Guild Wars 2

Ok, I want to try out the new Burst Precision Grandmaster trait with a maximally cheesy Rifle Sniper shtick. What all do I need?

Heavily geared towards Valkyrie (don’t need precision on an auto-crit build)

An ascended rifle.

HEALING~
Healing Surge for full Adrenaline before they even know I’m shooting.

UTILITIES~
Banner of Discipline for the crit damage bonus (170 Ferocity/ 11.33% after patch) plus having some normal Precision will be useful outside of the Tryia-shattering kaboom.

Banner of Strength for Power bonus.

Balanced Stance because you do NOT want to be interrupted.

ELITE~
War Banner – mostly to stick into their broken bodies. Another possible source of Stability for the big bang wind up. Also hits surprisingly hard with Powerful Banners trait

TRAITS~
30/10/0/0/30

Strength III: Great Fortitude — A percentage of power is given as a bonus to vitality.
Strength VI: Powerful Banners — Banners do damage when summoned.
Strength XIII: Burst Precision — OUCH! It hurts to be this good!

Arms IV: Crack Shot — Rifle and harpoon gun shots pierce. Reduced recharge on rifle and harpoon gun skills.

Discipline II: Thrill of the Kill — Gain extra adrenaline on a kill.
Discipline VIII: Destruction of the Empowered — Deal bonus damage per boon on your target.
Discipline XI: Burst Mastery — Burst skills deal more damage and cost less.

So. That’s off the cuff. Make it even meaner!

This could be funny watch, post a youtube of it when it becomes live.

P.S do it to a thief first please, it’s okay they aren’t real people.

^ THIS. IS. TRUTH. Heed these words, Tyrians!

You forgot the important part of this. To yell 1 shot 1 kill every time

I would consider signet of Strength or all you have done will be in vain. Makes kill shot unblockable. So replace one of those banners with the signet then your golden. Passive AOE Aegis will ruin your day.

Still I think the trait will be fun to play with. I think though soon as people figure out its an un-needed trait that people wont chose it anymore after playing with it.

The issue with Rifles from all of my testing is they are really only halfway decent in high precision builds. Mainly becasue the AA and Volly do pathetic damage if they are not all crits. Kill shot alone isn’t enough to carry the weapon.

Also I think casting On my Mark 10% vuln would benifit you more than banner of str.

This really isn’t any funner than the normal killshot build, it just has more hp and does less damage

Describe the “normal killshot build”. I’m curious to see the differences.

I’m running it now out in WvW, using mostly berserker gear because that was what was in my bag and Berserker’s Power instead of Burst precision. A couple of fun/funny fights so far. Auto crit will definitely smooth things out though. I will be looking at Signet of Might over Banner of Strength for Zerg-Vs-Zerg as Aegis IS a bit of a pain.

Travis the Terrible.4739:

You forgot the important part of this. To yell 1 shot 1 kill every time

I prefer to whisper “I want the pink mist…” .

I personally believe that the new trait will help Eviscerate more than any other burst skill. Your traits will be duel wielding/Axe Mastery +10 Crit/New trait.

There are no traits in Str line that benefits rifles except berserk power.

So New eviscerate build would be

30 Duel Wield or Aplied Str if using a shield/Axe mastery/new trait
0
25 for dogged march+ a negative condition rune + some negative condi food Cleasing Ire 25 point toughness to str trait.
0
15 signet masery/weapon swaps

Somthing like A caviliers build to convert toughness to str with 25 point str trait.

Axe/Shield + Sword/warhorn or Sword/mace

I am more intrested in a power build with hammers and using 2 sigils on being the 3 crits on swap to land skills like back breaker.

So my combo maybe Bullscharge enemy trigger 25% damage to disabled foe hammer trait. Back Breaker Crit then Stagering blow crit Then the hammer burst skill with burst crit trait. Weapon swap Bow immobilize F1 Burst Cumbustive shot.

Hambo 2.oh mofo

Why wouldn’t you want Signet of Rage?

Nike.2631:

Describe the “normal killshot build”. I’m curious to see the differences.

I’m running it now out in WvW, using mostly berserker gear because that was what was in my bag and Berserker’s Power instead of Burst precision. A couple of fun/funny fights so far. Auto crit will definitely smooth things out though. I will be looking at Signet of Might over Banner of Strength for Zerg-Vs-Zerg as Aegis IS a bit of a pain.

Its basically as you’ve said. Often use FGJ / mark because they can be instacast during the killshot itself. I always use signet of might because… well it adds power, I NEVER activate it. Also banner of discipline not strength… 2 banners is no bueno

zerker power is just >>>> burst precision if you can have lots of fury/crit chance

use berserker’s power with intelligence sigil. also use slashing power so you can swap to gs before it hits for 10% extra damage.

Psylem.1529:

Why wouldn’t you want Signet of Rage?

Warbanner give all your party signet of rage buff so I guess he not soloing

Killface.1896:

Psylem.1529:

Why wouldn’t you want Signet of Rage?

Warbanner give all your party signet of rage buff so I guess he not soloing

I can see now a party of rifle warriors under banners. It’s going to be a freaking firing squad.

At least as far as Eviscerate is concerned a smart player will just use Sigil of Intelligence and not bother with 30pts into power, especially in spvp. That being said i’m sure ill be playing it with those cheesy rifle builds.