Guild Wars 2

EvilSardine.9635:

Guys, he’s complaining about how if we warriors use axe throw but our angle is off, it will not throw an axe and will set our skill on cool down. Other classes will refuse to initiate the skill if the target isn’t in front of you.

This happens a lot with tremor as well.

He’s not complaining about the cripples themselves. No one reads.

Actually no, we all read, he changed the title and his OP from our cripples sucking to our cripples going off all the time when he must have realized how bad his original argument was.

The current one has SOME merit, but most of us were still responding to our firsts posts before the topic switch which is why the thread seems a bit off topic.

No one has deductive reasoning it seems

Get two axes or a GS and spec into signet traits and use all signets. Super easy and incredibly fast lvling.

Ofc once you hit lvl 60 PLEASE drop the signets and learn something else, cause the signets stop scaling at lvl 60 and there are still too many lvl 80 warrs in WvW and dungeons running fulls signet specs….. makes it harder for the rest of us lol

sapphyredragon.6437:

Please, feel free to elaborate. Your strange outburst means nothing to me without some facts to back it up.

Didn’t realize my comment would be hard to understand, seems pretty straight forward to me o.O

I mean an ele can fully heal themselves 3 times in 10 seconds while in a full burst spec and continue keeping up pressure on their target….

Seems fine to me lol

sapphyredragon.6437:

Ok, that’s a bit of an exaggeration. I take offense to that! Totally different!
We could definitely use more powerful single-target stuff. Frost Mages in WoW were straight broken.

Ok, the frost mage comparison might be a bit of an over exaggeration, especially since Anet isn’t catering to Eles like Blizz does with those OP mages lol

But their single target damage is pretty freaking high, MANY tPvP teams I’ve come across have switched out their burst thieves or 100B warriors cause their D/D eles burst just as much but can survive a thousand times longer.

Ofc those D/D eles have to sacrifice Aura sharing, which in it’s own right is extremely freaking powerful lol

Almost none lol

sostronk.8167:

Compare that to my thief build. I can do an immediate 13k burst, then another 13k burst, then another 13k burst, then roll for initiative and do another 13k burst. Downside is I die to one-hits from so many classes abilities :p I guess over certain timeframes, a ranger would do more damage, but I use the timeframe it takes to kill a single target in WvW, where the Thief and a Warrior both perform better. Except of the are a good player and run skills that reflect damage or temporary invulnerability. But the average WvW players skill is pretty low.

You can only burst that high against under lvled players or other glass canons. I’ve had several P/P thieves try comboing my guardian with those high burst skills and recharges, but they always end up running away once their second bout of initiative has been burned through.

Yeah protection is nice, regen helps, and healing saves me, but a ranger who’s good at kiting could probably kill me, where as a burst thief and definitely rifle warrior cannot.

I guess I don’t like saying P/P thieves and rifle warriors have the highest damage cause I personally don’t like the busting mechanic and never have in any MMO. Live through that and that bursty piece of paper is dead or running, survivable sustain is how I roll lol

TexZero.7910:

I lol at people who think condition damage on a ranger is superior to straight Rifle burst.

It’s okay though, keep dreaming. Ranger Damage is good in long drawn out skirmish or if the target is completely zoned from the Ranger. Same can be said of the Warrior however

LOL rifle burst is the easiest thing to avoid and at the same time rifles warriors are one of the easiest class/spec combos to kill. I see a warrior kneel down in front of me with a rifle I just run straight past him and it cancels, or if I’m too far I dodge at the extremely predictable moment it fires. DONE.

The ranger however, if specced right which most PvE and WvW players don’t quite understand how to do I’ve noticed, can burst almost just as high with their condition stacks PLUS they can survive better then most burst classes while keeping up pressure and damage.

Any decent ranger will beat any decent rifle warrior, the ranger has too much control for the severely lacking rifle of a warrior.

Tim.9850:

I am also not a alcoholic drinker in real life, and really dislike drinking games within games.

