Papa's Elements Build

This build is based on Elements. Earth (Earthquake), Wind (Whirling Axe), Fire (Fire Sigil) and Ice (Hydromancy Sigil).

It explains the main rotation used in this build.

Earthquake
Swap to Axe/Axe
Hydromancy procs, chilling everyone as well as them being stunned
Whirling Axe
Fire sigil should proc giving you more AoE damage

This can then be followed by an Eviscerate on your teams target.

This uses Divinity Runes on armour, Fire and Hydromancy on Axe/Axe, Fire on Hammer.

You can use whatever Utilities you feel comfortable with. They are not that important for this build. I will say that Frenzy with Whirling Axe or even Axe Auto attack is amazing and is a guaranteed full Adrenaline bar.

This lacks a bit of condi clear so I took the Sigil of Stamina too. 

Papa's Stance Warrior

The new changes are like christmas for theorycrafters. Sadly I am going away tomorrow morning, otherwise I'd be caning these changes for the next week.

I hope to have a couple of new builds up before I go away though, so watch this space.

The first one is below and was inspired by a build a guildmate put up before the changes. I've always been a bit annoyed with the waste of Condi damage if you spec into arms and take Axe/Shield + GS, so with this you get a bit of condi pressure to go with your burst.

This uses Sword/Mace (Air + Battle) and Axe/Shield (Rage + Force) with a Zerker Ammy and Zerker Jewel. Armour is 5x rune of infiltration and 1x rune of divinity.

You get good survivabilty from Defy Pain and Sure Footed (if you take Endure Pain) and for your other utils you take 2 out of the other 3 stances. I would always suggest some Frenzy for a bit more burst damage, Balanced Stance is nice for stomping, rezzing and general stability needs, and the buff to Berserker Stance means it is now very viable if you are facing a condi heavy team.

The basic rotation is:

Engage

Axe auto attack to build adrenaline

Shield Bash + Eviscerate

Swap to sword

Tremor

Final Thrust

This is really nice damage and is pretty repeatable. It gives you a pretty certain Evisc crit and if the Tremor allows you to get off the long cast on Final Thrust, which hits as hard as Evisc if the foe is under 50%.

Papa's Stupid Axe Build

Build link - here

This build is ridiculous. It keeps crazy stacks of might up and lets you hit a big eviscerate (like on the video below) if you are smart with it.

You need to pick your battles carefully. Keep your elite up as much of the time in the fight as you can, and alongside furious reaction this should give you the 5% extra crit damage (for a total of 65%) and a crit chance of 59%.

This is pretty stable, and with the sigil up too it isn't strange for you to easily keep your power around the 2600 mark.

Try it out. It can be pretty suicidal, but you get some nice CC with the shield 4, the mace 5 and throw bolas. Between them you will always have something to pair with your eviscerate so you can hit it a lot of the time.

Try it out, it's fun!

Papa's Behemoth Build

Hi all,

Continuing on with my new builds this is my favorite so far.

It revolves around using Earthshaker every time it is ready and pairing this with Hundred Blades. The tankyness is very nice, you have one big condi removal, but apart from that the utilities are used to buff the stats.

Signet of Fury is very nice to use on the way to an engagement so you get there with one Earthshaker in teh chamber, and Rage keeps your movement high, especially when paired with the Greatsword.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQJASRjgOBv5O+OMRCAkiq4yUooTBlUPazu4A-ToAA2CnIqRVjrGTNyas1MgYFC

Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLNG7qlOMEY

Banner Bunker Warrior (BBW)

Hi everyone,

Got a new build for you today:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQRBHhx21IoT1bFkLEOcAB9ALuCB0U4HSPCD2YNA-TgAA1CmIaS1krJTTymsNB

It's a really nice bunker spec and is pretty awesome in team fights. It might be worth swapping out the axe/shield for hammer if you are planning on handing out some more CC, as at the moment it is quite toothless.

However the AoE regen and condi stripping is amazing, and it keeps boons up on all your guys full time.

I have put some footage of me playing it for the first time today below. As you can tell I've never tried it and die a few times before I get into the groove with it, but it seems to be viable and very fun for a change of pace from the normal DPS Warrior.

Kill Shot Testing

This goes with the video below on Eviscerate testing.

The combo of Volley and Kill Shot pump out some frankly ridiculous damage, especially when you factor in the fact that this is from range.

Eviscerate Testing

After the changes to the main Eviscerate trait (combining two grandmaster traits) I decided to do some testing of how powerful this ability could be. Enjoy.