Overall is Warrior that bad?

[Eliam.3716]

I get the overwhelming disdain for Bladesworn but as a class in PVE doing OW and Strikes is it really that bad?  Berzerker still viable etc.?

[Jzaku.9765]

It's one dimensional. In endgame PVE, you're basically just playing Banner Warrior, which is essentially a straight DPS build with your utility slots occupied. 

But don't be deluded into thinking it's somehow bad. Both Berserker and Bladesworn perform excellently on the majority of endgame PVE content (Fractals, Raids, Strikes) and happily make the fulltime DPS players nervous. 

In open world, Bladesworn is happily one-shotting most enemies - and anything you don't kill in a single hit, you stun for 5s. I'd say it's Warrior's best Open World spec to date. 

Anet has announced a Banner rework coming with the June balance patch, so we might get our support options greatly expanded depending on how they do that. 

[Lan Deathrider.5910]

It's all just stale combat. We're all kind of tired of getting DPS 3.0 for the next espec.

[Zekent.3652]

Berserker is just the best honestly, bladesworn is not bad, but 1 single mistake on that spec is hard punished with a big chunk of dps loss, which is not the case as berserker.

Edited March 25, 2022 by Zizekent.2398

[Fueki.4753]

Yes, Warrior overall is in a very bad spot.

It's outperformed in everything by almost every profession.

Depending on how they change Banners in the future, Warrior might even lose the one unique thing it has.

[Verdict is Vengence.6912]

Warrior is not horrible. Its just pigeonholed A LOT. And our skills and traits don't do as much as other classes besides damage or CC with some vulnerability and might sprinkled in.

With other classes, they have damage mitigation and boon generation inlaid into their skills and traits. Not only that, most of their skills flow into other skills and utilities creating a heavenly synergy or great combo. Whereas for warrior, most of our skills and utilities are one and done. It doesn't naturally lead to other skills or traits. CC locking is a thing for warrior but that isn't comparable to the flow and feel of other classes and the options available to them.

All in all, its a decent class that has its ups and downs. Ratings for me goes as follows: D, C, B, A and at the top, S. I would give warrior a C+ or B- as a rating.  In the most skilled hands, warrior could be B+ or A- at most.

[captrowdy.9561]

I’ve tried all the classes but I keep coming back to warrior. Ya the builds feel I underwhelming but the combat is so much fun