You know that build that the guy on the forum posted about Fears being his new Bull's charge? I tried it with Rifle. I was pleasantly surprised. Literally slapped both a CondiZerker and a SpB. But, they were in Gold 2/3 so may be they need to improve. That said, it was fun to finally slap them silly.

As someone who likes to run as non-support core warrior, this is my main problem with the game. Core warrior needs buffs, but you can't buff core warrior because it'll just make SB even stronger. Hundred Blades has needed change for years, but imagine SBs running around with the firepower of a 2 second HB cast time or an unrooted one. And you nailed it with the Full Counter criticism.

"i have committed the grave sin of being mildly optimistic, and suffered greatly for it" Yeah... yeah you did. You mentioned that in replies a few times. All i can say is "thank you". Thank you for being such a masochist that you are optimistic. Because it saves _me_ from having to be optimistic, and then be let down. 😅

As a warrior main that plays both of these builds, I 100% agree that they should be target nerfed (5:20).

As a thief I can confirm, I always keep an end to these warriors 😂, I make sure to chase that warrior

Don't worry: Spear Zerk F1 being a worse version of [Flaming Flurry] will fix this ... somehow .. 😂 Joke's aside, I've been saying since my first Warrior Video: The Good stuff on Warrior is REALLY Good, but the rest of the Jank stuff is REALLY Jank. So the logical thing would be to nerf the over performing crap and go from there. | Problem is I don't see any creative warrior passion for an appropriate followup *Buff-Patch* rn. (See above ^ first comment.) 109% Open to being proven wrong in this regard ofc. 😁

Honestly Captain i think you have no idea of the good life you live there. In my spvp experience (core warr support) Full Counter is at best 2nd worst problem with SB. The first is that instead of teammates I get 4 missing links that were unfortunately made aware of enemy SB's existence. Enemy SB caps a node - some Rambo or two run there to waste time, instead of just letting it rot there and storming the other two nodes. Or better yet - i hold our home node against the SB, basically making it useless. It can't kill me, it can't decap me. Few baboon screeches later and my teammate knuckle-runs into my node which is doing fine leaving rest of team 3v4... Not that he'll kill the SB or do anything remotely useful.

I am so glad to hear that there is at least 1 warrior that thinks current warrior meta is toxic for the game and overall boring to play as/against. Anet always tried to cut off all the bunkers in the game, yet warrior is going unnoticed for way too long.

Did you say that you had a 1v1 for 4 minutes? pfft, those are rookie numbers. I once had a 1v1 on my home node that lasted the entire match. Only reason I even had a single kill that match was because my team came in to 5v1 the person in the last 20 seconds of the match.

I can at least stand a chance against berserker, I think the spellbreaker is gross with the full counter on such a quick cooldown and in wvw its just a cast and forget skill

Brother did you litteraly have to use exclusively clips of me vs you there? I was legit firsttiming staff, as i usually exclusively run GS instead man, wich is why i am knotting my hands half the time in there Edit. But ur absolutely right warr meta build feels cringe ngl

During the last 3v3 clown fest I've come up with a variation of a core heal build and got to top 50 with it, changing defense for spell breaker in certain matchups And since the normal season started I've been using those any chance I've got with really good winrate, so at least we still got heal builds for some "special" Yellow class connoisseurs like myself But when I'm not on heal I play strength spb with staff/gs wiith aggressive onslaught, which I think is far more engaging and fun way of playing spb than meta defence with dagger sword, and I got to 1600 last season with it

I've been saying the same thing about full counter forever, it could have some fun counter-play... if the cd wasn't 8.75s. As is any ground pulsing aoe makes the spellbreaker basically invincible. It really worries me about the spear/staff bunker spellbreaker that was starting to evolve in the beta.

I’ve been back on guild wars 2 for a year now after 11 year break. I haven’t seen such careless developer when it comes to balance. This Cal 🤡 is busy theory crafting and not playing the game. I was super optimistic about the current patch until I saw the preview. Literally handful of changes that even help the iron cannon meta. Thief has 4 trait lines trickery, shadow arts, daredevil and deadeye. This means that If you god forbid do not have trickery or shadow arts you are completely useless. In the current meta when I play power build I feel like I’m constantly waiting for my turn to be allowed to deal dmg to the landfill of dagger dagger tempests, vindicators that can make me explode at any moment, condi druids, spellbreakers and dragonhunters.

And have you tried mace mace hammer spb with strength defence? It's even more cancer than akeem because no one has enough stability/stunbreaks to consistently survive 1v1 against it I would keep playing it if only it didn't made me feel extreme levels of shame, even tho it's really fun and excels at punishing gankers in the arena 😂😂😂

Only reason I prefer wvw even if that's an even worse hotpot. I can run core tactics arms Commander stats sword mace hammer warrior and relish in my own self-harm without a queue (always)