Matsumori Oukanishi.8794

My favorite game mode is WvW in a zerg, and I am getting close to finishing Juggernaut Legendary. I want to use my shinny new toy for a long time so I was wondering, between Warrior Spellbreaker, and Backline Hammer Rev, which of the two is in a better place in WvW Zergs? I wish Guardian could use it well, but lets face it... its the worst weapon for them in all game modes. I dont play much Engi, but right now Mechanist with Rifle is just to fun to get away from. So that leaves me with my Warrior and Rev, If yall wanted to primarily work with Hammer, which of the two wins?

All of this "if you don't have PoF, you're at a disadvantage" talk is b.s. First, the expansions and gem store is how anet keeps this game afloat. If your not willing to support anet, then you earned your disadvantages. The expansions are stupid cheap for gw2 compared to most mmos so it's not like you have to dish out $50+ for each expansion. Maybe $50 if you want both of them. Secondly, you can WvW without the mount, i did it without too much issue. You just build around high mobility. Adding swiftness, 25% movement runes, teleport abilities, into your build and you can do a decent job of keeping up with the zerg. Also, if you talk with your commander/tag, they often times will be accommodating. I had a tag get off his mount to allow me to keep up, and the zerg in turn did the same. I even got to the point of the collection where I needed a keep and tower capture, and asked a tag if we could do them and he made sure we got it done that evening. Aka, this is a community based game. Asking for assistance is ok... EDIT: All of that being said, I would be more than happy if the warclaw disappeared altogether. I hate mounts in pvp modes/games.

I personally hate mounts in any pvp game. It's what killed world pvp in Wow. But i know complaining about it probably won't get Anet to change anything. So knowing mounts are here to stay in WvW, i got my warclaw in 3 evenings without Perma-swiftness. It is doable but not fun. But i would be all for mount rentals, or having a passenger on your mount. I would love for the warclaw to disappear but we all know that ain't happening. EDIT: if they do mount rentals, i do think it needs to be for people who have purchased PoF though. F2P players don't need to be catered to.

@Astralporing.1957 Thanks! Yeah one thing i know I'm doingvwringvnow is interrupting my auto attack chain on the dragonhunter

Well damn....

@melandru.3876 I noticed that on the two links you shared for power dragonhunter, they have different rotations. I have been trying to get down the snowcrows rotation that has 4 weapon swaps and 48 steps, but the discretize link has only 2 weapon swaps and 16 steps. Which is correct? I think I could easily get down the discretize rotation, but trying to remember/get down the snowcrows rotation has been a nightmare

Ok I see, I didn't know I was messing up the rotation that bad. Thanks everyone for your advice

@melandru.3876 Im not worried about a raid group, i have that taken care of. And even if i messed up the rotation a little, we're comparing it to NO ROTATION AT ALL There is still a disparity between these two classes

So i have been trying to get my dragonhunter ready for raiding. Using snowcrows for build and rotation, and my gear being mostly exotic berserkers with a few ascended trinkets, i manage to get between 18k-20k dps on the golem. Just for fun i brought my boosted revenant into the golem and with an open world build, and a mix if the boosted soldiers gear and berserkers gear, i was able to constantly get 18.5k dps only using the sword auto-attack with impossible odds upkept. Something isn't right here. Why learn a somewhat difficult rotation on my dragonhunter, when my suboptimal build/gear revenant can get the same results with a single upkeep ability and auto attack?

Yup I just found that out. My warrior now has full marauders gear! But im broke though lol

@"Dawdler.8521" Once I get Berserker/Spellbreaker unlocked I will likely change my build up, so I completely understand there. I just wanted to have something to start with while I am farming those HP's on the side. I am tempted by full Marauders, but I don't have the crafting yet to get all armor/weapons crafted and don't have ascended yet (Returning from a LOOOOOONG break before HoT was even a thing). I picked Berserker/Soldier mix only because it was easily obtainable from the TP. This isn't a long-term solution, it's just to get me started. In a month or two time, I should have my elites unlocked, and some ascended (I hope) so hopefully my stats and build will get better over time. Thanks for the tip on the Rampage elite skill over the Signet. A lot of the builds I have seen run the signet so that's why I had it selected. EDIT: I did swap out the armor to full Marauders to see what the stats look like. I go down in Power (2211 vs 2349), still have a respectable Toughness (1535 vs 1834), Gain over 3000 health, 20% crit, and only loose .5% crid damage. Not bad. I just need to find out how to get the Marauders gear lol. I sure wish you could buy it off the TP. Build with full Maraudershttp://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAneRjMdQXI24BeeApIGKCKbAegAALhWo51uI6zCA-jBCBQBSU5n80HIQ1fUnSwA8EACn5P+t/AAOFAAA-e Second Edit: It appears Marauders is pretty easy to craft, as its only lvl 400 skill, not 500! I should be able to craft this!

So I just got my Warrior to 80 and want to gear him out for WvW. I will be in the zerg or small groups mostly. I don't usually roam. Once I get my elite specializations unlocked, I will likely go with a different build, until then this is a core-warrior build. I wanted to have some mix of survivability added into it so I didn't do full berserker. here is my buildhttp://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAneRjMdQXI24BeeAnIGKCKbAegAALhWo51uI6zCA-jBCBABGp8LgnAAAnCgU0Hw/+DSoEMH1few8HA-e The gear/traits net me with 2,349 Power, 1,834 Toughness, 24,422 Health, 43.43% Crit Chance, and 190% Crit Damage. This is without food buffs or situational stats (breaking stuns, etc) Thoughts?

Is the Elite Reinforcements Package on the gem store ever going to be made available again in the future or is it gone for good? If it is coming back, do they have a schedule for such things? Thanks all

Thanks Ustaf

I like rolling with the zerg to be honest, but I do get stopped on my way to the zerg from time to time lol