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 October 8, 2024 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.
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Farming

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
• (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