Guild Wars 2

Hit 80, looking to do some fractals, any advice on builds?

Full zerker, 66002, Healing Turret, Grenades, Bomb Kit, Mine.

Can stack might, invis, and it’s the best DPS option for Engis ATM. Just know how to dodge

Dont forget the vuln stacks, engi is really great at stacking vuln, which is especcially useful in fractals, where you cant use FGS efficently…

Artasqweroldy.7458:

Dont forget the vuln stacks, engi is really great at stacking vuln, which is especcially useful in fractals, where you cant use FGS efficently…

Yeah. With grenade barrage, mine field, grenades you can quickly stack lots of vuln, especially with the vuln on crit trait.

Also, the engineer tool belt “Analyze” for the skill “Utility Goggles” will apply 10 stacks to a single target instantly, so that can be useful in some situations.

Heyhey!

Full Zerker, 6/6/0/X/X, depending on situation. Go for vigor if you need it, otherwise go for speed. As for runes use strength, as for sigils there are multiple options like energy, battle, strength, force, just the casual best sigils.

Main Skills are Healing Turret, Grenade Kit, Bomb Kit and the Elixier Gun. Those are the most flexible and best kits the engineer has. Grenades for vuln, bombs for combo fields aswell damage, blind, cc, and the elixier gun for its great utility and blast finisher with an ultra high damage output.

I do not suggest the mine over the elixier gun since:
- its combo finisher takes more time to activate
- the combo finisher has more cd
- the mine explosion displaces enemies (may unstack)
- the mine + its toolbelt deals less damage than the elixier 4 AND has more cd
- missing stun breaker
- missing heal
- missing condi cleanse

Greez!

Xyonon.3987:

Heyhey!

Full Zerker, 6/6/0/X/X, depending on situation. Go for vigor if you need it, otherwise go for speed. As for runes use strength, as for sigils there are multiple options like energy, battle, strength, force, just the casual best sigils.

Main Skills are Healing Turret, Grenade Kit, Bomb Kit and the Elixier Gun. Those are the most flexible and best kits the engineer has. Grenades for vuln, bombs for combo fields aswell damage, blind, cc, and the elixier gun for its great utility and blast finisher with an ultra high damage output.

I do not suggest the mine over the elixier gun since:
- its combo finisher takes more time to activate
- the combo finisher has more cd
- the mine explosion displaces enemies (may unstack)
- the mine + its toolbelt deals less damage than the elixier 4 AND has more cd
- missing stun breaker
- missing heal
- missing condi cleanse

Greez!

Wait mine toolbelt does less damage than elixir 4? Really?

Edit: Just looked up damage coefficients on wiki, seems like you’re right. I never knew! Mine advantage is boon removal, though I may have to reconsider elixir gun because of the utility.

Cool stuff.

Oh and don’t forget (!) you can interrupt your own knock back (or jump back) of elixier gun 4 by swapping weapons. So you won’t waste time in mid, nor will you fall down cliffs.

Xyonon.3987:

Oh and don’t forget (!) you can interrupt your own knock back (or jump back) of elixier gun 4 by swapping weapons. So you won’t waste time in mid, nor will you fall down cliffs.

Ah, I figured it out. You mean by “dropping bundle” rather than switching kit. I never knew!

Yes sry my bad – “dropping bundle” makes it more clear. It’s just the “swap weapon” button.

Mine toolbelt is pretty neat to proc a bunch of static discharges against thrash mobs. But in fractals you may want to take toolkit for the extra block. It’s kinda mandatory for mai trin and pretty nice in most other places. Elixir gun is a dps gain but it’s kinda iffy to use and has 1 useful skill only.

It has 3 useful skills, 4 at single target dps, but k. If you don’t use the EG, you don’t know how great the EG is and therefore you hate it. No proper engi denies the EG.

Also SD builds are semigood, especially in fotm and dungeons. They are ok in open world though.

When you say SD builds you mean builds that take SD and not make it a central part of the spec, right? Like 66002. Cause SD-centric builds are terrible in fotm and dungeons.
Oh it’s the whole elixir gun thing again. Fumigate is situational so I will give you that. So 2 skills. You don’t want more area retaliation than those annoying guardians cause all the time.

when they do you can too, in dangerzones it’s good too, and if you do your buffcombo, just do it a bit aside or enter the fire fields first.