Guild Wars 2

So, when it comes to thinking builds, I’m probabply not the sharpest tool in the shed. I have had engi as I main since I started to game year ago, and to be honest, everytime I start to read build guides and such I feel utterly lost.

I love my Engi, and dare to say I play him better than any other character I have. Still, I think there is room for improvement. I’m thinking of gettin badges to get him inquest armor one of these days, and I’m building him a ascended pistol right now, and I’m not sure what stats to take. So I thought maybe you guys can help me out to optimize my build a bit, and maybe to learn something new, and maybe help me pick stats to my upcoming asc-pistol (still dragonite ore to grind for that). You can see my current build here:
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=VV;4cPku0i63TFx0;9;5JT-J;105-29B;148-KZ;20-F18ZF18Zu-FcPL;1N_-VOVTWYXcYi3o_9kW9V09;1c1-T70;9;9-Vc-Fi

Mostly I have played so, that I try to protect certain space (usually reach of my healing turret) do a lot of criticals and conditions, and you know, kinda just safeguard a spot, trying to keep enemies off my neck. I’m most of the time with my pistol and shield, but I chance between my kits when ever it feels more efficent. At this point I’m using more flametrower, but I’m kinda attached to my elixirgun too. Rocket turret and supply crate are still my fav skills. I have used asura skill daze at times, and I have considered adding net turret there somewhere. I heard the the med kit is much better than the turret in long run, but I kinda got “scared of it” after first time trying it out and I haven’t picked it since.

I’d love to do more dungeons and WvW content, but in sakes of fellow players, I wanna have decent build too. I need to get a bit more mobile, but since I loose my keys easily, I want the build to be pretty straight forward. So, any suggestions, or do you think this current is okay?

For a “straightforward” build for (dungeon) PvE, you can’t get much easier or effective than a Static-Discharging Power Bomb-‘gineer build, the intricacies of which are outlined here (It’s not my work, but it’s very effective in dungeons):

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/PvE-Dungeon-Speedrun-Zerk-Build/first

Zerker-DPS, blast finishers and fire fields for Might-stacking, and all the usual loveliness that accompanies the stereotypical dungeon PvE meta build these days.

About your build, eh… Turrets are far too underwhelming in PvE content to justify investing that many points in their existence. I wouldn’t do it for PvP or WvW, either, but those are neither my forte’, so I’ll let the more experienced and competitive ‘neers speak to those (I run tanky, almost trollish builds a la Nisha the Medicat for WvW, because I just don’t take it seriously at all, and giving opponents prybars to the face amuses me).

And on the subject of Ascended weapons and Engineers… I wouldn’t be in a hurry to move into one. In PvE, our weapons are mostly just stat-sticks, and the strength of their attack power doesn’t translate to our damaging kits. Those are fixed at the Exotic-equivalent attack power of 929 and don’t scale up with an Ascended weapon equipped. All you get from an Ascended weapon is the additional stats. The final nail in the coffin, in my opinion, is that the Givers’ stats that we love so dearly in PvE (for additional Vulnerability stacking capabilities) aren’t available on Ascended weapons (yet; and possibly never will be). Long story short, don’t worry too terribly much about Ascended weapons for PvE. Exotic Givers’ weapons are amazing for us.