Guild Wars 2

I’m trying various things with the engineer to come up with something that I feel works well for spvp. I tinkered with some builds that fit more of roaming play style and have had some success neutralizing points and getting some kills but it could be done better with other professions since I avoided going all out glass cannon but engies are kind of stuck taking the damage rather than avoiding it so there wasn’t much choice… at least from what I could tell.

anyway…

I’m trying to make a bunker engineer and am wondering if anyone has had success with this. I runed for toughness and either increase protection duration or grant protection (can’t remember which) along with the bomb kit, rams head, and elixir b. I don’t remember my traits exactly but it’s along the lines of alchemy and toughness with traits that give protection and the power one to increase explosion radius. Unfortunately the weapon skills aren’t really bunker oriented :/

Does this sound reasonable for bunker engi or is it worth showing the whole build to get it critiqued?

Guardians will probably scoff at a bunker engi but it seemed worth a shot and reasonably doable.

I made some changes last night while doing tourneys and overall I’d say it was successful. Who would have thought :p

Not that I can help much but it may help others to see you build

Bunker engis can be viable in TPvP and can be a real pain to deal with. With that being said, compared to most bunker alternatives they are somewhat “selfish” in the sense that they don’t really provide valuable buffs to teammates.

That’s true. There is bit of helpfulness with toss elixirs like elixir r, h, and maybe c but nothing to write home about. The smoke bomb combo field could be helpful to allies and maybe using healing turret for the heal skill would help with support.

Bunker builds are definitely one of the most viable Engineer builds currently, considering our burst/mobility doesn’t quite match thief/warrior, and our support doesn’t quite match guardian (at least in some regards).

Try 20 explosives, 30 firearms, 20 alchemy. Pick up bomb radius, bomb 20% cooldown in explosives, pistol/rifle range, swiftness on crits, juggernaut in firearms, protection injection and vigor on swiftness in alchemy. Runes of Melandru, Rabid amulet.

Healing Turret, Flamethrower, Bomb Kit, Elixir R, Supply Crate. Pistol/Shield, sigils of earth and corruption.

If you sit on the point with your FT out, you’ll start every engagement at 6 stacks of might. With your explosive traits, you can drop bombs that cover the entire point and really punish anyone trying to cap/neutralize it. Smoke Bomb has a reduced cooldown as well. Between flamethrower airblast, big ol bomb, and magnetic inversion, you have lots of ways of knocking people off point. Elixir R is a solid stunbreak and Toss Elixir R is a great way to resurrect yourself to keep the fight going.

Whenever you crit, you gain swiftness and vigor, giving you tons of dodging power, which negates damage and also drops more bombs.

Pretty fun build, very viable.

post the build. If you’re just looking for a tanky engi build, I’ve made one that I believe surpasses any in terms of survivability while still dealing decent damage.