Guild Wars 2

Rampage or Berserk? I assume Knight is a terrible set when considering effective HP and Power so the only other choice is Soldier which would not do much damage with a rifle.

Personally I use berserker. The bleeds are more like bonus damage than anything, since it’s unlikely that you’ll get them to stack above 3-4 unless you also use a Superior Sigil of Earth. Even then, you should want more crit damage because Rifle 3 is your main bread-and-butter for direct damage. And considering that my crit chance rating for my warrior is really high (I have 100% berserker/ruby gear like a true glass-cannon scrub) that extra crit damage really pays off.

Whether or not you use rampager or berserker is dependent on your other weapon set. If you use Dual Swords, go for rampager for certain. Any other weapon combo, berserker is probably better.

I played around with a builder and came up with a mix of zeker+soldier:

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/warrior/?8.0|4.1g.h16|c.1c.h1j.e.1c.h2|1c.7r.1g.7r.1c.7r.1g.7r.1c.7r.1g.7r|1c.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c.1c.9c|a5.u37c.0.0.u67a|15.1|5y.6b.6c.6f.6m|e

Any feedback?

10/30/0/0/30 Rifle / S+Shield
HS / Shake It Off / Dolyak / Stamina / SoR
x3 Soldier / x3 Berserker
x6 Melandru
Lemongrass + Sharpening

Effective Power 3639.14
Effective Health (EHP) 32670
Damage Reduction 31.95%

If your gunna play rifle you NEED that volley to hit hard. I’d use straight zerker. The bleed damage isnt gunna get you anywhere compared to a powerfull volley.

Use zerker Gems! this is the BEST place to pick up +% crit damage without sacrivicing stats!!

How much Toughness should I aim for?

full zerker: 1255 Toughness
mix zerker+soldier: 1400 Toughness

Effective Power 4102.32
Effective Health (EHP) 26745
Damage Reduction 25.55%

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/warrior/?8.0|4.1g.h16|c.1c.h1j.e.1c.h2|1g.7r.1g.7r.1g.7r.1g.7r.1g.7r.1g.7r|1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c|a5.u37c.0.0.u67a|15.1|5y.6b.6c.6f.6m|e

Berzerker trinkets with Soldier armor, if you don’t want to run a high-risk build like mine.

Generally speaking, more toughness is better, but with hybrids it’s however much you feel you need.

I get 12-13 stacks of bleed with my build in another post and have been more effective working in some + condition. I get something like 105 ticks unbuffed.

i dont understand, if your doing pve then who is so braindead to build himself with some thougness and other survibality stuffs, your going to stay in a rooftop with forcefield hardening your dog so why dont just build to full damage.
And against players with rifle if you even think of changing more than 1/3 of your build to defensive versions your not gonna kill anyone before hell freezers.
10/20/00/10/30 with berserk,bolas,signet of fury,battle stance/ signet of rage. That will be pretty bold against players and requires eye and skill, but it does work. With constant killshot every 8s and volley your opponent gotta dance on his toes.With that 10trait tactis you make aimed shot a fast immobilise every 8sec, right after that bolas will have very high change to hit giving full road to headshot. Onlything that will save them is block or using some immunity skill. Then just some volley, another aimedshot, rifle butt maybe few second of some other weapon rolling and back to sniping. Playing like this you brobably will not get any closer of the feeling being glasscannon, you will brake like a baby if you play your cards wrong, but it is so worth it becouse of the headshots. Snipe someone-> make a volley on the downed guy->walk pretty close to him->sniping execution.