The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Strike damage, Mobility and Sustain
Designed for: WvW Roaming
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds Secrets of the Obscure builds Janthir Wilds builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on July 16, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
A high damage Berserker build for WvW roaming that's putting the Rifle buffs to good use. This build goes for a more balanced approach instead of the one-shot route, packing enough sustain to win longer fights too.
战士 (Warrior)
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Utility
Viable choices for the optional slot:
裂岩怒击 - mostly taken for the adrenaline building aspect, but it also has projectile-reflect, 
稳固 and some ranged damage.
"为了正义！" - improves your damage and most importantly your 
激怒 uptime. Allows you to focus less on finding Fury sources when it comes to traits and relics, opening those slots up for other things.
威能纹章 - unblockable attacks and passive damage boost.
牦牛纹章 - adds another stunbreak to the build, also provides passive damage mitigation and extra healing + 稳固 access.
Heal
鲜血清算 - this is another great skill for adrenaline building and one that can even reset your burst skills. It's an offensive option, and your condi cleansing becomes way worse. While this skill can make you win fights faster, doing so almost becomes a necessity as you won't be able to keep up with your opponents in longer fights, especially if they're playing a condition build.Variants
剔除弱者 could give you more damage and add a new source of mitigation to the build, but it's worse against ranged builds as you have to sacrifice the other trait which makes 
圣盾 not pop when it's hit by projectiles. You also lose the reflect.Variants
混斗复元 if you're having trouble dealing with conditions.Variants
Food options
- passive damage mitigation and great stats.
- extra Precision and armor ignoring damage procs that also heal you. It's cheap too.
Utility
Elite specialization mechanics
Berserker grants Warriors acceess to (F2), a mode during which they gain new burst skills.
To Enter Berserker mode you must have full adrenaline (30/30). The Berserking burst skills (Rifle) and (Mace) become available during this time frame, these cost 10 adrenaline (which amounts to 1 regular adrenaline bar, 1/3 of the cost of what it took to enter Berserker mode).
and are both important adrenaline management tools. They're especially useful for getting back to full adrenaline just before recharges so you don't have to waste time building adrenaline while Berserker mode is available. Even in Berserker mode they are useful, allowing you to quickly fill up the adrenaline bar for back-to-back burst combos.
General
Both the initial cast and the landing strike of restore adrenaline, so try to land on top of enemies. This skill is also a great gap closer / disengage tool if you don't care about the adrenaline.
restores 5 adrenaline on weapon-swap. This is quite useful when you're just a little short of having enough adrenaline to use burst skills, especially if you're having difficulty building adrenaline.
is mainly taken for its passive, but you could also use this as a setup for one final burst if you feel like you could get the kill with all the extra .
You can double tap Mace's to cancel the block in exchange for instant adrenaline gain.
Blocking an attack reflects projectiles. This is especially useful when it comes to your sources like or because anything you reflect doesn't consume the Aegis! Meaning that Aegis can now block more than 1 attack as long as it's a projectile. Against projectile users you might want to be extra careful with aiming mobility skills so that you always stay at range and avoid getting hit by things that aren't projectiles for as long as possible.
Stats
Runes
makes the same tradeoff as Berserker gear in terms of having lower crit chance but higher burst potential.
has slightly lower damage, but keeps your crit chance high and boosts the uptime of important boons.
Sigils
Sigil of Blood can be replaced by:
- makes your Rifle bursts crit after weapon swap, making it easier to play a low-crit version of the build.
- adds some on-swap burst damage + snare.
Relics
- lowers your burst damage but adds another source to the build for better consistency. Worth considering when you're not playing or .
- gets around the problem of low Fury uptime in a different way, improving the consistency of your hard hitting skills, but ONLY single-strike ones.
- great source of extra damage. The build has plenty of movement skills that proc this frequently, but you may want to get some extra Fury uptime through other means (or pick a rune with higher Precision).
isn't just a CC skill, it also restores 1 ammo for every other skill on Rifle. This works both defensively and offensively, for example recharging when you're out of dodges can give you an evasion, or recharging might give you enough damage to finish a fight.
Damage
is your most important skill.
is a great followup to Gun Flame, quickly delivering another packet of damage.
works as a setup skill for Gun Flame, applying after the evade frame.
is more of a filler. Great damage, but the cast time drags it down quite a bit. Your CCs are better spent setting up something else.
On the Mace/Pistol set, carries the damage. can also be quite dangerous especially at full charges.
Survival
Mace/Pistol has quite a few defensive skills - is a channeled block, is an ammo skill that grants , there's for CC and barrier and even for another CC.
While Rifle is mostly an offensive weapon, the evade frame on is quite a powerful defensive tool. It also has multiple charges and can be recharged by .
Both entering and leaving grant you powerful defensive buffs, making this an important part of your sustain:
Don't hesitate to cut Berserker mode short with Eternal Champion (F2) if you're taking too much damage.
Dodge rolling applies which is great against builds with a lot of and spam, allowing you to land important skills without having to worry about the attack missing or glancing.
provides a steady stream of cleansing in combat.
Always factor in what other cleansing CDs are available before you'd heal with as this is your best mass cleanse. If the answer is none and you heal with no conditions on you in a condition matchup, you might get killed a few seconds later due to the lack of cleansing. Sometimes it's worth holding onto for a few extra seconds just to be safe.
