Guild Wars 2

I noticed many of the posted builds for engineer use superior rune of balthazar rather than krait, yet it seems an engi will inflict bleeding more often than burning. It seems the krait rune is better, am I missing anything?

someone.7485:

I noticed many of the posted builds for engineer use superior rune of balthazar rather than krait, yet it seems an engi will inflict bleeding more often than burning. It seems the krait rune is better, am I missing anything?

The biggest part of your damage, as engineer, comes from burns. Its not a marginal difference either. So adding + duration to you burns is far more benefitial to your overall dmg.

Baltazar engie makes engie kill u with 1x hit of anything + heal every 15s…… Like even on necro with only 3s burn and 25s heal the runes are no joke

But aside blatzar being totaly OP , krait just gives u torment on elite. Warior can use krait cz they lack poison so they get 2 extra condis on low CD elite. Engie elite is usualy the 1v1 party faul of supply crate

A necro complaining about eng… what is this… I don’t even…

Lol you can play without runes or amulets and still win as an engi so why does it matter?

Razor.6392:

Lol you can play without runes or amulets and still win as an engi so why does it matter?

A necro eats engis soul without hitting more as 3 buttons. And you guess engi is strong?

Condition Engi versus condition Necro.
Engi stacks conditions on Necro, Necro stacks conditions on Engi, Necro strips boons with Well Of Corruption and/or Corrupt Boon and sends all conditions back to Engi with Plague Signet for massive lolz.

I’m a Necro and anyone who condition spams me just gets them sent right back and feared to prevent cleanse

Locuz.2651:

someone.7485:

I noticed many of the posted builds for engineer use superior rune of balthazar rather than krait, yet it seems an engi will inflict bleeding more often than burning. It seems the krait rune is better, am I missing anything?

The biggest part of your damage, as engineer, comes from burns. Its not a marginal difference either. So adding + duration to you burns is far more benefitial to your overall dmg.

If you are running just nades and p/s, you do not get the largest part of your damage from burns. There is no burning except for incendiary powder (explosives 9). You have bleeds from pistol 1, shrapnel (explosives 2), and sharpshooter(firefarms, which I chose over speedy kits cause I wanted more vulnerability stacking). If you run p/p and use bombs it would totally be worth it to have extra burn damage.