Guild Wars 2

Hello guys I am putting together a FT build as to me it’s the coolest weapon in the game. And the coolest weapon should have it’s own build.

So I need to know what’s the best armour to use for it.
My traits are
0/30/0/30/10
I’m guessing that is correct.

Also what trinkets.
Thanks.

I will direct you here.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/72009-a-comprehensive-look-at-the-flamethrower-and-elixir-gun/

This player is the most dedicated FT player I know. A lot of good info in it.

Personally I am a fan of the 0/25/0/20/25 build with celestial gear, but that’s just me.

Flamethrower is a Power weapon, thus you mainly want gear that increases your Power, Precision and Crit Damage.
Thus full Berserker or Soldier armor and Berserker trinkets are your best bets.

Don’t get Celestial gear unless you never ever intend to get another gear set ever again.

Why is celestial that good or that bad. I’m now working on celestial set

celestial gear has its uses but i’m not a fan. run full zerk with the 0/25/0/20/25 build

jknrich.1549:

Why is celestial that good or that bad. I’m now working on celestial set

Celestial gear is “good” because it gives every possible stat, which means you can run every build with it somewhat well. Alternative gear clusters your inventory, you forget it in your bank, or you forget to equip it; with Celestial gear all this doesn’t happen.
Celestial gear is bad because gear suited to the build you’re currently running will give you greater benefits.

Celestial gear is potentially the best gear. Because If you want to use FT. You will be doing condi damage.
You will probably want to have P/S with it so you can have 2 runes. Rifle is a bad choice as the damage doesn’t really transfer well. Also You get to keep shield armour bonus.

The hybrid FT build is best in my opinion. good crit damage, good power damage, reasonably high crit meaning proc builds are good for FT.

The benefits of Celestial gear is pretty much, You have everything. You won’t get destroyed, so you can do a lot of damage, won’t get one shot and you have some nice control.

Heres is my build for it:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqelspSXn1yuF17ICoHA2dNiiU8YN2HFs1DC-jgCBYjBkEBgKAM5rIasFhBpMMs1hRTTDWVbIqqbYSBExCA-e

It works like an HGH build, You use your heal offensively and defensively. You get buffs from others as well as your self so you never waste might stacks.
And finally you have a lot of things you can switch out.

Its really a jack of all trades with great survivability and you can almost sub anything you want.

It takes ages to get it though.

jknrich.1549:

It takes ages to get it though.

While youre working on celestial, i think soldiers would be a good replacement.

I wear Celestial in world events. The extra Healing Power helps to keep the Pact alive at Balthazar, and the gunners at Tequatl. When I play with the FT in WvW, I also wear it there (though in WvW I am currently using Perplexity while they’re still good with the Bomb/Tool combo).

For actual dungeons though, I think Berserker is ideal. Rune choice is usually Altruism or Scholar, though some still use 2 Hoelbrak/2 Fire/2 Strength for +60% Might Duration. Regardless of what you use, just remember that the majority of your damage will be coming from Flame Blast and not burning, so stack Power and not Condition Damage.

FreekPalmer.2839:

Celestial gear is potentially the best gear. Because If you want to use FT. You will be doing condi damage.
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No, actually. Power is better for FT.

Phineas Poe.3018:

…just remember that the majority of your damage will be coming from Flame Blast and not burning, so stack Power and not Condition Damage.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fcEQJAqelIqyaX3y3F17IxYGdmzgZU37KSR+bMA-jQCBYLChEEgEFIUGAJPFRjtMsIasqHYqSER1eDFRrGA-e

My build atm works great in all content Ive ran it in WvW aswell and havnt had a problem yet roaming at all so thats a + right there aslong as you know how to dodge build should work with little to no issues at all + you have perma vigor so ^^ dodge it up.

Seras.5702:

FreekPalmer.2839:

Celestial gear is potentially the best gear. Because If you want to use FT. You will be doing condi damage.
…

No, actually. Power is better for FT.

Power may be most beneficial, but that is no argument for discounting the condition damage all together.

coglin.1867:

Seras.5702:

FreekPalmer.2839:

Celestial gear is potentially the best gear. Because If you want to use FT. You will be doing condi damage.
…

No, actually. Power is better for FT.

