Guild Wars 2

Any idea how do i make Rifle as a hybrid weapon, so i can use Flamethrower with it? #3 already has Bleeding. Firearms add some nice condition passive and on crit + Incendiary Ammo and Rocket Kick would both add some nice Burning pressure.
I have in mind PvP and WvW only, but i’m not sure about stats … Should i go with more power or more condi? Nothing serious, just for fun and for superior mobility … Or am i forced to stuck with Power builds only on my Rifle?

Power, both rifle and flamethrower while having condi aspects are far stronger as power than condi.

If you want a WVW rifle/flamethrower hybrid roaming build use the one in my signature. (not for PVP) I wouldn’t recommend rocket boots over either elixir gun (condi cleans, stunbreaker, mobility) or tool kit (block, cc, condi + power damage). As an engineer you are not going to be (nearly) the fastest on the battlefield and taking rocket boots wont change that.

Thank you very much, santenal, this helps a lot Nice video!

Since celestial Amulet has been gone in PvP, i need to find a way for hybrid rifle/flamethrower build to work in pvp as well. Maybe i could just trade Ferocity for Condition? Something like Sage’s Amulet or Rampager or maybe Rabid … Why did they remove Celestial Amulet from pvp btw?

@Jerus, I’m thinking more of a hybrid than full condition or full power. If you go for power, precision, condi, instead of power, precision, ferocity (Rampager vs Berserker) damage shouldn’t have been much lower i guess.

As i mentioned, only to have some fun in WvW and unranked PvP … I really don’t care much about meta.

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Thank you very much, santenal, this helps a lot Nice video!

Since celestial Amulet has been gone in PvP, i need to find a way for hybrid rifle/flamethrower build to work in pvp as well. Maybe i could just trade Ferocity for Condition? Something like Sage’s Amulet or Rampager or maybe Rabid … Why did they remove Celestial Amulet from pvp btw?

@Jerus, I’m thinking more of a hybrid than full condition or full power. If you go for power, precision, condi, instead of power, precision, ferocity (Rampager vs Berserker) damage shouldn’t have been much lower i guess.

As i mentioned, only to have some fun in WvW and unranked PvP … I really don’t care much about meta.

I hear you, it’s just that I feel the power application far outweighs the condi with these weapons. That combined with not all that great of condi scaling, I’d just take the extra condi damage as a bonus and not focus on it.

Now when we’re talking Celestial, might be a decent option, with the extra tankiness, healing, plus power and condi benefits, with that it might be optimal for the given constraints of Rifle/FT.

Yes, i do

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Play around with Firearms Traits as you see fit.

PS … OOPS, I didn’t read enough to see you were talking PVP … use this at your own risk then.

i’ve played around with rifle for wvw roaming and open world pve, both using my viper’s gear….for wvw i always like the rocket boots, tool kit, elixir gun utilities, for pve change tool kit for flamethrower. for wvw roaming obviously i use sneak gyro, for pve i use mortar. I use firearms,tools and scrapper for wvw for that build; and i switch out scrapper for either explosives in pve.

Rifle has decent survival skills, although not as good as hammer, but fun to run around and play with.

If you stack Might you can have some decent Bleed/Burning from Firearms and go mostly Power the rest of the way. Flame Legion runes work well with FT, and you should be able to get enough burning uptime for Rifle to take advantage of it.

Thanks for your replies and tips, guys.
I’m asking this question mainly because i can kill other players much faster with p/p + Flamethrower condi build than power Rifle + Flamethrower and i was thinking if Rifle is so low on dmg as a Power weapon maybe i should give it a try as a hybrid weapon then …

that’s cuz power rifle is obsoleted by hammer scrapper and all of the elite specs that have built in counters to things rifle does.