Warrior - Core Power Warrior

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Strike damage, Defense and Dps

Designed for: Open World, Open World General and Open World Core

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on May 26, 2024 and is up to date for the April 15, 2025 patch.

Overview

A core warrior build for levelling or unlocking elite especializations. Featuring good power damage, some mobility, and the option to bring a lot of crowd control.

Skill Bar

Axe/Axe

Greatsword

Utility

Weapon Variants

Never replace axe+axe as they're your highest damage weapons.
This build weapon swaps a lot to do more damage. If you don't like constantly swapping between weapons you can use mace+mace or mace+shield instead of greatsword, and stay on axe+axe to do damage, and only weapon swap when you need crowd control or defense.

• Mace + mace can replace greatsword to provide a lot of crowd control.
• Shield - defense and crowd control.
• Longbow or Rifle - if you need a ranged option, but their damage is low.

Skill Variants

Healing skill

Mending

is great with its high healing, low cooldown, and condition removal.

• Defiant Stance
  - aggressive option that lets you facetank for a few seconds.

Utility skills

"For Great Justice!"

is great for providing boons.

"Shake It Off!"

is a good stunbreak and condition removal skill.Can be replaced by any other stunbreak.

Signet of Fury

improves our critical chance. Don't use the active skill except to end a fight.
Other alternatives can be considered:

• Signet of Might
  - passive damage.
• Signet of Stamina
  - more dodges.
• Stomp
  - physical skill that grants CC and mobility
• Endure Pain
  - panic button.
• Bull's Charge
  - great engage skill and crowd control.

Elite skill

Signet of Rage

is good for swiftness or to compliment the boons from For Great Justice.

• Battle Standard
  - longer duration of boons than
  Signet of Rage
  but also a longer cooldown.

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Specializations

Variants

• Peak Performance
  - extremely minor dps gain if you don't need stability. Note that
  Eviscerate
  does trigger
  Brave Stride
  .
• Might Makes Right
  - significant sustain and endurance increase.
• Burst Precision
  - use this when levelling since your critical chance is very low.

Tactics Variant

Replace Arms with Tactics for a dramatic increase to sustain.

• Phalanx Strength
  ,
  Empower Allies
  - great if you have allies around. Phalanx will give you more healing from
  Mending Might
  .

Equipment

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Axe
Berserker

Axe
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Greatsword
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

Equipment Variants

• Knight - defensive trinkets
• You can use
  Relic of Zakiros
  to trade a minor amount of damage for sustain,
  Relic of the Cavalier
  to start combat with boons, or
  Relic of Durability
  for a little extra defense.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
• Plate of Spicy Moa Wings
  /
  Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup
• Superior Sharpening Stone
  /
  Tin of Fruitcake

Defense

• Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew
• Fried Oyster Sandwich
• Bowl of Lemongrass Mussel Pasta

Farming

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
• Peppermint Omnomberry Bar
• Sharpening Skull
  (and variants)

Usage

Damage

Constantly swap between your axes and greatsword to use all your weapon skills even faster than normal thanks to

Fast Hands

.

Axe priority

1. Dual Strike
   +
   Whirling Axe
2. Cyclone Axe
3. Throw Axe
4. auto attacks

Greatsword priority

1. Hundred Blades
2. Bladetrail
3. Rush
4. Whirlwind Attack

Never interrupt autoattack chains, as most of the damage is loaded in the last hit of

Triple Chop

or

Brutal Strike

.

Activate

Signet of Rage

and

"For Great Justice!"

off cooldown for boons.

Use

Eviscerate

against single targets. Use

Arcing Slice

vs. groups or vs. single targets below 50% hp.

This build weapon swaps a lot to do more damage. If you don't like constantly swapping between weapons you can use mace+mace or mace+shield instead of greatsword, and stay on axe+axe to do damage, and only weapon swap when you need crowd control or defense.

Survivability

• Remember to always dodge and sidestep attacks if possible. Don't get hit by anything you can move out of.
• Whirlwind Attack
  is a dodge.
• You can slot
  Dolyak Signet
  ,
  Signet of Stamina
  , or
  Endure Pain
  for more damage mitigation.
• You can cleanse conditions by weapon swapping or using
  Mending
  .

Crowd Control

If you need crowd control equip mace/mace or change your utilies

• Tremor
• Stomp
• Bull's Charge
• Shield Bash