I can understand the blobs must annoy you and the karma trains. They annoy me as well but for a different reason. Last week against Millers and Gandara we we’re outmanned on every map until 8pm everyday and the only time some people had to wait to get on a map was on reset night. Now everytime I want to join EB I have to stand in line for 20 min to an hour. Every dc makes you almost want to cry.
It is also hard to find scouts because everyone just wants to take a ride on the karma train. I mean of course I like to run in a zerg and destroy/kill stuff but sometimes scouting or helping the dollys is neccessary.
So well I hope you can still have some fun in the game and see you on the battlefield.
So first of all I’m really new to PvP since I only used to play WvW and I don’t really know a lot of people that do PvP. But for a week now I started to play it and also used the skull crack build. I really liked the build and the concept of PvP as well so I guess I’ll be playing it more and more. I’m curious though, has anyone tried using Sword/Sword instead of the the Greatsword with this build?
I thought about swapping Forceful Greatsword for Blademaster and with Sword 3 you’d also be able to do nice damage plus 3 blocks with the missile deflect seems pretty cool as well.
I’d probably miss my GS 3 evade and the AoE of it but well you can’t have everything.
Just wanted to know the thoughts of some of the more experienced players about that.
cheers to those gda guys, I was having fun tormenting you :p
I wish I could have fought your ft engie alone tho, using autoattack on FT makes pandas sad.
oh and that warrior I kept killing hit really hard :<
dude were you that Gandara Engi General?You almost made me want to quit my warrior and start rolling an engi.I haven’t been owned like that for a while now
I’ve tried around with this build but i’m having problems with the lack of AoE. It is great for 1on1 but if 1 or 2 other players join it is too hard for me to win it. You might be able to make it work pretty good but I guess if I use the mace i’ll go for mace/shield + GS.
1on1 I can kill every class(of course we know most players in wvw aren’t that good) but if there is more then one opponent the GS starts to shine. I guess i might be a bit frustrated now by being killed by 5 or 6 people everytime I tried to find someone to test this build
And yeah i’ve considered to use bulls and mobile strikes. I should give it a go since I usually kill the pve mobs until i have 25 stacks precision and then I can roam anyway. I’m just not sure whether it is better to just use something else than that sigill because if i die i loose a lot of precision.
hey arajal I’ve tried to use the mace more and wanted to know what you think about it. Since I swapped out the GS and lost its evade and mobility it is not that close to your build anymore but being able to block twice seems to work out fine as well. I wanted to be able to dodge a lot, block and be able to set up sword 3 for the finish. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQRBJdxG2InTybLkMETkABVQDPFUC1D8YDjjkCxgNA-jkzAUEI6DMVAkQAk8KiGbZsIasqFMVJq6ER5GINMs3A1dg5PQkBgZBA-w
I have to test it a bit more but so far it seems to work fine. I guess you could use bulls insted of fgj and mobile strikes for your own taste.
Thieves can be pretty annyoing and a good thief if he doesn’t make any mistakes will most of the time be able to get away from you if you don’t hit him with a lucky punch or something.
But most thieves aren’t really good and if their burst damage is so high,then they’re usually glascannons and an easy kill. Try using AoE damage with a long bow or GS whirlwind for example or use something that immobilizes or stuns them like mace/shield. Also being able to block and endure pain against their burst is really nice or just dodge it. If you see him go invisible count till 2 then dodge. Against thieves with a ranged weapon the skill to reflect projectiles while blocking works nice as well.
The best advice I can give you though is just to create a thief and test him a bit in PvP against golems for example so you can just find out what they’re able to do and how far they can go with their invisibility. You can damage them even though you can’t see them. It helps with every class to just get a feeling for what they can do.
I don’t know probably it is just my opinion but specing on just 50% crit with fury and then unsuspecting foe is rather bad and I don’t think many people are doing this. Most roaming builds(probably except hammer) have 70+ % with fury since if you don’t manage to stun your foe you’re left with low dps for a long time. I don’t think it is advisable to hope to get lucky your opponent doesn’t dodge.
