Guild Wars 2

Just for fun, I put on my full zerker gear for my Sniper Warrior in WvW.

20K killshot pew pew.

I know this was just a crit reel, but i cant help but point out that everyone who died to your killshot was

1. Running away not looking behind them.

2. Being distracted by someone else from your server.

3. Not noticing you on top of a tower.

All the other warrior weapons need none of this to be effective. While rifle can fulfill a niche sniper build (nothing like firing a piercing killshot through a zergs frontline) all the other weapons vastly outperform it. Go against a good player with rifle and theyll wipe the floor with you.

Carpboy.7145:

I know this was just a crit reel, but i cant help but point out that everyone who died to your killshot was

1. Running away not looking behind them.

2. Being distracted by someone else from your server.

3. Not noticing you on top of a tower.

All the other warrior weapons need none of this to be effective. While rifle can fulfill a niche sniper build (nothing like firing a piercing killshot through a zergs frontline) all the other weapons vastly outperform it. Go against a good player with rifle and theyll wipe the floor with you.

With this spec I wouldn’t go in the open field alone. I made this video just for fun and a build based only on killshot is a fail.

But I play a GS/Rifle build in roaming and dueling and it’s very effective. I called it the Salvation build :

Rifle is still very important, because it give you the opportunity to do massive damage in range. It give you more chance against Engi, Mesmer, Necro. Even the thief get surprised by a Volley or Killshot while they are stealthed.

Carpboy.7145:

I know this was just a crit reel, but i cant help but point out that everyone who died to your killshot was

1. Running away not looking behind them.

2. Being distracted by someone else from your server.

3. Not noticing you on top of a tower.

All the other warrior weapons need none of this to be effective. While rifle can fulfill a niche sniper build (nothing like firing a piercing killshot through a zergs frontline) all the other weapons vastly outperform it. Go against a good player with rifle and theyll wipe the floor with you.

That is the point of a sniper.

What is the point of a sniper if not to pick off enemies?

Just wanted to add that while this build doesn’t help your zerg alot out in terms of boons, heals, blasts etc, I’ve had tons of run doing pew pew at the back of big fights in WvW.
Also scored an all time high of 29K on kill shot today, and that was without Burst Mastery.
IMO at times it feels kinda OP, but then a flank hits and I’m the first to die.

Giddy.7930:

Just wanted to add that while this build doesn’t help your zerg alot out in terms of boons, heals, blasts etc, I’ve had tons of run doing pew pew at the back of big fights in WvW.
Also scored an all time high of 29K on kill shot today, and that was without Burst Mastery.
IMO at times it feels kinda OP, but then a flank hits and I’m the first to die.

29k kill shot nice.

There is a lot of aspects that affect your damage on killshot.

Maybe you just hit a squishy low lvl elementalist with 25 stack of vulnerability and you were buffed with 25 stack of might and get into a discipline banner. If you added burstmastery you should hit the 30k+.

But 29k nice dude. In da face.

Slap in a piercing trait and you can instadown half a zerg with one bullet <3

36k hit on an up lvl’ed

The only lol moments I’ve had so far is “Did that guy just double dodge right in front of me?”

Runeblade already said it. Snipers aren’t supposed to fight you face to face.