Guild Wars 2

After the patch I devoted a huge swath of time to the warrior rifle, trying almost any build combination possible. This was the best I could come up with. I was actually surprised on how well this worked. I am a phoenix ranked player and this build performed very well against high MMR teams.

WARRIOR SUPPORT RIFLE:

Weapon Set 1: Rifle (Air/Fire)
Weapon Set 2: Sword (Doom/Energy, you can use intelligence instead of doom if your good at landing final thrust on sword)
Amulet: Crusader
Rune: Soldier

Specializations:

DISCIPLINE: Crackshot, Brawler’s Recovery, Burst Mastery
ARMS: Signet Mastery, Blade Master, Burst Precision
TACTICS: Quick Breathing, Shrug it Off, Vigorous Shouts

Skills:
Healing Signet, For Great Justice, Shake it Off, Doylak Signet, Signet of Fury

Usage:

This is a support build that offers strong healing to allies, mass condition removal, good boons, mobility, safe stomping, good rez interruption, and still maintains a lethal killshot.

This build works best in team fights. The condition removal is strong, offering brawler’s recovery, automatic shrug it off to remove 2 conditions and stunbreak on first application, a low CD on healing signet as a panic button to survive large condition stacks, and 2 on demand stun breakers.

Use kill shot on low health targets, especially after signet of might procs from signet mastery to blow them away. Kill shot is also effective against glass spikers (thieves) and people trying to rez (good to railshot people and hit multiples in a line).

Between vigorous shouts and signet of fury, you have strong adrenaline gain. Procs on rending strikes and rifle one also builds double adrenaline to ensure you always have killshot for use. Do not killshot with weakness on as it will cause your killshot to glancing blow and not crit, even with burst precision.

Use doylak signet to safe stomp targets and when its not up, sword swap and use flurry to bleed out downed enemies. The burst precision will auto-crit flurry so you will get huge bleed stacks on people.

Also use warhorn and for great justice to team clear/boon convert conditions and move your team around. Warhorn is really good for mitigating ranger entangle and shake it off is great for fear breaking or mitigating a team cc’ed by earthshaker.

Use rifle butt exclusively to stop enemy rezzes or push thieves out of SR. When focused use shake it off then sword swap to leap in order to reposition yourself and get away.