Guild Wars 2

Hi guys/gals I wanted to take the time to tell you about the “Boon Spiking Engineer”

So what does the build comprise of?
Gear
-First off, the armor/weapons layout needs to be either Knights or Soldiers. Soldiers in my opinion would be better just for the extra tank.
>Runes: (4) Superior Runes of Altruism for the might & 15% boon duration (2) Superior Runes of the Water for the 15% boon duration

-Weapons: P/S of with Superior Sigil of Restoration/Battle (your going to be swapping ALOT)

Now here’s the fun part! Turrets blast finishing for 3 stacks of might a blast with 5 blast finishers for 18 stacks of might and 21 stacks for you personally (unless the zerg steals your boon stacks, it happens in large groups……that’s ok anyways, that’s what we want.

Your utilities are:
-Healing Turret (gives 6 stacks of might with talents/rune of altruism)
-Rifle Turret (really quick cooldown)
-Thumper Turret (has a longer cooldown, but the pushback & blast is really nice in WvW zerg vs zerg
-BOMB KIT BABY!!!!!! (The tooltip creates a blast finisher as well) Also the #2 allows burning aoe to to blast finish for your might stacks.

Now for the skills, this can really be changed depending on your play style, but I like a little bit of tank. Currently I’m running 10/00/20/30/10.

Talent Points selections are:
Explosives: III
Inventions: VI & VII
Alchemy: I, IV, XII
Tools: VI

Results:
18 Stacks of might generated for the party/zerg by yourself on offensive boon spikes and can really stack AoE healing/retaliation on defensive stacks. After the boon spiking your off charging into the zerg bombing away and when your blast finishers are ready detonating them in the zerg for boons and damage. In all honesty I’ve never seen so many bags of loot and badges I’ve gotten through all this boon spiking & bombing. Also in all honesty conditions really haven’t been a problem either so don’t fret about not having condition removal.

Like to give a special thanks to Mask for giving me the idea from his Boon Duration
build (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/New-build-new-wvw-movie/first#post1482621), really gave me some ideas for helping the zerg out.

Enjoy!

Bumping so people can give it a try.

You have so much blast finishers but only 1 fire aoe. How can you use those turrets effectively? Unless you mean pop a fire aoe, drop 3 turrets, then explode them at the same time when fire bomb pops?

The order is:
Swap to bomb kit
Healing turret
Rifle Turret
Thumper turret
Big old bomb
Skill 2 Fire AoE from bomb kit.
Detonate turrets
Thumpers tool belt

Also if your in a zerg and the leader calls boon spike elementalists fire fields are up most of the time anyway

nice combo abuse man!

I just wanted to add that I think you could get 1 more blast finisher out of it with the thumpers overcharge. Tooltip doesn’t say its blast finisher but wiki has a note about it, would need to test.
Also this could be adaptable to different builds by swapping the rifle turret to E-gun now that acid bomb is blast finisher this would give you a little bit of condition removal, or even rocket boots for a stun break.

Ya man if you got ideas/builds post them. I love to see some variations.

Acid bomb form elixer gun has a very quick cd for a blast finisher. Mine does as well. If you’re only using the turrets for blast finishers, you should use either or both of these.

Just as an update, cool downs on blast finishers are much shorter through the tool belt cool downs being reduced. Plus you can quickly use turret and detonate them. Big buff for this build.

Or just roll a staff guardian and press 4.

Bonus: You are not completely useless after that.

Guardian is pretty polished I will agree. Just want to help those that don’t have one. However, the engineer can stack 18 aoe/party might for 40-50 seconds vs 12;stacks of might for 8-16 seconds