Guild Wars 2

sinister warrior was already a thing. There was already a sinister meta condi build that use longbow and sword torch, since sinister came out. It was already tested agisnt bosses like LUPI in solo runs etc. The facts were already know the DPS was better than zerk warrior due to nerds atleast solo.

Headbutt breaks stuns and so does F2. The idea also that you have perma stab in zerk mode so balanced stance isn’t needed.

Ross Biddle.2367:

I’m still going with the GS/Rifle, Strength over Defense, no endure pain setup XD

Melee burst is the same stun into bursts + hundred blades, but sigil of paralyzation to make the stun 4s (better than rage on your build imo). But that rifle means you can sit off point to pick off targets, particularly things like DH who oh so love their trap play. But I get the axe/shield.

Also how do you feel about sig of leadership vs hoelbrak on your build?

Sigil of palatalization works well with this build. I went with rage as I fell in situations where a stunbreak is used, or when you don’t use a CC rage is better.

Ross Biddle.2367:

I’m still going with the GS/Rifle, Strength over Defense, no endure pain setup XD

Melee burst is the same stun into bursts + hundred blades, but sigil of paralyzation to make the stun 4s (better than rage on your build imo). But that rifle means you can sit off point to pick off targets, particularly things like DH who oh so love their trap play. But I get the axe/shield.

Also how do you feel about sig of leadership vs hoelbrak on your build?

Leadership has more synergy with signet of rage than headbutt. It’s lower DPS than hoelbrak. My build doesn’t take dogged March and chill. cripple, and immob would be unbearable without the -20% I think. They still are.

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

Old build. Swapped in berserker for strength. Drop balanced stance for eternal champion. Apart from that it is basically the same build warrior has been stuck with for the last 18 months if they wanna play power. Unblockables are nice, but not worth a thing when your blind and they are in either 2 seconds of evade animation off one skill, 4 seconds of evade off one well, in distortion or stealth..let alone throw in blurred frenzy..

It’s the new destroyer warrior build an evolution of the old one.

About the balance of the game? Is it because they are embarrassed? Or is it because they over buffed professions and they can’t fix them now.

Warrior is more useful than thief. Every time I have a thief on my time I have lost. Some of the biggest losses were 2 thief. Just no.

Oxygen.5918:

NikeEU.7690:

Unfortunately, there are basically 0 encounters in the game where condi engie is better dps in practice than condi warrior. A supremely skilled condi engie is at best equal to an average condi warrior who understands the build. I say this as a main warrior, but its sad that the balance is so off that one of the hardest builds to play well in the game has a lower dps ceiling than one of the easiest, but thats been a GW2 issue since the start really.

That’s so far off your initial assessment of the condi warrior. I wonder what happened.

What? NIKE always said condi warrior was at least equal and stronger on gorse. His calculations were based on engi doing perfect rotations. Perfect rotations on engi ia hard. Good rotations on warrior is easy.

Existential.4831:

Hi Cerby. I wreck 90% of classes in duels in WvW using Professor Snarl’s condi build listed here
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/WvW-Beserk-Roamer-Build-Perplexing-Flames/first#post5811805

If you want to go Zerk use Cygnus’s build https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Video-Berserker-WvW-Roaming-Build/first#post5841686

Vanilla Warrior does not cut it at all now.

We have a major balance patch yet to come.

Not to discredit your skill but it’s not saying much when everyone know most wvw players are bad.

Destroyer PVP build. If you are good with warrior you know what to do with this,.

No you will not win every 1v1. No you still have problems fighting on points. Yes you will be able to help the team by bursting down people with blocks.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAR3enMdA1dgVhAehAElilqATpH04yBIFgGQA490mantA-TpBHABaXGggDCAAHBgBuAAB8AAKZ/BA

I kinda wanted to add that your build basically has balanced stance. You have no ther stun breaks besides 1 on a 40 sec CD.. All someone really has to do is wait for your stab to run out and CC you and you are done you have blocks but there is a lot of CC that is unblockable and obviously if you have no way to get out of CC your not blocking anything. Thats why I think that you probably got carried so hard its not even funny.

OP I tried this build before you. It’s not enough condi pressure pretty much, and your one good skill is hard to land.

Theres not a real good reason to pick warhorn other than to remove chill. You get plenty of Vigor from your stance trait, and you already clear immob via warrior sprint, yea you can give weakness with it, but you already kinda give weakness with your mace and interrupts. Basicaaly it’s pointless to take warhorn.

