Guild Wars 2

Well I generally don’t have a problem with fighting engineers, and I know they have a hard time with DPS warriors because of the raw damage. So I don’t see where’s the problem. Alot of engineers still believe their rifle will be the better weapon. And I would probably agree. Gyros are horsekitten atm, for example.

But there are some builds that we need to look out for. Grenades with vuln stacking for example along with hammer. That one has got to hurt. It’s got blinds too.

Keep in mind they can’t switch weapons. They only have one. And I believe we will see alot of hammer builds that don’t even use kits. I tried this and I think it’s really strong. It’s still clumsy and the nr 3 one took me over a cliff-edge… They are fixing that though. They have 1 stun on 24 second cooldown that lasts for like 1 second. We have a 2 sec stun on 8 sec cooldown, a knockback, knockdown and alot more single hit damage. AND a second weaponset.

It is really strong, but it needs to be.

Warlord.9074:

never heard of it,

It’s a boon duration food iirc. Was using potent sharpening stones and Orrian Steak Frittes last night. Really nice. Didn’t feel that I missed the 100 toughness either. Thanks for the help guys.

Gokil.2543:

I may not know how to warrior but this I can help with.

As Rob said, power is better by quite a margin. 10% crit damage, considering you’re already at 215%, will increase the damage on crit by roughly 4,5? (10/215). Seeing how you crit 80% of the time, that means a ~3,5% total damage increase.

Meanwhile, adding 250 power, or 10% extra, will give you 10% extra damage straight out.

To be fair, you’re comparing 150 ferocity to 250 power, which isn’t really logical, but even in equal amounts, power is a lot better (almost always).

I’d recommend gw2power.com
Excellent tool.

Thanks alot!

RobLnd.1074:

Power is always better than ferocity in equal amounts as far as I am aware, so would go spicy butternut or truffle steak etc. with power as main stat. Defo spicy butternut if you’re going for the high numbers.

Buuuut those sharpening stones are nice for making the most of stat gain especially on a build with less defensive stats, because of giving all dat toughness too, so would personally stick with those.

There’s that too. With the extra bit of toughness. I can’t tank anything now anyway so I don’t think that little extra toughness would make too much of a difference though. I kind of rely on vitality for migitation. What’s your source on the power>ferocity scaling?

Purple Miku.7032:

Gamgee.8612:

Feels like they made all the cool kitten for all the other classes and then just gave warrior stunbreakers to deal with it all…

Have you seen tempest and dragonhunter?

I tried Dragonhunter. I never do PvE which I guess is where your interest lies. I haven’t even finished my personal story yet…

However I think the bigger problem is that I hate condition specs. A burn warrior would probably work pretty well with Sw/torch LB for example.

Dragonhunter was good fun i’d say. It has some good use in a group in WvW, but idk about PvP or Solo-roaming. But for me it was definietly more inspiring than Berserker.

Hello guys. First off I’m just going to post the build so if you want you can take a look:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAseSjMdQZI2FCWhAnIG6BKtNC/fwCgCICwaoHyBA-TVRSwAkUCOR5HN9BA2fAq6PBAQAuZb2m3MASBIqWL-w

This is my WvW build atm. I find it works wonders in our group. Very easy to move around and the damage is sickening. And this is where my question comes.

As you see I have Pack runes and usually Signet of Rage, basically 100% fury uptime. I’m around 80% crit chance in a fight most of the time. What I ask is Ferocity or power? I can squeeze out another 250 power from just food, but I would loose around 10% crit damage.

So 10% Power or 10% Ferocity? I’m looking for someone who knows how all of this scales. The build is super-strong as it is if you know how to bait stabilities and use your dodges, but I just really like big numbers. And the Earthshaker>Backbreaker>Fierce Blow combo crits for around 18-20K on a regular basis. I’m looking for that 10K backbreaker. I’ve had a 9.1K on a thief but I’m positive a 10K one is possible.

If someone knows the maths I will try it out Cheers. G’day.

I know what you mean. Sometimes it works fine though and very smooth so i just think it’s a little delay on the server or something. But yeah Rush and Endure Pain have the worst delays on a warrior I think… The time’s I’ve got hit by an Evi just because my Endure Pain Lagged.

Yashuoa.9527:

I have been playing warrior lately and I enjoy it.
Especially the shield + reflect.

I have a question regarding the spell Battle Standard.

Its cool how it can revive, but
isnt the cooldown of 240 to high?
What about the casttime of 2 sec? To long or not?

