Warrior
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“Axe or Mace? Rifle or Greatsword? You know, they're all good.
Warriors are masters of martial skills. They rely on speed, strength, toughness, and heavy armor to survive. They're versatile in combat and benefit from offensive and defensive abilities. Warriors inspire allies and demoralize enemies. As a soldier profession, warriors wear heavy armor.
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[edit] Abilities
Adrenaline is the warrior profession's unique mechanic. As the warrior attacks, adrenaline is built up which can be spent on a single powerful burst attack. Each weapon set has a single burst skill which has a variety of different conditions that improve with more adrenaline. Adrenaline has 3 levels, as burst skills too. Each adrenaline level increasing the effect of the burst skill.
The warrior also has the highest selection of weapons compared to other professions, giving a good variation between the types of play-styles that they can choose from.
[edit] Skills
[edit] Skill types unique to warrior
- Physical — is a warrior skill type that involves controlling foes and (forced) movement.
- Banners — banner skills produce an environmental weapon that can buff allies. The banner can be picked up and carried around to move the buff, or it can be planted in an area to convey the buff, allowing the warrior to continue fighting.
- Stance is a warrior skill type that grants temporary bonuses to the user.
[edit] Traits
A warrior has five general trait lines to choose from: Strength, Arms, Defense, Tactics, and Discipline.
[edit] Equipment
[edit] Armor
The warrior is a soldier profession and thus wears heavy armor.
[edit] Weapons
- Two-handed
- Hammer — Pounds the ground with area-of-effect attacks that can stagger groups of enemies.
- Greatsword — Sweeping area-of-effect attacks while being able to move quickly between groups of enemies.
- Longbow — Massive fire AoE damage used to keep hordes of enemies at bay.
- Rifle — Inflict various conditions and unleash powerful attacks against a single target.
- Off-hand
- Shield — Used to bash foes or block incoming attacks.
- Warhorn — Grants boons to allies.
- Axe — Can be used to strike with both weapons simultaneously or charge with a whirling attack.
- Sword — Used as a crippling attack or to block and retalitate.
- Mace — The warrior can perform a stunning attack against a single target or harm all foes in front of him by slamming the mace on the ground.
- Aquatic
- Harpoon gun — Long range mechanical weapon.
- Spear — Close quarters melee weapon.
There are 19 possible weapon sets for the warrior profession and two weapon sets while underwater. The warrior can equip and alternate between two weapon sets, but doing so in combat induces a recharge to prevent continuous switching between weapons. This recharge can be decreased by equipping the Weapon Mastery trait once gained.
[edit] Crafting
The following crafting disciplines can create items that are useful to the warrior:
- Weaponsmith — axes, greatswords, hammers, maces, shields, spears, swords.
- Huntsman — Harpoon guns, longbows, rifles, warhorns.
- Armorsmith — Heavy armor.
- Jeweler — Jewelry.
- Chef — Food.
[edit] Personal story
In the biography step of character creation, warriors may choose from a spangenhelm, a cap helm, or no helm at all.
[edit] Gallery
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[edit] Trivia
- The warrior was previewed under this image until its unveiling on the 9th June 2010.
[edit] External links
- Warrior on the official website.
[edit] References
| The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Warrior. |
| Professions | |
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| Soldiers |  Guardian •  Warrior
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| Adventurers |  Engineer •  Ranger •  Thief
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| Scholars |  Elementalist •  Mesmer •  Necromancer
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