Guild Wars 2

What do you guys think about p/p bezerker for fractals/living world now that the pistols were buffed? I tried it last night and I personally loved it. I could easily survive, but I just spammed unload and blinded when needed. At one point I was hitting 25-30k back to back on a champion with unload. I’m not really sure how to stack unload, is it just the more you use it on a target the higher it hits? Also I was told that p/p is more for cnd. Is the damage for zerker p/p up to par with other ranged classes now?

I am going assassins/carrion with assassins pistols come HoT.

The more you use it, the less it hits. The combined number simply shows the damage chain of all your attacks in a quick enough succession. Basically, if you spam all your initiative, you’re doing less damage because you lost the damage bonus from Lead Attacks. What you should do is use 1-2 unloads and then pool back energy. 1 Unload if you don’t have steal ready to cover the extra energy lost, 2 if it is ready. The main goal, in PvE content of the game, is to try and hover around 8-10 unused initiative and as long as you don’t “cap out” on initiative, you’re not “losing” damage by doing this. P/P by itself is not on par with the other ranged counterparts of other classes, but it’s in a better state now, damage-wise, than it was. It still lacks range, AoE capability and Vital Shot has too long of a cast time, common consensus seems to be that around 1/3s cast would be ideal for it. Other than that, Redesign of Body Shot as a survivability skill has been on the table quite a lot, but there are people here aswell who’d like to turn the set into Vital Shot-afk-fest and ruin the niché of the P/P set, which happens to be on-demand burst dps.

I know this is a different topic. Anyone please throw me a link on how I can farm geodes?

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Shimekiri.1580:

The more you use it, the less it hits. The combined number simply shows the damage chain of all your attacks in a quick enough succession. Basically, if you spam all your initiative, you’re doing less damage because you lost the damage bonus from Lead Attacks. What you should do is use 1-2 unloads and then pool back energy. 1 Unload if you don’t have steal ready to cover the extra energy lost, 2 if it is ready. The main goal, in PvE content of the game, is to try and hover around 8-10 unused initiative and as long as you don’t “cap out” on initiative, you’re not “losing” damage by doing this. P/P by itself is not on par with the other ranged counterparts of other classes, but it’s in a better state now, damage-wise, than it was. It still lacks range, AoE capability and Vital Shot has too long of a cast time, common consensus seems to be that around 1/3s cast would be ideal for it. Other than that, Redesign of Body Shot as a survivability skill has been on the table quite a lot, but there are people here aswell who’d like to turn the set into Vital Shot-afk-fest and ruin the niché of the P/P set, which happens to be on-demand burst dps.

You seem like you know p/p pretty well, any build recommendations?