Guild Wars 2

Another exciting build……i wanted to make a build that focused as much on offensive as possible (without the cheese of perplexity) and that involved getting maximum condition damage without the need for stacking might, basically a build that is always ready to go balls deep, im running 2 builds which shouldn’t be hard to tell apart, the first was great for solo roaming it offered alot of mobility options and great sustain while hitting really hard, the second build (nades) offered great damage and worked alot better in a team.

First Build:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.5q.h1j.a.5q.h1n.0.0.0|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1q.718.1q.718.1q.718.1q.718.1q.718.1q.718|1q.62.1q.62.1q.62.1q.62.1q.62.1b.62|a5.u47c.0.k15.a6|30.d|0.0.0.0.0|e

Second Build:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.5q.h1j.a.5q.h1n.0.0.0|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1q.718.1q.718.1q.718.1q.718.1q.718.1q.718|1q.62.1q.62.1q.62.1q.62.1q.62.1b.62|u58b.0.a6.k15.a6|30.d|0.0.0.0.0|e

Luv it! Engine is definitely the coolest class in the game. Well played!

Any particular reason why to avoid Might?:-)

Rozbuska.5263:

Any particular reason why to avoid Might?:-)

No reason in particular, while might stacking can give you a very hard hitting attack I feele in solo roaming it forces you to spend less time on the offensive which can be particular bad versus certain professions there’s also the factor of other classes that can steal or remove you boons the moment you apply then wasting a lot of time and utilities, there’s also the factor that you could waste it the wrong time, in saying that might stacking builds are great especially for team play, and every build has its place I feel mine is more universal for solo roaming.

My next build I’m plannning on working on is actually heavy on the might stacking but I’m waiting to see what the new balance patch will bring before I look into it to much

You can use non hgh build for might stack actualy with sigil of battle/noble runes/enhanced performance (and Juggernaut if you want perma 25 stacks) its matter of one swap and you still can pick any utility you want:-) You can reach 3k condi damage that way.
Boon steal build arent now so popular so you will be fine and you can apply those boons every 10s.

I literally run the same exact build, how do you manage to take down good mesmers?
i’m having so much trouble with them

I use a very similar build, I’m glad to see someone using Coated Bullets. I know it’s not the greatest, and I know it only affects 2 skills, but I just really like it. I love the life steal, reminds me of a vampirism build I made a long time ago that frustrated the heck out of opponents. I may try to make a modern reproduction of that now. I may also try to modify your build for P/S as I just love that combo.

Elixir Gun + Rocket Boots = very good in combat mobility topped only by Thieves/Mesmers IMO.

I really like the “always ready” idea. It’s cool that you can stack Might and get sigil stacks up to crazy amounts of damage, but I like being able to play my build to the fullest at any given moment like you do here. Thanks for the video!

Does the rune have a cooldown for the 4-set bonus that you know of? Also can you confirm that your stats match the builder and Sigil of Bursting is increasing your condition damage by 6% and not just 6?

I use similar Build the bomb kit instead of the Elixiergun and run with P/S and use Backpack Regenerator or Acidic Coating.

Oh I’m definitely going to give this a go.

EmoxiHaX.1726:

I literally run the same exact build, how do you manage to take down good mesmers?
i’m having so much trouble with them

a good mesmer is always going to be a real pain in the kitten to take down and there’s a good chance you wont be able to beat them at all, but when it comes to fighting mesmer’s its all about applying those conditions when you can and as much as you can since they have limited condition removal but alot of mobility as well as the ability to avoid damage all together with invulnerability and using his clones as meat shields, coated bullets is very handy for this since you can shoot threw his clones still apply those bleeds, now that isn’t the biggest amount of damage but it still apply’s pressure on the mesmer, this is where blow torch becomes very handy it hits in a fairly large cone and gets the burning damage on the mesmer and any clones hes kiting behind and burning with a few bleed stacks takes out clones really fast which helps avoid them shattering on you as much as they want.

another thing that is very handy about taking duel pistols apart from nailing clones with burning is glue shot, when you are out of dodges or anything else you can easily plant that on clones and watch them pop out of range but accomplishing something like that all comes down to your own placement making sure you can immobilize as many as possible, but nothing is going to beat sheer experience so i recommend finding a good mesmer who is willing to duel you forever.

