Banner Berserker - GW2 | Discretize [dT]

The Banner Berserker is a strong build for Warrior in fractals. It has excellent defiance bar damage in Tremor and Head Butt , the build also has medium burst and excellent sustained damage. Warrior can provide half of the necessary Might and Fury to the group by using "For Great Justice!" . The Banner Berserker excels at fighting larger groups of mobs due to extreme cleave with greatswords Arc Divider -> Blood Reckoning -> Arc Divider combo.

Unfortunately, this builds requires a lot of Assassin pieces or other runes than Superior Rune of the Scholar due to receiving very little Precision from traits. This is also the reason why the Banner Berserker is one of the classes that benefit a lot from higher Agony Resistance.

Furthermore, the build is able to use damage modifying sigils like Superior Sigil of Impact as well as slaying potions such as Powerful Potion of Slaying Scarlet's Armies . As a Banner Berserker your focus is to maintain your unique party buffs and instantly contribute to breaking defiance bars, all while making DPS players sweat nervously when they glance at their DPS meter.

Before progressing to the advanced version of this page, we recommend acquiring an in-depth understanding of your CC skills and when to use them efficiently. You should be able to hit consistently high DPS, which you can verify with arc-dps . And finally, you should be able to execute the basic step-by-step rotation provided below without spending too much thought on it.

The advanced page provides a more complete overview of all the utilities the Warrior has to offer. If you ever feel like you are missing information feel free to already swap to the advanced page!

Equipment

Build

Strength

Discipline

Berserker

Situational Skills

| | | | --------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --- | | | Whenever you notice less than 25 stacks of Might on your buff bar. | | | For double Arc Divider or the situational Berserker build. | | | 332 CC and 4s Berserk extension. | | | Can be used on Arkk if your Renegade is able to solo the CC bar. | |

Details

How to deal damage:

Use Decapitate as often as possible. Three crits are required to gain a single Decapitate :
1. Cyclone Axe and Throw Axe .
2. Dual Strike and Throw Axe .
3. Whirling Axe .
Get three Decapitate before pressing Whirling Axe .
If the boss has a breakbar, make sure to use Tremor to proc Superior Sigil of Severance , then swap to Axe/Axe.

Extra notes:

If your groups Might is not 25, take "For Great Justice!" . It is a bigger DPS increase than Signet of Might !
If you expect your party to be slow it can make sense to bring Smash Brawler and eat the initial Stun of Head Butt .
Casting Mending for Peak Performance is only a DPS gain if you can’t be hitting something else, use it right before the start of DPS phases but only use it during if you need the heal.
Entering Berserk grants three stacks of Berserker's Power , while Decapitate only grants one. You will find Berserker's Power starting to run low when out of Berserk . Try to make sure you are in Berserk for burn phases while also not delaying Berserk where possible.

Rotation / Skill usage

Precasting

Stack Might: Use both charges of "For Great Justice!" .
If there is a defiance bar present immediately at the start of the fight, start on your Mace set - otherwise swap to it when necessary.
With Superior Sigil of Paralyzation you can deal 690 defiance bar damage with:
- Tremor , you can precast it and cancel the aftercast animation.
- Head Butt with Superior Sigil of Paralyzation for a total of 390 CC.

	Whenever you notice less than 25 stacks of Might on your buff bar.
	Grants 180 Precision passively; grants 360 Precision and Ferocity on use and fills up the entire adrenalin bar.
	Flat 180 power buff. Only take this when no other utility is needed.
	Can be used on Arkk if your Renegade is able to solo the CC bar.
	Can be used to pull Krait from the side altars at the Nightmare CM fractal.
	Grants Superspeed for skips.
	For double Arc Divider or the situational Berserker build.
	Very strong in conjunction with Head Butt for Berserk extension.
	332 CC and 4s Berserk extension.
	300 CC, gives Peak Performance .

Wild Blow	332 damage
Head Butt	300 damage
Bull's Charge	300 damage
Kick	150 damage
Skull Grinder	100 damage
Skull Crack	300 damage
Tremor	300 damage
Pommel Bash	100 damage