Picking bloody roar over eternal champion just becasue of a 1 sec taunt and a damage modifier that does nothing for you because it only modifies power damage. I not condi dammage. I would never pick a 1 sec CC that I could only activate if my adrin was full and Im about to enter zerk mode over a perma stab.

If you got to saphire you got carried. strait up calling it now.

Kinda, the thing with hammer is that its difficult to set up on anyone paying attention who sees that you have one and it’s slow with long cool downs.

I feel like this is and wasn’t really an issue before but not its more of an issue.

Dear AN,

I’m enjoying your game, lets say I’m trying hard to enjoy it. Please stop releasing half baked content.. WvW, Leagues, Elite professions, Revenants, all are broken.

Balance has never been worst. Leagues are broken, WvW is undesirable, Eleite specs are broken and over powered, Revenants are face roll easy mode broken. This game has gone to trash.

You keep ignoring players call for you to do something, and say things like HoT itself was a balance patch are you kidding us or are you kidding your self. HoT was a freaking disaster in terms of balance in every aspect of it.

Fix the game and stop ignoring your players. Thanks.

The best warrior build I have seen so far is just a DPS GS AXE Shield build and it only works if you are duo Q to some extent.

Rifle is a terrible weapon outside of kill shot. It’s single target damage makes it a great ranged weapon, but makes it a terrible weapon when your opponent is in melee range.

Mace Shield is okish, however skull grinder is worst than Skull crack if when you are power based. A 4sec stun vs a 1 sec daze with a load of condis that do no damage.

It’s incredibly difficult to land on anyone paying attention. Like this build probably works find vs other scrubs with low MMR. Vs anyone good I think it’s not great. Anyone good who sees a rifle warriors automatically will focus you the same way LB rangers are always focused. When this happens your build with it’s zero mobility has no choice but to die, you can’t even run. Theres nothing secret here. move along.

BTW rifle mace shield was always known as a decent dueling build against some specs. That doesn’t translate into a great PVP build or even a group build.

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No defense tree. 1 stunbreak and its endure pain. Daredevil runes terrible. Soldiers Amulet terrible. so it’s bad.

It’s true no one with a life cares about twitter.

AN doesn’t realize the poor balance effects their hopes of PVP being a success. They seem to think we are all just a bunch of cry babies because not all of us choose to play flavor of the month.

Since when was the endgame about cosmetics. We must be playing a different game. Sounds like you play the Sims.

Why I don’t like most players in this game. They get rewarded for everything included failing. The moment they have to earn something they complain. There is nothing in this game that is hard, besides this raid and it’s difficulty is relative. I don’t personally find the raid mechanics difficult. The only difficult part about it is you fail it when its not your fault. This is the only thing I will agree with the OP on. I disagree with everything else because I feel that anet has catered enough to the people who just want to push 1 and smash keys.

The problem is it only takes 1-2 people to ruin a raid for 8-9 people. It’s not really a problem for groups that are willing to kick or not invite that 1-2 person. But if you are not willing to do that you will never beat the boss.

looks not good sorry and that’s from an educated more experienced perspective.

Personally would just like banner CD trait and the old Forceful Banner trait I think. So the banner does damage when u cast it. But make it meaningful damage like 5k Damage.

AN TOO worried about making a mistake and making Thief and War OP woops. After Jon Peters left no one at AN knows anything about anything.

The only common thing about soldier amulet is the person who said its common uses it, so they think that it must be good.

I think it is becasue you don’t need the fury and shouldn’t need the adrin, and vuln and a cc from the mace is better, and even rip and a bock from a sword is better. It is becasue OH axe offers no utility and is just damage but it fails at doing all it does, becasue it takes no effort to prove what I’m saying as its so obvious to anyone that is willing to look.

Jon Peters left? That explains why the game is so bad now.

Experienced or even more skilled players that have done the work to get better lack patience to be in a raid with players who they feel are wasting their time.

I have done VG with random pugs and beat it with no voice coms, on like the 5th try before. Then I go to another raid and its like a circus, people dieing left and right, low dps, tons of mistakes, people going AFK for long periods of time wasting everyone’s food and play time, along with people running not good builds.

People don’t want to be in raids like the above. Thats why they are getting picky about who can join raids.

They used to be worst, still terrible.

Axe off hand is terrible because the whirl does less damage than the auto attack chain in the same time it takes to finish.

