Guild Wars 2

I tried hgh pure elixir build condition with pistol pistol ,rabid , elixir b,u,s and mortar . It is viable but it is a little hard to play only with that. Do you think a celestial full elixir build with rifle could be better ?

Perhaps, but not necessarily. The rifle would get you some actual CC and better AoE and burst potential, but that’s about it. You’d miss out on some useful things from the pistols, particularly the blinds and easy poison. Although you would have an overall more useful auto-attack, which might be key since you have no kits.

You might also want to post the actual build of what you were using, maybe there’s some adjustments that could be made to the traits.

You also might want to consider elixir X if you swap to a non-rabid build. If you get rampage, that can be quite useful in beating people up, and the moa toss can be extremely effective to counter lich necros and rampage warriors.

In any case, you’ll probably run into the same situation because you’re going kitless. Not only does this (stupidly) prevent you from accessing powerful on-swap sigils, but you also lose a lot of the things that make engineer good, such as a powerful shield block, a pull, more condition and AoE pressure, extra healing and might stacking, &c. But ultimately you’ll just have to test it out to know for sure. I haven’t tried doing a pure elixir rifle build before.

I usually play with toolkit and nades. I know that they are strong. I wanted only to try something different . I have seen that a full elixir build works better with rifle and celestial. It is different if i swap an elixir with EG. If i play rabid with eg, elixir H B and S with classic hgh ( firearm, alchemy, tool) it is quite strong. The only real real problem are mesmers becouse it is hard to kill clone like you can do with nades or with rifle 5 . The idea to make a pure elixir Build is only becose i am boared to play with nades and toolkit. Bombs in my opinion has now a too low range and i really really hate ft … so it was quite fun to try some very old builds (hgh )

See, it used to be easier to handle mesmsers and other zoo-type builds with just pistols because you could opt for coated bullets and keep direct pressure on the target while also harming the subordinates. But of course, they’ve deleted that from the game for no good reason. Rifle would definitely be a much better option in those scenarios if for no other reason than the piercing auto-attack. As it is now, you just waste the IC procs on the clones and don’t even get the single bleed stack like you would have got with coated bullets.

So if they ever put coated bullets back in, it could make your life a bit easier with the pistols, but it will otherwise likely be better to use rifle in your case.

HGH rifle is decent enough, but absolutely bring elixir gun. That alone gives you three elixirs for boosting might (elixir gun skill 4 and 5, and it’s toolbelt regen skill). With that and elixir B and elixir F (heal) you can easily keep yourself at 25 stacks of might before engaging a fight.

You can do this with cele and still hit hard. I personally don’t enjoy the build though but might stacking does work.

Edit: I’m going to add that in my opinion rabid is bad now because our condi clear isn’t good enough to keep us from melting instantly to burning, which bypasses toughness.

Pure Elixir Build would be elixir h,b,u,s,x

Haralin.1473:

Pure Elixir Build would be elixir h,b,u,s,x

Yes but mortar has 2 elixir too and has no cd … being with only pistol pistol is really hard for me