Guild Wars 2

Btw, Endure Pain doesn’t work on many bosses, especially the ones that 1 shot you.

You are giving your party members a second heal. Most professions have a 20-30 seconds CD heal that heals them for 4-6k. You give them another heal pretty much with your shouts. If that alone, excluding the buffs is not worth it, then you’re doing your math wrong. You also remove conditions, you res people faster, buff people for extra damage, something like 15-20% with “On My Mark” + “For Great Justice”… just a lot of advantages overall

If you want to have a great experience in PvE as a warrior I highly suggest a toughness gear composition with 0/0/30/30/10 (the 10 points in Discipline so shouts give you adrenaline). You want to use your mace/hammer for stuns to reduce the damage people are taking but then you also want to get your adrenaline back as fast as possible so you can get your passive heal. Use the signet heal too for PvE.

I’ve been playing a shouts warrior with a hammer mace/shield in PvE and it was the best decision I’ve ever made. I could actually tank bosses all by myself while the other 4 members wiped and were running back. When I say tank bosses I don’t mean actually take every hit, I would obviously dodge, block and so forth and not all the bosses, but still, I could take a lot of hits if I played it right.

As a shouts warrior I was also able to keep dumb party members alive by healing them when they didn’t dodge an important attack or simply revive them much faster when they were downed.

Playing a shouts warrior properly legit reduced the number of my wipes to 0. I didn’t play a + healing shouts warrior either, all knights gear (toughness, power, precision) so my damage was still up there.

I can’t stress out of my personal experience how important it is for every party member to bring something to the team. It makes a huuuge difference.

Thanks!
@ Kravick.4906 : During sieges I use a Bow because I can get the extra range from my 10 points in tactics and the AoE damage is much more efficient.

I have Swiftness up 100% of the time with my 3 different rune sets and with Savage Leap I can catch up to people really fast. It is much more difficult to play melee than ranged because you’re always in the middle of a fight, always in danger, but I find it more entertaining and I really appreciate the challenge. I really enjoy the thrill and no fight is ever the same. The way I view my warrior is as a melee fighter so even though I’m at a disadvantage I just like it better. The main problem I found was getting away when things got really rough so that’s why I opted for the 100% swiftness, Savage Leap and double Ignore Pain.

@ custard.6152 I haven’t played that yet, however I don’t think you need to get as much toughness as I went for in my WvWvW video. Fights in sPvP tend to be much more balanced such as 2v2 or 3v3 where in WvWvW you often find yourself at a disadvantage. I would probably aim towards power/precision/x and depending on what my teammates are playing probably even give up on the “100% uptime on Swiftness” Rune combination.

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@ Pain Trait.2319: As long as you stay away from the zerg and try and go for smaller objectives you’ll find people that do the same on the roads. Generally if I see around 3-4 people I go straight in. If I see more I try and mess with them to get a few to follow me. With the build and gear showed at the end I’m able to get away really fast so people can’t really catch me. I have 100% swiftness and Savage Leap is on a short CD so I can get places fast. I’m pretty much built around fighting multiple opponents at the same time. The hammer has some great AoE control, I have 2 Ignore Pains, I reflect projectiles with Shield Stance, I immobilize people on cripple and so forth. It’s a lot of fun to play!

Thanks! Glad you guys enjoyed it!

This is a hammer and sword with shield montage from WvWvW. The video shows examples of high mobility, damage, defense, control and quick escapes as a hammer warrior. You can find info on build and gear at the end of the video.

This is a hammer and sword with shield montage from WvWvW. The video shows examples of high mobility, damage, defense, control and quick escapes as a hammer warrior. You can find info on build and gear at the end of the video.

Update:
Many of the people who enjoyed Matale 7 were very curious about how I play the build in different situations and how the build normally performs outside of a “montage” where I would obviously include just the best clips. The following is a raw, 12 minutes long continuous clip of action packed Hammer WvWvW, very similar to all the clips that I normally record and then extract the more spectacular fights out of. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f6RtnSyz62A

Ronah.2869:

Good point. Now it only shows which players had more time to waste on grinding than how good they are.

Exactly. It’s not really anything to be proud of. I don’t think there is a set of gear in the game right now that shows skill as opposed to a grind and that’s a shame. This is the one MMO that feels like its based on skill and agility and not on a boring rotation.

