Guild Wars 2

personally my fav lvling was sword/pistol and focus on crit toss in cheap blood sigils in the sword and a bloodlust sigil in pistol. SB off hand for travel an you can tank anything and drop it quick with the swords number 3 ability. I would do both thiefs like that so no matter who has agro your still leaching life. Kinda like a Leach tank i guess ya could call it? i dunno then when you get your elite mixed with thiefs guild its crazy my thief can take out 6 mobs same lvl as me no sweat at all no need for stealthing or anything. and of course the heal number 6 ability that leachs as well.

oh and for more added life leaching you can pick up strawbery cake i think it is out of TP for 1copper each and it leaches as well.

i can run threw it fine but the server is lagging things that normally appear in the distance dont faze in until im right up to them but where there is no snow i can see things a long way away. it isnt my pc i know that for a fact lol its way above guild wars standards.

I totally agree with OP its time to get rid of this crap lagg fantastic snow…. its past christmas the snow needs to go, quit laggin out the game with junk and fix your old stuff… thats how i feel honestly…

its a hard question to answer without seeing your spec what weapons you use the rest of your jewlery im assuming emeralds? theres really alot of things but yea i would say around 3ktoughness avoid more thats plenty even 2500 is good enuff but then again all depends on if you like to be a meat shield take hits using 1handers or crit with 2handers or ranged it all depends. cant really get one solid anwser without knowing more.

ragingpuma.4618:

I want less skimpy armour. please leave the skimpy kitten to the lesser mmo’s that i have no interest in playing. or atleast give us male skimpy armour so as i feel males are degraded also ty..

Lol your name says it all… urban says thats 30-39 not old enuff to be a cougar but close lol…

you know even considering the price i think i would stay pack just cause it gives might fury and swiftness to you and allies when you attack

rendering strikes is a adept skill so is deep cuts. i personally like rune of the pack.. cause in reality its cheaper then runes of the eagle lol i would go with more attack runes what ever ya go with.

na the rest are all good an all about dmg just depending on if you wanna do it threw bleeding or vulnerability i my self take the vulnerability over the bleed but its really just personal preference. i do got a question though about what kind of jewlery you wear? did you go emeral jewlery as well for the power toughness percision?

so i would say change your hole tactics tree and 1 of your arms trees…

for the arms tree drop rendering strikes or deep cuts which ever and pick up opprtunist
for tactis i would get leg specialist, inspiring banners,inspiring battle standard.

now the 2 traits opportunist and leg specialist make it so when you blade trail you gain fury per target hit so hit multiple targets get multiple stacks.

so that being said i would drop for great justice on your utility skill bar and get banner of discipline it will give you 100% regen uptime and another 90percision. keep endure pain and keep shake it off.

you will still maintain your dps and keep your fury stacks with blade trail but you will have 100% regen you dont have to carry the banner either just plant it and forget it. still buffs you and it has a very nice radius.

I would stick with shout healing but you gota have +healing gear to be worth a junk with shout heals. when your gathering an stuff shout heals will be better for nocking off conditions and burst heals while runing past mobs. in a dungeon though it really depends on what you want to do. more then 1 shout heals warrior in a dungeon is nice cause alot of healing, but more then 1 banner regen warrior is kinda pointless. since 1 warrior can keep up regen 100% of time. as far as ur traits i would follow this. on the site hit the hexigon to check out trait specs.

http://tinyurl.com/arfwtby

Oglaf likes to troll warrior forums… anyhow here is my shout heals cleric gear with soldier runes build. I like axe/mace and wep swap to shield for block if need range i carry a bow too. sigil of blood in axe and sigil of life in mace.

http://tinyurl.com/arfwtby

the first option is very tanky and still does decent dmg. thats what i used at first now im more dmg oriented with a banner regen build here it is. GS and axe/horn sigil of blood in both main hands and the one that steals hp on weapon swap on horn.

http://tinyurl.com/b4tzsw3

I like this one personally more cause more dmg. I use Knights gear with it 3 emerald jewelry’s and 2 sapphire’s and i use Pack runes cause eagle cost to much imo and they work just as well.

