Build:W/any Backbreaker

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The Backbreaker warrior uses the powerful knockdown skill Backbreaker to disable opponents for long periods of time, either to allow other melee characters to better be able to spike it or to disable a monk to prevent them from saving another character. As such, it works best with other warriors or dervishes in Guild Battles.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Warrior / No profession 12 + 1 + 1 Strength 12 + 2 Hammer Mastery Backbreaker Prophecies Warrior. Hammer Mastery 14 Backbreaker Elite Hammer Attack If Backbreaker hits, you strike for +19 damage and your target is knocked down for 4 seconds. This attack skill has 14% armor penetration. 10 Crushing Blow Prophecies Warrior. Hammer Mastery 14 Crushing Blow Hammer Attack If this attack hits, you strike for +19 damage. If you hit a knocked-down foe you inflict a Deep Wound, lowering your target's maximum Health by 20% for 19 seconds. This attack skill has 14% armor penetration. 10 5 Body Blow EotN Warrior. Strength 14 Body Blow Melee Attack If this attack hits, target foe takes +38 damage. If target foe has Cracked Armor, that foe suffers from a Deep Wound for 14 seconds. This attack skill has 14% armor penetration. 7 Bull's Strike Core Warrior. Strength 14 Bull's Strike Melee Attack If this attack hits a moving foe, you strike for +28 damage, and your target is knocked down. This attack skill has 14% armor penetration. 10 5 Optional Core No Profession. Unlinked Optional Optional Optional. Flail Nightfall Warrior. Strength 14 Flail Stance For 14 seconds, you attack 33% faster but move 33% slower. 4 Enraging Charge Nightfall Warrior. Strength 14 Enraging Charge Stance For 14 seconds, you move 25% faster. Enraging Charge ends when you successfully strike a target, at which point you gain 4 strikes of adrenaline. 20 5 Resurrection Signet Core No Profession. Unlinked Resurrection Signet Signet Resurrect target party member. That party member is returned to life with 100% Health and 25% Energy. This Signet only recharges when you gain a morale boost. 3 Template code

• Death's Charge
  Factions

  Assassin. Shadow Arts 3

  Death's Charge

  Spell

  Shadow Step to target foe. If that foe has more Health than you, you are healed for 92.

  

  30

  ¼

  5
   for instant movement.
• Distracting Strike
  EotN

  Warrior. Unlinked

  Distracting Strike

  Melee Attack

  If Distracting Strike hits, it deals no damage and interrupts target foe's action. If target foe has Cracked Armor, that skill is disabled for 20 seconds.

  

  15

  ½

  5
   for an interrupt.
• Rush
  Prophecies

  Warrior. Strength 14

  Rush

  Stance

  For 19 seconds, you move 25% faster.

  

  4
   for another cancel stance as well as an IMS.

[edit] Equipment

• Survivor insignias and 1 Stonefist insignia on boot or hand.
• Sundering or Vampiric Hammer, Elemental, and Furious Hammers. Fortitude or Defense mod on either.
• A defensive set with spear + shield. Spear should have +30 health and a furious mod (you'll often want to be in this set to build adren). Keep an assortment of shields in your inventory (all the damage types, cripple reduction, blind reduction)
• Keep a longbow in your inventory to build adrenaline from afar
• Superior Vigor, Clarity, and Restoration runes.

[edit] Usage

• Use Enraging Charge in order to gain adrenaline and/or catch up to a target.
• You can spike with either Backbreaker or Bull's Strike, followed by Crushing Blow and Body Blow. Also useful is using Bull's Strike and then 1/4 knocking with Backbreaker.
• Backbreaker should mainly be used when it is necessary to disable a foe for the full 4 second.
• Remember that Body Blow can cause Deep Wound on foes with cracked armor.
• Use Flail to gain adrenaline and on spikes.

[edit] Variants

• Death Pact Signet instead of Resurrection Signet (In GvG).
• Hammer Bash over Body Blow for less damage but more quarter-knocking.

[edit] Counters

• Melee shutdown
• Anti-knockdown skills