Guild Wars 2

Hello gadgeteers!

I’m a little confused about the new update for engineers, as I don’t have enough knowledge about the class to take all the changes in.

I understand they overhauled Explosives and Tools trait lines as well as some changes to how Gadgets work (?).

So I’ve been playing with some variant of the metabattles “Quickness Scrapper”, with durability runes and marauders armor, and want to keep my armor the way it is as I like those runes and setup.

So I was wondering if anyone could be so nice to point out a build for me, as a solo roamer/duo with a thief friend of mine?
And are the new tools traitline worth taking? If so, what trait line should it replace?
I guess Alchemy and Scrapper should be worth taking, as I like how hammer works.
(I’ve also seen people praise rifle, so I’m open to that as well).

Gonna go and tinker a bit with the updates later, but a general pointer would be appreciated <3