Running berserker is definatly a good option but you almost have to do it with melandru or hoelbrak runes + dogged march + lemongrass otherwise conditions will eat you up.I use 2 knight earrings in my builds usually just to get around 2700 toughness.
This is just my personal opinion so I hope I don’t kitten off some people.
Jarettellis Shout builds are quite nice for groups and zergs. Like he said it is support and it works perfectly well. I have never been able to be good at it doing 1on1 though. Althoug I’d change the 10 points in strenght for either unsuspecting foe or 10 points in discipline.
Rez’s build if it works for him seems quite nice but I’m not sure about 2 points:
If you have 25 points in arms I’d guess a sigill of geomancy works better then a sigill of hydromancy just for the synergy to get 10% damage. And if you don’t use cleansing ire i’d use mending or something to get rid of conditions in a critical moment. Condi spam is quite popular these days
So I prefer 0/20/20/0/30 with Gs mace/shield but yeah it always depends on your playstyle.
Since the last patch there have been a lot of decent roaming builds with LB + S/Wh or S+Shield builds as well so I’d suggest the OP to have a look at those. They’re all within the last 2 or 3 pages and also videos of how to play them. (i prefer something like 0/20/20/0/30 or 0/0/20/20/30 <- zerg)
Hope I could help you and I wasn’t trying to criticize the other builds too much I was just wondering why they played their warriors that way. I learn something each day why other people chose their traits.
And check out the ninja build that one of the guys posted on one of the last pages. I’m loving it but i takes a while to get used to it
Yeah as Arajal said,if you take the basics of this build and adjust it a bit to the personal playstyle it just works amazing. I’ve been trying around the last couple of days with longbow+sword/warhorn and mace/shield + GS builds(absolutely amazing right now,just auto attack off the blinds) and they can be pretty crazy as well, but I guess I’ll always come back to Gs+S/Wh because it is so effective and supportive as well. The final cherry on top would be something like a knock back or stun with warhon 5. But yeah then I woke up and still had a nice build
Please stop tormenting the rest of us just because some nosy guys walked around areas you didn’t want them to.
Why not have those invisible walls at the edge of the cliffs?I’ve seen the videos and I think I know why you put those walls in there (even though this thing has been around for half a year or something judging from the videos) and that’s allright.But why is it so difficult to just change the perimeter of those walls?It is blocking map completion and guild trek for no reason at all
I think he’s trying to say that he’ll get revenge on you by killing you later and yell hack as well.He probably thought you boasted about killing him with a hack?
Yeah such a lovely thing. I spent a lot of time over the last couple of days to finish my last 30% for the map completion. And Anet believe me it is no fun at all to run all those low lvl areas with my 80 warrior after 5 months of WvW,almost no visits to PvE except for a couple of dungeons and some of the new content. Also that hidden Point of Interest in the Chantry of Secrets almost drove me mad but now there is just one more waypoint and one Point of Interest left to discover. Hm now where could it be …..
Please fix it, that really shouldn’t be too hard.
hm i’ll try that. I got 20 in tactics anyway for the warhorn trait so I got 3 buffs up all the time.
Oh and I’m talking about WvW not PvP. The increased range there is probably not worth it anyway.
Sry to say this but you are wrong about the stronger bowstrings. I know about the 10% less damage and 1200 range isn’t far above 1000 but with stronger bow strings you’ll have bow 1 and 2 100% combo finishers that add burning to your foes when they’re in your fire field.try it it is definatly something like a must for a bow warrior.
Yeah Arajal I kinda figured out you probably had tried some things as well and I was curious to know why you put the points in strength since I usually don’t put points there. I will definatly try it out since you’re absolutely right, the foes won’t bleed all the time and I loose my extra damage.
