RiyazGuerra.9203

October 30, 2020

Since having a considerable investment into Healing is not common for the more viable templates warriors are running, wouldn't it be better to allow Warhorn 5, [Call of Valor](https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Call_of_Valor) to utilize the warrior's Toughness attribute to determine the amount of [barrier](https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Barrier)?

I would really like to see a system where the skill takes either Healing or Toughness, whichever attribute is higher, and use that to determine the [barrier](https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Barrier) amount but I can already hear the 'that is too much work for the devs and they have limited resources!!' crying already...

September 2, 2020

Good ideas for mace Lan.

To help a little bit in the dps department, I suggest the following addition,

Pommel Bash

Daze your foe with a brutal pommel bash.

Damage: 147

If a skill was interrupted, the attack is a critical hit.

Daze: 1 second

Range: 130

August 27, 2020

> @"Psycoprophet.8107" said:

> This seems pretty cool.

Thanks!

August 27, 2020

> @"Kodama.6453" said:

> All elite specs are introducing a new utility skill category to their class, your utility skills are reusing 2 skills types warrior already has (shout and banner).

> I know why you did it, you want this elite spec to have synergy with the baseline supportive features of warrior.

Absolutely. This way if you want to run a healing Standard-bearer you would pick up Vigorous Shouts in Tactics in addition to [Roaring Reveille](https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Roaring_Reveille) for more warhorn targets and additional buffs or [soldier's Comfort](https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Soldier%27s_Comfort) for more healing, and [shrug It Off!](https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shrug_It_Off://) for additional cleanse and healing. You have the option of running Sword/Axe/Mace + Warhorn and Staff as your two weapon sets, and lots of healing with alll the shouts you have on your staff.

>But this is not the way to do it. You should take a look at the utility skill types the game has and look what might potentially fit the thematic you are aiming for.

I respectfully disagree there ;-)

> Also the class mechanic seems a bit troubling. Do I understand it right that these skills are linked to your staff? How does that mechanic work without using a staff?

Yes you need the staff equipped in order to use the skills I listed. Conceivably there would also be skills for slots 7-9 but oftentimes these skills are an afterthought and the real appeal of the spec are the weapons skills as well as any new mechanics that are introduced.

> And don't you think it is a bit much to add 3 complete weapon sets to warrior?

I don't see this as any different than legendary stances for the revenant. I would think players would appreciate the volume of options this would present.

August 27, 2020

THE STANDARD-BEARER

Weapon Design: can use any staff but ideally Anet will begin to produce skins that look similar to a halberd or spear with a banner attached.

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I. What does this build do?

This build will be the support elite spec for the warrior, and will attempt to fulfill this role by mechanics not found on typical support specs such as firebrand or scourge. At the same time, the goal is to not to completely neuter the spec's offensive capability.

There is still an Adrenaline Based Burst Skilll (F1).

Because different game modes have different needs with respect to support, the build will attempt to provide a set of skills for each mode via selectable (F2, F3, F4) skill sets that populate skills 1 - 5. Switching between loudouts is based on cooldowns and not adrenaline.

Yes there are a few new player mechanics and boons that will be introduced, but since this conceivably will come out in the expansion they will have additional resources to allocate to the endeavor.

F2: Solo Mission

Default, melee based skills with skill 5 being a generic party boon that primarily serves to buff the PC and a few allies. Designed for PVE, solo play, or small parties.

F3: Party Leader

Designed for 5 man or 10 man content. I don't spvp so if you can suggest a need that the spec can fill for spvp, that would be great and I can add it here.

F4: Squad Leader

Designed for wvw.

Swapping between loadouts should be fluid with minimal cooldown. I would suggest as low as 4 seconds (2 seconds with traits), so you can quickly equip the default skill loadout in case you are attacked and need to better defend yourself.

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II. What the build does not do

This build can't just be another boon spammer build. This leaves the build vulnerable to be eclipsed by another class in the neverending iterations of 'balance'. The goal is to make the warrior class a viable support build that will be desired whether you are in a raid, 2-man spvp, or a wvw zerg. I ask that even if you dislike the skills I came up with, this goal be embraced and if you have an idea for a skill that better fills a particular game mode need, please share it.

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III. The Skillls

Healing Skill: Rousing Fortune: Shout. Heal yourself and your allies, increases HP restored when in the presence of more allies.