I’m not an alcoholic either and I could really give a crap if my virtual character can apparently hold his liquor over 3-4 pirates at once lol

ITS A GAME!

You use them to buy recipes for crafting and components for legendary crafting.

Gasoline.2570:

These kinds of requirements are starting to really become an insane job to undertake and require now RNG, OR LUCK AS YOU MAY, to complete if you don’t have people to track down every single boss

Go play TERA then come back to GW2 for a bit.

Nothing will ever seem like RNG in this game again! lol

True story.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Kilrain Daggerspine.6843:

You telling me your testers tracked down and killed 6 diffrent targets within 15 mins? that sounds completly unrealistic unless you have upward of a hundred people searching at the same time.

Try 30.

We do it with roughly 10-15 people.

Works just fine.

If you want a minion summoning type rune then just go for the Runes of the Ogre, the Rock Dog isn’t incredibly powerful but it can help out, MUCH more then the golem can :P

Theoldman.6483:

I fully realize this is a “roleless” game; but maybe that is why there is a feeling of not belonging and so many players are out just for themselves.

Idk what exactly you’ve been playing but this is literally the only MMO I’ve ever played where the players WEREN’T completely out for themselves…. o.O

andrew.6735:

If you like fun
then this game isnt for you.

a small player base oh i so agree.

core 20 members of each guild max
some of the pro type PvP guilds
and the devs (who are really very very pleased with themselves)
and thats it folks

What a load of crap. You come over to the GW2 forums from the WoW forums just to troll away new players?

My guild, a heavy PvE and WvW focused guild that has partaken in many tPvP events as well currently has 260+ members.

And we’ve just made it into the top 10 most populated guilds on our server, FA.

Yeah there are a lot of small ones, but it’s easy to find the big ones, just go to WvW and find a common guild tag, ask for invite then find the core part of it that does s/tPvP. There are plenty of people doing it, you just have to not be a jerk or a troll ofc lol

EDIT: And oh yeah, don’t worry Chaos, it’s not even close to dying, that’s just a rumor many jealous WoW/SWtoR/TERA/etc fans are making up and spreading to try and justify staying with their crappy games.

I laugh at the people saying warrior! Sure those 10-12k crits are nice… after you’ve knelt down for 3 seconds waiting for it to go off….. unless ofc those Ranger dots have killed you while you stood still by that point :P

Anyway Rangers have the best single target and I’m tempted to say that Necros have the best AoE ranged (with the proper traits ofc).

I’ve run into a few Eles using the flamesword in sPvP tourneys….

They died pretty quick though so I didn’t get to see it in action for that long

/shrug

Ele complaining about not being powerful enough?

It’s like Frost Mages all over again!!!!!! I thought I had escaped that kind of player when I quit WoW!!!!!!

:(

I still can’t believe there are eles complaining about not healing enough……. I mean, SERIOUSLY!?

I don’t, I like the weapons I’ve got and I’l be kitten if I’m forced to switch for any reason lol

<— Stubborn.

Just throwing this out there but I find it very funny when WvW players say a warrior should be able to handle a thief easily in sPvP LOL

Most thieves you run into in sPvP use higher burst specs since they don’t need to worry about running into large groups and getting away is easier on those small maps with their walls and platforms. On top of that to be successful in sPvP as a warrior you kinda have to be bursty yourself, since a warrior can’t bunker for crap in sPvP, so those 8-12k backstabs tend to do quite a bit of damage before you realize what’s going on lol

Race: Charr
Armor: T3 Charr racial
Weapon: The Juggernaut

Just my opinion though

gwawer.9805:

Yes I know that great sword cripple will land no matter what direction you’re facing. I’m not talking about the great sword cripple. I’m talking about the ax throw, the hammer shockwave, and to a certain extent the one-handed sword cripple.

