W/E or E/W

[Sam]

I'm gonna create a warrior combined with an elementalist class, but the question is, do i have a warrior/elemental or an elemental/warrior?

What would be the main difference between the two?

I'm thinking that they would go along the lines of being a good warrior with the extra energy capabilities of an elemental. But would it be better to be an E first?

[yellowlab]

Keep in mind your primary class dictates your exclusive attribute, your energy, your armor requirments, and the runes you can equip. A warrior primary will still have a low energy pool - not the best for casting a lot of spells. A ele primary will be limited on the armor that can be worn - not the best for getting into the middle of the fray.

It all depends on your focus. A warrior type with some skill with spells or a caster who isn't all that dumb with a sword when rushed or is out of energy.

Sounds like a tough combo, but potentially could be very powerful.

Good luck!

bob

[dragoonvbk]

A warrior elementalist can be a very good combo, but there are many resistrictions

A warrior primary is good becuae of the huge AL resistance and with strenght u get x% chance of armor prentration. But with high defense and armor prentration, they have a set energy of 20. So u are limited the number of spells you can use from the ele side. Warriror Ele, loose the ability to do high level AOE, unless u use glysphese of energy ( where it reduces the energy cost down by 15),
Warrior ele use more of the ice and earth spells, beacuse they cost liek 5-15, but they give huge defense or hex a aggro group.
Ice spell have many spells that make the surrounding foes take ice damage and slow them down, making it hard for the other warrior to rush to ur monks or range fighters.
Earth magic give u many wards and armor bonus, making it hard for other warrior to do physical damage.
The bad sides, is that u have good energy managment and good healer, since u dont have many/if not any healing spells
This can be chagned if u have a vampric weapon that can steal health

A ele warrior isnt really a good build, unless u become a tactic ele, that uses the stance to save urself and dam the aggroing warriors. but A ele meser, necro or monk is a better build imo. Havent really seen many ele warrior, but an ele ranger would nice build ot try for ranger attack, and huge energy storage allow for rapid cast of markmenship and bow attacks.

another though is that most W/Ele use hammer becuase they want to kill things fast and the hammer give u huge damage output, and with other warrior missing attacking u and slowed down, u could a very powerful warrior

Hopefully this helped u out:D

[Pox Inferis]

Bob brings up a good point. Elementalist spells typically require a good amount of energy to cast, and some can cause exhaustion. Considering the low energy pool of a warrior, this is going to be a bit limiting in your choice of spells.

On the other hand, using an ele primary with a warrior secondary, your weak armor isn't going to really allow you to jump into the middle of the fray and do melee damage. Not to mention groups would kick you out if the nuker started trying to swing a sword...

A good combo might be a warrior primary using something like kinetic armor and armor of earth to enhance your melee ability. Or maybe even using ward against melee in your build. But as for slinging heavy duty nukes and swinging a sword at the same time, you're going to be hard pressed to find a combo that allows that.

I think your best bet would be adding some of the earth based defensive spells of the ele into a warrior primary, though I don't know if that's actually what you had in mind.

FYI, if you are going for a melee character, the most popular secondaries are monk, mesmer (for illusionary weaponry), and necro (curses + life stealing). Not to dissuade you from the W/E combo, but there are reasons these are popular choices. A W/E or E/W could be a powerful build, but your choice in skills would be a bit limited at best, due to a lack of either available energy or melee ability.

EDIT: See http://forums.gwonline.net/showthread.php?t=379339 for a good W/E build. It's used in tandem with a W/Mo utilizing weakness and knockdowns, but even alone is not a bad build.

[Sam]

I currently have a warrior/monk, but find that my energy gets depeleted really rather quick!

I was looking for a way to improve my enery storage, for which I assumed that an elemental would be able to do. But I see where you're coming from with regard to the warrior not having enough energy in the first place to effectively use the elemental's skills...

[dragoonvbk]

there are ways to increase the energy pool for a warrior
using the glad armor, is the most common, giveing a increase of +7 to the low 20
then u can carry a focus item, but if u are a sword or axe, most preper shield for the extra +16 AL, but they dont work to well in a aggro group
that why a warrior ele are born, becuase of their ability to kill a circle of foe in quick matter
the choices are up to mate:p