Guild Wars 2

Hello !
I’m finally thinking about making ascended armors and weapon for my engineer, and as the price is quite high I’d like to get some advices first.
I’d like to use a 6/0/0/4/4 rifle and grenades build. In pvp I use celestial stats, but I heard it’s never optimal to do so in WvW.
I was thinking about a mix of dire/rabid and maybe vitality/toughness/precision/condition damage stats for my trinkets.
Maybe a giver weapon, but I’m not sure it’s a good idea.
I’d like to use perplexity runes, maybe hoelbrak.
What do you think ?
Thank you !

Depends on playstyle if you wanna classic condi roaming it will be Rabid. Celestial is more for power focused builds where you want also benefit a bit from condis.
Perplex runes arent as good as some ppl think engi can profit much more from Balthazar for example.
Hoelbrak/Strenght/Aristocracy runes are great for mightstacking builds if you go that way dont forget take also might stacking sigils engi can easily maintain 25 stack.
Giver weapons arent neccessary with food, runes and traits you usualy are around condi duration cap in wvw

Welp, it really depends what you want to do in wvw, since there is a lot of stuff that requires pretty different builds…

First off: whoever told you that celestial is not viable for engis in wvw, should crawl in shame under a rock and never dare to come out again.^^

Basically there are 4 things to do, and we have various builds for each.
namely:
- small-scale roaming with a group of maybe 3-5.
- zerg frontliner support
- zerg backliner aoe-spam
- zerg backliner focus

I’ll give you a viable build for each, but keep in mind that small tweaks here and there are always a good idea to get an idea about what you like to do the most, and therefore should focus on.

small scale roaming:
celestial build with focus on condi-overload and sustained pressure on long range:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpErlcx+KseRCbBNqxAqKIyN2xPfgAkUA-T1hIABAcBAQS53a6Aod/B4UCao6P8+AAIEwiFA-w
You can also run it with pistol / shield, but then I’d recommend to switch sitting duck for hair trigger. Personally, I prefer the soft-cc I get from rifle over the reflect / stun / confusion of p/s, but to each his own.

-frontliner support
a cleric healer-build that focuses on as much healing per sec as possible. the build-editor does not get the numbers right with the modifiers from benevolence and monk, but in practice you put around 1k hp/s out to allies.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpPrlcx+KseNiaBF6MuxAIyQmlPGhDA-T1xDABM8AAIUJYlq/80+DXp8DgLAAe6AIDQxYA-w
And again you could switch rifle for p/s, but personally, my kitten got saved by rifle #5 too often to drop it just for another blast, especially since TK already provides a block. Also, play around with TK #5. perfect for dragging eles into the wrath of you train, and if have the nerves to save Elixir S, even when the hammer-train comes after you (you have high toughness and also 73% dmg-reduction while being stunned), then you have the perfect tool to stomp front-liners even in the middle of their train.

-zerg backliner aoe-spam.
I personally don’t like it. Condis get cleared too fast and retal can potentially kill you on this build, but for completion:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqelUUpErlcxdLseRSaBNq0AyQcCRFyP3gA8UA-T1hIABBp8DgTAAgq/MmeAO2fg3HAATKBJEwi1A-w
coated bullets is more a place-holder for the trait of you choice, even tho it can be hilarious from time to time. feel free to take away one point from firearms and get transmute in alchemy instead.
the build is pretty simple:
tk for survivability and deplacement of melee’s to disrupt the zerg, nades for general spamming and shield for the blast-finisher, as well as diving into the zerg with #5 if you spot them without stability.

- zerg backliner focus
now here is where the fun (for me) beginns.
It#s a glass-cannon with a bit of survivability and enough dps to melt any target you choose.
see them stacking? drop their commander.
see a shower-casting ele? ruin his day.
free-casting ranger? show him what ranged pressure means.
but beware, you should really be a sir dodge-a-lot, else this build kills you faster than others.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpkrtdxmKseNCdBN6wMlfCyFUhPGgbC-T1BFABC8AAQS5Xa6AqZ/BAuAAFq+zVKBJFge6qA-w
Drag people with tk #5 out of their zerg / backline, overload them with prybar + s/d + blunderbus, stomp them, rinse and repeat.
for convienece you have increased crit-chance on range, so feel free to spam your AA right into their zerg as long as you want. You’ll get numbers between 2-2.8k, depending on their toughness.

Knight’s gear. I use it with Pack Runes for both my SD gank squad/power roam build as well as my power backliner nade build.