Guild Wars 2

Build Name: Electric Terminator

Description: Utilize passive bonuses combined with fury and gadgets to maximize physical damage output while maintaining decent survivabilty

Build Link: http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-X;4cPFn0663UFx0;9;6JJT;407-53-12A;6PedaPedaGokr0;5Vd-i0o1sYzZ3a53-0N-5V5PcW5P;9;9;9;9;9s;3VR-6T

Testing: Bad/Moderate/Good/Amazing
WvW Roaming- Good
WvW Zerging- Moderate
PvE- Not Tested
sPvP-Not Tested

Notes: December balance patch will improve the build quite a lot. The Power shoes buff (the speed increase will always be active), Armor Mods (activates 100% when hit and has a cooldown of 15 seconds. Huge buff to survivability with this build), and transmuted conversion (100% of the time will transfer a condition to a boon that is applied to you, however it has a cd of 15 seconds. Another huge buff to surviveability. Necro try to open with a fear? nope!). While this build won’t be as good as the 3 kit meta build and doesn’t really stand up to the physical dps output of other classes, we are atleast in a position to be decent with it and it offers a different style of gameplay.

Pro Tips-
1. Immobilized/crippled? Not facing your target with rifle to use the #4? Unselect your target, use #4, reselect. Gets rid of the immobilize and can get you out of some stick situations.
2. Toolkit auto attack final hits like a truck. You can crit for 4k+ with it. Good if you’re not getting focused hard
3. Memorize what is up. Going into a fight where you haven’t fought for longer than 15 seconds, the first condition they hit you with will go into a boon. Utilize this wizely. Dodge what you think is important.
4. Use dodges wisely. No more infinite vigor, this means those dodges are insanely important.
5. Don’t be afraid to use your #5 on your rifle as an escape. Combine it with the healing turrets water field to get a small buff to your distance between the enemy and a pretty good quick heal.
6. People aren’t used to your ability to be immune to blinds. Catch them off guard with it, especially thieves.

Cool Idea! You just don’t see a lot of gadget-focused builds out there, which is a bummer. I was tinkering with the build you put up there, and the one thing I like the most about using it (and gadgets in general) are the amount of knock-backs! There is a lot of control here, but I ended up taking Throw Mine instead of Personal Battering Ram, just because it has a shorter cooldown, and removes a boon. I’m really excited for the Dec 10 patch, and this will be the first build I try when it arrives.

I like your build, it’s basically a defensive SD build. But I would take Power Wrench or Adrenal Implant instead of Armor Mods, or put the 10 points in Firearms for more damage.
How good is the burst you do, especially with the untraited rifle?
Rocket Boots is also a good choice (in WvW), it gives you good movement and a strong toolbelt skill.

Gadget focused builds were very popular closer to release. Someone has already posted a build called the Gadgetieer, the inspector gadget build, The tool man build, and the “mechanic”. They were popular originally in sPvP for the CC value.

Actually if you look at most of the build threads with a build name in the past 3 months, pretty much everyone of them is a build posted, named, and used, from a year ago.

@pith I’ve though about using mines. I choose pbr mostly because of its toolbelt skill and the extra CC. I’ve been thinking of doing mines but i need to recheck the CD and dps on it.

@Armin main reason I choose armor mods is becuase i feel like its actually a very good passive skill. RIght now its not as good , but after the buff it can destroy peoples CC. Plus I play norn, so when i do gear shield everyone notices and they dont waste skills. However, many times have i seen people waste good skills on an aegis. I don’t like rocket boots because there are very few classes that it is effective against. With all the leaps, teleports, and charges that other classes get it becomes almost useless. Necros and mesmers are they town it is actually good against for escaping. My DPS is pretty good. My burst combo is immobilize, rifle #3, rifle #5, utility goggles toolbelt, pbr toolbelt, toolkit toolbelt, toolbelt crowbar, rifle #4. It usually takes me 5 or 6 seconds. If I land everything it does usually about 16k+. The skills aren’t on really long CDs either. Its especially good when roaming with others. Chain immobo or stun someone and they can’t negate it. Since I decided to rely on fury, it allows me to up my crit damage and do quite a lot more while taking a bit more vit for survivability in vit. Being an norn engineer with a funky mustache that roams with mostly thieves, it helps a ton. People see me as a red target every time lol.

@coglin ill change the name to something more unique

After doing some testing and what not, the mines would be better over PBR. Although PBR is a very funny skill to use, it requires to be at the same range a mine would be, does same damage as a mine, and knocks back as a mine. However the mine is unblockable, aoe, and can be thrown. This compliments the build much better and is much better for team fights. The toolbelt skill is better too. More damage can be done with the mine toolbelt and it removes one boon per mine. This is again a skill that does many mines around you allowing it to do more dps to a larger portion of people. The toolbelt also allows for a double SD which makes it better in DPS too. Thank you for that suggestion.