In the presence of:

No allies: 7000 heal to self

1-5 allies: 8000 heal to self and 1000 heal to allies. Radius: 500, Targets: 5

6-10 allies: 9000 heal to self and 1500 heal to allies. Radius: 600, Targets: 5

11+ allies: 10,000 heal to self and 2000 heal to allies. Radius: 800, Targets: 5

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Elite Skill: Banner of Resilience: Banner. Place a banner that prevents the next fatal damage from killing the player and grants them 5000 health. If an ally's health is less than 25%, grants Regeneration for 10 seconds, Vigor for 10 seconds and Aegis for 4 seconds.

Range: 600

Effective Radius: 600

Targets: 5

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F1. Burst Skill: Staff Uppercut

Consumes Adrenaline, delivers a powerful attack and Knockbacks target. Damage increases when additional bars of Adrenaline are consumed. Targets: 4, Range: 150

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F2: Solo Mission

General weapon notes for this loadout: The staff non-leaping-skill-range will be 150 (with exception of skill 3, which will be the close-range-high-dps-skill), greater than the average 2-hander non-leaping-skill which is 130. This advantage can be exploited in certain situations. The warrior staff can also target 4 or 5 targets depending on the skill, which is better than the average 2-hander.

Skill 1: Rapid Thrusts: a rapid 4-strike combination

Strike 1: Strike your target. Targets: 4, Range: 150

Strike 2: Strike your target, if the attack hits inflict vulnerability for 2 seconds. Targets: 4, Range: 150

Strike 3: Strike your target, if the attack hits consume 1 stack of stability of your target(s) and gives you 2 stacks of might for 4 seconds. Targets: 4, Range: 150

Strike 4: Final thrust, slight range increase: Range: 160. Extend staff in a final strike, if the attack hits it is a critical hit. Targets: 4, Range: 160

Skill 2: Lunging Kick: leaping attack

You use your staff to leap to your foe and deliver a kick to your foes. Evade: 1/2 second. Damage applied at the end of the leap, evade occurs during leap animation. If target foes are weakened, they are knocked down. Targets: 5, Range: 600

Skill 3: Whirling Staff: close range burst damage

You twirl your staff in a figure eight motion, delivering 5 rapid strikes in quick succession. Chance to crit for each strike: +25%. Targets: 4, Range: 130

Skill 4: Spinning Sweep

You lower your staff and spin, knocking down the enemies around you. Knockdown. Targets: 5, Radius: 150.

Skill 5: Battle Cry. Animation: you slam the base of the staff on the ground and yell some nonsense.

Shout. Grants you and your allies Might (4 strikes, 10 seconds), Regeneration (8 seconds), and Vigor (8 seconds) . Inflicts Weakness on foes (8 seconds). Targets: 5, Radius: 600

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F3: Party Leader

Skill 1: Supportive Strikes: a series of strikes

Strike 1: Strike your target and inflict Weakness for 2 seconds. Targets: 4, Range: 150

Strike 2: Strike your target. If the attack hits, nearby allies are healed. Targets: 4, Range: 150

Strike 3: Uppercut target using your staff. If your target has Weakness, inflict Stun for a half second. Targets: 4, Range: 150

Skill 2: Shout. "Watch Yourselves!" (yes a nod to GW1)

New Boon: 'Reinforced': Your Armor attribute is increased by 20%

Grants Reinforced for 10 seconds

Grants Resistance for 6 seconds

If ally health is less than 50% grants Protection for 6 seconds

Radius: 600

Targets: 5

Skill 3: Shout. "Crush Them!"

New Condition: 'Fractured': Decrease Target's Armor Attribute by 20%.

Applies Fractured for 15 seconds

All allies within range do an extra 25% damage to target's Defiance Bar with their next attack.

Range: 1200

Targets: 5

Skill 4: Shout. "Finish Them!"

New Boon: 'Bloodthirsty': You and your allies do 10% increased damage to foes with less than 33% health.

Grants Bloodthirsty for 10 seconds

Radius: 600

Targets: 5

Skill 5: Mark. Neutral Ground

A mark which temporarily neutralizes any enemy mark, traps or ground-targeted AOE. While allies stand in Neutral Ground mark, they receive no damage from the aforementioned for the duration of the mark.

Duration: 3 seconds

Range: 800

Radius: 240

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F4: Squad Leader

Skill 1: Staff Barrage: a series of staff-tossing strikes

Strike 1: Throw a spinning staff at your foes. Targets: 4, Range: 900.

Strike 2: Throw a spinning staff with greater force, striking an additional 2 targets. Velocity Increase: 100%, Targets: 6, Range: 900

Strike 3: Throw a spinning staff at your foes, if the attack hits, targets are afflicted with Confusion for 2 seconds. Targets: 4, Range: 900

Skill 2: Shout. "Pierce Their Defenses!"