yea the gear your using and trait lines you went for a dungeon are amazing at face tanking. you can tank everything and not worry about your hp just save shake it off for the knock downs and you will do great with that build. thats what i originally ran with axe and mace as well with a sigil of blood and sigil of life it. the only down side to the build your dmg out put. but it makes up for it because most mobs will be attracted to you wile you hold stuff still ur group just pounds it down.

axe hits hard cause it scales best with power most gear gives power so it compliments nice. sword uses condition to make up lack of dmg it ticks bleeds. mace hits hard but slow and offers some support skills. like everyone else said axe really has no gap closer so in order to close gap you have to use another weapon in weapon swap, or use a utility, or waste a trait for the imobalize but even then thats only 1second. anyways either way you go your wasting a trait could be better used or burning cooldowns so i think its pretty fair.

lol recently nice signature im from sea of sorrows and i gota agree with you.

Gorge Express.7163:

Your best bet would be to go full glass cannon in both traits and gear. Dodge well, and everything will be ok. Warriors don’t have what it takes to be a great support or control, unfortunately.

an sorry but i LOLED so hard on this troll post warriors are the second best after guardians as far as support. who else offers on direct heals and 100% regen and condition removal with multiple utilitys lol.

So i run Knights gear you can prolly do this in berserker too, but i just prefer toughness since your always in melee range, and emerald jewlery. i use sigil of blood in great sword and axe and in warhorn its the steal health when swapped to forgot what it is called. Its a blast i have alot of fun playing this banner regen cause everytime you blade trail you get a stack of might so more targets you hit with blade trail more might you get cause of the 2 traits work together they proc off each other. oh btw push the hexigon in middle of screen to view trait set up.

http://tinyurl.com/b4tzsw3

i would boot a 5sig warrior as well. you bring no support, my banner regen warrior does probably as much dmg as a 5sig, but he puts regen on the hole team for 100% of time. An if somone drops an ya dont wanna waste time picking them up boom banner brings them back to life. its just not a good support build warriors have so much support and to ignore that support is hurting your team cause they may not be able to be as supportive as you.

i know rune of soldiers works cures conditions each time you shout its the only one i pick for shout healing set.

So i used to play shout heals with axe main hand mace off hand its decent its strong survivability but the dmg is lacking. so i changed up to banner regen and i like it alot better just my opinion but heres the build. if you dont know how to work this site the hexigon in the middle of the screen will show you the traits.

http://tinyurl.com/bbt642u

the 2 traits oportunist and leg specialist go hand in hand. so everytime you blade trail you get 1 stack of fury which is increased in duration with the more mobs it hits so you can get alot very fast. the one banner is all you need for 100% regen up time i use knights gear power/percision/toughness and 3emerald jewlery’s and 2 sapphire. my dmg is not weak at all its not zerker dmg but i get 6.5k crits in ac all the time scaled up to 80 its like 14k-16k crits. anyways give it a shot its alot of fun if you dont like playing a tankier shout heals warrior.

I personally like knights gear depends on ut build ur runing if ur doing shout heals i would say neither if ur doing banner regen i would say knights. So what play style u looking at?

Sweet im going to change that tonight then thats nice. Thanks for pointing that out to me.

so i got to thinking about that trait you mentioned do you know if the fury gained stacks in duration if the blade trail hits multiple targets? if so thats freakin awesome or does it only count for 1 target?

well i held onto them and sold them for 24g yesterday haha made a big profit i wish i woulda bought a ton

yea i know just i never use my adrinaline with greatsword and i only use it with axe to finish a mob off so its nice amount of crit.

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Cook.6753:

I did have a quick question – does your offhand proc as often as the main hand? For my weapons I put steal health on each, I figured the regen of the healing signet plus the steal health would make my survivability a non-issue.

The proc rate is multiplicative and can proc on hit from either weapon.

With two sigils each giving 10%, you get an overall proc rate of 19%.

^Correct and if you were to use another sigil say like one that has a 45second cooldown then your sigil of blood would not be 2second cooldown if the other sigil proced, they share the same cooldowns. That being said its good to use the same sigil or if you wanted to put another on just make sure it dosnt have a cooldown. like +10power each kill stacking 25times or what ever.

well in the build i have power tree has only 10 points in it so it would drop it down to 0. because instead of going for the 10%dmg i went with the 9% crit in discipline and the 10% crit dmg bump from 10 points. so to do that would take that build to 0 str tree 30 arms tree.