Sorry living story Heart of thorns. I don’t know everything youre going to have to take the initiative to research things and figure them out. Dulfy.net and Gw2 Wiki

Obviously if you want to craft ascended it’s going to be 500 weaponsmith, 500 Armorsmith and 500 Huntsmen. If you Just want to use the Anthology of Heros and change the stats of ascended gear you already own that of course is better.

All of the sinister accessories are personal story rewards except for 1 ring and 1 trinket that can be bought in silver wastes with bandit crests. The Mordrem loop is a personal story rewards as well. Check Dulfy.net for all the guides. Basically its a big PVE grind but free.

Sinister armor and weapon recipes can be bought of the TP for next to nothing. The insiginas and the inscription recipies can be bougt with bandit crests in the silverwastes. Again its a PVE grind.

Vipers recipies can be bought of the TP, insiginas, and inscriptions are bought in Auric Basin for Lump of Aurillium. You need exalted mastery to purchase them. Also PVE grind.

You will get a box of exotic vipers gear from your personal story that you can select armor or weapons from. I am also told the quest is repeatable on other characters. So If you have a lot of lvl 80s that you want to grind through the story you can get some vipers weapons and armor for free that way. Huge PVE grind.

Thaddeus.4891:

Warlord.9074:

problem is that reapers bring nothing to the table in terms of group support so given the DPS is not as strong and they don’t offer support why chose a reaper over an engi or a warrior.

Because raid are a group of 10 players. Yes Warrior bring banners, but after you have two of them, the third don’t don’t bring much more than dps.

The engie bring blast for water field, but the vast majority of group in raid don’t use them because they need some coordination unless you blast your own Healing Turrets, Mortar Water fields. Stealth is useless in raids and might is almost never a problem, meaning that the support from an engie is pretty much some cc and some healing. The reaper too can bring CC, so the difference between the support of a Warrior, Reaper and Engineer isn’t that much (Unless you don’t have at least one PS Warrior or 2 of them for Gorseval and Sabetha).

And reaper bring A LOT for Gorseval with chill and epidemic.

I’m not aginst reapers in raids I am just pointing out that basically what a reaper can bring to the table another class can bring more. Engi and Warrior both bring more CC than a reaper too. It isn’t becasue reaper doesnt have lots of CC its that break bars are based on hard CC types like daze stuns and knockdowns. It isn’t just cc, water fields from the engi and cc, tactics and str banner, and battle standard from the warrior.

Both those classes offer much more than this in terms of group support. While in a perfect comp thats all they need to bring in un perfect comps there are a lot options engis and warriors have in utility and traits that can improve the comp with minor changes to fill a void or fix a problem. Necros have nothing like that.

You can craft it from recipes in auric basen. You need exalted mastery to buy it. Vipers isn’t much better than sinister its basically the same but with condi duration.. Just due to the condi duration nerf you need a Viper weapon and the mordrem loop(amulet) to reach 100% condi duration on bleeds and burns. OR a Viper weapon and full viper armor and no amulet. You don’t need full vipers. Id suggest not doing that if you are on a budget.

You should read the forum theres another thread that already has the burnzerker builds in it.
I’ll throw u a bone. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Budget-Raid-Build-BurnZerker/first#post5801788

Adjust.6903:

Limited on gold thus far I’d rather have 1 set for now think ill grab the vipers condi gear for now and grab power later. We doing alright in Ye olds pve still yeah? Rev gets boring lol

Vipers is the most expensive set in the game right now.

problem is that reapers bring nothing to the table in terms of group support so given the DPS is not as strong and they don’t offer support why chose a reaper over an engi or a warrior.

voice coms optional? no thanks.

GS
I don’t like knockbacks on GS. I think GS burst skill is strong already Arc Divider is extremely strong now.
Hammer
I don’t like the hammer providing confusion since hammer is not a condi weapon. Plus we already have a build like this its called distracting strikes. And no it doesn’t work that well due to where the trait is located. I would prefer distracting strikes to be just moved from Strength into arms. The other hammer skill sounds LOL but its not any worst than what hammer has already.
Rifle
Again same thing with Rifle its not a condi weapon its pure power so building a condi build that uses a rifle sounds like a terrible choice. The berserker burst skill also already dazes. I like your burst skill Idea but I would prefer leaving kill shot alone giving up a skill that can 1 shot people for one that just bocks projectiles is a bad idea. However I wouldn’t mind this skill replacing any other skill besides volly and kill shot.

Long Bow
I like some of your ideas here I just don’t like them as a burst skill. Currently the Longbow burst skill for berserk mode is considered over powered. Why do you want to change that.

