Guild Wars 2

Lately, with all the viable builds, and what works and what doesn’t, I’m having a really tough time trying to keep excited about my engineer.

I’ve swapped it up so many times now but something just doesn’t feel right about it anymore. I’ve done Grenades, Bomb, Flame Thrower, and to a lesser extent Elixir Gun to death.

I’ve played rifle but I’m simply not a fan of just blowing CDs for the burst and killing people based on that alone. Elixir builds feel the same with with exception to using them as support and not a main stay of the spec (IE blowing the CD every time its up to score massive burst on a target).

I’ve taken up the tool kit recently and its actually a lot of fun but, its only very good in 1v1 situations. I like to play the entirety of my Engineer, and flip through different abilities, manage cool downs, and get the fullest out of each of my tools/kits/weapons.

Staying in one kit or playing mostly in one kit has become so dull for me. Grenades and Bombs do this to a lesser extent, but if you’re playing Flame Thrower or Elixir kit I often find you must stay in these kits the longest to see their effectiveness.

I could use suggestions on what to play, I’m sort of looking for an all around build to be honest. My two favorite weapons are by far the Pistol + Shield combo and the Tool kit for its CC/Confusion.

Beyond this I haven’t really found anything that can take these two abilities in the same build and round it out by making it effective in sPvP or WvWvW without relying on Grenades or Bombs.

It is too bad only a few of our tool kits create conditional effects on targets, I’d really like to use them more but they’re pretty much strictly + power gadgets (exception rocket boots tool belt). I’m starting to wonder if I should just go a Hybrid build Power/Condition to circumvent this problem and try to grab as much toughness and vitality as I can. The only problem with this though is the stats layout and spreading myself too thin.

I’ve looked at turrets a bit but they feel a bit clunky. Net turret is pretty kitten good though considering that it deals with both melee and ranged well on a 1v1 basis (stun net), so its possible to throw that in, yet that leaves one spot left for a condition removing effect (potion) which means the spec is now only good for 1v1.

Help me brain storm a bit, I need all your kitten ingenuity combined with our greatest minds to try and throw a new hybrid build together that uses a pistol + shield, tool kit, and whatever else we can scrounge out of our kitten in a rag tag but effective all around build that may not excel at one thing, but allows a good player flexibility and a high return based on the skill at which they play.

Our goals are to achieve a build that has good survivability, decent damage, and most of all requires a high amount of micromanagement and nimble fingers to keep us interested and on our feet.

Let’s do this kitten, engineers.

First of all, my introduction to the GW2 forums is the first time I see this strange “kitten” lingo, can anyone tell me what that’s all about? Is it geografical? Is it WoW lingo? Are you all from Springfield and middle name Flanders? I can’t take anything seriously when it’s written like this…

Baro.3549:

First of all, my introduction to the GW2 forums is the first time I see this strange “kitten” lingo, can anyone tell me what that’s all about? Is it geografical? Is it WoW lingo? Are you all from Springfield and middle name Flanders? I can’t take anything seriously when it’s written like this…

rofl….type a swear word in this and post it. Then read what it says instead of your swear word. Hope this helps.

i’m not sure, but, what i do is:

pistol + shiled
elixir H
bomb kit
elixir gun
grenade kit/elixir S (and B? whichever one has the rez on the toolbelt)
supply drop

i’m always swapping around kits.

i’d use tool kit, tbh, if i could have the “1” ability always auto-attack. turning it on manually each time is a PITA. the support it has is great.

i plan on switching out elixir H for healing turret when all the god kitten bugs get fixed with it.

I just stumbled across this vid , its a bit outdated but it could be quite decent with some polishing. Maybe it will help as an inspiration.

I felt the stale as well until I finally found a build that suits me .
Im running rifle build 0/30/0/10/30 with plenty of mobility and CC. And I use Knight’s gear with power/precision/toughness so I can take a punch as well.