Grants Superspeed for 10 seconds

Grants Vigor for 15 seconds

Grants Stability (4 stacks) for 6 seconds.

Radius: 800

Targets: 5

Skill 3. Shout. "Reflect Their Attack!"

New Boon: 'Reflection': You and your allies reflect all projectiles, taking no damage in the process.

Grants Reflection for 2 seconds

Radius: 800

Targets: 5

Skill 4: Shout. "Strengthen Your Resolve!"

The duration of all conditions afflicting allies are reduced by 50%.

Radius: 800

Targets: 5

Skill 5: Shout. "None Shall Pass!" (Animation: slam end of staff on floor)

All enemy targets within range are dazed for 1 second and all allies interrupt a skill with their next attack.

Radius: 800

Targets: 5

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IV. The Traits

Minor Adept: Staff Mastery.

You can now equip a staff. When a staff is equipped, you gain several Staff Loudouts in addition to your Burst Skill.

Major Adept: Flexible Loudouts

Cooldown to switch to a different Staff Loudout is decreased to 2 seconds from 4 seconds. Switching to a new loudout grants you Alacrity for 2 seconds.

Major Adept: Booming Voice

Shouts that are part of staff skills have 200 increased radius and affect 3 additional targets. Radius: 1000, Targets: 8

Major Adept: Staff Expertise

Staff attacks have 25% decreased cooldowns and damage is increased with increased levels of stored Adrenaline.

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Minor Master: Vigilance

You parry attacks when you switch to a different loadout.

Major Master: Inclusive Commander

Beneficial shout skills from staff affect ally pets, summons and turrets and do not count toward the max target restrictions.

Major Master: Oppressive Tormentor

Harmful shout skills from staff affect enemy pets, summons and turrets and do not count toward the max target restrictions.

Major Master: Brutal Uppercut

Staff Uppercut (F1 Burst Skill) is upgraded into Staff Uppercut Combo. The first strike is a near instantaneous jab to the gut that applies 25 strikes of Vulnerability for 1 second. The second strike is the uppercut which consumes Adrenaline, delivers a powerful attack and Knockbacks target.

Damage increases when additional bars of Adrenaline are consumed. Targets: 4, Range: 150

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Minor Grandmaster: Effect: Crowd Pleaser: The 'Crowd Pleaser' effect strengthens in the presence of a greater number of allies (pets, summons and turrets excluded).

Level 1: 0 to 4 allies: boons and conditions you apply are 5% longer

Level 2: 5 to 10 allies: boons and conditions you apply are 10% longer

Level 3: 11 to 20 allies: boons and conditions you apply are 20% longer

Level 4: 21+ allies: boons and conditions you apply are 25% longer

**Note: If the effect is consumed it will regenerate in 1 minute.

Major Grandmaster: Inspirational Leader

You grant +120 Vitality, +120 Toughness and +120 Concentration (translates into +8% boon duration) to all allies in your presence.

Using a Burst skill consumes the 'Crowd Pleaser' effect and grants Alacrity to you and your allies for 2 seconds.

Targets: 10

Radius: 800

Major Grandmaster: Demagoguery

You grant +120 Power, +120 Condition Damage and +120 Ferocity to all allies in your presence.

Using a Burst skill consumes the 'Crowd Pleaser' effect and afflicts foes with Chilled for 3 seconds.

Targets: 10

Radius: 800

Major Grandmaster: Rabble Rouser

For only pets, summons and turrets in your presence you grant +500 Vitality, +300 Toughness, +200 Power, +200 Condition Damage, +200 Precision.

Using a Burst skill consumes the 'Crowd Pleaser' effect and grants ally pets, summons and turrets Regeneration (8 seconds) and a new boon, Primal Frenzy (6 seconds), which grants the recipient a +33% chance to critical hit.

Targets: 20

Radius: 1000

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Okay, that's my take on a support staff elite spec for warrior. Thoughts, comments, criticisms welcomed.

**edited for typos

August 26, 2020

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> My comment was more to it being a pistol spec and the incoming commentary that I expected. This proposed spec is Dragon Hunter Crossed with Engi in a weird way though.

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> OP pick a single utility, and pick a single role to fill.

Thanks Lan, I am going to do a staff support build that is a bit more narrow.

August 26, 2020

t's like OP wanted to cram the entire engineer class with both elite specs in this suggestion> @"Kodama.6453" said:

> > @"Lan Deathrider.5910" said:

> > Before people come in and say pistol can't be support. Imagine an American Civil War battlefield officer with a saber in one hand and a pistol in the other directing his soldiers in combat.

