The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Strike damage and Dps
Designed for: WvW Zerg
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds Path of Fire Builds Janthir Wilds builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on March 10, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A Warrior build for WvW. Combines high personal damage and good personal survivability.
Skill Bar
Variants
Weapons
- Greatsword ⇒ Sword/Axe
- Sword/Axe has higher potential damage and some utility, but is much worse defensively and requires much higher melee uptime
Heal
"突破极限！" - fill Adrenaline for 
鹞鹰投掷
治疗纹章 - for stacking 
纹章专精, if you're having trouble keeping it stacked
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Variants
斧系专精 - With Sword/Axe
Equipment
Variants
Stats
- This build uses full Dragon to maximize damage with
爆发精准, you can use Berserker instead for more damage outside this buff, but this is not usually worth doing
Sigils
Consumables
Usage
Quick Guide
- Core Warrior is a pure DPS with exceptional range burst damage
- Use your Spear to spike enemies at range
- Use your melee weapons to finish enemies
General
- Try to precast your Signet skills before fights start to stack 纹章专精
- You can swap your heal to 治疗纹章 as well as your open utility skill and elite skill to stack this more quickly, but make sure everything is off cooldown before the fight starts
- You can swap your heal to
Surviving
- This build has moderate passive defense
- This build has high mobility skill access
- This build has low active defenses
Defensive Skill List
- Use
旋风斩 to move out after spiking 
突击斩/
野蛮跳跃 can be used for repositioning or gap closing
- Drop your target if using defensively
Priorities
High
- Burst Damage
Moderate
- Damage
Low
Detailed Explanations
Burst Damage
- Your ranged spike damage priority is:
- The goal is to land as much damage in as short a time as possible, overlapping damage such as
烈阳支援 ⇒ 鹞鹰投掷 to increase burst
- If you can get into melee range, follow that up with one of the melee priorities:
- Make sure you are in range of
超级水能法印 when swapping to your melee set - Use
怒气纹章 to get full Adrenaline for Harrier's Toss as well as the Ferocity buff
Damage
Skill priority
- In general stay on Spear until you have a chance to get into melee range, then use your other weapon set for burst damage before getting back to Spear as quickly as possible
- Use
威能纹章 to make 
破坏投掷 unblockable and only cast 破坏投掷 with 威能纹章
Greatsword Usage
百刃斩 is situational. You stand still during channel, which means hitting CC'ed, movement impaired and downed foes is the ideal setup for this ability.
- Don't be afraid to cancel 百刃斩 after only a few ticks of damage, look for any chance to get multiple ticks off
- Don't be afraid to cancel
- Save 旋风斩 to disengage back to your group, but try to hit enemies with it when possible since the Evade Evade will protect you while dealing decent damage
- Beware the animation lock of 突击斩. Its best use is for single target damage while already in melee, but even then it must be used very carefully if at all
Sword/Axe Usage
- It is almost always worth switching to Sword/Axe for
双重打击 ⇒ 
回旋斧斩 if you can land both even if you need to switch back to Spear without using any other skills - Beware the animation lock of 野蛮跳跃. Its best use is for single target damage while already in melee, but even then it must be used very carefully if at all
- A stow weapon keybind can be useful to cancel
乱舞
- The Immobilize Immobilize of 乱舞 is applied on the first tick of damage, so try to at least land that and then stow the rest of the cast if you can't land the full channel
- The Immobilize Immobilize of
Battle Standard
- revives allies in its entire radius and finishes downed enemies in its center radius
- You should focus on using for finishing enemies, especially once you've used your burst
- If you predict enemies will go down on your groups spike you can pre-cast to finish them before the enemy group can respond with rez skills