Thats pretty cool never noticed that. in order to do it though would have to extend the arms tree out another tier and drop the power tree and shout trait. which would be cool though cause would free up a new utility for something like on my mark or endure pain.

Yea its a little low, but thats where the higher crit and having more life leaching from sigil of blood comes. With the greatsword that thing procs all the time to mitigate the lower armor. you actually have more for what ever reason it dosnt add in the toughness on the calculator from gear.

Ok got the url’s fixed. Yea the DPS isnt as high if say you ran in berserker gear which for the second one you can flip that out for a couple pieces and stay good but to make things simple i said all knight. Only problem with running berserker gear sure ya do alot of dps but you cripple the group by making people rez you i hardly go down with both builds.

So as this says its for PVE warrior builds im going to post what i learned with 2 types of builds as far as dungeons. Both are extremely viable and fun. So as i see alot of builds dont use this site so if your unfamilur with it in the middle of the screen there is 3 tabs the symbols are 2 squares ontop of each other, a hexagon and a helm. use these to scroll between weapon set up, traits, runes.

http://tinyurl.com/aly4u2p

So this is Shout Heals. I use Clerics gear, and sapphire jewelry for mad healing. I put the shouts in order 7,8 being spamable, or used to heal party members, 9 being situational if a mob stuns save it to break stuns, if not heal people with it. Just dont waste it and then find yourself needing it when its on cool down. I chose axe as main hand because it scales the best with power so all the gear you use uses power it does decent dps. Mace off hand control and vulnerability. Warhorn weapon swap weakness and swiftness poor mans protection.

So the focus of this build is mass support lots of healing with shouts, and condition removal, stacking vulnerability opening the mob up so your higher dps’s can rip it apart, and control with mace stun ability, chances are with the gear set up you will have agro, All while maintaining high dps cause of axe’s scaling ability with power.

Second

http://tinyurl.com/d3uoo5q

So this is Banner Regen. I use Knights gear and emerald jewelry for power precision and toughness. Since regen scales horribly with healing power I think its best to shy away from it and focus on other stats. The utility slots 7 is banner obviously banner regen build needs a banner. I like it cause it provides precision as well as the regen. I only use 1 banner because thats all that is needed when it disappears your cooldown will disappear to allowing you to keep that banner active 100% of the time. Slot 8 I use for great justice cause who dosnt like fury and might. an 9 I use Shake it off agian for stun breaker nothing sucks more then laying on the ground for 5seconds after a mob sweeps your feet out from under you. Use greatsword for the dps its fast and hits everything in front of you. Weapon swap axe/warhorn axe scales best to power as i previously said and warhorn provides weakness and swiftness.

Focus of this build is high DPS while maintaining toughness and not being squishy mitigating your hp with regen from signet, blood sigil, and banner regen. An of course providing group with 100% regeneration and fury/might boons.

I run both of these builds I love them no one is better then the other they both work well just depends on your play style. Im trying to work on a sword main hand build, but since the market is kinda expensive right now im limited in funds. An testing out new stuff means i need condition gear which I dont have, but ill get around to it soon.

Oh and when i have to range i use a long bow for both weapon sets. I dunno what it is about guns but i hate hearing the shooting noise so i always use the bow.

Anyways let me know what ya think criticism is welcomed and hope this helps people looking for ideas.

Here is what i run for dungeons just made it last night i was doing shout heals but i wanted something that did more dmg so.. went banner regens i use knights gear ogre runes 3emerald jewlery 2 saphire jewlery working on switching to all emerald anyways.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNBhODbk0J7N5x5BHOAceQFTNpK0W6RYotGA

so sense your lvl 35 i kinda tweeked it to say if you were lvl 40 but not using teir 3 skills anyways hope this helps its what i used to lvl up to 60 then totally changed it up at 60 cause signet build kinda losses its use at higher lvls were the signets dont help as much cause the gear is so good. anyways check it out.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNBhODbk0p3N3x5hJSAgKYlpQRHFQxkqQbA

Yea no problem good luck!

cool deal give it a shot the reason i say go arms trait line is cause the first 5 points give a chance to do bleeds on crits along with swords bleeds will give ya that many more stacks of bleed. then the 10 will give vulnerability as well openeing them up even more. its viable no doubt warriors are solid all around. you could also try a warhorn it gives weakness to targets kinda the poor mans protection boon if dmg is still a factor also who dosnt love swiftness just some ideas.

but if you want to stick with sword main hand then i sugest going arms getting rendering strikes. then going with either shield or mace off hand but your going to need gear with condition dmg.

well the axe main hand’s auto attack is a aoe. as well as its number 2 and stacks vulnerability.

