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Focused on: Burst damage

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds

Difficulty:
Hard

Overview

Rifle Burst Scrapper is a Power based PvP build for Engineers. This build is very Fast, Strong & Complicated. The build makes use of Rifle Rifle's synergy with Throw Wrench to land deversating ranged bursts capable of one-shotting some of the tankiest builds.


Skill Bar

Rifle
Utility
Elixir Gun
Tool Kit
Elite Mortar Kit

Utility Variants

Heal

  • Med Kit - For quad kit enjoyers. Improves cleanse by a bit, reduced ease of access to water finishers.

Utility

  • Personal Battering Ram - Over Rifle Turret. Less damage & sustain for much more CC. Can be used to CC chain people to death a easily.

Elite

  • Sneak Gyro
  • Elixir X - Greatly reduced max ranged damage, reduced DPS, less sustain and less blind. Greatly improved abiltiy in CC, slightly improved ability in 1v1 and gains Toss Elixir X for team synergy.


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Specializations

Equipment Variants

  • Blast Shield - Increased sustain with damage loss, good for dueling.
  • Rapid Regeneration - Greatly increases sustain. Recommended for newer players.
  • Lock On


Equipment

Rifle
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
Amulet
Relic


Equipment Variants

Rune

  • Rune of Deadeye - Increased sustain while still having respectable damage.
  • Rune of Reaper - Good balance of sustain and damage.
  • Rune of Fighter - Most higher sustain while still maintaining damage

Sigil

  • Sigil of Seperation
  • Sigil of Exposure
  • Sigil of Exploitation
  • Sigil of Battle


Usage

  • This build is for ganking and bursting. It is also capable of 1v1ing lower level, glass or slow enemies.

Full Burst

  • Overcharged Shot > Throw Wrench > Surprise Shot > Blunderbuss > Net Shot > Magnet > Pry Bar > Smack
  • No CC burst: Throw Wrench > Surprise Shot > Glob Shot > Blunderbuss > Pry Bar > Endothermic Shell

Timing these bursts reqiures knowledge and tracking of the targets resources. With time and practice it becomes easier to land the full sequence on players.

Moblity

  • Make use of Streamlined Kits Superspeed and Reverse Acid Bomb but most importantly always cover your tracks with Box of Nails & Endothermic Shell to keep distance.
  • Jump Shot - If stuck in a CC chain remember that this skill now has a frame 1 bufferable dodge. Can take you out of dangerous situations quickly.

Defence

  • Flash Shell - Good when fighting in melee range. Very good VS skills bursts like Rampage
  • Gear Shield
  • Super Elixir + Elixir Shell - 'Second Heal' ~ 4000hp, Very useful when you find spots to stand still in.

Extra Techniques

  • Fumigate - Hits through walls and projectile blocks while triggering Explosive Entrance
  • Orbital Strike & Rifle Turret - Use these skills for it's BLAST finisher over damage. It can be used to AOE provide Heal, Weakness, Cleanse, Chaos Aura & Frost Aura
  • Poison Gas Shell, Fumigate, Acid Bomb & Drop Gunk - Are good for covering downed bodies.
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