Guild Wars 2

I’ll keep this one short and sweet, since my usual long-winded posts get crickets chirping as a response.

First and foremost, I know we are not the best bunkers in the game, but for those of you still looking for a viable tPvP bunker build here’s an alternative option to the usual bomb build variants. The name of the game, rather than bomb heals and regen, is to stay on point and avoid taking damage altogether by timing frequent dodges with shield moves.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-VRw;0B-Z-Vh0s53Ukw0;9;6JTJ;406-19057-Pw0;3OZG5OZG59cO

This build has an entirely different playstyle than the typical bunker builds, but to save time and space here if anyone is interested, send a message and I’ll explain how to use it. It’s really focused very heavily on timing out your CDs for maximum avoidance, and applying confusion whenever possible in between. It’s only weakness that I’ve seen thusfar is heavy lockdown. The main downfall of this build is that while avoidance is nice, 2-3 well coordinated players can still bring it down quickly due to the lack of regen and protection, but 1v1 it should last near permanently against almost any profession, and 2v1 it does well enough to buy your team some valuable time.

Save your Elixir X (yes, Elixir X) to take back a point if you happen to stray off of it enough for the other team to capture or neutralize it, or when joining into the fray of a large team fight to send the enemy scattering about or to lockdown a player for your team’s burst to do away with quickly. The reduced CD on this makes it a quite nice addition since this build lacks a little of the CC other bunker builds we have offer.

This is effectively the Tankcat/Medicat build. I love it in WvW (I don’t PvP much).

Eviator.9746:

This is effectively the Tankcat/Medicat build. I love it in WvW (I don’t PvP much).

I see there are some similarities, now that you mention it, so to clarify why you don’t take Self-Regulating Defenses or Cloaking Device (which are in the tankcat build) outside of WvW… stealth/shrink loses you the point, and the entire purpose of this build from a tPvP perspective is to stay on point the entire time and keep control of it vs. our other bunker options that allow us to more effectively CC our enemy from the point.

Also, tankcat build is a bit more susceptible to conditions, which a bunker has to have a plan of defense for in tPvP. But tankcat remains a pretty viable and fun WvW build from what I can tell.

However, much like the tankcat build, you can also bring along a rifle and soldier amulet/gem and get a bit more CC and knockback without sacrificing too much defense.

aydenunited.5729:

First and foremost, I know we are not the best bunkers in the game

Engineer’s ability to be good bunkers died with the nerf that stopped us from being able to heal under Elixir S

Meanwhile bunker Ele’s still can still get healing in mist form…