Axe
Again you try to turn a pure power weapon into giving a few condis when If you speced for condis to take advantage of that you would do no damage.

I like the idea of the burst skill but again I think Eviscerate is very strong now it just needs buffed a little. I wouldn’t mind your pull Idea replacing one of the off hand Axe skills.

Mace
I like the activation part but I disagree with changing the burst skill its already very strong if not OP.

sword
I like the idea of just adding a blind to one of the skills. In general I think warrior needs ways to apply blinds on other weapons as well. I don’t like your burst skill idea.

Shield
It’s an off hand weapon off hand weapons don’t have burst skills. I Shield currently is very strong when traited. Needs to be left alone.

War Horn
Again off hand weapon it doesn’t have a burst skill. It needs a buff but not with confusion although I wouldn’t mind. I don’t know why you want to add confusion onto every weapon. Warriors will never get access to this much confusion since they already have distracting strikes and confusion is more of a mesmer thing. However I do think we should have more blinds.

For groups you shouldn’t substitute a condi war for a PS war. A condi war should come in addition to a PS war. Condi or Power works fine in solo. Check the forum builds are posted.

If you are bored with GS, Axe is even less exciting your rotation is literally just pressing 1 have fun with that.

In order from best to good.
Nikes
Warlords
Thaddeus’s

Thaddeus.4891 Build is also an alternative. My build doesn’t use smoldering or Agony and leaves the option for the player to use toxic tuning crystals if they don’t want to use Malice. It also maximizes your immob, Cripple and all other condis warrior has access to. While Thaddeus’s does a good job at maxing burns and bleeds the way it should be.

With mine or thaddeus you can probably get away with exotic sinister armor as long as you have a Vipers ascended weapon, the mordrem loop, and all ascended sinister accesorys. Your DPS would probably be still in line of acceptable.

Becasue in NIkes build you have no way to generate fury unless you count throwing your warrior banner out. Becasue Heralds generate all the fury for the raid that is needed it’s not needed for you to bring fury.

Capa I’m going to stop replying to you because you sound like someone who has never experienced the encounter the build is designed for. Yet you continue to argue the merits of it.

what sustain do you need in PVE.

I take it for adrin and might on swap also. You are forgetting heighten focus? Plenty of other traits in dis that makes it mandatory. Heighten focus is arguably more mandatory now after the adrin decay nerf.

Thanks for that. I wanted to max immobs and cripples thats why I didn’t want to use smoldering or agony.

Should use burst mastery with Burnzerker and not tactics. Burst Mastery allows you to get 4 scorching earths in a row and 5 with alacrity.

I can see the bnefits of running tactics on VG if you are in the circle team your focousing on green circles not perfect rotations. You remain ranged the whole time and camp longbow when running to circles. The only time you really need to have decent rotations is when you go to your red boss or burn phases your group set up.. So I can see how burning arrows in this scenario can be better.

On Gorseval you want burst mastery period no substitute.

If you want to run something to help break a bar run wild blow its better. Shield is not a condition weapon and besides skull grider mace has no condis. Skull grinder is also weaker than skull crack. You are comparing a 1 sec daze to a 3 sec stun. Its a DPS loss to use mace shield even swapping to that set.

On Gorseval you are needed to immobilize the adds so using anything other than sword torch is not optimal for that either.

You are also forgetting Balth does nothing for your cripple or immob duration both needed on gorseval. The only boss this build is really strong on is Gorseval so in this point I dont understand how you dont understand. Trust me people a lot smarter than my self have already figured this out I am just here to pass along a build alternative that isn’t as expensive.

^ I only asked for more damage on one skill, most of what I asked for is utility and easier to land hits. Warriors main problem is they can’t stick to targets. In PVE thats not a problem bcuz targets just stand there.

Warrior has burning and bleeding on LB and sword Torch, Plus it has Bleed on Crit and shattering blow. Adding an Earth sigil also helps Bleeds. Trust what I am saying dude I wouldn’t give false info.

But exactly capa thats why I decided not to go the full Viper rout. Same results less gold.

TLDR you need to run some Viper now but full Viper is not necessary.

Dahkeus.8243

Put it in a builder and you can see the differences. Play with it till you can get 100% on Bleeds and Burns without going over. For somone like me who already had ascended sinister it makes a lot of since to leave it alone and just use a viper weapon and amulet with my rune set up.

You lose some condi damage going Viper for the sake of Duraition. So sinister with going 4 nightmare 2 Trapper you are only looking at 28 less condition damage and the same duration.