Berserker - Gun Flame Backline

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Focused on: Heavy ranged burst damage.

Designed for:

World vs World

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Overview

The Gun Flame Backline is designed to deal insane amounts of unblockable AoE and piercing damage from range.

Skillbar

RifleHealingUtilityElite

Greatsword

• Swap Greatsword for Sword/Shield for better defensive utility.

Utility

• (recommended) for a strong defensive stunbreaker utility.
• for Might stacking and Fury for higher general damage output.
• or for on-demand Stability and stunbreak.

Elite

• for resurrection and party support utility.
• for Might and Fury, selfish option to boost damage output.

Traits

• is used to increase survivability and buff the bonuses gained from . You can take instead to boost the effectiveness of your Greatsword and, in particular, lower the cooldown on and , making you more mobile.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Scholar

9x

Resilient WvW Infusion

3x

Mighty WvW Infusion

Consumables

Food

• cheaper alternative.
• even cheaper alternative.

Utility

• as an alternative if you took instead of .

Usage

• Use to gain full adrenaline. Use if is on cooldown.
• General rotation: > > > > .
• In downtime you can weapon swap to gain adrenaline from and Might from and
  Superior Sigil of Battle

  9

  Superior Sigil of Battle

  Gain 2 stacks of might (20 seconds) when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)
  .
• can be used both offensively and defensively. In general you should use for Vulnerability and save for the evade and rollback unless you need the Immobilize to pick off a single target.
• Dodge roll to proc .
• Use and for mobility to escape or chase.
• Use your Greatsword to pick up
  Superior Sigil of Bloodlust

  Superior Sigil of Bloodlust

  Gain a charge of +10 power each time you kill a foe, five if you kill an enemy player.
  stacks whenever possible.

Counters

• Being out of position and/or not keeping enough distance. You are fairly vulnerable, especially if you didn't take a defensive utility in slot #3.
• Very vunerable against condition spikes.

Notes

• Works very well in combination with 2-3 other Rifle Warriors and a Thief with and . Also works well with an Engineer with .