Rifle Or Me -Problem?
Try using Condition gear instead of power gear. Rabid and Rampager’s, I think, give you precision and condition damage.
Rifle doesn’t kill particularly quick, but it’s very consistent with bleed damage, with a great built-in burst from Killshot.
Rifle is better for slow and steady damage while keeping them at range or large scale where people won’t see you kneel. If you want quick, neither range weapon is really good, which is the way it should be. Use the rifle to slow them down so you can switch to melee or use it to keep a melee guy off you while you damage him. These people complaining rifle sucks are nuts, if rifle did Greatsword type damage, the balance in this game would be pretty wack.
How about Traits and utilities? x15 Vulnerability /w a +5 Bleed and I’m doing decent burst /w a Power and Crit build.
Rifle is terrible at kill speed. Switch to longbow and see how that goes for you, auto attacks crit for 800×2 and can burst over 6k on #3 with my power and crit build.