I used to run that alot because of it being able to res more than 1. If you run it in a small group of 2-3 then yeah the CD is too high but lets say you run a 10 man group. What make the standard REALLY stand out is it’s ability to res 5 people, best case scenario. Then the cooldown is not too low because one should not be able to use it too often :P But if you play with 1 or 2 people then yeah the cast time is a bit tough.

The cast time is ok. I’ve had it interrupted loads of times but that’s an element the enemy has to look out for then and that’s fine. It should be interruptable.

Make Fear Me strip all stability instead of being unblockable and reduce the cd to 45 seconds. When the new meta comes with HoT there will be so much stability flying around. I really feel like we need a boonstrip.

Feels like they made all the cool kitten for all the other classes and then just gave warrior stunbreakers to deal with it all…

I feel absolutely no synergy with Berserker mode. It just doesn’t float with the adrenaline mechanic. I always find myself either waiting for adrenaline or waiting for a cooldown on Berserker. There’s a point where Berserker has 5 seconds left and I can choose to use my original F1 skill or wait for berserker. At this point, berserker has to be so good that it’s worth waiting. It’s not. Not anywhere near, sadly. I feel like I’m just worse at everything when duelling other classes in the beta. It’s like they have gotten all new shiny things and I’m just there like… “I have a cool name…” It feels like all the other classes has gotten a metric kitten ton of control in terms of cc and soft cc and berserker got all these fancy stunbreaks to deal with it.

I will not stop play warrior, I love my warrior. But there’s a storm coming, and all the other classes has houses and we’re just sitting here with 2 walls and no roof.

Barret.4095:

why do you want warrior to be faceroll again. it was pretty balanced before the patch

It will never be faceroll as long as every class does not go back to their status 1.5 years ago. Every class is just as good as the other classes/players are bad. Classes and players have never been better. 2 years ago you could roll all the classes and be really good at all classes. Now, the time invested in knowing every class inside out is just too much. I don’t think it will be a thing to be a master at every class in a near future of the game. Monogamy is coming…

Juba.8406:

THANK YOU.
From the deep bottom of my heart.

You really transformed my warrior. < Sword/Shield warrior

I KNOW! Been playing Sword/Shield forever and even though it worked well before it’s now right where it should be!

/N I M S

Choppy.4183:

Gamgee.8612:

You basically trade 40% crit and 3K health to get 500 more toughness. Compared to this zerk build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAseSjMdQZI2FCuhAnIG6BKtNC/wwCgCICwaoH6eA-TVyHABKfEAC4BAox+D6p+TPK/cSJ4AHCAv0HAwJAIAACwNbz28mBQKAW1aB-w

I personally wouldn’t do that trade but it might be better for your playstyle. I usually play in 3-5 man groups taking on higher numbers, and we blast alot of waters and stuff like that so I might be a bit blind to other peoples experiences but I dont think I would do that trade either way.

You have to compare like with like though. He could slot Great Fortitude to close that vitality gap too. Also, his damage output would be higher with his current build due to Forceful Greatsword.

Question for you though. If you’re running in in 3-5 man groups, why the sword over axe or mace (assuming you want to keep the shield)? The axe would give you more damage pressure and the mace would give you a little more defense but much more cc to peel people off of your friends.

Is it for the mobility to run from larger groups?

Ok. Yes he could take that but he doesn’t. I don’t use the Greatsword currently so there’s no need for me to take FG. I get 11 and a half seconds per block on my shield though, which is on a 20 second cooldown. I can choose to use it offensively. I don’t get the extra condition removal though. That’s the real disadvantage but I feel like I don’t need more survival in general.

I have tried everything in a group and Sword just seems to suit our group the best. I can kite around but still stay in the fight. I could go axe or mace but I wouldn’t be able to take the Hammer because I would have almost zero mobility. I have played alot of GS/Hammer though. That works good but I feel like I’m out of position and not really a part of the group with that set. Sword allows me to make shorter leaps more often, and the block helps me even more with staying with my group. Usually we survive by waterfields. I’ve got a blast on the hammer, 2 short leaps on the sword/shield – around 5K all in all. Final thrust is a super finisher aswell(9-12K crits) which means you can save adrenalin for Hammer Stun, and the immob is very good for pinning a target or immobing an ele before he’s going into mist, immobing a thief before he goes into stealth etc.

