Guild Wars 2

Thumbs up for this!
Since your reputation, not your guild, made you get your commander you’re probably one of the few good ones out there.
Carry on!

How is this build in zergfights? Do you have to position yourself always in the first row or is it effective in the rear lines too?

Obscure One.4357:

Seras.5702:

@Obscure et al: Recently rolled SD/rifle build with Goggles, Rifle Turret, and ToolKit. Lotsa fun. What traits did you take? I’m running 10/30/0/0/30 and am just not sure how to squeeze every ounce of damage out of my rifle (since I’ve been a pistol user since day 1). In Firearms I have II, IX, X. Trying to figure out if I should swap out Go For The Eyes for Hair Trigger. And I’ve got Incendiary Powder in Explosives due to my high crit % (and free 100power) but dunno if there’s another line better.

My trait spread is 0/30/10/10/20, and I’m presently using the new rifle standard of Sitting Duck, Rifle Mod, and Modified Ammunition in that Firearms line. For Inventions I usually run Cloaking Device, but for those big zerg fights I run Protective Shield. Similarly in my Alchemy line I’ll use Self-Regulating Defenses and for zerging swap it out for Protection Injection. The Tools line is fairly straight forward with Speedy Kits (which has never not been in any of my builds) and Static Discharge.

I tend to do a good job keeping up fury between drop stimulant and Utility Goggles which keeps my crit rate at 70% (80% against < 50%hp targets), so I can capitalize fairly well on my 70% crit damage and 3k attack (calculated without Rifle Mod, Mod Ammo, Bloodlust Stacks, or Superior Sigil of Force).

Pro Tip: For Med Kit, on Drop Stimulant, you can drop 3 of them as they will remain after the cool down. At about 5 seconds until you can drop a fourth one pick up all three starting with the first one you dropped and then use drop stimulant 1 more time to stack the duration of all four uses.

Edit: Note – always get bloodlust stacks up prior to going out into the fray. The +250 power is a direct damage builds best friend. Once you have those stacks swap out to a berzerker weapon with a sigil of force to capitalize on having even more direct damage output. For zerg fights a power/precision/toughness rifle with a sigil of fire is recommended.

What equip would you use with your named build? I’d like to try this build out, but i have no clue how to equip therefore :/

And this is still achievable with the new patch? Looks like a lot of fun

Could anybody link a skilldesceiption for the sd builds you are talking about? I just came back to the game and this sounds pretty funny, hence i am wondering what you are talking about
Thanks in anticipation!