Guild Wars 2

Come on ANET!!! Am so over the longbow….everyone uses them, bows that is. Druids, Rangers, Thieves, DH’s and of course us!
Why oh why can you not give rifle some nice little condi bits, a burn here or a bleed there? Then we can stand out just a bit and have fun as well. You remember fun…the reason we play??!!!
Any, just a pipedream I am sure but still wanted to sound off, who knows, I just might be heard! lol…….yea right.

Joxer.6024:

Come on ANET!!! Am so over the longbow….everyone uses them, bows that is. Druids, Rangers, Thieves, DH’s and of course us!
Why oh why can you not give rifle some nice little condi bits, a burn here or a bleed there? Then we can stand out just a bit and have fun as well. You remember fun…the reason we play??!!!
Any, just a pipedream I am sure but still wanted to sound off, who knows, I just might be heard! lol…….yea right.

It sort of already has huge power burst capability, doesn’t really make sense to buff it more. I believe you will see more condi varieties of weapons in the near future don’t worry.

It sort of already has huge power burst capability, doesn’t really make sense to buff it more. I believe you will see more condi varieties of weapons in the near future don’t worry.

Actually, rifle is mediocre; guardian’s bow has more damage than rifle. That says it all!

? Gunflame already has a major burn. Even going full power, often the kills I get are from the burning..its like 2k damage burning I think total that I get. Most riflers have alot of might stacks running…..so thats alot of condi damage in ur gunflame’s burning.

I’ve even seen condi users use rifle+something else as their weapon set, to a degree of success. USed to see them in wvsw actually, not anymore tho since its a single attack that (if stopped/dodged/blocked/whatever) negates the whole point of the rifle….but if it hits and it isn’t cleared it does alot of damage. Rifle 2,4,f2 are all condi blessed abilities….with 5 being useful as well for condi users. Rifle 1,3,f1 are really the only skills that don’t have usage in a condi build, but they do work in conjunction with fields to do condi damage.

Just go to pvp trainining area and put on a condi build….and take rifle with you. YOu an see for yourself how much damage that gunflame can do in burning

I tried vipers/etc for rifle in PvP, and yeah the burn is good. it’s a really good burn. Str Def Zerk with mace/sh and distracting strikes worked the best (gunflame does daze).

I still found zerker GS/Rifle to be better tho. burst is much faster and more versatile than condi.

Rifle needs to be revamped – Remove the root from Killshot and give it a CC component (Like Gunflame), and let its autoattacks pierce again.