Warrior Changes from Stress Tests

Axe

• Chop Damage: 470.3726. Damage: 415.0346.
• Cyclone Axe Vulnerability(8s) 4 Stacks : -30 Defense. 1% Incoming Damage.
• Double Chop Damage: 940.7451. Damage: 885.4072.

Greatsword

• Greatsword Slice Vulnerability(8s): -30 Defense. 1% Incoming Damage.
• Greatsword Swing Vulnerability(8s): -30 Defense. 1% Incoming Damage.

Hammer

• Fierce Blow Damage: 608.7174. Damage: 774.7312.
• Hammer Bash Damage: 553.3795. Damage: 498.0415.
• Hammer Smash None Finish Type.Damage: 774.7312. 664.0554.
• Hammer Swing Damage: 553.3795. Damage: 498.0415.
• Staggering Blow Whirl Finish Type.Damage: 664.0554. 719.3932.

Heal

• Healing Signet 40 20 sec Cooldown.
• Healing Surge Heal yourself and build adrenaline. Build adrenaline and heal yourself. Heal amount is based on adrenaline level. Healing: 120. Stage 1 Heal: 120. Stage 2 Heal: 120. Stage 3 Heal: 120.
• Mending 20 25 sec Cooldown.

Long Bow

• Arcing Arrow Blast Finish Type.Damage: 845.4525. 802.4003.
• Pin Down Physical Projectile Finish Type.Damage: 231.6233. 221.3518.

Mace

• Crushing Blow Vulnerability(10s) 4 Stacks : -30 Defense. 1% Incoming Damage.
• Pommel Bash Damage: 233.2283. Damage: 221.3518.

Profession

• Combustive Shot Burning(2s): 8 Damage. ) 5 Stacks : 8 Damage. Aoe 240(12s): Circle 240. Radius: 240 feet. Damage: 182.6152. Damage: 249.0208.

Rifle

• Brutal Shot Vulnerability(10s) 5 Stacks : -30 Defense. 1% Incoming Damage.
• Volley Physical Projectile (20% chance) Finish Type.Damage: 332.0277. 1660.138. Buff: .

Speargun

• Brutal Shot Vulnerability(15s): -30 Defense. 1% Incoming Damage.
• Repeating Shot Damage: 138.3449. Damage: 553.3795. Damage: 138.3449. Damage: 138.3449. Damage: 138.3449.

Utility

• "On My Mark!" (New) Shout. Call out target foe to make them vulnerable. 3 Skill Points. 30 sec Cooldown. 900 Range. Vulnerability(10s) 10 Stacks : +1% Incoming Damage.
• Signet of Fury 60 sec Cooldown. 30 sec Cooldown. Buff(0s): .
• Signet of Might Signet of Might(0s): +10-90 Power.
• Stomp DistanceBlowout: 450 feet.
• Throw Bolas Damage: 138.3449.

Weapon

• Kick Push your foe back with a kick. Cripple your foe with a kick. Damage: 221.3518. Damage: 996.083. Crippled(2s): -50% Movement Speed. Crippled(3s): -50% Movement Speed.
• Punch 1 sec Cooldown. Damage: 221.3518. Damage: 553.3795.

Warrior
Defense

• Armored Attack 10% 5% of toughness is given as a bonus to power.
• Merciless Hammer Hammer damage is increased by 50% when a foe is knocked down. disabled.
• Sundering Mace Mace skills cause a 1-second weakness when dealing critical damage. Mace damage is increased by 10% when a foe is weakened.

Strength

• Dual Wielding Damage is increased by 5% when wielding an axe, mace, or sword in your offhand. off hand.

Longbow and Rifle Builds

Longbow Build
This is a tweaked Longbow Build for release. It is pretty balanced, but will be no good as a point protector. This is perfect running from place to place as a support character as it can bring down some very nice damage, can disrupt the point with Fear Me and can also heal with shouts.

Rifle Build

Just Bleeds here with a bit of direct damage thrown in. The crit rate essentially makes every third attack bleed (no matter what) which is nice, there are still three heals of about 1.2k each and although not as fun as seeing lots of AoE numbers it should work very nicely in 1v1.

Warrior Combat Medic Build

COMBAT MEDIC

This is a warrior healing build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fIAQRApe8ejgOVvJPOP4wBA0DsuaLThfSPIDt0A;TwAgzCoouxcj4G7Nubk3sCZEyej5GA

You can block all incoming damage for 3 seconds, twice every 24 seconds (this also reflects missiles back)

You have two Stuns, a Daze, another block on one set and a closer, a cripple and a stun on the other.

Each healing shout gives 2.2k in a 1,200 radius and you have three of them and you also have a 30% chance on attack to heal those around you for 350.

You also give 70 attack to those around you, though this is minor.

Hammer Rifle Crit Build

Build
This is a bit more Glass Cannon build, but one of the guys in guild (Scottishdwarf) put forward this build and it interested me.

Although your HP and toughness are quite low, you have a crazy amount of CC with the Hammer, a cripple and a knockback on the rifle, and CC in every Utility slot.

Could be an interesting build for support, but it also has a crazy amount of Power and Crit chance so the damage output should be very decent too. Would do best in the hand of a player that could manage all the CC successfully, but it isn't without question that you could Immobillize (bolas), then Cripple, then Knockback (rifle), [switch weapon], Knockdown (Bulls charge ), Fear (Fear Me), Cripple then Knockback (Hammer), THEN Knockdown, THEN 3 second stun. All by just using cooldowns once......

Papa's Burn and Bleed Video

Here is my first video highlighting the Burn and Bleed build from below.

Final Build for Release

Build Link

So finally Ive settled on a build for SPvP for release. It is a very good point protector, a decent dps roamer and a pretty appalling burst damage build.

It uses the Longbow to stack burns on the target, before swapping to Sword/Sword to stack a tonne of bleeds, and then swapping back to the Longbow to finish them off as they run away. It has 2 very decent AoE's for point protection, as well as three shout heals (traited with Vigorous shouts), a banner for clutch rezzing and a snare and an immobilize across weapon sets if it all gets a bit too much. With a crit rate of 48% on Longbow and 58% on Sword it is generally quite balanced and doesn't rely too much on only conditions.

I managed to fraps a bit during the final Stress Test, so hopefully should get a video up in the near future detailing the build and a bit of (very poor and laggy) gameplay footage. Watch this space.

GS and Axe Burst Spec

This is a slightly edited version of Moldran's Burst build. It's pretty nice and has decent survivability. He hits his HB for about 12k and Eviscerates for around 7k. Crazy burst damage if you pair it with frenzy and balanced stance it is impossible to defend almost.





The changes made to the build reflect the gulf in skill between myself and Moldran. With the changes being:


Swapping in 100% chance to rally on vengeance
Swapping in 5% of Power (around 100) is given as Vitality


I need that extra 1k health and get out of jail card as I will die a lot more than Moldran will!


http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.2.4.12.19.0.28.20.20.0.29.32.48.49.50.2.2.6.78.84.0.0.0.0.108.113.116.0.0.0.138.142.0.20.0.30.0.20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAzGhBu0Oys&feature=player_embedded