Open World RIFLE Berserker is actually better than I expected...

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In anticipation of the new ability to wield spears on lands in the upcoming Janthir Wilds expansion, I wanted to try other ranged builds on professions that often lack a solid ranged option. One such option would be the Rifle on Warriors, which has been neglected by far too long. Both by the players themselves, but even more so by ArenaNet!
It turns out you can comfortably hit 14k dps on a golem while effortlessly surviving the moderately threatening damage field, and maintain around 12k DPS on actual open world enemies, including Legendary Bounties!
I was a bit taken aback by these numbers, as I expected the DPS to be far worse and the sustainability to suffer. Instead, we now have an extremely casual build that deals good solo damage and will make you near immortal at times.
00:00 Intro
00:26 Traits
02:00 Healing, Utility, Elite skills
02:43 Gear & Stats
03:44 Playstyle
04:14 Outro
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@phandrel 29 күн бұрын

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@didoma73 29 күн бұрын

thanks, how do you recommend dealing with large group of mobs with this build?

@phandrel 28 күн бұрын

Rifle 1 and 2 pierce, and your primal burst and rifle 3 (cone behind) will hit multiple enemies. I've been trying to mainly line up mobs, and then of course hit Primal Burst on cooldown, which also helps take care of those that are clumped up.

@gabrielpelegrini6135 29 күн бұрын

That's pretty cool, thanks!

@phandrel 29 күн бұрын

Hope you'll enjoy as much as I did! I was kinda caught off guard by Rifle's damage.

@PetrSzturc 29 күн бұрын

Someone actually made similar rifle berserker into oneshot build in wvw, not sure if it is still viable.

@phandrel 28 күн бұрын

Oh interesting. I remember one of those builds from back when only Core GW2 existed, but haven't seen many of them around myself. Granted, I don't wvw that much.

@Wisznuification 28 күн бұрын

I love thwe idea but... why is the game designed in the way that we have to fight with our RANGED characters in MELEE range

@phandrel 28 күн бұрын

it's been like this since the early days, sadly. I discovered that a ranged playstyle was no good when I went into my first dungeon. Anet has been doubling down on the approach ever since (by limiting boon range).

@UnboundJoy 28 күн бұрын

@@phandrelboon range is the reason this will probably never happen :( self buffing just sacrifices so much damage as you often lose out on damage multipliers from traits. It just forces you to stack together even with a range weapon. A lot of people get turned off when they realise they are at a massive disadvantage because they aren’t stacked on the group, since they want to play a traditional caster or sit back with their bow.

@fredericbrasseur7399 28 күн бұрын

I miss the time you could turn Rifle into a hybrid condi/power weapon, bleeding ennemies and applying confusion with distracting strike! ^^'

@phandrel 28 күн бұрын

That'd carve out a lovely niche for rifle with the upcoming spear, actually. Thay way we could either combine it with spear for power or longbow for condi.

@Jyotishjyo 29 күн бұрын

Yo thanks my warrior was sitting idle

@phandrel 29 күн бұрын

Hope you'll like it!

@Jyotishjyo 29 күн бұрын

@@phandrel I love it, I just recently crafted predator so that's a plus 😍

@zoroking09 29 күн бұрын

Warrior video let's go nice 😊

@phandrel 29 күн бұрын

This should hold us over until the Spear beta, and then the expansion release :D

@ryuzakikazeshini4012 29 күн бұрын

warrior spear being ranged makes no sense...anet could've just buffed rifle instead to make power rifle zerker up to par with other power specs

@phandrel 29 күн бұрын

I believe it's more of a fan service thing due to Paragons being so popular in GW1.

@mrxatissimo3937 29 күн бұрын

Time to dust off my Warrior. Never got into this class, but this build seems right up my alley.

@phandrel 29 күн бұрын

This one's definitely very nice for some chill open world action, at least until we finally get our spears :D

@Thaldrion 29 күн бұрын

playing this over one year now.. pretty op dmg.. things just melt Don’t know why everyone says that Warrior Rifle is bad.

@phandrel 29 күн бұрын

I hadn't given warrior rifle the light of day either for the past few years. I feel like that was so unwarranted. Goes to show that sometimes it pays off veering off the beaten path.

@dallassukerkin6878 29 күн бұрын

@@phandrel :grins: I shall have to check mine against this one to see how it compares. I have played my Warrior with Rifle for a couple of years but only as a swap weapon when I need to maintain range for a bit.

@phandrel 28 күн бұрын

@@dallassukerkin6878 It definitely has its strengths up close as well! That rifle 2 skill absolutely demolishes open world enemies, though, both range and melee :D

@frostdracohardstyle 28 күн бұрын

Because it is bad. Any warrior using good weapons is doing tripple this damage with similar levels of sustain, and no projectiles to deal with or awkward positioning.

@zyankaly 28 күн бұрын

@@frostdracohardstyle tripple the damage self buffed? Do you have a build link? My highest warrior does only 5k more damage. so I'm interested

@_zargholl 28 күн бұрын

edit: the title was changed to not be pure clickbait anymore But okay, so what's overpowered about this build again? I did not catch that in the video. It looks like it's straight up worse in every single concievable way than any of the other warrior OW build variants. It's got uhhh right the burst is higher range than not kneeling deadeye ok i'm sold.