Curse

Little Thom's Bro · Jun 23, 2005, 07:53 AM // 07:53

I have been playing this character for about a month and its been fun playing with pve and pvp but when it comes to gvg i get spanked(especially with rangers).

I always end up dying first or last in my team! How exactly do u play W/M? I don't think being a secondary monk help. You just end up trying to counter hex and conditions and not fighting. Having a hammer forget about it.
GW Guru's please help.

Ancalagon06 · Jun 23, 2005, 08:20 AM // 08:20

Well, you can totally ditch healing, and mending, and go for smiting. You gotta remember, War/Mos are really, really, really common. All the easily creatible strategies have been done a thousand times, and everyone has counters for them.

The reason you are getting schooled by rangers is because of incendiary arrows. They interrupt you and set you on fire. Solution: stay away from rangers. Or, take smiting prayers, sprint up to the ranger, and say "hello." Remember, if you've got a weapon that does elemental damage, Rangers have armor that gives them +30 vs. elemental. I actually refuse to use elemental-damage weaponry. Your job, as a warrior, is not to go after warriors. You can't hurt them fast enough. Your job is to kill spell casters, and keep your spell casters safe. These may sound sort of contradicting, but if your guild is good, they should plan out who'll keep the casters safe, and who will go elementalist hunting beforehand.

As a hammer warrior, you've got THE BEST selection of knockdowns in the game. You should get with any and all Rangers in your guild to coordinate strategies, because IIRC, rangers have some good skills to use on people who are knocked down.

Mister Glue · Jun 23, 2005, 08:36 AM // 08:36

As Ancalagon06 said, W/Mo's are very very common. What you have to remember is that although you have been the "tank" through the storyline, there really isn't any "tanking" in PVP. As I see it, the main focus of warriors as of now is to put a ton of pressure on the casters. Things such as Hamstring and other skills which disable the casters in any way really help to take them down. Also while you're chasing them around to use those attacks, you're doing decent damage, which makes them have to be healed (obviously). This takes time for your huge damage dealers to gank up on one person because at least one of the healers will be busy healing the person you're attacking. So overall, what you're there to do is annoy or disable them.

As for healing/removing conditions/etc., don't worry about it. That's the monk's (hopefully plural) jobs. I'm not saying that out of ignorance either - I play a monk, and half the time I'm removing conditions. But that's my job, and if it keeps you from dieing, then it's working. When you do it, it just keeps you from attacking whatever target you're supposed to be. If you die, you die. Simple as that. The rest of the team should be able to get you up as soon as they can.

There are many ways to be a good warrior in pvp, that's just the best way as I can see it.

Van the Warrior · Jun 23, 2005, 01:49 PM // 13:49

become a smite monk.....get a good defense either gladiators OR shield of judgement OR raise shields and just keep walkin towards said offending ranger dismember then axe rake him then hit him for 80 dmg repeatedly.........then watch him cry....... then throw a wrath down as he tries to limp away.....or get a smite req focus item and punish him with balthazar as he limps.....