By request: Axe using W/N Curses Combatant

Someone private msged me a while ago regarding this but I'm sure it'll help aspiring W/N whom I've started to see less and less in favor of W/M.

I'm not going to put too much text here but I'll just post the stats and skill setups.

Str: 7+1
Axe: 10+2
Tactics: 9+1 [don't ask, it's due to the preorder shield which owns me ]
Curses: 10

198/200 points

PvE mob tankish-slayer/farmer [2nd choice is for farming purposes]

Cyclone Axe
Dismember
Axe Rake
Watch Yourself / Bonetti's Defense
Victory is Mine! {E}
Enfeebling Blood
Mark of Pain
Plague Touch
*very good for killing mobs and if u need to farm, bonetti's + enfeebling + Victory is Mine! feeds ur capabilities well *
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PvP Target Predator [if you're a target caller, u'll play debuffer role as well with Rend]

Disrupting Chop *best skill EVAR*
Dismember
Axe Rake
Executioner's Strike / Enfeeble (depends on if u're into offense or defending teammates. Enfeeble also adds to ViM!)
Sprint
Victory is Mine!
Rend Enchantments
Plague Touch *an opponents worst nightmare and u're deadliest weapon*

Just used this build a few hours ago with a Tombs group and was one of the most heart pumping experiences I've had... Disease must surely be my favorite condition to spread with plague touch... Feed's ViM! quite nicely.

The fact that Tactics is so high though everyone hates this stat will be appreciated by those who use it's very nice stances and increases ViM!'s effectiveness.

What kind of armor do you use? Gladiator? Plate?

Yukito can you post your armor and shield?
plus can you add some tactic experience with this build in pvp since you have lot of it?
thx

Requests huh?

Executioner's Helm of Minor Axe Mastery
Platemail Cuirass of Minor Absorption
Platemail Gauntlets of Minor Tactics
Platemail Leggings of Major Vigor
Platemail Boots of Minor Strength
Canthan Targe [+2 energy, + 30 hp, 14 armor]
Crippling Summit Axe of Defense [Lengthened Cripple and +4 Armor]
Truncheon [5-10 dark dmg, curses 6 req.]
Zealous Longbow of Enchanting [9-13 dmg, no requirement]
used to have: Hale Accursed Staff of Warding [11-22 dark dmg, 10 curses req. sold it by accident, ****...]

That's all the equipment I wield.
Armor Dyed: Green Dye mixed with Dye Remover to give it that sexy lustrous sheen
You can't miss me if you're searching for 'cool shiny lookin' armor in a town.

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PvP Tactics: These are just my tactics and OPINIONS for fighting in pvp. They are not set in stone so if you quote me on this, you may regret it later.

Duties: Every class has a duty to perform that doesn't have to be ordered. Monks protect/heal. Warriors deal heavy sustained dmg/disruption. Mesmers disable, etc. etc.

My Warrior's Primary duty is to FORCE the enemy team's monk to do other things besides healing his teammate's hp. The tactic may seem braindead at first but you NEEEED to go 'advanced target calling' should u run into a snag [which happens a lot]

First: Rush the enemy team's primary monk. Weave around any enemy blockers/warriors who may be in your way [if a warrior runs past you, chuck a 5energy enfeeble on him when he gets to your teammates. Your team's monks will love you for it. The enemy team's monk will waste time/energy to get it off him [especially if he ran REALLY far away] Hack away at their monk so that your adrenaline builds up to do Dismember + Axe Rake. At that point, be prepared to disrupting chop his mend conditions [since it's one of those hyper fast casting spells, a bit of intuition and forecasting *or hell instinct* is needed to interupt his ass]. If you successfully skill lock his ability to remove conditions, you've just raped an important counter to your skill build.

