Guild Wars 2

I hate kits and loved rifle or pistol… but the traits are pretty kitten for weapons specialisation and the turrets are gone.

cant stand grenades and bombs or sillly elixir gun rubbish, so it there anything out there, buildwise that is viable with a pistol/shield or rifle?

You can’t play engie without kits since the meta turret comes out (imo)

I run a kitless build and it does tons of damage and has awesome survivability… If I knew how to link a build I totally would. You can message me in game if you would like. It uses a rifle and your toolbelt skills a lot.

This is the build i’m running right now: http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-Z70;2V2Gl0f6FQ-x0;9;4klm;0157156138;4Sk0;3CoF2CoF23V
Yes, it uses some “silly elixir gun rubbish” however.
The deal is to go to a point and keep your butt in there, forever, ever, ver, er.

The elixir gun is used for its #5 and #4 and rarely for the #3, nothing else, this provides condi cleanse, lotsa heal, retaliation and some neat damage. #3 is used when you need to bypass a reflect, need the poison or allies need the condi clear.
Elixir B and its toolbelt should be used whenever available (unless you know an opponent is going down soon, in that case you can save your toolbelt skill to secure the stomp).
And now the fun part: AED and slick shoes: together with gadgeteer these skills have a very low cooldown and are truly impactful.
Together with automated medical response, AED will be up whenever you need it and if you proc the big heal you’ll be returned to full hp.
Whenever you’re >40% hp (almost always) you can use gadgeteer to boost slick shoes.
The mortar gives me 4 different fields, healing and many many many projectile finishers.
Why auto attack with your rifle waiting for cooldowns when you could be using your mortar?

In short, between gadgeteer, Elixir gun’s 4 and 5, your rifle and your mortar, you should always be doing something.
Healing through two zerker opponents isn’t unrealistic with this build

But if you purely want your rifle/pistol/shield and nothing else…
Then try something like this: http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-Z70;2V2lk0R-JRFx0;9;4kjm;0157147148;4LB0;3F-03F-035r
100% glass, 100% gadgets, 100% rifle
In this build, AED is almost always a full heal, the trick is about combo’ing all the gadgets together to survive/CC while dealing big strikes, it requires some training and it’s not forgiving.