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> It definitely can be a support.

> But how it is designed in this suggested elite spec here, it isn't. It is a damage weapon with an added smoke field.

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> It is also copying a bit too much from engineer for my taste.

> Sure, they can create a warrior elite spec with some engineer thematics. Elite specs are supposed to replace class fusions, like spellbreaker was their vision of a warrior/mesmer or how mirage embodies the mesmer/thief combination.

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> But smoke bombs, electric nets.... it just feels for me like he didn't try to create something new for warrior, but just copies stuff from other classes and puts it here.

> And some seem out of place. On one hand, the spec is heavily focused on explosives.... yet suddenly it has a holographic barrier too (which, btw, is also obviously just ripped off from holosmith)?

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> Oh, and of course it also has a gyro. xD

> It's like OP wanted to cram the entire engineer class with both elite specs in this suggestion here.

Well since the skills I wanted to add kind of seemed out of place with the tools assigned to the warrior, technology was the obvious answer since warriors are not supposed to be magic-users. The gyros etc was just in keeping with the themes currently employed in GW2.

Appreciate the feedback still!

August 26, 2020

> @"Smoosh.2718" said:

> I back the idea of warrior getting pistol, just i can not get behind traps... it encourages some really cheesey play. Would also be borked with rune of the trapper in WvW and PvP (that rune was a mistake... anet please remove it)

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> What warrior needs with pistol, is a true form of support, if we look historically. A pistol was used by a commander to inspire moral and to boost the effectiveness of their team/others around them.

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> Imagine a pistol on warrior which does some damage but also provides huge boosts to those around when you use a skill (like fire a shot into the air to inspire all around, give Fury Alacrity and quickness.) or provide effects like marking a target to take more damage (different from vuln).

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> But 100% back the idea of a 1h pistol, warrior lacks a 1 handed ranged weapon and is massivly needed to effectivly play a support warrior role.

Thank you for the reply. I understand the concerns about the type of play traps entail but are they really that much worse than ground targeted skills? There is the issue of stacking traps that you would get to a lesser degree by classes which use ground targeted marks, perhaps we can balance that by the time traps remain active or the amount that can be stacked in a single area.

While I agree with you about warrior needing a pistol and about a spec designed for support, I disagree pistol should be used as a support spec. The pistol should be seen as a way for warriors to compensate for cc and closing the distance while still mainhanding a traditional melee weapon ie a sword or axe. Yes I know you can always swap to a rifle or bow but you never need to worry about weapon swap cooldown if you have a ranged weapon always equipped.

I plan on making a support spec soon, but using staff. Regardless I appreciate your thoughts on this.

August 23, 2020

**THE ENFORCER ELITE SPECIALIZATION**

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I. Features of the elite specialization

A. The elite spec allows for wielding a pistol in both mainhand and offhand

B. Mainhand skills are primarily power-based, offhand are primarily condition-based.

C. For each hand, each set of pistol skills must have one skill that is spammable, ie very short cooldown, that will serve as a primary ranged dps skill. This will allow for builds which are primarily power centered that can wield the pistol on the mainhand and say an axe in the offhand, and condition builds which can wield the one-handed sword in the mainhand and a pistol in the offhand.

D. The elite skill allows for the temporary availability of traps and wells enabling players to increase the maximum number of options available to every build loadout. This elite does not replace primary weapon skills and healing (skill slots 1-6) and serves to complement, not interrupt, gameplay.

E. The traps and wells available to this elite spec will allow for maximum flexibility for the player to assume multiple roles at the same time.

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II. What the elite spec cannot do.

A. Compared to rifle, the pistol cannot do more direct damage dps.

B. Pistol burst dps cannot exceed rifle's Killshot.

C. Pistol range must be lower than rifle.

D. Compared to longbow, any pistol fire aoe must have a smaller radius than the longbow's burst, Combustive Shot.

E. Excel at boon-stripping in any way comparable to Spellbreaker.

F. Excel at directed condition damage in a way comparable to Berserker. The enforcer's damage output can rival and exceed the Berserker's through the sum of its direct and indirect condition damage, achieved through careful planning, patience and readiness to exploit opportunities.

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**III. The weapon skills**

Mainhand Pistol

Skill 1: Oppressive Shot

First shot: Fire a shot at your target.

Second shot: Fire a shot at your target, if it hits apply vulnerability to foe.

