Guild Wars 2

i like the class engineer. in pve they are good control. but in pvp i feel useless. turrets don’t see to do enough damage. grenades are a great switch out for kiting but the damage targeting make them less desirable as a means of damage. the flame thrower lacks range but decent damage. bombs are great versus a melee but are useless againist a ranged attacker.

i really just don’t understand how i am supposed to win fights in pvp versus rogues and warriors who can range me and ranges who out dps me in a one on one fight.

i feel pretty useless on the battle field. any tips would be great.

I met one engineer who Really messed with me, Don’t know what his loadout was but he was pumping some pretty heavy damage with his hip shot (I think that’s rifle?).

You can do a lot of burst with rifle if you stack power precision and + crit damage.

If you then do a spec heavy into tools / firearms or heavy into tools and split between explosives and firearms (I like 20 explosives, 20 firearms, and 30 tools) You can get massive burst damage from rifle. You can add in the tool / grenade kit tool belt abilities for nice burst and if you take static discharge you up that burst even more so.

Its not odd with a good crit to do 7k on a grenade barrage if both it and the lightning bolt crits on a soft target.

The only down side to going into the heavy rifle damage spec’s is that your survivability really takes a hit. Even if you trade some dps stats or a few trait points into alchemy you loose a lot of survivability not having shield.

Other profession can opt to have a second weapon devoted to defense but that typically doesn’t work out. You can use tool kit but its rough to use, and you dont really wanna use 2 kits since you need to keep a condition removal / stun break on your bar.

thanks for the advice karast

Bomb kit is incredibly good against warriors/rogues that get on top of you. Smoke bomb prevents them from hitting you, and the other bombs do solid damage.

If you use a rifle, you have plenty of ways to get range. Hip shot also does very solid damage.

something that can really help if your having a bit issue with warriors and thieves, and cc spam in general is putting 10 points into alchemy as well.

You can get the protection injection trait that gives 3s of protection when your CC’d and has a 5s CD. So if they try to spam you with CC you can just about keep 30% damage reduction up.

It will massively increase your survivability if you pair it with the elixir C utility for turning conditions into boons.

10 trait points is not a lot to give up for the extra survivability. It helps a lot if you want to do a more melee spec with bomb kit, rifle, or FT.