I use fgj basically so I can have my fury up all the time and bulls is somewhat unreliable in my opinion but since you use it with mobile strikes it fits in well in your build.
Of course fast hands is a very nice thing but when i’m running in a zerg I don’t fell the need for it as much as when I’m running solo. Yeah sometimes I end up in really bad situations and lie in the dirt but that’s quite often just playig bad on my part.
Tyrions build looks interesting as well but I guess I won’t be able to test it soon since I don’t have the money to buy a new knights armor with hoelbrak runes. It looks a bit like Avlis new build.
Hi first of all thanks for taking the time and write a guide to your build. I tried around with something like this as well but I prefer more crit chance. So I use a build like this now a lot http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNBhYDbE0JGuFS5hJSggKohXGJBToPgHJFiBbA-j0yAEEAyDEVAO5VEN2yYR0YVLYqTYlrgq+Fxbg5PglBgZBA-w
With the sword and the Sigill of Geomancy enemies bleed most of the time so you always do 10% more damage when they bleed. Also you’ll be able to have perma fury and your GS cd is 20% less. The build editor isn’t really that good and my stats are actually a bit better than shown in the editor.Probably it is because of world bonuses or maybe I forgot something.I have around 80% crit chance all the time.
Running in a zerg like this isn’t perfect but i’d advise you to change leg specialist and try empowered since you’ll have a lot of boons which means extra damage.
You also shouldn’t run directly in front of the zerg with this build since when you’re focused you’ll go down pretty soon.
If I run in a zerg I usually play it like this http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNBhYDbE0p2tFS5hJOggZohZxlRSwEJFlBbA-j0yAEEAyDEVAO5VEN2yYR0YVLYqTYlrgq+Fxbg5PglBgZBA-w
You’ll be able to run in front of the zerg and still deal decent damge.
But thanks again for your build since I really love the weapon choice and after trying around a bit those weapons are the ones I always come back to. I just thought you might try out the precision stuff and see if you like it
It was a fun reset night. We had a lot of people fighting and some new commanders tried it as well. It is always good to see RoS again and Riot and Velocity are cool guilds to fight against. It is nice to see Whiteside Ridge put up a real fight as well. So far I really liked it even if it was zerging most of the time.I know this will be an even matchup witch a lot of small scall fights as well when the working week begins. So good luck to you all and I hope we’ll all have fun
Ah how bugs can ruin a nice attack. We were inside Gunnars Keep on their Homelands and the port just continued to be open. We even went inside the Golems again and hit the Watergate and still the port stayed up. So don’t hit the Watergate,it is bugged. Still it is a nice matchup and I’m really enjoying it. So cheers to you all from Dzagonur
After trying out some things I prefer to use sword/sword since the patch because the cd with a shield is too long and I don’t have to trait the shield and can use the points somewhere else. I still think it is nice that some people come up with nice new ideas and show how to actually make them work instead of just pointing out the things they don’t like about a warrior. probably the best thing about the class is that you can make a lot of builds work if you adjust it to your play style.
And yeah I’m a WvW player so I don’t know about PvP sorry. I’ve heard it is really tough for us but after reading some of the threads I think there are still at least 1 or 2 viable builds for a warrior and I got a lot of respect for those that remain and do the best with this so called broken class.
Really great videos and really good skill. I prefer GS + Sword/Shield but your build is something I definatly have to try out. One of the best changes to the warrior in my opinion is the 25% running speed btw since I could swap my warhorn for a shield and still be able to keep up with people running away. I was never a fan of the mace but yeah after seeing this I should definatly give it a go. So cheers for the videos
I actually love the bleed on the sword. Combined with Sigill of Geomancy and 25 points in arms I do 10% more damage all the time. Why would anyone want to change that?Sword is a really great weapon and the dps is fair considered it gives us some of the best weapon skills we have.
