Beast and (Axe) Master

Ok... still thinking and learning how GW works...

would this have a chance of being effective?

Wa/Ra (for the armor)

Axe Mastery 12
Beastmastery 12

Alternatively you could go...
Beast Mastery 11
Axe Mastery 10
Strength 10

I'm not sure if the armor penetration from the strength would make up for the lost ranks in axe and beastmastery... any tips?

Here are the skills I'd plan to have:

Charm Animal
Predatory Season
Ferocious Strike
Comfort Animal
Call of Haste
Tiger's Fury
Executioner's Strike
Penetrating Blow

The idea would be to generate maximum damage by having two sources for attack, you and your pet.

Ferocious Strike would charge you with 9 adrenaline and 9 energy which will essentially be a battery for your executioner's strike and penetrating blows.

Call of Haste and Tiger's Fury mean your pet is attacking 25% faster and you're attacking 33% faster... your pet would have to chase any amped runners since it has a 25% boost in speed as well.

Predatory season is there because healing is probably helping the guy you're pounding on more than you, and it's also the way for you to regain health (giving you 5 health for every blow landed). Plus, what a great name for a single-minded, pound-'em-'till-they-stop-moving build.

I thought about trying to get 'Wild Blow' in there to break stances, but couldn't figure out where it fit best (unless it would be dropping predatory season).

Could this build work?

depends what you mean by 'work'.

if you mean "fails to do anything significant" by work, yea it works alright.

Hah! That's, ummm... not exactly what I meant by 'work'.

So could you help a guy out and offer some tips to improve it? How could you make an effective warrior / beast master type build? Or do they all require smiting prayers to be effective?

here's a few pointers unlike smurf.

use a sword. galrath and final will deal more dmg than executioners and penetrating. it also has more steady dmg and higher min dmg than the axe does. only reason i'm suggesting sword is b/c you are not using a weapon elite. no weapon elite should use a sword. get a sup sword rune and sword helm to increase it to 16.

now decrease the beast mastery. maybe 10 would be enough. put the rest of the points into str. str gives you armor penetration when you use an attack skill dealing more dmg.

drop comfort animal, replace it with wild blow. your pet has 80 armor base at lvl 20. add the high lvl of beast mastery to that and he will most likely never die. i'm not sure about call of haste. the pet gets a 20% attack speed boost when they hit lvl 20. adding another 20% on that might not make too much difference. the 20% to speed isn't going to help him catch anyone as minimum all running skills are 25%. i'd put haste on the bubble. if there is something else you want to try i'd switch that out for it.

btw is this for pvp or pve?

heres why its not so good: if your a warrior using a weapon, there is no reason to not have 16 in that weapon mastery. none at all. that said, the pet is going to be really crappy. the energy from ferocious strike will be unescessary and a waste of an elite spot.

would be more interesting if you want ranger primary and took alot of energy skills instead of adrenal ones.

he's using it for the adrenaline smurf. he can unload galrath and final strike then do ferocious and do it again.

it will give some energy and for a warrior anything is better than nothing.

oh i missed that. uh.. maybe... still not worth an elite imo

Quote: Originally Posted by smurfhunter

haha no way, iways want the pet dead whereas here you use it for adrenaline

Quote: heres why its not so good: if your a warrior using a weapon, there is no reason to not have 16 in that weapon mastery. I didn’t include any item boosts, so a raw 12 attribute could be bumped to 16.

TBH i dont see why both wild blow and predatory season are there... predatory season is only good because it decreases healing, but i dont think it would really matter in a CA setting. wild blow seems.. random. i doubt you would actually end up using it. maybe switch those two for sever artery/gash while were on the whole sword thing? the deep wound will help alot when you do a final thrust spike.

...still dont like the idea of a pet there...

Quote: Originally Posted by BlueJester