Guild Wars 2

Hey there. First let my start out by giving some tips about engineers. There is currently one major problem with engineers, that is certain skills that are required for combos do not work. Most new people have no idea what a combo is. But basically if you look at the tool tip on skills, they will have Combo finisher or Combo field. Each has their own special aspects to them. The wiki will tell you all of them. But for example, the Elementalist is the only one with a Electricity combo field. Now engineers have a few things that should work, but dont currently. One of such is the Big ol bomb of the satchel toolbelt skill. It is supposed to be a combo finisher as blast, but doesn’t work. Another issue is with the flamethrowers blind, it doesn’t create a smoke field. But other skills work. Mines are blast, the reflect projectile release is a blast, the jump shot is a leap, the smoke bomb from the satchel kit is a smoke field, etc. Now you can do a few combos with this. Such as Smoke bomb-> rocket boots. This will cause you to not only fly back, but also turn invisible. By the time you rear appear you can be long gone if you land in the right place. However this will create an Area of Invisi, which means other teammates around you during you escape will go invis. Now you can also do smoke bomb and then leap jump, this will cause only you to turn into invsi. Now it doesn’t last long, about 3 seconds, but it is still useful. Detonating turrents also give a blast. Now i’ve been working with a few different builds and figuring out how to utilize these. One such example is taking the automatic smoke bomb in the last part of the explosives tree. I’ve been trying to use it for WvW using grenades as a kit with rocket boots. So when i get caught, i just automatically release a smokebomb and then i rocket out of there and continue my ranged DPS. From what testing i’ve done, the trait doesn’t work. But I am still unsure because i’ve only used it in WvW and its hard to see if a skill pops or not. Im going to attempt to use it in PvE, ill reply with an update on it. So if we take a look at the combos the engineer can achieve, they can be very good. Now from what I have heard, big ol bomb worked in Beta and was very good. You would set it off and it would give a 10 second area of stealth. But since it is broken and probably nerf, i am not sure the effectiveness of it. Just make sure you test out combos to make sure they work before going on with traits and what not.

Now my second part of this is…

Where do you get the following armor models? I saw them in the PvP locker and have no idea where to get them

So where is
Rascal Armor
Prowler Armor
Drakescale Armor

Thank you for those who help.

With the smoke-bomb from the grenade trait if you use rocket boots to soon on the CC the bomb will spawn after the blast goes off. The bomb spawn is kind of funky. If you get knocked back sometimes it will spawn where you got knocked, sometimes where you land, it is also a short duration with a 60s CD so it’s easy to miss.

With Big O’l Bomb it has a long setup time before it goes off so to use it on the short duration combo fields you have to drop it, wait 1-2 seconds then drop the flame / smoke bomb to get it to trigger.

The #5 on flamethrower is not a combo field ability to my knowledge. Just an AoE blind like the #3 on grenade.

Yeah the Flame and grenade skills are not fields. And i just tested the trait and it works. Just keep in mind with knockback its is where the hit lands. So where you get launched from. So knockbacks will cause it to activate, however the knockback range will push you out of range from it and not allow you to do stealth. So it depends on where you land. I tested it on a target dummy and i sometimes landed right on the line of the AoE and was able to chain the stealth.