Guild Wars 2

It’s probably been about 6 months since I’ve played GW2 and my highest level character is an engineer. I just have some questions. What’s a good build to level my engineer? What’s a good stat priority to have for the build? Do engineers still suck? Thanks in advance! Also any other useful info you can throw at me will be appreciated too!

Engineers never sucked; people just sucked at playing them.
If you sucked 6 months ago your going to suck a kitten ton more right now.
Kitten. Kitten. Kitten.

Engineers have received some huge bugfixes in the last six months, as well as a couple of straight-up buffs. There are still some bugs and issues with build variety (i.e. gadgets and turrets are generally not great) but overall engineers are in a good place.

For leveling, bomb kit is great and so is static discharge (10 in tools). Engineers do well leveling with almost any combination of stats, although for leveling power and toughness/vit are probably your best option. There are dozens of other ways to level, of course.

There are also still people who feel the engineer is completely sub-par. There are also plenty of people who feel the engineer is in a good place. There are also people who enjoy making fun of anyone who says the engineer is sub-par, although our number of locked/deleted threads has gone down recently.

It all depends on whom you ask as to whether they suck or not. As for leveling, you can’t go wrong with a full zerk set of armor, just focus on power and precision, I can’t live without speed so when leveling the first thing I would get is the speed ability when swapping kits. Then I would probably aim at getting the reduced rifle cool down ability in firearms, and then incendiary powder, so with every shot you are basically applying bleeding from the 5 point trait in firearms, and burning damage to kill the mobs faster.

Just my two cents.

Thanks for the help!

Also what weapons do you recommend? I use a pistol and shield combo but I see rifle a lot more…

Rifle’s nice for leveling because power is faster than condition damage for killing things in low levels, plus rifle has great single-target cc for soloing champions or whatever challenges you like tackling. Pistol/shield is a great combination as well, but it will simply feel slow if you’re depending on your main weapons for most of your damage.