Guild Wars 2

So, I’ve been seeing a lot of these lately, and I’m not so much frustrated, I mean, it’s a good troll build, something engi’s are good at. What I want to know is what’s best to counter them? I play my Bunker Guard, so I’m not expecting to kill anything, and I have no problems surviving it, but even with all the stability, and the might i give my team, it still takes 2-3 of us to kill one engi.

Kaizz.7306:

So, I’ve been seeing a lot of these lately, and I’m not so much frustrated, I mean, it’s a good troll build, something engi’s are good at. What I want to know is what’s best to counter them? I play my Bunker Guard, so I’m not expecting to kill anything, and I have no problems surviving it, but even with all the stability, and the might i give my team, it still takes 2-3 of us to kill one engi.

As a bunker guard, you should have enough stability/blocks and evades to avoid a decap. You’re not supposed to kill the decap engi. Just waste his/her time.

Also, a thief or a solid condi necro are counters to the decap engi.

If you want to counter a decap Engi as a Guard, might I suggest playing a DPS (berserker amulet) Guardian with Hallowed Ground and Stand Your Ground instead of Meditations? You’ll hard counter the decap Engi, but it won’t be as effective for anything else, so I’d recommend to use that only when you know the other team definitely is running one.

Thieves and necros are good for it, condi engies can also melt them pretty quickly, you just have to be sure to load enough conditions on him BEFORE he gets below 25% and he wont be able to cleanse them all in time. Being able to keep a point fully capped while doing this is pretty hard for those classes, so if you want to do both a dps guard with all the stability/blinds/blocks/teleports you can spec for would probably work like the guy above me said. That or maybe even a condi warrior

tons of damage seems to be the only counter,
also stability is obviously a must-have.

I want to ask sorry. I am so sorry that we are so strong but, for defence I want to say decap engi requires hight skill to counter your stability

I meant in general (although thank you for the replies). I know how to bunker and whatnot, it’s hard to get me off a point regardless, since they do, like, 2 damage lol. The condi suggestion is good, I just had a guild mate half raging because it took forever for him and I to kill a few we encountered today. He plays d/d ele, me on a mace/shield+staff bunker guard lol.

Bunkering up is certainly not the way to go, as you WILL get decapped. You have to have a spec that can somehow control or ignore the control of the engie while inflicting tons of damage.

S/D fresh-air ele works well against BAD decap engies (which most of them are), as well as other high-damage burst specs. Otherwise, the only counter is really thieves or outplaying your opponent with a very high stab-uptime warrior (although stab is meaningless if they take mines to strip boons).

The best counter to decap engi are condi necro and ele. For condi necro, just ensure to drop as many condis as possible before they hit the 25% health level.