Power may be most beneficial, but that is no argument for discounting the condition damage all together.

FT+condition build= never ever.. ever.. FT is a purely based Power weapon if u even try to use that in a condition build all together tbh there is better kits out there would be 50x better. Sure FT has that 1 burning condition but thats just a feature of the weapon kit that gives it a bit more oomph and pep in its step thats it. So its safe to say that going full zerker or atleast soldier gears and zerker trinkets are your best bet. Celestial is good if u can get it that is.

Rampager’s gear says you do not know what your talking about.

Celestial gear raises an eye brow.

coglin.1867:

Rampager’s gear says you do not know what your talking about.

Celestial gear raises an eye brow.

maybe ull want to read again. like ive said if u can get celestial gears not alot of people put alot of time into this game in order to obtain them so i never said they was good or bad im just saying if u can get it and as to rampagers its a good set yet i wouldnt ever use it in an FT/elixer gun build mostly because ull loose out on alot of crit damage sure u gain condi damage which increases the burn from the FT skills but its not worth the damage u would loose. so yea.. if i were to use rampagers i would use it in a grenade/bomb build not an FT one.

Lordryux.9785:

coglin.1867:

Rampager’s gear says you do not know what your talking about.

Celestial gear raises an eye brow.

maybe ull want to read again. like ive said if u can get celestial gears not alot of people put alot of time into this game in order to obtain them so i never said they was good or bad im just saying if u can get it and as to rampagers its a good set yet i wouldnt ever use it in an FT/elixer gun build mostly because ull loose out on alot of crit damage sure u gain condi damage which increases the burn from the FT skills but its not worth the damage u would loose. so yea.. if i were to use rampagers i would use it in a grenade/bomb build not an FT one.

I feel celestial gear thrives with the FT. As well, there is not need to start every post with everyone who disagrees with you as “maybe ull want to read again.”

Burning scales rather badly with condition damage, and besides Burning a FT Engineer hardly ever gets above 4 stacks of Bleeding unless he uses condition duration food, Sigil of Earth or the like. That means each point of Condition Damage increases your damage by 0.45.
Not sure if the values in the wiki are correct but according to it every damage skill of the Flamethrower scales better with Power than that.

No one is suggesting any FT skill doesn’t scale better with power, your the only one mentioning that. I simply said not to discount the added benefit of condition damage for burns and bleeds.

It is as if you two are arguing that condition damage has no effect on bleeds and burns simply because the skills scale better with power.

The direction you two are taking it, has nothing to do with what I said in my post. Are you two simply trying to be unnecessarily confrontational?

Sure, +condition damage stats will help FT. That’s obvious. Every stat will help. But to intentionally sacrifice power for condition damage is a very bad decision whenusing the FT. It has 1 condition…that doesn’t stack intensity. And while you’ll probably proc a couple bleeds, it’s not enough to warrant gearing for condition damage. The point of burning on the FT is to a) boost the damage to burning foes, making it more complex than just spray & pray and b) as a fire field to stack might. Nobody will stand in that giant field.

Obvously, you can gear for whatever you want. But if someone is asking specifically what gear to get for FT, answering with condition-based gear is bad information.

Seras.5702:

Sure, +condition damage stats will help FT. That’s obvious. Every stat will help. But to intentionally sacrifice power for condition damage is a very bad decision whenusing the FT. It has 1 condition…that doesn’t stack intensity. And while you’ll probably proc a couple bleeds, it’s not enough to warrant gearing for condition damage. The point of burning on the FT is to a) boost the damage to burning foes, making it more complex than just spray & pray and b) as a fire field to stack might. Nobody will stand in that giant field.

Obvously, you can gear for whatever you want. But if someone is asking specifically what gear to get for FT, answering with condition-based gear is bad information.

this^

Is basically what i mean sorry if i wasnt clear on that but yea everything he said im not saying condi is bad or anything but the OP asked what would be good for FT and imo it would definitly be Power can go with celestial/zerker/soldiers.