Sep 05, 2007, 06:50 AM // 06:50
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Jungle Guide
Join Date: May 2006
Guild: Heroic Order of Tyria
Profession: R/W
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Which insignia(s) for PvE?
I'm wondering which insignias is everyone running on their PvE Ws?
I usually play the sword W and I use sentinel insignia for the usual 16 swords + 13 str DS+flail+enraging charge build
When I'm playing a more tactics-oriented W with WY! and SU! I use a radiant insignia
What does everyone else use?
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Sep 05, 2007, 06:56 AM // 06:56
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#2
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Aug 2005
Guild: Natis Ignigena
Profession: Me/
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I have a Radiant set of armour, a Survivor set and a Sentinel's set.
That gives me a lot of build flexibility.
Also, with the addition of Perfect Salvage Kits, I can change my armour to best suit my build. It's just a shame that insignia don't stack.
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Sep 05, 2007, 09:20 AM // 09:20
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#3
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Paris, France
Guild: We eat pancakes [Yumy]
Profession: Me/
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Armor+10 under stance is my choice when I play flail. It's ok with frenzy too, you get the benefit of +10 armor twice (for damage that doesn't ignore armor obviously)
Full health is good too.
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Sep 05, 2007, 10:50 AM // 10:50
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Pre-Searing Cadet
Join Date: Sep 2007
Guild: Middletown Massacre
Profession: R/Me
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Ok so I've been away from GW for at least 9 months and just now came back in the past week, and created a warrior. Seeing this thread, I started to wonder if Knight's Insignia's stacked Superior Absorption since no one was mentionting that, or if its just not a good idea to use those. Thanks for the help!
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Sep 05, 2007, 11:05 AM // 11:05
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#5
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Aug 2005
Guild: Natis Ignigena
Profession: Me/
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Knight's isn't advisable as the damage reduction, whilst stacking with superior absorption, only affects physical damage.
Pretty much all items with damage reduction have been hit with that qualifier.
This doesn't stop me taking a superior absorption on one piece of all my sets, but the trade-off there is a much more attractive proposition, as the damage reduction from one superior absorption is applied to all of your hit locations.
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Sep 05, 2007, 11:51 AM // 11:51
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#6
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Jun 2005
Profession: W/
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i don't even use a sup absorption anymore, cause no one in their right mind will hit warriors with physical damage anyway (PvP speaking) and in PvE, who cares about that wee bit of damage anyway ...
i have full survivor armor, and i keep a radiant set for farming purposes
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Sep 05, 2007, 11:56 AM // 11:56
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#7
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Grotto Attendant
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Canada
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I have full Radiant armor. The +8 energy is handy on a warrior.
Health doesn't matter too much for me. I use Defy Pain and Endure Pain, so my health is around 1,035 most of the time in battle, dropping down to 735 during Endure Pain's recharge time and 435 when not in combat, although I'll probably get some runes of vitae some time.
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Sep 05, 2007, 06:04 PM // 18:04
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#8
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Grotto Attendant
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Beyond the Forest of Doom, past the Cavern of Agony... on Kitten & Puppy Island
Guild: Soul of Melandru [sOm]
Profession: W/E
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I use full Survivor, mostly... PvE's easy enough so's it don't really matter.
For a 'pure' PvE warrior though, Survivor, Sentry's (you should always be in Flail) and a switch set of Sentinel's are good general choices.
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Sep 06, 2007, 04:53 AM // 04:53
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#9
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Guild: None
Profession: W/
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I have Radiant but that's because I wear Elite Gladiator which before the Insignia update, couldn't be changed. I could change it now if I wanted to but I'm too lazy, otherwise I'd use Survivor or Sentry
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Sep 11, 2007, 01:23 PM // 13:23
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#10
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Jungle Guide
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Europe
Guild: Keepers of Chaos
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I use a mix of survivor and radiant, for total +15hp and +5e, to have 530hp and 25e using superior weapon rune.
Anyway, what about the insignia that gives +10 armor while attacking?
It's not a warrior specific, but gives 110AL vs physical and 90AL agains ALL other damage sources, not only elemental but also chaos and light.
And it triggers when you're attacking (which you normally do), doesnt require 13 strenght and/or stances.
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Sep 11, 2007, 01:56 PM // 13:56
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#11
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Paris, France
Guild: We eat pancakes [Yumy]
Profession: Me/
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Abnaxus
I use a mix of survivor and radiant, for total +15hp and +5e, to have 530hp and 25e using superior weapon rune.
Anyway, what about the insignia that gives +10 armor while attacking?
It's not a warrior specific, but gives 110AL vs physical and 90AL agains ALL other damage sources, not only elemental but also chaos and light.
And it triggers when you're attacking (which you normally do), doesnt require 13 strenght and/or stances.
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It doesn't help when you're moving from foe to foe, when you are knocked down, using healing or rez signet...
On the other hand, in pve, you're under flail or a running stance continuously.
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Sep 11, 2007, 03:50 PM // 15:50
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#12
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Chicago, IL
Profession: W/N
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Sentry's all the way. 13 Str. is too high a req. for Sentinel's in my opinion.
I'm in a stance 120% of the time in either pve or pvp.
That and there's no mention of it being a +10 AL phys. only...
so in total, under a stance, you get 110 vs. phys. and 90 vs. elemental.
Very strong defense imho.
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