 Precision is about 8% Crit Chance) and your group’s critical damage. Signet of Fury helps you optimize your own critical chance that is vital to helping you maintain your group’s might supply via Forceful Greatsword trait. Do I really need to explain the choice of Signet of Rage?

I hope this has proven useful for you and that most of your lingering questions have been answered if there’s anything further you’d like to know, just ask.

Ascalonian Catacombs:
Spider Queen has yet again been changed, the number of trigger spiders (spiders between lv 1 and 3) has been increased from 3 to 5.

Crucible of Eternity:
The golem bug has been fixed, it is now always in enemy state and the turrets will activate once you aggro the golem. It also has a very short leash range now and it will return to it’s original position very easily.

If somebody has noticed anything else, please do share.

pdavis.8031:

True. However, cost is an issue, and while having the extra 7% damage could be very usefull, such a build being a support type, DPS is sacrificed anyway. While there are things to do to minimize that sacrifice it’s pretty clear that doing max DPS on such a build just isn’t going to happen.

Even so, this is still a largly situational build, and mainly depends on party make up for it to be the most effective anyway.

It’s all a matter of opinion and finances then, Strength Runes cost about 15-17g each depending on the flow of the market. I can see how for some people that might seem too costly but since I made the change to them I have not regretted it, I have also not compared them with Hoelbrak runes so I can’t possibly give any feedback on the matter but I firmly endorse the selection of Strength Runes by personal experience.
As far as ‘Max DPS’ currently warriors hardly have a chance to play their highest DPS builds given how the meta has shifted towards stacking elementalists and the drop-off from the usual EA build a warrior would run in a speedclear to the PS build I’ve given you is not that big of a deal (10% greatsword damage multiplier and 200 power) and the hopes of sacrificing as least DPS as possible are imbued in the choice of sigils rather than going with a combination of battle and/or might sigils exclusively to produce might.

Good luck with your results whatever runes you decide to take