Guild Wars 2

I haven’t played since January 2013, I come back into game to have a peek and see my old GS/Rifle build completely blank. Traits have changed, skills have changed, everything refunded.

Just looking around the forums I see the concept of having a rifle in your build for PvE/Dungeons is shunned entirely. What exactly have I missed?

I see the go to build is now GS / Axe – Mace. Call me stubborn but I’ve never really liked maces but I’ll cave if I have to. Is my old build really that obsolete now? I used to stack bleed and Vulnerability with the rifle and then 100 blades / “beyblade” everything to death.

For the record, I don’t PvP at all. Never have, never plan to.

Jagblade.4627:

I haven’t played since January 2013, I come back into game to have a peek and see my old GS/Rifle build completely blank. Traits have changed, skills have changed, everything refunded.

Just looking around the forums I see the concept of having a rifle in your build for PvE/Dungeons is shunned entirely. What exactly have I missed?

I see the go to build is now GS / Axe – Mace. Call me stubborn but I’ve never really liked maces but I’ll cave if I have to. Is my old build really that obsolete now? I used to stack bleed and Vulnerability with the rifle and then 100 blades / “beyblade” everything to death.

For the record, I don’t PvP at all. Never have, never plan to.

i use rifle gs and honestly i don’t see any issues with it.

the reason people favor the axe ver rifle is that the auto on the axe is better which it is. with that said i personally like the rifle so i can keep applying dps far way for those moments when you don’t want to be in melee range (i.e. need to heal)

The new meta is stacking in dungeons. So you don’t need ranged weapons. You just stack, use all the melee awesomeneness and get all the buffs/fields/boons from an all melee party stacking in a corner and killing bosses within seconds.