Warrior - Spear DPS

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Strike damage and Dps

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on February 28, 2025 and is up to date for the April 15, 2025 patch.

Overview

A Warrior build for WvW. Combines high personal damage and good personal survivability.

Skill Bar

Greatsword

Spear

Utility

Variants

Weapons

• Greatsword ⇒ Staff good DPS option with high range and utility
• Greatsword ⇒ Sword/Axe

Heal

• "To the Limit!"
  - fill Adrenaline for
  Harrier's Toss
• Healing Signet
  - for stacking
  Signet Mastery
  , if you're having trouble keeping it stacked

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Equipment

Head
Dragon

Shoulders
Dragon

Chest
Dragon

Hands
Dragon

Legs
Dragon

Feet
Dragon

Backpiece
Dragon

Accessory
Dragon

Accessory
Dragon

Amulet
Dragon

Ring
Dragon

Ring
Dragon

Greatsword
Dragon

Sigil

Sigil

Spear
Dragon

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Variants

Sigils

Usage

Priorities

High

• Spike Damage

Moderate

• Sustained damage

Surviving

• This build has moderate passive defense
• This build has high mobility skill access
  • Use
    Whirlwind Attack
    to move out after spiking
  • Rush
    can be used for repositioning or gap closing
    • Drop your target if using it defensively
• This build has moderate active defenses

Active defense priority

• Balanced Stance
  - for stunbreaking
• Warrior's Sprint
  - for Immobilize
  • Whirlwind Attack
  • Rush
• Dodge
• Defiant Stance
• Whirlwind Attack
  - general use
• Balanced Stance
  - general use

Detailed Explanations

Spike damage

• For ranged spikes use
  Maiming Spear
  ⇒
  Harrier's Toss
  so both skills land at the same time
• Use
  Spearmarshal's Support
  immediately before using either of your Burst skills since the 1 second fuse time will let you combine the burst
• Use
  Signet of Fury
  to get full Adrenaline for Harrier's Toss
  • Avoid using
    Signet of Fury
    for
    Arcing Slice
    since its damage doesn't scale with adrenaline

Sustained damage

• Hundred Blades
  is situational. You stand still during channel, which means hitting CC'ed, movement impaired and downed foes is the ideal setup for this ability.
  • Making good use of
    Hundred Blades
    is critical to maximizing damage, look for any chance to get multiple ticks off
  • A stow weapon keybind is very useful to cancel
    Hundred Blades
    after enemies move out of the way
• Use
  Rush
  for single target damage even when already in melee
• Use
  Signet of Might
  to make
  Disrupting Throw
  unblockable and only cast
  Disrupting Throw
  with
  Signet of Might
  • Avoid casting
    Signet of Might
    while
    Spearmarshal's Support
    is pulsing as it will eat the charges

Skill priority

Greatsword

• Arcing Slice
• Hundred Blades
• Rush
• Bladetrail
• Whirlwind Attack
  - save to disengage

Spear

• Harrier's Toss
• Maiming Spear
• Spearmarshal's Support
• Signet of Might
  +
  Disrupting Throw