I main hammer on my warrior and it’s rare for me to just completely miss my opponent, I mean sometimes they dodge it (which they can do to the thieves dagger throw as well), but other then that it’s an incredibly easy skill to land.
Yeah I do miss the axe one a lot, but usually only if I’m out of range, cause I mean if you’re close to someone already that axe throw for the cripple shouldn’t be your biggest concern lol
As for the sword cripple, it’s got a wide arc so if you throw the camera around at your opponent when you use it not only will it me very likely to land but it’ll be hard to dodge. It’s actually a very solid skill, which is why it’s so sad that sword/bleed warriors suck so bad in sPvP :P

Goloith.6349:

You should be running sword/axe if CC is important to you.

Ummmmmmm… what?

With that combo you get one CC skill…. how is that any different then any other LOW CC weapon choices for the warrior? I mean you do realize CC means crowd control, right?

I don’t remember how I did it but it was seriously the easiest thing I had to do in the entire story line from 1-80, and I thought that’s how it was supposed to be cause then you had to fight pirates afterwards.
The dialogue and stuff was hilarious and I really enjoyed the event, guess I never expected anyone to not be able to do the mini game :/

sapphyredragon.6437:

I could go on, but basically what I’m getting at is this: Healing in this game sucks for D/D elementalists. It doesn’t even come close to mitigating enough damage. You might as well get Vitality or Toughness because even at max you aren’t going to out heal most character’s dps.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right, good one!

oh wait… you were being serious?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But in all seriousness, eles don’t need anymore healing in any spec, they already heal more then every class besides the guardian…..

That build ^ is a solid build I’ve seen around, in variations ofc, but PLEASE don’t enter tourneys with it, getting a pug traited into a strong PvE/WvW spec basically throws the fight for their team

Anyway for PvE I use a condition heavy build cause NPCs don’t have condition removals and keeping bleeds up as a bleed warrior is easy as cake (and burning with LB is ridiculously strong). Bleed warrior is extremely powerful in PvE and can be altered in MANY different ways to add to it’s survivability. I personally added the regen banner, all the while keeping insane bleed damage.

For both PvP and WvW though bleed warriors suck, so in WvW I like the hammer/shout build. It’s pretty survivable in general and has pretty decent damage out put all along insane CC.

Finally for PvP if you’re going into paids you kinda have to go glass canon 100B spec cause no other spec compares to similar ones of other classes, the 100B one is still also only situational. In frees and random pugs its more lenient ofc, so again I hammer/stance with berserker’s amulet, you three shot people before they can even move. Sadly it’s very easy for an organized team to counter so in tourneys it’s not that great

That’s just the way I like things though, there plenty of warrior options for both PvE and WvW though (not PvP but what can ya do, we aren’t eles… EDIT: or guardians or mesmers or thieves or rangers….. :P)

@larva

I’m not sure anyone was arguing about warriors regen vs their healing signet – .-

The issue at hand is that the healing signet regen, which is supposed to supplement a full heal, does not even come close to doing so in PvP.

Red Falcon.8257:

And it wouldn’t touch PvP as shout healing in PvP is a joke.

Banners in general in PvP are COMPLETELY useless, shouts in PvP are mainly used for team condition removal form support warriors.
A crap ton more useful then any sort of banner healing (or ANY kind of buffing from those pitiful banners).
I do agree shout healing in WvW and PvE is really lacking though, but that being said most shout warriors again don’t use it to primarily heal. If shouting healed for much more then it would become kind of OP with soldier runes and the trait to give adrenaline with shouts. We would be able to sustain as well if not better then Guardians, which is stupid.

WHAT?…….

The sword #3 is one of the longest cripple durations in the game, and with sword #2 being a longass lunge it’s actually very easy to apply, if you don’t suck ofc.

Not too mention the GS cripple Lighter mentioned, the LB and rifle ranged cripples, then also the hammer AoE cripple.

Which can all in turn be specced to immobilize for one second as well.

Warrior cripples are fine.

