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Author: van halen
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Welcome to my Second Official Guide!
Profession: W/Mo
Build: Quivering Blade
Type of Build: Pure Damage/Degen
1) This is my own custom made Wa/Mo build that I am currently using for PvE and PvP Arenas.
2) With this build you will be able to Deal large amounts of damage while causing health degeneration at the same time.
3) Before I go into greater detail, I just want to note down that the second profession for this build is not essential to your survival as this build is purely focused on Warrior attributes.
These are the Attributes:
The Skill Bar:
Remember
This build in general lacks defensive wise. However offensive wise, this build can be extremely lethal to any profession you encounter so you can’t afford to waste time running away. You have to be constantly attacking!
-Healing Signet - Signet
You gain 40-130 health. You have -40 armour while using this skill.
-Signet of Strength - Signet
Your next 1-13 attack deal +5 damage.
-Warrior's Cunning - Skill
For 5-10 seconds your melee attacks cannot be blocked or evaded.
-Tiger Stance - Stance
For 4-9 seconds, you attack 33% faster. Tiger Stance ends if any of your attacks fail to hit.
-Sever Artery - Sword Attack
If this attack hits, the opponent will begin bleeding for 5-21 seconds, losing health over time.
-Quivering Blade {Elite} - Sword Attack
If Quivering Blade hits, you strike for +10-34 damage. If it is "blocked," Quivering Blade is disabled for 4 seconds and you are Dazed for 8 seconds.
-Standing Slash - Sword Attack
If it hits, Standing Slash deals +5-17 damage plus an additional 5-17 damage if you are in a stance.
-Resurrect - Spell
Resurrect target party member. Target party member is returned to life with 25% health and zero energy.
(I use this skill mainly for PvE. For PvP purposes, I would advise you to bring a Resurrection Signet)
Damage Dealing Skills (Spiking Skills)=Signet of Strength, Warriors Cunning, Tiger Stance, Quivering Blade [E], Standing Slash in order.
Degen Skills=Sever Artery
Healing and Backup Skills=Healing Signet and Resurrect
Signet of Strength is Vital for this Build!
Analysis of Signet of Strength
I examined this skill closely and managed to discover a lot of advantages to it. First off, it doesn’t have time duration while active so you can cast it once and it will stay with you forever. Secondly, it’s not about how many seconds, but a matter of how many hits you cause. Thus being a signet, it consumes no energy.
When to cast Signet of strength?
Well, the obvious answer would be just before you encounter a mob/human but as it stays with you forever once casted, It would be logical to use the skill as Soon as you enter a Explorable area/Arena because it has a 45 second cool down and can sometimes be time consuming if you really want to cause some real spiking damage quickly.
Weapons and Shields
For this build, it’s important that you use a sword which is:-
-Max Damage Req 7-11 (anything over 11 swords will result in a weak damage output and will therefore not reach it’s maximum potential)
-Inherent mod can either be 15>50, Dmg +15/-10 Armour, Dmg +15/-5 energy or preferably Dmg +20% (while Hexed) [but not essential]
-I personally use a perfect furious mod as half of the skills in this build are adrenaline based. However, a perfect Sundering Hilt or a Barbed sword Hilt (combined with Server Artery) would go nicely as well.
-It’s good if you can get an almost perfect (preferably perfect) Pommel of Fortitude for this sword.
I personally use this Vertebreaker for this build and it works Perfectly:-
Shields
I tend to use a shield which has the same stats as the crimson carapace shield (Stance) as this contrast nicely with the skill Tiger stance. A good warrior should also carry another shield in weapon slot 2 but this time it should have = Health +60, Received Damage -3 (while Hexed). This is essential if a Mesmer/Necro is slapping some hexes on you.
I personally use this Defender for this build and it works Perfectly:-
Armour + Runes
Personally, I use a 15k Platemail Helm which grants me strength + 1 (Stacking), equipped with a minor rune of strength to give me a total bonus of + 2 strength.
Than the rest of my armour is 15k Gladiator’s equipped with a Superior rune of Absorption, a Superior rune of Vigor, 1 minor Tactics and 1 minor swordsmanship rune. I use Glads because Warrior’s Cunning requires 10 energy and that is quite a hefty amount of energy to pay for just 1 skill for a warrior so I use the best armour for this build.
This is what your Armour and Runes should look like:-
As long as you have a +1 strength helm and Glads armour, you should be good to go :)
Strategies and Tips :-
-As soon as you have spawned in your base/mission/explorable area, cast Signet of strength. When entering battle, follow this up by using warrior’s cunning initially than Tiger’s fury straight after (once you are right next to a opponent of course, not while you are running at the opponent as this wastes energy and seconds).
-Warrior cunning doesn’t let your target block or evade for 10 seconds which is perfect in connection with tiger stance as the powerful stance ends if you fail to strike once in melee. This alone already causes masses amounts of damage and than when your Adrenaline has built up, you can start to use sever artery to start the health degeneration. Than you can start spiking away with standing slash and Quivering Blade [E].
-Try to use your built up adrenaline wisely. i.e. Whilst in a stance, Standing slash deals an additional +16 damage so wait until tiger stance is renewed before using that adrenaline skill.
-Although Quivering Blade is an elite, It still has its disadvantage. Try and use Quivering blade as much as you can while warrior’s cunning is still active as this won’t trigger you getting dazed for 8 seconds.
-To make your monks life easier, use Healing signet when your health is below 35%.
-And of course, resurrect fallen allies.
Substitutions and Possible Alternatives:
Substitution=Tiger Stance-->Defensive Stance
Use this skill while you are fighting against 1 melee attacker (Assassin/Warrior) or you can just use it for generally evading melee attacks and arrows.
Alternatives:-
-Frenzy
-Wary Stance
-Shield Stance
-Bonetti's Defense
-Balanced Stance
-Berserker Stance
Substitution=Resurrect-->Resurrection Chant
If you are in PvE, Use this skill Only when you have killed all mobs/foes. In PvP, I recommend to use it only if your monk dies early.
Alternatives:-
-Resurrection Signet
-Rebirth
-Restore Life
Conclusion
I hoped you enjoyed reading my second guide!
And I hope that you have learnt from this information and I also hope that you will incorporate these tips and strategies into you’re playing so that you will be more confident with using your warrior and hopefully this will strengthen your ideas that you have thought of already.
Expect more guides from me in the future!
Thanks!
Constructive Criticism is all welcome ;)
© Van Halen
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