Power Rifle Bladesworn Roaming Build

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Role: Assassin

The Power Rifle Bladesworn is a warrior build for WvW roaming with high cooldown reduction due to the Lush Forest trait which provides a feedback loop of recharging skills when using the first charge of ammunition skills. The Rifle skills have great sustained damage from range, and with the high amounts of might generated can pressure targets in between your Gunblade bursts.

Rather than taking the unblockable trait, using the Daring Dragon trait allows you to gain might and fury more quickly when only charging the Dragon Slash for a short amount of time, which is preferable in fast-paced situations where you need to maintain good positioning. The Dragon Slash Reach (3) is also unblockable at a baseline and allows you to stay distant from your target, so this is the preferred burst skill on this build.

Due to the Tactics trait Leg Specialist, you immobilize enemies when crippling them on a 12 second cooldown. This turns the Rifle 3 into a great combo starter because it cripples and immobilizes, then counts as an explosion which grants the Bladesworn buff Guns and Glory for extra critical damage.

Use your Rifle 5 to reload your Rifle ammo or Tactical Reload to recharge your Gunblade skills after using one of each so you maximize how much cooldown reduction you get, but also so you can repeat them right after. This keeps your rotation flowing, but you can run out of resources if you must use skills earlier than their max recharge. Adapt to the situation whether you can play for value or need instant impact.

Opening Burst

• Rifle 4 > 3 + “For Great Justice!” > 2 > 5 > 3 > 4 > 2
• F1 > F2 (Enter Dragon Trigger) > 4 > 5 > 3
• Gunblade 4 > 2 > 3 > 5 > Tactical Reload > 2 > 4 > 5 > 3 > F1 (Rifle)

If you can, swap to Gunblade before entering the Dragon Trigger (F2) to reduce the cooldown for swapping to rifle. While waiting for your next combo, keep dodging, using the Heal skill, and Gunblade 5 to maintain boon uptimes, then swap to Rifle and begin the opening combo. Use Tactical Reload when you can get value out of recharging most of your cooldowns, but don’t wait too long to use it since it has a relatively low cooldown and you want to keep wait to use your cooldowns when they are at maximum ammunition otherwise they don’t provide the Lush Forest cooldown benefits.

Alternatives

• Relic: for more damage but less sustain

Alternatives

• Strength: for more damage but less sustain
• Tactics: for more might sharing when in groups

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