Lighter.5631:

/thread

Couldn’t resist, the shear lack of common knowledge was calling for me to input some basic info :P

/thread

Clement for me is always standing at the end of one of the rooms where it opens up looking out at the Black Citadel.
But hey if he buys me a drink there I won’t complain! lol

And I do agree it is lacking, as I said before, but it’s not bad “story telling,” cause by that point his story is done. It’s just lazy design on a small scale, all the warband members minus your initial partner are like that as well.
I got the ash legion dude during the Iron Legion Ghost-bore musket testing and in the story he’s a total push over and reveres me when I invite him to my warband (I liked the blood legion chick better, but I had her in betas so wanted to try something new… bad idea :P). But now when I talk to him it’s like “what do YOU want!?” like I’m some inferior being lol All they need is a couple extra dialogue lines for story specific characters, nothing more needs to be added to the story telling itself.

Morena.9604:

*If you like amateur pvp with different modes… this game isn’t for you
*If you like semi-amateur pvp with ladders etc like wow… this game isn’t for you
*If you like pro-pvp like moba… this game isn’t for you
*If you like real open world pvp… this game isn’t for you
*Most importantly if you like to have a goal… this game isn’t for you

*the different maps in “amateur pvp” allow for your different modes of play, besides it’s AMATEUR pvp, no one gives a crap.
*Just cause there aren’t any formal rankings or listings doesn’t mean it’s impossible to have fun, some people need to get out of their little boxes.
*There is plenty of pro-pvp, just cause you’re bad at it doesn’t mean it’s not there or unplayable.
*If you like open world pvp then play WvW more often. Sure you can’t go around one shotting lowbies like in some other MMOs, but thats not open world pvp, thats ganking.
*There are too many goals in this game I have to reach still that it’s a bit overwhelming. Just cause the OP doesn’t want to do some of them doesn’t mean there aren’t any.

So many whiners on MMO forums…… ridiculous…….

EDIT: But no I don’t think this game is perfect at all, no game is ofc, but there are still soemthings I’d like to see done. Just thought I’d clear that up before someone goes “PHANBOYZPHANBOYZ!”

Sil.4560:

really hoping that “boon hate” will be a step in the right direction.

That’s where monsters aggro more often to players with a lot of boons, right? I haven’t really read up on it :P
If that is it though then it’ll definitely help balance things in PvE with those freakin guardians and eles, which only leaves WvW and s/tPvP (which is where they both are the most OP lol).

LOL if warriors could make as many mistakes as a guardian and still be ok then they’d be OP as crap. ONLY reason guardians have so much leniency is cause they do crap for damage.
That being said it is too high in general, I mean you can literally smash your face on your keyboard as a guardian and it’ll still be hard to take you down, but giving that to warriors would NOT make them “balanced,” they’d definitely be OP as hell.

Not hard to do in free tourneys and now with the 2-team paids you can simply get lucky and get multiple bad teams in a row.
See I know this cause I don’t play frees anymore cause they’re boring as crap and I’ve gone on sprees of getting only bad teams/pugs in 2-team paids for hours before hitting a good team.
It happens more often the you’d think.

EDIT: Warriors cant be unbreachable statues in PvP, we don’t have enough healing/regen in general. Sure we can double up on Endure Pain but then until the resets are up that warrior can still be squashed.
And you mean you were playing support warr? Not useless like a wanna-be tank warr, but then why not play guardian where you buff more, heal more, and are harder to kill? Or an ele were all you do is roll around and remove everyones conditions and heal them with half your attacks while maintaining high damage? And so on.

Sure I’d like to see some other buffs to warriors, mainly our poor regen since we’re supposed to be a regen heavy class, but we do dearly need buffs to our banners lol
Also melee warriors can GREATLY benefit from banners as well, thinking otherwise shows your inexperience with the whole thing and proves you’re just whining about not getting something else uneededly buffed….

EDIT: And did someone actually say warrior cant do damage unless we use a freaking RIFLE!? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! Learn the freaking class before spouting crap like that, ty.