Taking another weapon set might make sense in fair fights. I’m talking alot about group play but that’s because 90% of my gw2 life is with the same group of people, always WvW. However, most of the time we find ourselves outnumbered 5v10 or even more. What I need is not an extra stun or damage pressure. We need to be able to move around like hell and pick out targets to quickly nuke and then regroup for a quick group heal. Nothing like these weapons for that. Sorry for wall of text :P

euroz.7190:

Choppy.4183:

Can you post your knight’s build?

I threw together two separate builds based on your previous description (all zerk vs knights with some zerk) and ended up with a crit damage difference of about 40 percentage points and about 200 power. Difference in toughness was about 700.

Sure, http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQJARSjMdQZHWGCehAnIGICK9Lm+twCgIYAwW/FGBA-TlCEABQcIAi4CAwwDAIKlGbpEkJlZtprBgjAQjq/Ez+DBAQAu5Nzm3MgbezbezbezyAssFA-w this is the ideal build. Almost the same dmg as full zerker, but twice as tanky.

You basically trade 40% crit and 3K health to get 500 more toughness. Compared to this zerk build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAseSjMdQZI2FCuhAnIG6BKtNC/wwCgCICwaoH6eA-TVyHABKfEAC4BAox+D6p+TPK/cSJ4AHCAv0HAwJAIAACwNbz28mBQKAW1aB-w

I personally wouldn’t do that trade but it might be better for your playstyle. I usually play in 3-5 man groups taking on higher numbers, and we blast alot of waters and stuff like that so I might be a bit blind to other peoples experiences but I dont think I would do that trade either way.

I haven’t run axe since… I don’t even know. Sw/shield masterrace!

I just go full Zerk. I run 90% of the time in a 3-5 man party and I usually don’t feel like I’m too fragile. I might swap to 1 or 2 Valk pieces one they remove guard stacks though.

Kaizoku.1298:

choovanski.5462:

kek. run X. use moa. stunlock. evade. stealth. blind. block.

if you cant land rifle 4 & use cc on stab that’s you playing badly. i have no issues vs warrior on any engineer build i play, provided im playing well. practice landing cc & damage chains.

Honestly, in my build I only had rifle #4 and turret detonation as CC.

There’s your problem. “In my build”. Change your build. You will not have an easy time against everything in the game with a single build.

Kaizoku.1298:

Elegie.3620:

You seem a bit bitter, if you could rather tell us what problem you have when you fight with a warrior, your class/build, then maybe we could provide some guidance and tactics so that you emerge victorious in your duels… As a matter of fact, there’s a lot of misinformation in your post, a warrior can hit hard for sure, but has lots of serious weaknesses you can exploit.

But I don’t think you’ll receive any constructive post after so much QQ, whether you’re serious or simply trolling, so you’ve basically just wasted an opportunity to get acquainted with a class community, and ultimately become better at the game.

I can win against warriors, everyone just seems keep saying condi burst them, bait your condis, condi condi condi just how this game is Condition Wars 2 aka CW2.
anyway enough trolling. I don’t mean to say warriors are overpowered n all. I simply hate that as an engineer (berserker) I cannot do anything without CC/soft CC.
There is no chance to immobilize a warrior of that kind. Not because of adrenaline stance only, it seems like it is a meta or something. If they are immobilized, movement skills cleanses them. If I try to CC, of course with my rifle #4 that also knocks me back, they get stability proc and I get knocked back.
I simply want Anet to deal with those kinds of traits (stability,endure pain,etc etc).

The reason behind those traits is that without them warrior has no sustain at all. It’s all about window of opportunity with a warrior. Warrior used to be even more dependant on window of opportunity, for example in the old days to land a hundred blades you basically popped an elite, 3 utilities and 100 blades to go in for the kill. If that missed, and it did, you were kind of kittened. That is why the traits are so popular, and necessary. Nowadays warr is much more solid ofcourse and you don’t have to depend on it as much but it’s still the same class and way of playing even if it’s not as hardcore.

lighter.2708:

engi lossing to a warrior?
l2p issue…

It’s not though. I think the problem is that evi/sh bash combo. It’s just repeatable and it’s so easy to just run away and wait for cds. And in axe just chop away a couple of times with your 5k autos and wait for two dodges, press nr 4 and heave away with your evi. I don’t run axe because it’s too cheesy. 6K autos. Like what.

Turn down the auto and made evi hard hitting but not a leap. Make it stationary.

