Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing this game almost exclusively sPVP, and I’ve tried just about every build I can think of with engineer, and I never feel anywhere near as strong as when I’m playing my thief or mesmer.

Building offensively has, with every weapon and kit, led to encounters where I just get out-damaged by other professions, who also seem to have more survivability. The builds that give me the best damage seem lacking in some major way (Mines too easily kited, grenades too easily dodged, etc)

The only build I’ve found that works is a pure tanky/support build with which I do nothing but stay alive and hope no one thinks of attacking my turrets.

Genuinely wondering if I’m missing a solid playstyle and build that works for engineer pvp. Anyone had any luck?

The best i’ve done is a Rilfeman auto attack crit/grenade kit build. Great critical strikes and using your grenades you can have some good debuffs. The rest aren’t so good. I’m currently doing a tanky flame thrower build just to mess around with people.

I run a “Bomberman” build which generally wrecks shop in sPvP
30 in explosives, 30 in inventions, 10 in alchemy
Grab the larger radius, more bomb dmg and auto smoke bomb out of explosives
The invis, faster run speed and bomb heals out inventions
And auto elixer S out of alchemy

Stack toughness and you find you can get into melee, kill small groups of people, and get back out alive. remember to use your heal before 25% so you can use it again and just run circles around people (literally) dropping bombs like crazy. It looks and feels completely chaotic, but it has some punch to it and you’ll be surprised how survivable you are.

I do fairly well, score highly and win most 1v1s (and the occasional 1v2). The most important thing is to switch kits quickly. It’s really bad to sit in flamethrower, but switching to it for a second so you can launch your opponent is clutch.

Go to Alpha Collectives page on twitch.tv and check their engineer’s build out in the description. It involves having swiftness and vigor up all the time, and its very effective. Been using that build for over 20 games, and I win most 1v1s and survive most 1v2s because of speed and healing capabilities.