Hey Cook so normally i would say get all your signets and go with the greatsword its dmg is amazing for lvling. Sense you want to stray away from that I would switch your weapons up a little bit. The axe OH is not bad for aoes but single target its horrible I would put the axe in main hand cause the auto attack axe does its actually the same dmg as the number 5 in off hand. BTW axe scales better then any other weapon with power. Then for off hand to increase your survivability I would run Mace for the control it brings or Shield for the added block and stun. Sword is a great weapon the only problem with it is you need condition dmg to scale it to where its anything close to a axe. at low lvls most gear you find will have power and another stat so just makes sense to use the scaling of a axe with it. as far as your traits go there are 3 that stand out in my mind for the first tier that are nice beserkers power in strength tree, turtles defense in defense tree, hightened focus in discipline. they all work good jsut depending on what you feel you like. As for skills I would recomend Healing signet its heal is low but its heal over time is amazing. I also recomend using signet of fury when you can cause +90persision at low lvls is amazing. at higher lvls obviously its not so much but at first it will boost your crit big time. i have lvled a guardian ranger and warrior to 80 and my warrior is by far my fav class so much i just use the other 2 to farm nodes. hope this helps.

sorry ment to put this in there when using axe main hand if you get the adrinaline traits that make you do more dmg or higher crit with more adrinaline only use your f1 burst skill when finishing mobs off cause if used threw fight its a dps loss.

Lol banner range is huge i dropped one yesterday testing it at the weapon smith in LA an had regen up to BLTC entrance thats huge

You looking for a pve build or pvp?

i agree ^^ my warrior is a combat medic too lol its a blast healing i wish they would make the minors stronger though rezzing isnt something i do often just cause my shout heals keeps people on thier feet

yea try using number 3 in pve it has like maybe a 20%chance to bring you back chances are you die in pvp it might be strong but in pve pop it right before the mob finishes you and you have no other options cause chances are your dead anyways.

yea, im on a cell phone so its a pain. anyways compaired to what it was to make exotics its just insane. thats all im trying to say last time i checked for a exotic crafted set and 1 exotic weapon i was looking at 20g if i bought the mats. where it used to be 11g to buy a box of exotic gear lol.

What is going on with the Economy all the mats for everything are disappearing can we get higher drop rates off of mobs any time soon? i understand alot of people pvp few pve but the ones that are pveing for mats and stuff just cant keep up with the demand its insane. fix it plz? raise the drop rates plz… or lower mat requirments on things 250 for everything is kinda strange sense im lucky to get 2 ectos in 2hrs farming ectos for 250hrs is insane and i cant afford to buy them for 40s a pop cause even if i grind gold for 2hrs ill make what 2-3g lol its crazy. for the average player atleast and i say average as i have a job and wife that come before the game so i get 2hrs a night or so somtimes more.. or put them on the gem store hell ill pay real money for the mats i dont care i got a job just quit nerfing all the drops rates before i quit a unplayable game please. i actually have fun on this game but want to look decent im not even talking legendarys just named stuff i blew legendarys off a long time ago.

Shaka.9270:

So i’ve been trying a bit of dungeons using things you all have suggested, and it’s a lot of fun! I’m running full shouts (FGJ, SIO, FM) with signet of rage. I never used the banners before, but i noticed every one of them has blast finishers so in a firefield that’s a lot of might + FGJ. Yeah being limited on my traits sucks for right now but i’m getting by. For my AC runs I’ve been using sword/warhorn with mace/shield switch. But trying to mix it up everytime.

so for sword are you using condition dmg or does your gear have alot of power on it? you may want to flip in a axe instead prolly see a dmg increase

