User:Edru viransu/PvP Warrior Guide/New Version

Warriors(and, to a lesser extent, Dervishes, Assassins, and Thumpers) are the core of most offenses in PvP combat. Their unmatched(except by Dervishes) DPS and spike abilities ensure them a place in most GvG and HA teams, as well as in most TA balanced builds.

Warriors in PvP spend much of their time far ahead of allied casters, often extending well past their monk's spell-casting range.

Strength
''When you use attack skills, each point of Strength gives you 1% armor penetration. Many skills, especially those related to surviving and inflicting damage, become more effective with higher Strength.''

Unlike most professions, Warriors do not need even a handful of points in their primary attribute to function properly. However, Strength contains many very useful skills for warriors, so most warrior builds include at least a few points in Strength, as well as at least one Strength skill.

Hammer Mastery
''Hammer Mastery increases the damage you do with hammers and your chance to inflict a critical hit when using a hammer. Many skills, especially hammer attacks skills, become more effective with higher Hammer Mastery.''

Hammers provide not only the most knockdown abilities of any weapon type, as well as doing very strong damage. The knockdowns and damage from hammers provide excellent pressure and powerful disabling abilities on spikes.

Axe Mastery
''Axe Mastery increases the damage you do with axes and your chance to inflict a critical hit when using an axe. Many skills, especially axe attack skills, become more effective with higher Axe Mastery.''

Axes have very strong attack skills, as well as powerful critical hits. Due to this, axe warriors have extremely good spiking abilities, as well as strong DPS.

Swordsmanship
''Swordsmanship increases the damage you do with swords and your chance to inflict a critical hit when using a sword. Many skills, especially sword attack skills, become more effective with higher Swordsmanship.''

Tactics
''No inherent effect. Many skills, especially defensive skills and skills that aid your allies, become more effective with higher Tactics.''

Key Ideas

 * Kill things.
 * Don't continue attacking enemies that are under protective enchantments or weapon spells.
 * Tell your teammates of anti-melee hexes and conditions affecting you.
 * Rarely use adrenaline attacks while affected by anti-melee hexes and conditions.
 * Utilise IAS skills to increase DPS and speed up your spikes.
 * Use Deep Wound skills to strengthen your spikes.

Axe
Eviscerate is an incredibly powerful deep wound with strong +damage as well. Dismember is a spammable deep wound, popular on those few axe bars which utilise an elite other than Eviscerate.

Sword
Gash is the only deep wound available to sword warriors. It nearly necessitates a bleeding skill in every sword warrior build.

Hammer
Crushing Blow is the only deep wound available to hammers. Its energy cost allows hammers to effectively spike while using Flail as IAS.