Third shot: Higher damage than first shot and +25% chance to crit. If target has vulnerability, +10 crit damage.

Skill 2: Cluster Bomb

Fire a cluster bomb at a target area. After a 3 second delay or if a foe is in the target area , the bomb will detonate and damage a maximum of 3 nearby foes and apply cripple.

Skill 3: Smoke Shot

Detonates a smoke field at a target area. Allies in target area are granted stealth, foes are blinded.

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Offhand Pistol

Skill 4: Hollow Point Bullet

First shot: Fire a shot at your target. Applies bleeding to target.

Second shot: Higher damage than first shot and applies burning.

Third shot: Fires a shot with +25% chance to crit. If the shot crits, there is a small explosion at the target and burning and torment is applied to all foes in target radius.

Skill 5: Electric Net

Fires an electrified net that cripples the target. For the duration of the net, target is revealed. If any burst skill lands on a netted target, the net detonates and target and all nearby foes suffer shocking damage and are stunned for 1 second.

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**IV. Burst skills**

F1 Burst: Ruinous Shot: The utilization is to supply some power-based, unblockable damage as well as mitigate damage output from target and provide an opportunity to supply damage enhancing boons to the source.

Fires an unblockable, high velocity shot that applies weakness. If target has vulnerability, applies might to source. If target has vulnerability and crippled, applies slow to target. If target has vulnerability and bleeding, also gives fury to source.

F2 Burst: Chaos Shell: The utilization for this burst is to cash out on the conditions you are stacking on the target by adding adfitional stacks of conditions and exploiting the target to spread conditions to their allies.

Fires a shot that dazes target and does +20% damage to barriers.

If target is burning, the shell explodes and forms a flame well at the target location that causes burning to all who stand on the well.

If target is bleeding, the shell explodes and applies bleeding to all foes in the blast radius.

If target has weakness, the shell explodes and knocks down all foes in the blast radius.

If target is netted (pistol skill 5), the shell explodes and triggers a blast of chain lightning that hits 3 adjacent foes.

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**V. Elite skills (yes, you get several options, but you can only equip one)**

Subterfuge (player choice): This elite will swap out your last 4 skills (keys 7, 8, 9, 0) for traps / wells for a brief period. The traps and wells it will provide are the same traps and wells that will be available to the spec that can be individually equipped (skill slots 7-9) with the exception of skill slot 0 (the elite skill slot), which will only be accessible to the player by choosing the specific elite variation.

A. Subterfuge: Panic

Slot 7: Escape Plan: this well provides stealth to allies and cripple to foes.

Slot 8: Fear Trap: this trap pulses fear and vulnerability to foes.

Slot 9: Indecision: this trap pulses weakness and slow to foes.

Slot 0: The Hail/Fail Mary: this trap applies a single packet of damage to each foe who crosses the target area. This damage packet is a random, direct damage value that ranges from 1000 to 10000.

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B. Subterfuge: Politics

Slot 7: Oppo Research: this trap will strip boons from foes.

Slot 8: Jingoism: this well pulses vigor, might, fury, aegis and swiftness to allies.

Slot 9: Misdirection: this kit spawns 5 gyros which orbit the player. Half of the damage directed toward the player character or allies are absorbed by the gyros.

Slot 0: Party Unity: this well pulses healing, regeneration, protection, resistance and stability to allies.

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C. Subterfuge: Paranoia

Slot 7: Blockade: creates a section of floor that cannot be crossed by foes or penetrated by projectiles.

Slot 8: Surveillance Drone: launches a stealthed gyro that patrols a predefined circular path and reports any relevant information on foes (species, class) it encounters via the minimap.

Slot 9: Thief Alarm: this trap will not only reveal any stealthed foes, it will attach an audible and visual alarm and apply vulnerability and cripple on revealed foes.

Slot 0: Decoy Golem 3000: this kit will spawn a fast moving golem with a large pool of hitpoints and a high toughness attribute. Default golem behavior includes utilizing taunt on foes, using a vacuum burst to pull enemy players, clones, summons, minions, shades, etc. towards the golem which it will then attack. A 'golem mechanic bar', a UI akin to that used for ranger pets, appears with 4 commands

Attack My Target (F3): command your golem to attack your current target.

Guard Me (F4): instructs golem to attack foes you are attacking or are attacking you.

Protect All Allies (F5): instructs golem to orbit you and attack any enemy that is attacking you or your allies.

Take One for the Team (F6): instructs golem to detonate itself, damaging all enemies in its radius. The golem will then fall face-first to the ground and its body will temporarily serve as a barrier to any enemy marks, wells, and traps hazardous to the player or their allies.