EDIT: I know this is an issue for several good engies that I play with which is why I don’t believe it’s a L2p issue.

yanoch.7051:

2.5k and if you break stun with shake it off with shout heal you get a pretty decent HP recovery.

Was just thinking that. Wow.

Valik Shin.9027:

Gs/ axe-shield is probably the strongest burst build for war right now

And what is weird is that it has been since release. In one form or another.

Buffed healing for 130%…. Means 1.5K-ish heal right? Or is it like plus 130% so it’s 2.5K?

Kocoff.7582:

Everywhere on youtube, i find misleading vids like “Berserker Ranger” or “Berserker Engineer” and it’s really annoying.

I was wondering, you guys might the know the popular youtubers who uploaded the Warrior’s elite spec. I am mainly a thief player, and the Daredevil just makes me sad.

Wilsonstorm has gameplay with berserker on his twitch channel. That’s the only gameplay I’ve seen so far.

Osicat is playing almost on a daily basis and we have told him that this will be unstickied if he does not update it. I will tell him again once he’s online to see if he can respond in this thread. Given his dedication to his work and family and his real life I wouldn’t count on HoT to make that much of a change in this thread.

I really liked my DPS medi guard. Recently got back from a bit of a break and warrior has always been my main. Warrior is in a great place but I really can’t find the synergy between traits on my Zerk Medi guard. Conditions is never an option.

KhainPride.3987:

Gamgee.8612:

What’s all this talk of buffing rifle? Rifle/GS got a huge buff with the trait revamp. It’s glorious for duelling with. That said it’s definitely a one-trick pony. I wouldn’t ever use it in group fights, but I have no problem with that. If anything the rifle as a weaponchoice could be re-made entirely. Buffing it si not the answer, it will only make it stronger in the fields it is allready strong.

And rifle is great for group fights, you can pick off necros and ele in the backline because ele’s are usually sustain for a enemy group and necros are their main power at most times.

In group fights I mean <5 man. A warrior is going to do so much more by taking rampage and damage and push the frontline than picking off stuff at the back with a rifle. We tend to fight outnumbered alot and having a rifle warrior is a complete waste of group space compared to a melee warr.

What’s all this talk of buffing rifle? Rifle/GS got a huge buff with the trait revamp. It’s glorious for duelling with. That said it’s definitely a one-trick pony. I wouldn’t ever use it in group fights, but I have no problem with that. If anything the rifle as a weaponchoice could be re-made entirely. Buffing it si not the answer, it will only make it stronger in the fields it is allready strong.

Lol. Very unentertaining as a whole but once you start watching the warriors it’s kind of funny. Like cats trying to catch a laser light but keep getting burned by it.

NvN.4321:

@Gamgee.8612
It’s not supposed to crit. It’s not supposed to tank. Only power. Strength Traitline is used for peak performance.
Read the title , this is for spvp. No food.
The massive damage comes from rampage. I though everyone was aware of that by now. I took distracting strikes only for minor condi pressure.

So what do you suggest its role is? You do not have enough damage to kill anything, and not enough survival to outlast anything. Don’t even try to tell me you think 2.2K power and just white damage is even OK damage. Distracting strikes won’t do kitten for “condi pressure” it’s 200 damage on skill use for 8 seconds. It’s maximum an extra 1k damage if you manage to interrupt somebody and if they don’t clean it off for 8 seconds. Berserker’s power is completely controlled and is applied when you decide it to be and it’s got no upper limit, just 20% of the actual hit. Rampage won’t do enough for this build to work.

P.S I know it’s Spvp that’s why I stated that you won’t use any food.

I think this build is too spread out. It’s really tanky but with those weapons I’d play it like try to pin down and land a combo that hits hard. This build ain’t gonna crit hard or often enough for that. Maybe you play it in a different way. I’d really like to see some footage where all of these trait and sigil choices comes together nicely, but I doubt that’s gonna happen.

Like that entire Strength Traitline wasted on distracting strikes setup when you have 0 condition damage. Or Melandru runes without Dogged March or condition duration food. I would play a much more traditional build. Fair play trying to break out of the meta but that is very hard, not all traits go together.

I have done a 7,5K RD once. 5.5K-6K is not rare. I run full glass from time to time and it might have been on a fully glass thief. Also play in groups as good as 100% of my time so buffs are up there.

Keep it where it is! I think warrior is better than it has been in a very long time!

DresdenAllblack.1249:

Is it Bull’s Charge combined with a hammer 5 with increased condi duration?