So you’re arguing the effectiveness of the healing signet based on its beta healing lvls? Basically back when it was OP and before it was nerfed to uselessness :/
Also “properly using” a healing signet is still gimping yourself when you can “properly use” the higher heal and condition removal or the immense heal and adrenaline charge. But yeah if you were using warhorn then i see why mending wouldnt be necessary, btu then ofc makes me ask what the crap kind of spec were you running in tourneys with a warhorn and a healing signet…….

Julie Yann.5379:

who in their right mind would go melee vs a guardian without the ability to stealth/surprise attack.

D/D eles LOL

vapor.5390:

i said it is as good as other warior healing skills and you can not compare different professions skills with eachother, if y cant understand that then i dont care foff.

And yes you can, i have done it alot when i used to play in your s/tPvP, if y cant do that then too bad again i dont care and foff

LOL in rando pug sPvP rooms you can easily hide behind the large zergs and just shoot at people, but if you claim to be able to kite as a freakin warrior in a tourney match regularly then I’m calling bull until you prove it with a legit video of a legit match.

Also no it doesn’t compare, not in the slightest! The regen from the signet on it’s own is absolutely pitiful and the on use is only 2-3k, where as Healing surge does a minimum of 5-6k but also FULLY restores you’re adrenaline and if your adrenaline is already full it heals 8-9k, then finally Mending heals 5-6k and removes TWO conditions which is nice as a warrior cause we aren’t all that great at condition removal without soldier runes.

(All those numbers are with 0 healing power btw)

Try learning all the skills before trying to argue about them, cause it’s obvious you don;t fully understand them all.

Clement Forktail? Yeah I saved him too, and it’s not that he doesn’t recognize you, he was just given ordinary dialogue a charr NPC has for a player it does “remember.” The typical “nice day we’re having!” kind of comments lol (yes I know charr don’t say that, was just na example :P)
That being said I do wish we could talk to the people from our stories at least, not just the same one liners over and over again.

Lavadiel.6231:

an example of berserker warr on wvw romaing + dueling
http://youtu.be/vQkhUOoltWA?t=27s
after watching this movie you can answer your own question.

A fully geared out and buffed warrior ganking players obviously below lvl 80 (or just not geared very well, based on what they’re wearing), and in a lot of cases still losing 50% of his health.

Any large scale fight and that warrior would INSTANTLY drop and even in smaller ones if the enemy wasn’t terribad and focused him he’d still drop without doing too much damage, again unless his opponents were horrible and all clumped together for his attacks.

Waste of a sigil if you’re not specced into bleed damage though, in my opinion.

Both sigil of fire and air will boost your dps a lot more then a sigil of earth will when not specced into conditions.

@Mazer

ty for the thread link, a lot of info to go through there though so it’ll take me a bit lol

@chariot

Yeah actually I think as a hammer warr the adrenaline from shouting might be enough to upset the balance, since hammer burst is ridiculously strong in groups lol
Either way I HAVE to try this now XP

WAAAAAAIIIT!

Did Vapor just come into this thread, say that the healing sig wasn’t underpowered and was as good as the heals of other classes, then ask why we would compare it to other classes cause there’s too many other differences between all the classes when a good point was made against his argument?

Obviously this guy knows what’s up…… (sarcasm…..)

EDIT: Also if you think you can keep yourself at a distance and CC continuously in s/tPvP as a warrior then you obviously don’t s/tPvP all that much…

Easy answer:

Does it suck? No.

Can it do anything better then any other class? No.

So it’s not “BAD” but playing a warrior in WvW is like gimping yourself if you have another 80 of almost any other class.

In sPvP you probably just want to go full burst, which means full zerk, and just stay mobile while working with a team that has a good guardian or ele to back you up.

