Guild Wars 2

My main is currently a Thief and I’m using P/P+SB as my weapon sets. Thinking of rolling an alt mostly for WvW.

What I’m wondering is which profession lends itself best to making an effective range high survival build? I’m just not the most skillful player, so if it’s something where the skillcap is high, then that’s not for me unfortunately. I do prefer small party, guerrilla warfare groups. So, mobility is good. And although I don’t wish to be fully support, I do like being able to help the group, so some good support skills would be great.

Now perhaps the Thief is already the ideal profession for this. However, I’m also very interested in Rifle Warriors and Engineers. I’ve leveled each up to 10 or so, but that doesn’t give me a true perspective of WvW at 80. I’m might consider other professions too, but something about gun/rifle slingers warms my heart.

I was hoping to get some opinions for people with a similar playstyle. If you play any of the above professions as ranged, what are your experiences like? Any pros/cons you’ve experienced?

Many thanks for the input!

I personally love my engineer, great survivablity as well as damage, and many skills to play support, the most verstatile class in this game in my opinion, just about any build you can make it work. Lots of cc abilities, lots of aoe damage, decent healing abilities for others/self, also gnade kit underwater battle owns.

I think an engineer would be the first candidate for that role.

Engineers are mostly ranged as it is, and they have several ranged options that lend themselves well for bunkering.
Elixir gun for example, would be used a lot in such a build.

For more info on engineering ideas I suggest you go to the engineer forum and check out the sticky about ‘post your build’.
Several bunker options in there.
Also could you create a specific topic there, asking for suggestions given all the info you can.

I am leveling an engineer in WvW for now, and I play mostly supportive, which is as close as a ‘bunker’ in WvW can be.
If you’re not doing either some specific type of damage (like ranged aoe focusing on walls and sieges for example), or support, there is little reason to be bunkering in WvW…

My engineer is aimed at being hard to kill, so a bunker. But mostly because my goal is to support my teams, as well as being able to solo run Dolyaks or supplies without being an easy target to kill.
I’m less interested in winning those small fights, if they can’t kill me and I can hold them of forever, than I did what I set out to do.

I use several engineer kits to be versatile.
For the best bunker builds I think you could focus on a few elixirs and traits supporting those.

As I said: go over to our forum and read a bit there.
Than go to the Mists and try out a few options.

Once you get started, feel free to ask more detailed questions.

Necromancer…
It can’t get more unkillable than that with a high range build.

Many thanks for all the input! I’m definitely going to dust off my Engineer.

Does anybody else think Rifle Warriors or Pistol Thieves could work? Why or why not?

pistol/dagger is a fun thief build, virtually impossible to kill while still dealing solid condition damage.

Its a very kite oriented build revolving around using CnD to stealth (+ heal/remove condition/blind) and then hit them with pistol stealth opener.

You can work venom share/trickery group buffs into the build as well.

I’ve decided to publish my build. It saddens me to do so because I’ve burned a lot of JQ and SoS with it in recent weeks. My Engineer build is a great all around build, use grenades and mortar when suppressing wall defenders and siege, flamethrower and rifle, and toolbelt grenades when you’re doing spike damage in skirmishes.

This build has allowed me to attack walls, defend walls, and havoc. It works best in a small havoc team, last night I was attacking a supply camp to keep yaks out of the enemy’s keep for over an hour and a half, just me and a thief, and not only were we able to snipe the yaks, but we were able to do so and kill any enemies that came to save it up until they finally sent about 15 guys at us.

Here it is:
http://www.gw2build.com/builds/wvw-engineer-crashnburn-worldvworld-9001.html

I’d suggest not to play a rifle warrior.
The more tanky you go, the less damage you deal. The less damage you deal, the more useless will the rifle be. If you wanna go ranged tank with warrior, grab a longbow.

But then again there’s way better ranged tank builds out there.

dekyos.1548:

I’ve decided to publish my build. It saddens me to do so because I’ve burned a lot of JQ and SoS with it in recent weeks.

Don’t know why it saddens you, but thank you for sharing!

Again, I appreciate all the advice folks!