Sword F1 mate.

Sword > All

The fine thing about Gw2 pvp is that it never ceases to be difficult. To be the best you have to learn every single skill of every single class and when to evade them and when to land them and how to use them and on top of that when to use them in combo fields and what combo fields they go with and what those combo fields do, and on top of THAT you have to keep track of your cooldowns and endurance, is it worth dropping that now, when is his insert skill off cd again, do I need to save endurance for that? Etc etc. It might be too hard and it has a LONG learning curve. I have recently been away for nearly 5 months but before that I have played quite alot and since beta, and I don’t know half of what some players do and even they learn every single day something new. This for me is a good thing in a game, but sure some might see it as bad.

Zhou.3605:

Lol if nothing less, they need to have about a 20 second use not a 10.

What? It’s got a 20 second cooldown if that is what you mean.

No. If rush was removed, warrior would be absolutely useless in WvW groups. They would die like flies. Guardians mobility and half the dps or the survival.

Warrior was incredibly hard to play at launch sucessfully and the only thing that worked with some luck and/or skill was going full kitten damage and pop everything in one burst and then flee with the greatsword. Our damage has been greatly nerfed but our survival is much better. But it’s on the edge now I think. We can’t take many more nerfs and remain viable.

Ofcourse! I think all of the stuff sounds awesome.

dominik.9721:

Gamgee.8612:

huntroll.1489:

Planning to run this build in WvW for small-scale fights, do you think it would work? What gear do you think would be the most efficient for it? Thinking about Rabid or Dire (Rabid if I run Torment/Earth Sigils, Dire if I won’t), maybe Settler’s or Apothecary’s (though then I wouldn’t really be able to kill anyone) or Celestial for hybrid fun (still need 3 weeks to get all the quartz though).

As I said before in this topic, this has been used pretty much since launch. Settlers or apothecarys would be your best shot for supporting your group. You might not want to take “Fear Me” over “On My Mark” as Fear Me scatters enemies and it’s got double the cooldown of On My Mark. On My Mark is underrated, it gives 10 seconds of vulnrability on target for 15 seconds. You would want Fear Me in PvP to fight at points though, but in WvW you might not want that.

Fear me is far better than on my mark even in wvw. If you hit your pindown followed by fear me some classes like shatter mesmer get instarekt.
Not to mention how easy you can rupt heals with it.

Yeah, unless it’s timed good the rest of the group will miss all of their burst though. He is running it in a group and if you are going to support you want to be able to use the heals at any time. But I agree with you in other aspects.

huntroll.1489:

Planning to run this build in WvW for small-scale fights, do you think it would work? What gear do you think would be the most efficient for it? Thinking about Rabid or Dire (Rabid if I run Torment/Earth Sigils, Dire if I won’t), maybe Settler’s or Apothecary’s (though then I wouldn’t really be able to kill anyone) or Celestial for hybrid fun (still need 3 weeks to get all the quartz though).

As I said before in this topic, this has been used pretty much since launch. Settlers or apothecarys would be your best shot for supporting your group. You might not want to take “Fear Me” over “On My Mark” as Fear Me scatters enemies and it’s got double the cooldown of On My Mark. On My Mark is underrated, it gives 10 seconds of vulnrability on target for 15 seconds. You would want Fear Me in PvP to fight at points though, but in WvW you might not want that.

When PvPers talk about “new” builds, do you mean new for “PvP meta scene” then? As far as I know this build was viable at launch and has been run in WvW since then as a group support build. Not with celestial but both power and condition and hybrids has been used since forever, and it’s been called cheese since idk when.

SuperSpanks.2635:

can someone answer this question for me, can conditions crit? does precision affect conditions is what I’m asking, thanks

Nope. It should have some mechanic to it though, because atm to go full condi damage you really only need 1 stat for the dps, where as you need 3 for power(prec and crit dmg).

I know for a fact that this build works very well for solo roaming and dueling.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJIQNAseRjMdUGahHuewJagfAxYgBnrkZjy3tB-TFTDwA9UihSPQUlEHOCAJOEAPVOgb/hXq/ASTAATcSOBAQeAgSQSBAxYA-w

Your condi removal is less but you want to go with +condi duration for 7-8 second immob on the sword and 5-6 second “Fear Me”. You basically immobilize your target to set up 100b and if the target puts a block up you can quickly tap Fear Me to inteerrupt it(It’s unblockable). Kite around until your combo is up, go in for the kill. It’s a really fun build with a nice hook to it. Good Luck

That extra traitpoint like “am too gud for dis gaem”

Seriously though, I think you’d be much better of with a celestial amulet. You have sword mainhand instead of axe so you want to make use of the bleeds which you have also traited for.. But still zerk amulet? With bow and sword.

