When is a Warrior Secondary a Bad Idea?

fawgre

fawgre

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2005

Chicago

Storm Haven

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Because I've been shown the light about having a Monk Primary/Warrior Secondary, but I just don't think that an Elementalist/Warrior could ever work. With my limited knowledge of melee classes the only benefits I could see for having a warrior secondary would be the stances and the endure pain and whatnot. Maybe if you're a funny monk you give your team a speed-boost with Charge!.

So when is the warrior secondary applicable and when does it completely fail?

tastegw

tastegw

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2005

SoCal

E/

really depends on your build.



warrior secondary has 2 benifits.
1) to have a weapon mastery if you want to use a weapon.
2) to have stances/shouts from tatics.

if neither of those are your goal, pick a different 2ndary.

Ren Falconhand

Ren Falconhand

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2005

Passed out on my Keyboard from lack of sleep from playing GW too much

The Harpers

R/Mo

I don't think a Me/W would do well IMO

Ren

mostro

mostro

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2005

Me/E

A very good build using warrior secondary is the Illusionary Weaponry mesmer/warrior. In fact, it was probably too good before they made 100 blades elite.

*Added*: I just remembered some r/w builds that mainly use warrior skills but had ranger as the primary class to take advantage of expertise. IIRC there is a build written by Saus that was r/w and uses Flourish.

tastegw

tastegw

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2005

SoCal

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by mostro
A very good build using warrior secondary is the Illusionary Weaponry mesmer/warrior. In fact, it was probably too good before they made 100 blades elite. ya hundred blades going elite really messed up the whole idea behind IW

now all you have is cyclone axe, but that only hits once.

BlackArrow

Banned

Join Date: Feb 2005

Me/W with Flurry still does good damage, not as good as 100 blades, but it's still decent. You could theoretically play warrior secondary with any class, some alphas swear by N/W who some of my guildies play Mo/W and R/W. The only one I don't see much of is E/W, and I don't know why.

torry

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by mostro
A very good build using warrior secondary is the Illusionary Weaponry mesmer/warrior. In fact, it was probably too good before they made 100 blades elite.

*Added*: I just remembered some r/w builds that mainly use warrior skills but had ranger as the primary class to take advantage of expertise. IIRC there is a build written by Saus that was r/w and uses Flourish. The premade berserker was R/W, and was MEAN. Fast, furious, dodging, healing.

R/W is also posted with a great Flourish build on this web I think. Expertise cuts the 5 mana cost of the skills to say 3? and gain is 5 each, and instant recycle. Dunno who posted it, I asked and he said he did like 1 SKILL every SECOND. Can you believe it? (more skills were made 5 energy last month, before that Flourish was hard to make worthwhile).