@ Adamantium.3682
i havnt really used coated bullets that much until now since i wanted to apply loads of pressure and it really helps with that when your fighting multiple opponents or around npc’s, yea that life steal is great and the 4# on the runes has a 10 second cd it works great with healing turret and elixir gun, use the turret then EG #4 for the blast finisher and then some one always walks into the puddle, the damage of that puddle isn’t much but it does add a fair bit of extra damage with the leeching and keeps you out of harms way which in a long battle really shines, as for rocket boots and EG #4 you throw in a magnet with that and there’s literally nothing that can get away from you lol

Rozbuska.5263
that is very effective, but if your like myself you don’t have easy access to runes of the noble and imo the combination of traits/sigils/runes that you need to take to achieve that puts you in a very delicate position that gives you alot of counters, which isnt so bad since alot of players lack the level of skill needed to counter you so like i said this build is much more universal in its use then running a might stacking build for solo roaming, but might builds on an engineer do hit like a ton of bricks and defiantly something everyone should have a look at.

My only “critique” about this build is that it lacks a reliable stomp. W/ FT, u can smoke field before stomp. W/ Elixir S, u can toolbelt or pop it and guarantee the stomp. But there were a few stomps here that were missed cause u got interrupted. All that hard work would have to be redone to down the person again.

Alkaholic.3875:

My only “critique” about this build is that it lacks a reliable stomp. W/ FT, u can smoke field before stomp. W/ Elixir S, u can toolbelt or pop it and guarantee the stomp. But there were a few stomps here that were missed cause u got interrupted. All that hard work would have to be redone to down the person again.

I agree, though he did have pretty good use of Acid Bomb to finish off a downed person a couple times. FT or Elixir S would be preferable, but I don’t see a way to get either of those in, all 3 utilities in this build seem to be mandatory. Can’t have it all!

True dat, that’s why I put “critique” in quotes cause I have the same issue too. I can’t fit rocket boots in my build but I want it.

I like to Acid Bomb a downed person too, or Napalm. Anytime someone is going to stand in place, I punish them with those skills. It’s somewhat effective against golems too.

Nice video and build. My only suggestion would be make things a bit easier on yourself and get a stacking weapon set. Switch out once your stacks are built.

Alkaholic.3875:

True dat, that’s why I put “critique” in quotes cause I have the same issue too. I can’t fit rocket boots in my build but I want it.

Yea it gets really annoying not having a reliable stomping method and I tyred to make use of the pistol #3 blind for stomping, I did think about flamer but I felt the block from TK was just to handy to pass up.

Also I do have stacking weapons (I have a ridiculous amount of gear I’ll show yas some time) but I cant help but feel like I’m going to die the moment I get 25 stacks lol, it’s literally my black cat.

I played around with this, but using the unclassified+Rabid ascended trinkets and Rampager weapons. It got me up to 33% crit with about 1800 condition damage, keeping pretty much all of the defensive stats. It was fun and the rare times I found myself 1v1 against non perplexity runes I did great.

I love that this build is something fun and effective without being cheesy. The problem is no one else plays like this. During my 2 hours roaming tonight every warrior I ran into was a mace stun locker with perplexity runes, and every Engineer had perplexity runes. Every. Single. One. Not one of either profession I saw did something different, and yes there were quite a few different ones. Conservatively that was 75% of all the fights I had. Sigh.

I try so hard to get into WvW but this is why I just can’t do it consistently. I don’t know how you guys who roam for thousands of kills do it, I really don’t. Kudos.