Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I’m a mainly Rifle toting Warrior, and can switch to GS, but really prefer ranged combat.

Any builds you could suggest that would be great for a Rifle Warrior?

Cheers.

You should do what makes you happy.

But i’ll be honest and say that if you want a rifle warrior, you’re better of with an engineer or even ranger which can also use gs or swords. Sure, rifle isn’t terrible damage, but it sure is a lot less compared to let’s say axes or gs. I can say this because i do use a rifle, but only as 2nd set for when i need that range damage. But i always prefer melee damage, and my melee damage is simply better.

Hiya, here’s my current build (10/30/0/0/30):
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNBkYDbkzJ5t5x3hJOgYKUEnHJBVEgqH2RdEHA

Sword/WH offhand for mobility. Rifle build is centered on max damage by decreasing Killshot CD.

Use a mix of Knight’s and Berserker’s gear.

Retsuko.2035:

You should do what makes you happy.

But i’ll be honest and say that if you want a rifle warrior, you’re better of with an engineer or even ranger which can also use gs or swords. Sure, rifle isn’t terrible damage, but it sure is a lot less compared to let’s say axes or gs. I can say this because i do use a rifle, but only as 2nd set for when i need that range damage. But i always prefer melee damage, and my melee damage is simply better.

You couldn’t be more wrong,engineer rifle is focused on controlling and close range,warr rifle is focused on dmg output, + warr’s rifle range has a longer range.Also,warr rifle when using the correct build + piercing trait..can make for some fun times.Got a thief buddy to help you out ? let him make you invisi and pick off people with killshot in a zerg,line em up nice,because sometimes its to obvious when you see a warr kneel down and people evade it easily.But tbh, warr rifle > engineer rifle, mainly for the fact that ive never seen a engi down 4 – 5 people in a row with one single shot like ive seen happening with killshot.

What do you want to do?

PvE, WvW, SPvP?

It’s all pretty straight forward. I haven’t done SPvP on my warrior since about 2 weeks after launch because warriors are terrible in that area of the game so I guess you’re talking about wvw or pve.

Rifle/GS is amazing for wvw best weapon combo I’ve found. GS is basically your escape utility with sigil of hydromancy. Rifle is your killing weapon with sigil of fire. Utilties are Frenzy/Stomp(Frenzy for GC, Stomp for Sturdy), Balanced Stance and Endure Pain.

You can run 2 different setups full glass or a lil sturdier setup.

GC is zerker gear with divinity runes. With a 10/30/0/0-10/20-30 Trait setup.
Berserker’s Power/Rending Strikes, Crack Shot and Forceful Greatsword/Heightened Focus and Mobile Strikes. Put the last ten points in either Leg Specialist or Adrenal Reserves doesn’t really matter imo. 1 second snare and a smidge longer boon duration or a lil quicker killshot with a lil more damage up to you meh. This is actually the best setup I’ve found and I absolutely hate it. I hate frenzy and I hate being so glassy but it works. So dumb lol.

Sturdy is Knight’s gear with either Runes of Speed or Runes of Earth(lol I have both).
With a 0/20/30/0/20 Trait Setup. Rending Strikes and Crack Shot/Embrace the Pain or Turtle’s Defense meh, Last Stand and Defy Pain/Signet Mastery or Heightened Focus meh. Sometimes I would forget to change gear with this trait setup and wear the gc gear still and it wasn’t that bad lol.

This was what I ran in wvw about 2 to 3 months ago so things might have changed but it was baiscally keep as much distance as possible volley as often as possible and if things hit the fan switch to GS and gtfo with whirlwind and rush in the opposite direction. Ohh and never ever ever go in for the stomp if there’s more than 2 ppl around lol.

In PvE I didn’t run rifle/gs I ran mace,warhorn/longbow with healing gear with inspiring battle standard it pretty much made dungeons a joke constant 390ish regen ticks for everyone in the party and probably could do the same with rifle/gs if you wanted to but I used longbows fire field and blast finishers to stack might on the group as well. Then for dynamic events and general farming I used magic find gear with axe,axe/longbow with all the traits that helped generate adrenaline then I just aoed everything down.

ohh and another thing about rifle when you get used to wvw or just pvp in general and you see classes like thieves and mesmers get low on health you can start channeling either volley or killshot and those abilities will track those classes while they’re invis and hit if still in range.

Berserker’s Rifle – Superior Sigil of Bloodlust
Berserker’s Armor – Superior Runes of the Scholar
Berserker’s Accessories – Exquisite Ruby Jewels

Utilities – HS | FGJ | SOM | SOF/Frenzy/up to you | SOR

Traits (10-30-0-0-30):
Strength – V
Arms – III | V | VII
Discipline – V | VI | XI

Just land your Kill Shots (should be fairly easy if you use Frenzy)!

Thanks for all the comments. Let me address some of the points so far.

1. I want a build for PvE. I don’t PvP, and will only dabble in that for Map Completion.

2. I know that I’m not doing as much damage as I could with a GS, but I’m also taking a lot less damage. I have been solo-ing Veterans and Skill Points just fine, kiting with my Rifle and knocking back, and Bola etc. that I hardly take any damage.

One thing I don’t like about Rifle though is that there’s absolutely no AOE. But, I can live with that.

I think that in reading everything, Arms is the major trait line I need to go into for Rifle. I haven’t done that yet because I can only spend a max of 20 points to each (because I’m took cheap to buy the book allowing it to go to 30).

Cheers.

AlBundy.7851:

What do you want to do?

PvE, WvW, SPvP?

It’s all pretty straight forward. I haven’t done SPvP on my warrior since about 2 weeks after launch because warriors are terrible in that area of the game so I guess you’re talking about wvw or pve.

False..warrior is actually pretty good in 5 v 5 tpvp and can be good in 8 v 8 spvp depending on the players..
reason why ppl think warrior is bad is because those people keep getting caught by zergs or 2 v 1 disadvantage.

Warriors are all but extinct from tpvp the last person that went down this road posted some terrible hotjoin video of a double warrior team playing another horrible team and saying warriors were good when more than half of the video was them running away from engagements and the other part was them zerging one point and failing.

lol 8v8 spvp is for dueling or gtfo lol

Beefcake.9032:

Hiya, here’s my current build (10/30/0/0/30):
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNBkYDbkzJ5t5x3hJOgYKUEnHJBVEgqH2RdEHA

Sword/WH offhand for mobility. Rifle build is centered on max damage by decreasing Killshot CD.

Use a mix of Knight’s and Berserker’s gear.

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This is a pretty solid rifle build, and is what I use for the most part. If you want to see how it does in wvw you can check out this vid:

Trying to tweak it to get a little more burst though, it’s a fun spec.

IMO the best overall rifle build is 10/20/0/20/20 with sword/warhorn + quick breathing.

Its decent damage + decent mobility + awesome group utility.

You can deal good ranged damage while being extremely hard to kill. And you can switch rifle to longbow or greatsword, if you get bored.

Mix Knights, Berserkers + Valkyries, so you dont explode to fast on damage spikes.

What about 20/20/0/0/30? You get the 10% for GS and the max out crit dmg!