If you have no team to work with and you’re just goofing around in randoms then your build doesn’t matter all that much. If anything though I’d recommend having a bit of tankiness on a burst build, just cause 90% of the players running around in randoms are just full burst classes/specs so you’ll want to be able to kill them quick but survive their burst. The other 10% are tanks that can’t be killed 1v1 anyway, well not without spending A LOT of time whittling them down lol

As for WvW I couldn’t really say, I’ve got a solid s/tPvP spec and PvE spec, but I haven’t spent to much time in WvW and my bleed/flames build for PvE doesn’t work all that well, the AoE condition removal from the massive amounts of guardians and eles in WvW nullifies most of my damage :P

Oh and NEVER use healing signet in s/tPvP… NEVER! Even non bursty classes can easily burst through your regen from it and the on use heal is next to nothing, so switch to either of the other two. You might also want to consider using frenzy just cause it’s so freakin good in s/tPvP, but unless you plan on bursting people down then it’s only a ticket to a quick death, so it’s up to you.

EDIT: And if you’re planning on bursting with a rifle keep it to random pug rooms in sPvP cause in smaller groups or in any tPvP match you’ll be instantly focused and most players on that lvl know to just stay close to a rifle warrior and he will barely be able to damage you.

I agree with this 100%

I specced my warrior (while in the mists ofc) to be as much toughness, vitality, and healing power as I could all at once, then traited into healing banners and used the healing signet, the banner of tactics, and the 15 defense trait that gives regen based on adrenaline.

had 30k health, 3.3k toughness, and I forget the exact number of regen ticks but while fighting every practice class in the mists my regen alone was enough to keep me at full health almost 100% of the time.

Then me and some friends tested it for real….

Necro and Ranger conditions both power through ALL the regen, by themselves mind you. So I decided to use condition removal shouts with soldier’s runes instead of healing runes. Started off better, but after the two shouts were used the less regen made it even worse, was better off just trying to use warhorn alone to remove them.

Then the burst classes, eles, thieves, warriors, and mesmers were what we tested. If they got a strong enough initial burst or managed to live long enough to get me to even 2/3 of my health then they could power through the regen EASILY.

Finally we tested it against other bunkers, the guardian, ele, and even an engi bunker. All three did more damage, the guards heals and blocks far out matched those of the warriors, the eles regen was not only higher then that of the warriors but they can also fully heal multiple times while keeping their regen, then finally the engis regen was so ridiculously high the warrior’s had no chance to keep up besides the fact that the engi can also heal and keep regen up at the same time (that one, engi vs warr, was only close on multiple tries cause the warriors toughness and total HP far surpassed that of the engis lol).

So my point is warriors, who are supposed to be a regen focused class for healing, SUCK AT REGEN! We need more regen and until then the warrior will NEVER be as good a bunker as any of the other bunker choices, period.

Yeah I know our story continues, like I said, which is why I’d like to make sure the entire story for my main was the way I’d want it is all. Just a personal thing.

But yeah we have many options at the start which all come to one, but so did ME. Sure 15 is a lot more then 3 and yeah ME branched out more then GW2 does with it’s 3 options every once in a while, and yeah GW2 has one ending (MEs 3 aren’t all that much more then one option though lol), but unlike ME an MMO like this one continues on a lot longer then just the story.

Take our home instances for example, everytime we go back our choices are there and sometimes a few of us don’t like those choices we made and would like to change them, in ME at least you could load up your already played character with all his/her upgrades and re do it all, which is the same as taking a lvl 80 character and downscaling them to the appropriate lvls to re do our story missions.

Making an alt would only satisfy my desires partly, the experiencing of other story arcs and alternate characters, but in the end none of it would matter whether I liked the options better or not cause in the end my main will always be my main character. That’s why I asked those questions.

And yes I know this isn’t a really important aspect of the game, I would just simply love to go back through my personal story as my already created, lvled, and geared main character and experience the fullness of the GW2 story. If Anet is worried about people using the story to farm for gold and what not then just remove rewards after the first time through or make them incredibly difficult. Neither are complicated options.

P.S. No I don’t want to make GW2 more like ME, just thought I’d clear that up cause it would only be a matter of time until someone butted in and accused me of that lol I mean the ONE ending to our PS in GW2 was a thousand times better then all three endings of ME, no over exaggeration from my point of view

EVERYONE uses a GS it would seem :/

Anet needs to do something to make the other weapons just as appealing, without nerfing GS ofc cause it’s not OP or anything, the other warrior weapons are just kind of behind the times :P

But anyway I use sword/axe + longbow, and even though I deal 80% of my damage in conditions the LB auto and axe#5 work VERY well on the bubble.