A quick comparison to WoW would be that PvE tokens or certain PvP gear required either some bosses to go down or a certain rating. I feel like that was done right and I’d really like to see something similar brought into this game.

I’m really happy with it so far, I feel like its YEARS ahead of anything else in this genre right now and this would be a really good step in the right direction.

At this point in the game, the PvE gear that you buy with shards is simply just a grind. People do farm runs all the time, trying to maximize their income of shards per hour because it takes so long to get all the pieces.

Lets look at the legendary as somewhat of a contrast however. Although it also requires quite a grind to get it done, one of the requirements is 100% map completion which says a lot about the person who has it. That person pretty much knows the entire map, has been just about everywhere, did all the quests and so forth.

Why not bring that same feeling into PvE gear. Instead of having to grind 1500 shards to get your entire set, why not cut that down to 750 but have each piece of gear require a certain path completed. This way, when you see a person wearing a full PvE set, you know he’s done that place entirely and he’s pretty much an expert. This would actually add meaning to someone who’s wearing the gear and would show an accomplishment and not a 2 boss 30 hours grind.

At this point in the game, because how things are done, many people don’t even care or want to do full runs. They might do them for the first 100-200 shards and then they say “this isn’t worth it” lets farm the first “x” number of bosses, it’s quicker that way.

Thanks for taking the time to read my suggestion.

Can you guys please change it so that I’m allowed to use my utility skills when a Mesmer turns me into a bird? It feels like I’m in that shape forever and my HP quickly goes down with me not being able to do anything about it. Let me use my immunity skill or a condition removal or a stun breaker to get out of it like with any other form of CC. The skill is very equivalent to a stun, it’s not like being able to move helps me avoid damage in any shape, most of the times we’re fighting in open space so I don’t have anywhere to hide behind. If I’m lucky I’ll have a dodge available if I didn’t use them up to that point.

Please do something about that, it’s so stupid. Make it break on damage, shorter duration, longer cast time so I can at least see it and avoid it, something!

Thanks

This is the nicest reply I’ve ever seen from a dev on any forum. I’m speechless.

Swiftness and Warrior’s Sprint do not stack. I recorded a video running in a straight line with Swiftness and the Warrior’s Sprint trait, then walked backwards so I’d run exactly the same path and tried running it just with Swiftness. I compared the 2 videos and the 2 runs were identical.

Hi there,

At this point, the warrior’s GS is one of those weapons that has one and very specific build that works, which revolves around setting up 100 Blades. You basically need Bolas or Bull’s Charge to be able to use it in PvP and it makes the spec boring, you always do the same thing, like a 1 trick pony.

Why not change the skill so it’s also usable while moving, but the hits done while moving do half the damage or something like that. This would open the greatsword to many other new and exciting builds.

Thanks for reading!

MadMossy.8715:

Im a mace/shield + hammer build warrior, running, 10/0/30/30/0 using Knight gear, works really well so far. I may consider switching to power/toughness/healing power gear at some point to see how much of a difference it makes.

I’m running something similar too, but 0/0/30/30/10 with shouts giving adrenaline. I like using the Hammer stun quite often, it makes the whole experience more entertaining jumping all over the place stunning enemies. On a more serious note, if you stun 2-3 targets for 2 seconds, you’re saving your team 3-5k damage so it’s really helpful. I also use Earthshaker for mobility to get out of red circles for example when I’m out of dodges or to jump to people that need resurrection.

With Knight’s gear it works really really well, make sure to also get trinkets rings amulets and so forth with knight stats. I have roughly around 2200 toughness and I feel like I can tank bosses for quite some time, obviously with the right dodges and blocks. I’d also suggest getting the Sigil of Blood to steal health on criticals as I have around 60% crit with fury up.

Dungeons are a pretty different story for a melee warrior, try some on explore.

Hammer works really well with a shouts build, rifle is pretty good, tripple axes also works, sword/shield with bow condition damage is really solid. Do some research on guildwars2guru.com. You can check out some of my videos too at youtube.com/stefanplc

Shrug It Off doesn’t trigger Vigorous Shouts meaning it doesn’t heal you. Is this intended or is this a bug?