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D. Subterfuge: Pandemonium

Slot 7: Affliction Trap: pulses bleeding and poison on foes.

Slot 8: Chaos Trap: pulses confusion and torment on foes.

Slot 9: Ember Trap: pulses burning and immobilize on foes.

Slot 0: Airship Beacon: this trap signals a Pact Airship to fire a searing beam of light on the target area. Foes in the area are blinded, suffer burning damage and knocked down.

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E. Subterfuge: Jack of All Trades

Slot 7: Indecision: this trap pulses weakness and slow to foes.

Slot 8: Jingoism: this well pulses vigor, might, fury, aegis and swiftness to allies.

Slot 9: Thief Alarm: this trap will not only reveal any stealthed foes, it will attach an audible and visual alarm and apply vulnerability and cripple on revealed foes.

Slot 0: Enhanced Ember Trap: pulses burning and immobilize on foes. Any foes that die in the Enhanced Ember Trap spawn an Ember Elemental that follows the player. There is a rare chance to spawn a Fire Djinn instead of an Ember Elemental.

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**IV. Traits**

A. Adept Minor: Pistolier

Allows the warrior to equip pistols in both hands.

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B. Adept Major

Option 1: Revitalizing Trapper

For every trap you place the remaining cooldown on your heal skill (skill 6) is reduced by 3 seconds.

Whenever you or your allies stand over a trap you place you are healed.

Your healing is increased by 200.

Optiion 2: Vigorous Trapper

Every time an enemy triggers one of your traps, you regain 25 endurance and your opponent loses 10 endurance.

If you are critted, you are granted vigor for 10 seconds.

Option 3: Armored Trapper

Every time an enemy triggers one of your traps, you gain a stacking toughness effect called 'Hard Body' that remains active while you are in combat. Max stacks: 10. While you have 10 stacks of Hard Body you periodically gain Aegis.

Your toughness is increased by 150.

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C. Master Minor: Trap Chucker

Traps no longer need to be exclusively placed at the player position, you can toss all traps, wells and kits.

Range: 500

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D. Master Major

Option 1: Pistol Customizer

Allows for limited customization of pistol skill. Selecting this train add 4 new skill added to the right of your burst skills. The following are 'Pistol Customizing Skills'

F3: Mainhand: Power

F4: Offhand: Power

F5: Mainhand: Condition

F6: Offhand: Condition

Of course skills F3 and F5 are mutually exclusive, as is F4 and F6.

By default, F3 and F6 are active. You do not need pistols equipped in both hands, BUT, should you equip a pistol in either hand, the skills which will fill your skill bar will be determined by the Pistol Customizing Skills.

Here are all the possible combinations and their effects on the weapon skillbar and burst skills if pistols are equipped in both the mainhand and offhand.

a. F3 and F6 (Power:Condition)

Skill 1: Oppressive shot

Skill 2: Cluster bomb

Skill 3: Smoke shot

Skill 4: Hollow point bullet

Skill 5: Electric net

Burst F1: Ruinous shot

Burst F2: Chaos shell

This is the default setup and he has been described in Section III: The skills.

b. F5 and F4 (Condition:Power)

Skill 1: Hollow point bullet

Skill 2: Electric net

Skill 3: Smoke shot

Skill 4: Oppressive shot

Skill 5: Cluster bomb

Burst F1: Chaos shell

Burst F2: Ruinous shot

The next 2 combinations deal with duplicate skills in unique ways. Skill 4, which would have been a duplicate of Skill 1, is changed to a new skill. Skill 5, which is a duplicate of Skill 2, remains the same with respect to what it does, but is on a separate cooldown timer...so it is feasible to immediately use Skill 5 after using Skill 2. Secondly, Burst Skill F2 is changed to a different skill, while Burst F1 is determined by the mainhand. Note: These skill and burst changes only occur when two pistols are equipped at the same time!

c. F3 and F4 (Power:Power)

Skill 1: Oppressive shot

Skill 2: Cluster bomb 1

Skill 3: Smoke shot

Skill 4: Tiny nuke (new): Fires a powerful, close range single shell. If target foe health is greater than 75% or less than 25%, damage is increased by 50%. Damage is further increased by current adrenaline level. Note: activation does not consume any adrenaline.

