Kimditcher
riflemen
You can do some pretty good single target dps with rifle and have some fun with the F1 Killshot, but as it is right now, (in PvE) using a ranged weapon for warrior is more of an secondary set to switch to when you want to duck out of melee range and breathe /heal up etc for a moment, or when a boss fight just requires the range. Using solely a rifle is something that maybe works in s/tPvP and WvW but you will get squished because you have to go glass to deal the damage. But there are some funny videos of rifle warriors getting KillShots for around 20k in WvW on glasscannons/uplevels so that’s always fun.
Kuruseii
well i am more of pve guy….so it is viable but not recommend to go longbow + rifle build with power and prec
Kimditcher
You could probably make something decent of 10/30/0/30/0, or just a glass cannon type thing, optionally with bits shaved off for bow traits, but in most PVE you don’t really need the range, and 10% extra bow damage to burning stuff is probably of questionable benefit compared to those trait points spent elsewhere, since fire is so short-lived a condition. Mind you, I’m not sure if that applies to the fire itself doing 10% more. I’d assume it doesn’t work for conditions, but if it does, that might make it worthwhile since burning does decent damage in its short time.
Rifles tend to be handy for bosses you don’t want to/can’t tank though, and bows are good for farming (can mass-tag with AOE) so for general PVE I don’t see a particular reason you couldn’t do it.
20/20/0/0/30 full zerker…have fun
You’d skip the 10% to bleeding targets?
Think he is refering to a build I am planning to test out, basically built around getting adrenaline and swapping to rifle with 100% crit (air) for killshot.
I also think he is going boon hate but the only scenario this build would work is in wvwvwv and your would be lucky to get a target with more than one boon on him. I would suggest going Lyssa and save the elite skill for the killshot. Should give you close to 20% increase in dmg (with the signet of might it even becomes unblockable and you got stability/ret/prot due to the skill).
Would be interesting to see what kind of high numbers one can get…
Wtf is boon hate? Sry new to this game
Kimditcher
Its a nickname for Destruction of the Empowered.
I tried the aforementioned build and I get 14.7k shots on the rifle burst and 9.7k on eviscerates even volley gives around 9k. With all the means we have to gain adrenaline and reduce weapon swap time a burst glass cannon can produce a significant amount of dmg in a very short time.
I have a rifleman Warrior 20/30/0/0/20 but instead of playing it with a full Berserker set I went for a full Rampager set. It gives you acces to a great sustained DPS with reliable burst, immunity against Weakness glancing hits sinds you will have 100% crit chance with fury. And acces to the sword shield combo wich offers a lot of versatility in combat if you are a glasscanon build. But you loose the lol 16K dmg crit with killshot for something closer to 8K dmg + 1,5 to 2 K/sec condition damage.