Guild Wars 2

I love bursty gameplay, what decent builds are there that are bursty, squishy, but still viable? Thieves seem kittenty now, mesmers, aren’t my thing, my main LB/GS Ranger build is completely unviable.

What do I do to drop people in seconds?

in seconds!? if you see 2ele and 2mes team, you never kill anyone

If you want to burst in 1vs1 you have to play a “burst” class/build. Actually there’s Mesmer/chrono shatter, Dragonhunter (with traps), Revenant (Herald dps build) and Scrapper (high damage but not a real burst). Or also the Reaper, but can’t do a real burst damage, or can do it only against condition classes that burst you with condition, reflecting them back (there’s some try to use the GS to burst but they don’t really work).
I don’t know about the ranger dps.

Anyway there’s still the thief and the warrior, they can inflict a very high burst damage, but they’re also weak and easy to kill. Expecially the Warrior, that can burst with insane damage but is also easy to take down, making him really hard to use.

If you’re good, a thief +1ing can (d/p daredevil build) can actually burst quite well still.

Same for shatter mesmer, helseth does it all the time. But its all about +1ing and knowing when to.

Zerker Warrior can burst well in lower divs.

Maurader Scrapper is well built, not true burst but pretty good.

lb/gs is totally viable

I’m playing berserker bunker buster in Ruby atm (did two tiers in two nights of play, couple hours each).

Montage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cYI4W9NLJc

Match
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cYI4W9NLJc

These vids are a zerker ammy. Currently I’m running a valk setup, so 29k hp instead of 19k, and other defensive aspects.

More damage: (Marauder)
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQJAURnMdAlki9dA2dAEliliAzYA8ACAvD3k709YMcB+ZA-TpBBABHfIA0/BAIfZAAuAAEcEAwa/BA

More Sustain/Viable (Valk)
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQJAURnMdAlki9dA2dAEliFlADJEE3uAHZhAwv7N3+bTuA-TpBBAB8v/AZlBI4IAEwDAAgLAwxHCAA

There are a number of bunker buster berserker variations people are running. All usually consist of Str/Arms/Defence + Discipline + Berserker. I’ve moved away from Discipline.

Why Berserker? Great ranged burst, unblockable/unreflectable (sig of might).

Boons boons boons, I love boons Please drop more boons, I will love you <3

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNArYWnc0Ad3gl3A20A0biliBLuHOETiUPhpwtKKA8tKAA-TJxXwAA2f4QZARnCg/PBAA

This is beyond bursty when you get a good epidemic XD. Just had a match, I epi’d soooo many condis on this poor mes that was like “Oh good, I got resistance” and the buddies lost it from my well. Lets just say that much condi is just cancer.

If I wanna kill stuff, I play this. Not Thief or Warrior, they do no damage now :c.

Serious answer: You don’t burst right now unless you happen to find another complete squish on the other team. ANET has made it so that bunker builds still do good DPS, so the requirement of pure support builds (shout guardian, etc) or pure dps builds are not really needed.

You don’t. This meta is kitten.

You can burst if you get an ele, etc, stuck in CC.