That….. actually looks very good! lol

ty for the info, I hadn’t thought of using shouts instead of a banner to heal, do they heal a decent amount or are they primarily used for condition removal with the soldiers runes?

I was just wondering, is there a way to continue doing personal story missions after the final party in Arah?

I mean I know the story “ended” right there and that’s that, but I was most interested in playing through the story AGAIN!

Anyone else play Mass Effect or Dragon Age? One of the best parts of those games was playing through them, figuring everything out, then going back through them again and either just trying out different options or to “perfect” your characters story for the next part of it.

I feel like the story in GW2 is similar, cause it’s gonna continue with the other dragon’s expansions I’m sure, so wouldn’t it make sense to let us “reset” our characters personal story and play through the missions again at lvl 80? I know you can just remake your character and play through it again, but in an MMO there’s more then just the story to worry about and I’d rather not lose all the progress I’ve made on my lvl 80 just to redo the story, ya know?

Idk, I guess it’s just a little thing I’d like personally, but if Anet made it optional to do the story again then no one would be hurt by it or forced to do something they didn’t want too. Makes sense to me!

And if this is already in the game, seeing as how in most cases it’s almost to be expected, then can someone tell me how to do it cause I haven’t been able to figure it out lol

Here’s a video by a player named DONTAIN that I found VERY useful for speccing into sword main hand.

All credit to him btw, he’s great.

But OP remember, sword/rifle is almost 100% of the time going to have to be bleed damage focused in order to do ANY amount of decent damage, and in s/tPvP that’s near to useless with all the AoE condition removal 50-60% of the classes have in this game, so if you do go through with this continue to stick to PvE and get a longbow for WvW (large scale fights) or even just have a decent amount of crit damage for the rifle (which is also a bad build for s/tPvP).

P.S. I hate GS as well, 90% of warriors are using it and it’s so boring to play in my opinion :P

The ONLY time I ever bothered with the low and almost non noticable stat boosts from banners was after I specced into banner AoE regen, which as a warrior is very good outside of tPvP. On top of that using more then one banner is a waste of a utility slot cause you can only pick one banner up and take it with you.

So if I were you until you got to 80 and specced into banner regen I’d just use shouts for stat boosts, they recharge A LOT faster and you don’t need to stop fighting in order to use them. Or even just use one banner then the other ones should be shouts or something else you want. Cause the swiftness boost from carrying that one banner is quite nice when running around lvling.

But I mean if you’re just leveling still and you’re below lvl 60 then just use signets, you don;t have to worry about them and before lvl 60 their passive stat boosts are actually pretty decent, at least as good as those of a banner :P

Ok so here’s the thing, I love hammer warriors and I plan on respeccing my sword/axe + longbow PvE warrior to hammer for both PvE and WvW.

My current build is very powerful and very survivable in PvE but in WvW I’m only useful in large group fights with my healing banners and insanely strong LB AoE burst skill, and I say “insanely” cause in large groups a lot of the time the AoE field doesn’t even appear on opponents screens, I’ve tested it, so LOTS of enemies just stand in it and almost completely die without even realizing the Fire Field lol But in single fights almost every class can completely nullify my bleeds and when the Fire field is visible it’s easily avoided.

I know hammer works well cause before I had optimized my stats for PvE I used to run in WvW with a hammer and the AoE stuns and decent damage/survivability was very good. Plus I play it for gags in sPvP in random rooms cause nobody expects a hammer warrior to 3 shot them before they can move lol

My question now is for stats I want to be decent at damage dealing AND survivable for PvE but not full tank, so should I go power/toughness/vitality like most people are telling me and just spec into the power/precision/burst trees? Or should I go power/precision/toughness then spec into healing banners/healing shouts again for the vitality boost and survivability?