Hey this is not ment as a guide because I rather want to know which gear will turn out to be the most efficient myself and I am far away from having found a final answer. So lets start!
[Weapons]
Actually the easier task since there are only 3 different combos:
- Rifle
- Pistol/Shield
- Pistol/Pistol
The last 2 options will basically use the same gear. Also it is important to note that weapon stats will NOT influence kit skills. You basically lose the weapon once you equip them.
Rifle
Well, in the end this will be similiar to most other power/crit glasscannon builds. It has some bleed dmg on it but this should be pretty much neglectable and I don’t see a real reason to go for defensive stats even if you have to close up a bit for 3 and 5. So propably something like Berserker’s gear, just observe all the other power builds also for other classes.
Pistol/Pistol and Pistol/Shield
Here it is important to note that all skils nearly won’t scale with power AT ALL. This means for every engineer shield or pistol out there power is basically a wasted stat which limits our options by a lot already. On the same time we want condition damage so the main candidate becomes Rabid. Oddly enough this stat prefix is very hard to obtain. I found a very limited amount of exotics on the trading post with those stats (Dragonshot and Jora’s Defender) and it seems to be not craftable. I also don’t know if you can get it from some karma vendors or as dungeon rewards. Update me if you know anything.
[Armor and Trinkets]
The main difference here is that we want to take a look at kits too to see what synergizes. Again for a rifle build the decision should be rather easy with the well known glass cannon specs. For anything with pistol you propably again want atleast some condition damage. Most of the kits deal heavy condition damage but have a decent power scaling aswell. Thus I am not 100% sure if Rabid is the optimum here or if we should sacrifice the thoughness for some power (-> Rampager’s). For some kits like bombs you also have to stand right inside the enemies requiring atleast some defense while others are basically pure ranged spam like grenades.
So what are your experiences and what gear are you aiming for in PvE? I am only sure I want a pistol and shield with condition damage, precision and toughness.