Skill 5: Cluster bomb 2

Burst F1: Ruinous shot

Burst F2: Holographic barricade (new): A stationary holographic barricade is summoned for 10 seconds. The player can use the barricade for cover against projectiles and still fire projectiles through it. HP of barricade: 30,000.

d. F5 and F6 (Condition:Condition)

Skill 1: Hollow point bullet

Skill 2: Electric net 1

Skill 3: Smoke shot

Skill 4: Boon scrambler (new): fires a shot at a target which converts one boon into a random condition. If target is afflicted with 2 or more conditions, a stack of poison is applied. If a target is afflicted with 4 or more conditions, they receive the 'Fatal Altruism' effect (effects cannot be cleansed). The number of stacks of Fatal Altruism equals the number of unique conditions on target. Any conditions cleansed from a target results in the target player character taking direct damage x number of stacks Fatal Altruism. If the cleansing source is a third party, they take double the damage.

Skill 5: Electric net 2

Burst F1: Chaos shell

Burst F2: Holographic barricade (new)

Option 2: Trap Trickster

You can prematurely trigger traps or wells you have placed, leaving behind a teleportation beacon whose duration equals the remaining cooldown on the activated trap. Clicking on the teleportation beacon on the trap will cause you to teleport to that teleportation beacon's location.

Option 3: Crawling Traps

You can now place traps and wells while moving. Traps or wells you place while staying still are stationary. Traps and wells you place while moving any direction will slowly move in the opposite direction at the point of placement, ie. if you place a trap while moving backwards the trap moves forward. Traps and wells you place while dodging move in a clockwise circular motion at the point of placement.

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E. Grandmaster Minor: Trapping Proficiency

When a foe or ally triggers one of your traps or wells, you gain a stacking effect called 'Trapping Proficiency' that increases your Power and Condition damage by 50. Max stack: 10, duration 15 seconds, timer refreshes when another trap or well is triggered. At 10 stacks, you gain 15 seconds of fury.

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F. Grandmaster Major

Option 1: Trapper Extraordinaire

All trap and well cooldowns are reduced by 33%. All offensive traps or wells do an increased 33% damage on disabled foes (stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear). All support traps or wells heal for an extra 33%, boons given to allies are 33% longer in duration. The radius of all traps and wells are increased by 33%. If the player uses a burst skill while under the effect of Trapper Proficiency, the effect is consumed and all placed offensive traps emit a vacuum pull on foes within 500 range.

Option 2: Resource Gyro

A Resource Gyro shadows the player. The Resource Gyro has three LEDs, red, yellow and white. When the player consumes all their adrenaline, the Resource Gyro's red LED will darken and supply the player with 10 strikes of adrenaline (enough to full one bar). When the player consume all their endurance, the Resource Gyro's yellow LED will darken and supply the player with 50 endurance (enough for one dodge). When the player loses all health, the Resource Gyro's white LED will darken and prevent the player from getting downed and supply 5000 health (healing attribute provides increased healing). In addition to the aforementioned healing, if the Resource Gyro has an unused red or yellow LED available, it will provide Barrier, 25% max health barrier for one LED (red or yellow), 50% max health barrier for two LEDs (red and yellow). Upon consuming an LED, it will require 60 seconds for the Resource Gyro to recharge the LED. If the player uses a burst skill while under the effect of Trapper Proficiency, the effect is consumed and the Resource Gyro will knockback the target, taunt, and attack using its minigun. The Resource Gyro has a large pool of HP, 100,000 and is immune to control effects. If it is destroyed, a new Resource Gyro respawns at the player's side in 60 seconds.

Option 3: Master Pistolier

All pistol skills do 20% increased damage, and condition duration is increased by 20%. Pistol skill cooldown is reduced by 25%. Pistol range is increased from 900 to 1100. When you swap to a pistol during combat, the weapon swap cooldown is reduced to 5 seconds (normal is 10 seconds). If the player uses a burst skill while under the effect of Trapper Proficiency, the effect is consumed and is replaced by a new effect 'Bullet Time', where your target is afflicted with Slow for 10 seconds, you receive Quickness for 10 seconds, and you receive Alacrity for 7 seconds.

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Okay there you have it, I am quite pleased with the build possibilities the traits provide. Hope you guys like it, any concerns or comments please feel free to chime in!

November 21, 2019

Haha thanks for comment, I tried to pick boons / conditions that are consistent with the particular political theme.

Pistol 4 cooldown is like an auto-attack. The goal was to make either pistol the source of continuous ranged dps. This way, if a melee weapon is equipped in one of the hands, the free hand will have a spammable ranged dps option. If you have a pistol equipped in the mainhand and offhand, that is also a viable loadout since each pistol offers options the other does not.