Good luck to all of you from Dzagonur. I played against [TUP] and we could definatly learn something from them.Really good play with all those waterfields + explosion. I wish we could do this as well. It is good to see Gunnars again cuz they’re one of our favourites. Nice and fair players and always some good fights. I guess we’ll be squashed during the night and after the weekend anyway but most of us like those fights against good servers. So I hope y’all enjoy the week and let’s have some 1on1s in the JPs if someone bows back.Good luck and see you on the battlefield
Very nice Videos and quite funny as well. I always wanted to try GS/Hammer, but I’ll have to figure out a way to get perma swiftness without losing too much damage, because I really can’t go without it anymore
And thank you for uploading the other links since here in germany we quite often get problems with you tube videos these days.
I’m from Dzagonur and we had a lot of game crashes as well. I tried it again between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. but it didn’t work.it was kinda strange since some people from ts weren’t bothered by that problem but even with a restart I just could’nt stay in the game for more than abour 3 minutes.
It is definatly not easy as a warrior and since I like to play in zergs I have shouts and warhorn traited and the mobility is just awesome but I lack damage.A really good warrior has tried out a lot of builds though and also posted vids how to play them so you might want to check out this link http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/80239-warrior-www-balance-build/page__st__150
He’s doing really good in 1on1 or more and if he’s not running in front he can survive and have fun in zergs as well
I’m from dzagonur and I’ll have to go to sleep now since i’ve been fighting for too long now but this was a really good night.pretty even,everyone had really nice situations.and i finally managed to watch a gvg with guys from vcy(added with a couple of other guys).they did pretty good and I don’t know why many people troll them so much.I guess they’re just kinda jealous
.our commander wanted to watch it so we just stood by and it was fun.
the auto attacks from some weren’t intentionally so i hope it didn’t bother you guys.the ppl that did it were feeling quite embarassed and really did not do it on purpose,well the ones that i know of, not sure what happened at other times,i’m talking about dz borderlands well after midnight.
so let’s hope for a nice week and good game
It’s fine. As I said I like battles like that and I know this happens a lot and to everyone. We were just a bit annoyed last night. You also took our keep from RoS last night if I remember correctly.
It was more like we got from euphoria to being …. what the f just happened. We managed to be in front of Surmia and then we were fighting not to get close to 0 points.I understand RoF though, it is not easy to be the server with the smallest amount of Wvw players and you’re still doing pretty good I’d say.
It still seems kind of strange that RoF and RoS congratulate each other on taking our keep at EB.2 and a half hours of going at us from 2 sides plus taking every camp and tower and you still had problems taking it. It was a lot of fun getting your loot and having an epic battle but we were kind of kitten that both of you had to go at us like that. We should probably take it as a compliment, but it is annoying that RoF hits us in the back every time we have a good battle with RoS.still it was a nice fight and thats what wvw is for.plus i earned like 4g just fighting for that keep.and i have to admit we probably earned it since we made both of you kinda angry since thursday.so keep up the good fights.Even if I sound a bit kitten , I enjoy those kind of fights.
I like to play GS/Hammer sometimes since I got bored of my shout/warhorn skilled warrior.I hope the link works http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQJARSjcONvBPKPMRCEkCNMLMKKCgQpwOqjUhyA-j0yAoLIEGABBg4AlzDb2LI5voVFLiGrSnIqW9g5PKiWNA-w
I use a full set of lyssa and the GS is my main. I use it to build up my adrenaline and then switch to the hammer. A lot of enemies have lost their stability then and i can burst into them and stun them. It depends on what you prefer, it works good with leg specialist as well but since you have a lot of boons in a zerg fight generally. the extra 2% damage per boon work quite well. With my normal build I have 39% crit chance without rage.
I like to play in a zerg but also it works pretty good in a 1on1 fight and the condition removals are quite nice.
Sorry my english isn’t perfect, but if you have the money for lyssa runes you could give the build a try.
As buff food I use Loaf of Saffron Bread and Quality Maintenance Oil which are both rather cheap but help nicely with conditions and give you more power.
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