Guild Wars 2

Is it fun and effective?

These days, I would say not. Most zergs pack a ton of guardians using Wall of Reflection, not to mention druids with the staff 5 skill that destroys projectiles. Unless you’re using Signet of Might for the unblockable effect, tossing Killshots into a zerg these days usually doesn’t do much.

On the other-hand, who runs Killshot, or Gunflame without running signet of might?

Killshot in WvW is not viable anymore because of these reasons
25% damage nerf
Its not piecing through the enemy anymore.

FAIR AND BALANCED

TheBravery.9615:

FAIR AND BALANCED

Do u swap to double axe after shooting for the ferocity buff?

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

Killshot in WvW is not viable anymore because of these reasons
25% damage nerf
Its not piecing through the enemy anymore.

Regular Killshot still pierces and it can still do a ton of damage though.

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

Killshot in WvW is not viable anymore because of these reasons
25% damage nerf
Its not piecing through the enemy anymore.

Killshot has not recieved any damage nerfs. It also pierces just as well as it always has.

Gunflame, the Berzerker’s primal rifle burst, was the one that got the nerf. And it’s still kitten effective against stacked zerglings thanks to its AoE (Tip – shoot the one without projectile destruction/reflection)

TheBravery.9615:

FAIR AND BALANCED

I dont know if anyone else noticed it but please let me point out this is a picture before the Rifle nerf. You can clearly see the boosts from claiming the tower. That is not how boost look anymore since HOT. They are now auras and all the buffs will display under a castle icon.

His build is not viable, those skills chosen are not viable and he is using core warrior which would last for maybe 35-45 seconds in WvW even in a 2 vs 2 vs other players.

Killshot is a bad idea in zergs. There are so many reflects out on the field these days that you will more likely than not end up causing yourself more harm than anything.

Josh XT.6053
Killshot is a bad idea in zergs. There are so many reflects out on the field these days that you will more likely than not end up causing yourself more harm than anything.

Signet of might.

emkelly.2371:

Josh XT.6053
Killshot is a bad idea in zergs. There are so many reflects out on the field these days that you will more likely than not end up causing yourself more harm than anything.

Signet of might.

The attack isn’t being blocked, it is being reflected.

Josh XT.6053:

emkelly.2371:

Josh XT.6053
Killshot is a bad idea in zergs. There are so many reflects out on the field these days that you will more likely than not end up causing yourself more harm than anything.

Signet of might.

The attack isn’t being blocked, it is being reflected.

Unblockable also goes through reflects

The V.8759:

Josh XT.6053:

emkelly.2371:

Josh XT.6053
Killshot is a bad idea in zergs. There are so many reflects out on the field these days that you will more likely than not end up causing yourself more harm than anything.

Signet of might.

The attack isn’t being blocked, it is being reflected.

Unblockable also goes through reflects

Never tried it, good to know. I’ll give that a shot.

Josh XT.6053:

Never tried it, good to know. I’ll give that a shot.

Ya, Unblockable is stabilty for projectiles. They don’t get blocked, absorbed, or reflected. With unblockable the only way to avoid is LoS (with objects) or evade.

Tactikewl Killshot is something I made for giggles. It works in frequent immobilize to potentially remove the dodge option for every killshot. Its not that fantastic by my own standards, but it was a timekiller

Well for me it depends, are you in for the loot or do you play focus group and are hunting eles.
In for the loot? Its not CoR pre nerf sooo nope.
Wanna drop scrub eles so they open topics on the forums how unfair and violated they feel. Press F2, press F1, press 4, Start laughing at a guy trying to run with his stupid cloud thingy while being imob.
The dmg has been nerfed, but you still do good, that said:
Do not waste it on the Main body of the zerg, take out injured slakers, or a thief thats OoP.

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

Killshot in WvW is not viable anymore because of these reasons
25% damage nerf
Its not piecing through the enemy anymore.

Killshot didn’t get a nerf, gunflame did. Even if it DID get a nerf, 25% off 22,910 damage is 17,183 which still oneshots anyone in zerker’s and marauder’s.

Forget what’s “viable” or “meta”.

Play whatever the hell you want. Go ahead and try running a killshot setup build with another warrior in a zerg and try pinsniping with two consecutive unblockable shots. It’s hilarious.

In comparison, Revenant Coalesence is probably more effective in zergs.
I think it’s much better to run Berserker GS/Hammer otherwise in blobs, killshot pierces and still has high burst, but at a cost of no velocity and no AOE which you get from Gun flame; which received a damage nerfed.

Old times i run a kill shot build with s/wh and i swaped to rifle with iq sigil. I used crit valkyr armor. Was fun as hell. I surfed with the zerg and when we stacked or i targeted the commander just made a killshot

It’s fine,well gunflame is..drop killshot for zerging.I highly suggest to go sw/shield instead of gs for shtf, full zerk with arms/disc/berserk,the unblocks are king in these fights since reflect and block is allover the place.Youl have a guaranteed crit and unblock at 50%hp from the trait .Grab might util + Fury + ep,elite is your own choise.

Start off gaining adren as fast as possible,pop fury..and never try to gunflame without unblock up unless you know for Sure it wont be reflected or blocked.And yes,run with no stabi,theres no need of it because you will not run through the aoe’s and you will focus on the backline.If your comm moves right,you move left and hit the backline.At all cost make sure you are never the focus of target,if so leap out and only save your leaps to disengage,you got sblock to cover yourself after it,regain to the comm and go again..

I also recommend to when running with your zerg and you have arms equipped,pop healsig/might/fury every now and then to keep your crit stacked up as high as possible before you engage.