Guild Wars 2

I read somewhere someone wrote that Pistols on engineer isn’t affected by Power…

I myself have used Carrion gear for my Engineer build with two Pistols and Bombs, I realy like it and it feels like power does a differens but maby I should aim to switch power for something else if that is true.

What they were most likely referring to is that a weapon’s damage isn’t factored in to your attack rating when using kits (bombs, grenades, flamethrower, elixer gun) on the engineer. Stats on the weapon like power, precision, crit, etc, are still used. Also, weapon sigils and defense from carrying a shield is still used.

No. What they were most likely referring to is that pistols are a condition weapon set, where as rifle for example is a power weapon.

Compare Explosive Shot [P#1] to Hip Shot [R#1] with damage coefficients of 0.35 and 0.65 respectively.

For a P/P build you should only be using Carrion if you can’t get Rabid (with maybe a dash of Rampager to get your crit up).

What Sagramor said.

Literally, pistols are affected by power. However their power ratios (i.e.: the actual damage they get per point of power) is miserable. They scale much better with condition damage.

Your bomb kit, on the other hand, does scale nicely with power. So you’ll notice a difference there more so than on the pistols.

In addition Bomb Kit #1 has a damage coefficient of 1.19 so it scales very well with Power. The thing is Bomb Kit is best paired with P/S for the blast finisher on Shield #4 to make use of the 2 fields Bomb Kit provides. I don’t find using P/S with a power setup that bad since Pistol #2 and #3 are great just for the debuffs, and the WvW/PvP scaling on Confusion is just terrible.

Thank you for responses.

I like experementing with builds so it is good to know that power is not totaly useless with pistols

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Thank you for responses.

I like experementing with builds so it is good to know that power is not totaly useless with pistols

They’re not totally useless, but I’d use Pistol/Shield over dual Pistols for a power setup. Especially if using Bomb Kit. You’ll get a lot more bang for your buck.

Sagramor.7395:

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Thank you for responses.

I like experementing with builds so it is good to know that power is not totaly useless with pistols

They’re not totally useless, but I’d use Pistol/Shield over dual Pistols for a power setup. Especially if using Bomb Kit. You’ll get a lot more bang for your buck.

Yea I have made myself a shield now and trying it out ^^ thank you.

I very rarely use my pistol skills (use P/S) with my Eng. Too many other good damage options in the kits.

I only ever use kits. I would never even notice if I didn’t have a normal weapon set equipped at all. Does power affect my kit attacks?

Pistol/Shield has amazing utility between poison, bouncing blind, reflect/AE knockback/blast, block/stun/daze/projectile.

And yes power affects kit attacks the same as other stats do. As I said Bomb Kit #1 has a 1.19 power coefficient.

Originally weapon stats did not affect kits, but as of early this year they do and all kits have a base attack of 969 I believe. I could be off on the number, but that’s what’s sticking out in my head.