Warrior - Core Celestial Roamer

This build is unrated.

Focused on: Sustain

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Difficulty:

TBD

Overview

A core Warrior WvW Roaming build with decent damage and incredible sustain, focusing on hybrid damage with Celestial stats. Can be played solo, but excels in group scenarios where it can make full use of Mending Might and Vigorous Shouts. This build easily maintains high stacks of might with Rune of Superior Rune of Fireworks, Might Makes Right, "For Great Justice!", Versatile Power, and Impale's flip skill Rip.

Skill Bar

Longbow

Sword/Sword

Utility

Skill Bar Variants

Utility

• Mending can be taken to help deal with conditions if you take Strength traitline, at the cost of losing the adrenaline and endurance regain from "To the Limit!".
• Signet of Rage can be taken if you do not need rampage for stomping or escaping, or take Defense traitline over Strength.
• Battle Standard is an option if you are roaming in a group of 3 or more. Any less and rampage becomes the better option for it's versatility.

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Specializations

Variants

If you find yourself having trouble against condition damage or are frequently outnumbered, taking defense over strength is also an option.

Equipment

Head
Celestial

Shoulders
Celestial

Chest
Celestial

Hands
Celestial

Legs
Celestial

Feet
Celestial

Backpiece
Celestial

Accessory
Celestial

Accessory
Celestial

Amulet
Celestial

Ring
Celestial

Ring
Celestial

Longbow
Celestial

Sigil

Sigil

Sword
Celestial

Sword
Celestial

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Equipment Variants

Sigils

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - replace sigil of tormenting on sword if taking Defense. Can also be taken for more sustain but less cover conditions and subsequently less damage on Strength.

Consumables

Food

• - a very strong defensive option which improves your already great endurance regen. Even has synergy with Might related traits and the Strength line.
  • Budget version: - much cheaper and more than fine.

Utility

Usage

General

• Playstyle: this build aims to make use of it's incredible sustain to outlast opponents, controlling space with longbow Combustive Shot and upkeeping ranged pressure, while still retaining the potential to burst down opponents with sword Impale ⇒ Bull's Charge ⇒ Rip and finishing with Final Thrust. While the build uses longbow, it is still primarily a melee build, and you will spend most of the fight within 500 range of the enemy unless they are kiting away.

• Might Makes Right and Mending Might causes Might applications to heal you and grant a tiny bit of endurance.
  • Add Vigorous Shouts to the mix and "For Great Justice!" basically turns into a healing skill with 2 charges.

• If possible, dodge into enemies to damage them with Reckless Dodge and generate Might. This is especially useful if you're Blinded as the damage of the dodge will miss, consuming the condition and allowing you to immediately follow up with something.

• Open fights with Template:Skill:Dual Shot to try and bait out some dodges and pressure at range, weaving in Smoldering Arrow to keep them blinded.

• Fan of Fire should be saved for use at point blank.

• Combustive Shot hits hard and is a blast finisher, but is hard to land. Because of this, it's better to use to blast your Combustive Shot fire field while attempting to hit an enemy for maximum value from the blast finisher might generation.

• Pin Down is very strong for it's long bleed and immobillize, but is slow and hard to land with a long windup, making it easy to dodge. As such, try and use this skill after baiting out some dodges. This skill can be stowed in order to cancel the attack but still have the windup, potentially baiting out dodges - but only do this if you know it will generate value.

• Burst skills:
  • Most of your adrenaline should be spent on Combustive Shot. This skill is primarily used as space control, not dealing damage with this move is fine. Most of your damage with this will come from kiting and forcing the enemy to follow you through choke points, and using Flurry while they are standing in the fire field. If fighting against melee builds, this can be placed at your feet to deter an engage, and if they do they will take extra damage for it. Against ranged builds, try to place the edge of the skill in the direction they are moving so they spend the most time in the fire field.
  • Flurry is your primary source of damage in melee trades. Level 1 immobilize is long enough to have every hit of the move connect, with higher levels of Flurry adding more immobilize on top. As you are stuck in place while using this attack, it is important to make sure you have enough health to tank whatever the enemy may throw at you while you finish, or otherwise choose a moment after they have blown their offensive CDs and cannot properly counter pressure. This skill can also enable the primary burst combo of the build (Impale ⇒ Bull's Charge ⇒ Rip and finishing with Final Thrust) by either using a higher level Flurry or cancelling level 1 flurry early, which still retains the immobilize.
  • You gain 15 endurance via Building Momentum if a burst skill hits.

• Bull's Charge can be your make or break skill during duels or downing an opponent. Try to use it at the end of a player's dodge or stability to make it even harder to dodge, and make the most out of it. Alternatively, this can be used defensively for the evasion and mobility to avoid damage, disengage from a fight, or reach favourable terrain.
  • Try to use this in conjunction with Impale which will immobilize the target, allowing you the possibility of connecting Bull's Charge without the risk of it being dodged. Whether Bull's Charge connects or not, you will likely still be close to the opponent to use the Impale flip skill Rip which deals a lot of power damage even on Celestial stats, while also giving you sustain with Might Makes Right and Mending Might synergy.

• Brawler's Recovery and Sigil of Superior Sigil of Cleansing will be used to manage condition levels before resorting to mass cleanses.

• "Shake It Off!" (SIO) is the only on-demand stun break in the build. This skill has 2 charges: if you're under heavy condition pressure and the aforementioned 2 traits aren't enough, you're free to use one of the charges. This skill also affects nearby allies and can be used to support them if you can afford it.

• "For Great Justice!" is used to upkeep both Fury and 25 Might

Rampage

• Rampage is primarily used for stomping or disengaging in this build. Save this to secure the kill.

Related Builds

Greataxe - the Conquest PvP version of this core Warrior roaming build.