Contingency: Always have one. My warrior is known to my guild and HoH runners as one of the most unusual and most effecient/unpredictable target callers they've played with. Noobs who don't listen/understand my target calling fall under two sections. Smart or stupid. The stoooopid noobs don't switch targets as fast as I do cause one [you're not killing him fast enough, keep swinging] or two [why are you attacking so many enemies at once?]. Since I don't have time to explain in pvp, if you party with me, here's my reasoning. If your ENTIRE TEAM is swinging/shooting at one member or is having TROUBLE just getting to your target [which happens cause the enemy team can body block you quite readily on some of the HoH maps] why waste time? By rapid fire [pinballing] from target to target [slapping an enfeeble on each one as you do so] the enemy's monks will have HELL of a time removing condition after condition while healing the dmg the axe is dealing all at once. If your whole team moves with the focus of the target caller. You should be effectively chopping off 25%+ of hp on each target you call before moving on to the next one. The real kick to the groin is if you use tab and alternate with shift+tab on 2-4 targets. Your entire team's focus will be based on wittling away those 4 targets in large chunks and forcing their monks to do the same to keep those 4 alive. [those four targets CAN INCLUDE one warrior but not too long].

If you're too lazy [big no-no] to read all that crap up top you can follow these two simple rules to smart disruption warrior combat.

1. Disruption is greater than damage in pvp [for my warrior]. Kill your enemy through indirectness rather than bleeding his hp to death. Enfeebling enemy warriors that run past you is a must.

2. If you can't CHUNK OFF 25% of your enemy's hp with your ENTIRE team listening to you in 4 seconds (yes time it), then that enemy team's monk is very skilled and you MUST MOVE ON to another enemy teammate or your team will regret the waste of time.

Hope this helps.

I'll post the PvE strat for my build here as well. Maybe you new warriors [and veterans] can work off of it.

I can already sense some people snickering about Bonetti's Defense.

Steps to effective mob killing.
This is MOST DANGEROUS if done with the entire mob on you and you will be at your most effective when it happens.

1. Enfeebling Blood. Time it since it's 2s. to cast and by the time the entire mob has surrounded you utterly, it should go off and cover you with enemies dealing only 34% their real dmg. [which is reduced even further with your manly man armor]

2. Mark of Pain. The target should be the enemy in the middle of the mob. Since they're all as close to you as they can possibly get, the one in the middle of them all can be targetted using either mouse [which I dislike] or tab key [which is my preference]

3. Cyclone Axe. This should cause an atomic bomb effect where not only will the axe's dmg occur on all your foes, but your adrenaline should spike giving you half of your dismember and axe rake ready to nail your Mark of Pain Victim

4. Victory is Mine! At this point, you'd be at about 50% health surrounded by 4 or so enemies with weakness. With the Tactics in this build, ViM! can give you a NICE chunk of energy and hp.

5. Bonetti's Defense. This can be acquired by simply doing another cyclone axe bomb. With this, just start swinging normally at your Mark of Pain Victim. No need to waste energy on skills here. At 75% block rate, you'd easily survive even hordes of Flesh Golems. ^_^

6. Just before Bonetti's Defense runs out [when it starts blinking] you should have max energy. Cast Enfeebling Blood from Step 1 and repeat this 6 step cycle to easy drops and exp.

Just curious, when you say you attack the monks and such, how do you deal with ones that have things like ward against melee and bonettis? Or anyone with any stances for that matter without Wild Blow? Do you just abandon them and move on to another target?

This seems like a really fun PVP build to try. Right now my main is my level 20 mesmer and I have a level 17 protection monk, so I've been wanting to try out someone who just smacks things up close

Do you not use gladiator armor as a preference? It seems like a build like this would want the extra energy.

Another thing I just noticed, what's the use for the Strength? It seems like you may have pumped it only for the armor ignoring effect? If so, might it be more effective to forego using those and instead putting more in tactics/curses?

Thanks

whats the point of victory is mine if you have monks on your team to heal you? i think its better spent on eviscerate.

i would replace rend with weaken armor to boost dmg since you're targetting monks. just have a caster to disenchant shit.

weaken armor has a 3 second cast time...

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would Wary Stance be better than bonneties... for the adrenaline or is it easily gotten around....

All Of That I Can Do... Except Find A Good Shield.

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Hey there,

Any suggestions on where to find those decent collector cestas? I have recently switched to Curses (formerly Blood using Life Transfer {E}, which is some fun in PvE).

Cheers

I run a similar build, though I doubt it's as effective, but was wondering if you had tried using rush rather than sprint in your pvp setup.

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