Traits are still being worked on. I have to get to work now so I'll be working on them during breaks. I would also like to take some time to read / comment on your elite spec.

Yeah I'll rename those, it would be more thematically consistent with the game's current lore.

I listed some limitations in the beginning of the post. The same travails that plague other trapping specs applies here, want optimal dps? Need to lure the fools to your traps. If you do not equip individual traps/wells to your skill bar conventionally and rely on your elite skill variation to be your source of traps/wells, you will be limited by both the time your elite is active and when it is on cooldown. Roughly, I figure the elite skill activation time will last long enough to allow you to place 1 of the more powerful traps/wells and maybe 2 of the weaker ones.

In general though, I really see this spec shining when pairing pistols with melee weapons. Being able to approach a target and spam ranged dps, go into melee, and then back off and spam ranged dps to sustain dps on the target at all times will be such an advantage to an opponent bound by the reach of their melee weapons. Now ranged classes, that is another story...the Enforcer will have tools ('Escape Plan' or Pistol Skill 3) to get into stealth to close the distance.

November 21, 2019

@"Lan Deathrider.5910" said:

> > > I want deceptions, traps, or tricks. Really want warrior with dual pistols and smoke fields...

> > > Warrior needs better ranged DPS options and Pistols are whats left to really fill that bill. I just see this flavor working with pistols on warrior. Utilities could even be something new > > > like 'cartridges', load up a smoke cartridge to lay down a smoke field, load up an ice cartridge to lay down an ice field, etc. The lack of fields is another hole in the warrior kit.

I agree with this sentiment. Since tactics has been buffed the need for a support elite spec is diminished and the trapper / tricks build is more appealing as what could be the last elite spec of the class. With this in mind, allow me to present 'The Enforcer'

**THE ENFORCER ELITE SPECIALIZATION**

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**I. Features of the elite specialization**

A. The elite spec allows for wielding a pistol in both mainhand and offhand

B. Mainhand skills are primarily power-based, offhand are primarily condition-based.

C. For each hand, each set of pistol skills must have one skill that is spammable, ie very short cooldown, that will serve as a primary ranged dps skill. This will allow for builds which are primarily power centered that can wield the pistol on the mainhand and say an axe in the offhand, and condition builds which can wield the one-handed sword in the mainhand and a pistol in the offhand.

D. The elite skill allows for the temporary availability of traps and wells enabling players to increase the maximum number of options available to every build loadout. This elite does not replace primary weapon skills and healing (skill slots 1-6) and serves to complement, not interrupt, gameplay.

E. The traps and wells available to this elite spec will allow for maximum flexibility for the player to assume multiple roles at the same time.

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**II. What the elite spec cannot do.**

A. Compared to rifle, the pistol cannot do more direct damage dps.

B. Pistol burst dps cannot exceed rifle's Killshot.

C. Pistol range must be lower than rifle.

D. Compared to longbow, any pistol fire aoe must have a smaller radius than the longbow's burst, Combustive Shot.

E. Excel at boon-stripping in any way comparable to Spellbreaker.

F. Excel at directed condition damage in a way comparable to Berserker. The enforcer's damage output can rival and exceed the Berserker's through the sum of its direct and indirect condition damage, achieved through careful planning, patience and readiness to exploit opportunities.

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**III. The weapon skills**

_Mainhand Pistol_

Skill 1: Oppressive Shot

First shot: Fire a shot at your target.

Second shot: Fire a shot at your target, if it hits apply vulnerability to foe.

Third shot: Higher damage than first shot and +25% chance to crit. If target has vulnerability, +10 crit damage.

Skill 2: Cluster Bomb

Fire a cluster bomb at a target area. After a 3 second delay or if a foe is in the target area , the bomb will detonate and damage a maximum of 3 nearby foes and apply cripple.

Skill 3: Smoke Shot

Detonates a smoke field at a target area. Allies in target area are granted stealth, foes are blinded.

_Offhand Pistol_

Skill 4: Hollow Point Bullet

First shot: Fire a shot at your target. Applies bleeding to target.

Second shot: Higher damage than first shot and applies burning.

Third shot: Fires a shot with +25% chance to crit. If the shot crits, there is a small explosion at the target and burning and torment is applied to all foes in target radius.

Skill 5: Electric Net

Fires an electrified net that cripples the target. For the duration of the net, target is revealed. If any burst skill lands on a netted target, the net detonates and target and all nearby foes suffer shocking damage and are stunned for 1 second.

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Going to borrow from Lan Deathrider and make a burst skill for each pistol equipped.