So since your only lvl 35 i would wait until your lvl 40. So you can open up your second trait line but even then sense you ca t do shout heals i would do banner regen an stick with the great sword. Or if you have a problem with staying alive with the greatsword go axe shield for added block the axe actually scales best with power sword you need condition dmg and if theres a thief necro or ranger chances are your bleeds wont be on the target cause theirs is stronger. Since i cant look up the baner regen trait i duno if you can get it or not but once you hit 60 i would recommend shout heals its amazing support and survivability with axe main hand mace off hand or shield or hammer what ever you prefer

I seen this coming and bought 500 of them back in the day for like 1s each so ill unload them on the market here before to long for ya

i understand there is no “tank” but put a thief up to my warrior you have a tank… lol anyways i dont know how i hold agro but even if i get downed i still hold it. thats the only problem that i have. but seriously ill keep a boss on me for 90% of the time face tanking him and taking a beating but i can keep my self alive with my shouts wile the others just dont worry about dodging we run a mesmer ele me warrior guardian and a necro and ill hold agro except for certian mobs like howlers those stupid things will run right past me to the clothies but the breeders and champions will hook to me like glue. in AC that is. i dunno if its cause im stacked with thoughness or what but as far as if there was a guardian in the group there is and i like him better with his staff and gs he can actually dps like that and with axe main hand your still a dps now if i went mace main hand i could be more tanky sure but lose a ton of dps.

PS if you dont like me using the word tank every time i say it sub in the word controller cause ultimatley thats what im doing controlling everything so the group can just aoe and not worry about single targets and dodging. anyways there is healing there is toughness there are tanks and healers it depends on what way you go and there may be no taunt but there definitely is tanks

heres a definition i found and is what i do : “Tank” characters are especially important in large group instances. A Tank’s job is to stand before the group, using their abilities and high armor values to force a particular “mob” (or group of) to continue attacking the Tank, while other characters contribute to over all damage while not taking damage themselves.

So I tank on a warrior in pve i also have a guardian both 80 both exotics my warrior is my go to guy for tanking dungeons and ill let ya know why. axe main hand axe off hand or shield depends on what your doing sigil of blood on main hand axe and the healing one on off hand. i forgot the name of it and to lazy to look it up i think its life but not positive. 30 tactics 30defense 10arms the arms get the vulnerability on crit i run with clerics gear for the healing and toughness and axe scales best with power i use 2 emerald rings and rest of jewlery is saphire i run healing shouts. by the way i hold agro 90% of the time so heres why i like it so much its great survivability you do alot of dmg with axe cause it scales with power and your still a tank. and if you want more dmg in aoe situations you got your axes off hand 5 button its not so good vs 1 target but vs 3 plus its amazing and it also opens up alot of vulnerability increasing your groups dmg my tactics are i run in pop 2 and 5 then switch to shield and block wile group aoes why? lame right i dont do alot of dmg. no but i do put about 5-10stacks of vulnerability on every target in that short time everything is focused on me and my group can pop all thier big aoes without the hassle of dodging wich increases my groups overall dmg out put making things fast very fast. for bosses i usually use axe/mace for the controll it offers and vulnerability stacking if i have to range i run long bow for the aoe. anyways from my experiance warriors are better tanks then guardians beacuse they offer the group lots of heals with shouts stun breaker and might buffs vulnerability stacking. guardians are solid tanks but they have horrible output dmg with mace shield the best weapon they got to do dmg with and stay tanky is hammer both are good but i like warrior much better.

oh and by the way everytime somone says there is no tank in this game add me to your friends list and ill run a dungeon with you and ill prove you wrong i dont know what its based off of healing power or toughness or vitality or heavy armor or what but i hold agro 90% of a dungeon run

An the spike didnt happen from buying gems with cash cause the cash for gems option was disabled when this spike happened i think its more or less anet made a change to the market when they brought it down which caused a spike and people with gems at the time either took advantage of the sell option at the time cause it was still enabled or anet brought it back down to its normal rate before they changed something

So say i want to buy 100gems and it costs 1g25s. if i turn around and sell the 100gems for gold i would only get 1gold. im not sure exactly what the tax rate is but i know its really steep. the only way to make gold off of doing that would be to buy some gems and hold them until the price received would be higher then price paid to make money at it. Its hard to figure out exactly what the tax rate is. And how much buy drives the price up but im sure its in anets favor.