There’s basically two standards I’d say. Either mace/x and rifle and unsuspecting foe for killshot reking, making your mace stun last as long as possible with sigils and stuff and baiting stunbreakers. This is good because it has ton’s of single target CC with 3 on mace/shield for example or mace/mace and 1 on rifle, awesome dueling build if you can pull it off. The CD on the combo is really short. Downside is no mobility. Would probably work pretty good in sPvp. You don’t want to use your elite signet as you get 110% crit chance with your rifle volley if you have stunned them. It gives you adrenaline passivly which is what you want. An example:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQNAU5ejMdUGafHWhwJaAlgCVof+tDgDQdWM6PBA-TpBCwAAOCAOuAAVOIA52fIcZAGPAAA

The other would be to make range with GS/rifle. Basically run away and fire your rifle at them. Not much more to it.

Rhaegar.5120:

hello, as it says on the title I used to have a guardian and a war and I’m about to come back to GW2 after the crap experience with archage….what was I thinking!!!
I’m aware that so much stuff has changed: traits being reworked, runes are now different etc.
So i was wondering if someone could be so patient to give me an idea of:
1. How do warriors do in WvW?
2. What are the current meta builds?
3. I used to play a s+s / Bow condition warrior; how are they now?
Many thanks

Warrios do good, allthough there is less of us since the adrenaline nerf(lose all adrenaline on F1 use, doesn’t matter if you land it, it just spends it all. And out of combat it drains right away, it’s gone in 5 seconds so you can’t carry it unto the next fight.)

2. Meta is 6 in defense and 6 in discipline really, the rest 2 points are put where you need them. There’s alternatives.

3. s+s/LB still works good. Both condi and celestial builds.

Kevin.5980:

Well, i didnt really put doylat signet in the build. The 3 utlities i put were berserker stance, endure pain and last balance. Thats why i mention i have 5 stances, tgt with 2 from the triats. Lol. Must have been some bug with the link i post, or i put it wrongly.

I wouldnt use cleansing ire in this build because arching slice and killing shot is pretty unreliable. For example, if i were to use killing shot. I would most probably by sniping far away, where it is unlikely i would receive conditions. Arching slice just isnt that great, since i am mainly camping in rifle.

Yeah, conditions kills me pretty fast. Usually against heavy condi professions, i would use purity + generousity. I might even take away leg specialist for brawler recovery.

I too feel leg specialist is abit redundant. It is only good to provide some sort of cc in range for your team, or prevent other peeps from running.

I tried hoelbrak and melandru both before, both of them provided near same dps tho. With armour attack, i got about 2.1k atk whereas with hoelbrak i too get 2.1k attack. Might stack isnt really that attractive, since only signet of rage provided me with might.

I was thinking if heigthen focus is worth investing, since i dont really use burst skill that often. 15% crit chance with almost as good as a fury, tgt with fury i can get about 80 to 90% crit.

Well, if the enemy gets into my face. Which is usually guardians and theif, i would pop endure pain and use my hundred blades immediatelly, ww and skill4. This would do substantial dmg to them unless they dodge away, which is also pretty much my plan. Then i will use rifle skills to shoot them again lol.

This build in fact works pretty well against ranger on 1v1, since we have healing signet and higher health pool, together with endure pain, i would usually win in the long range battle. This build also work against eng in 1v1. Volley shots are pretty painful when combine with sigil of fire.

Dolyak RUNES are what they’re wondering about. And me too. I’ve thrown together what I run with rifle. Now this is kind of hard to pull off but it works. Also, when talking about 1v1, take air instead of fire. Air does more damage on shorter CD to single targets, where fire does less on a longer cd but it’s an AoE.

93% crit chance with fury and full adrenal bar. Lyssa runes+signet elite on 48 secs and zerk stance for condi removal.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQJAURjMdUFaZIuewJagfgycAMANg63I37iUHBA-TpBFwACOCAx2fAxFAgwhAoaZAAPAAA

A well timed doom sigil can make wonders. But P/S engis can be very hard if not impossible sometimes. It’s one of those classes when you win you have no idea why and when you loose you have no idea why.