Guild Wars 2

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I put this build together but have yet to try it due to lack of sufficient testing time thus I wanted to reach out to the community.

The build sits at 3311 defense and an unbuffed 23702 HP. Increased shield skills and 2 shields in the build allow it to be very defensive. FT for tagging and blindness, fire field for might stacking before the fight, cone blow back etc. The Elixir X brings 15 seconds of stability to the build every 105 seconds and coupled with elixir b you can get even more, though I likely would swap that out for rocket boots or elixir s if I had plenty of group stability already. What are your thoughts?

Remember this is for commanding and not to be the spike damage of your blob. A commander who is still alive is always better than a commander who drops 2 people and dies in the first push hence the extremely defensive build.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Commanding-builds

I really don’t like the healing bombs. It doesn’t fit my play style.

seems ok. i’d rather have elixir gun or rocket boots instead of elixir b. and i’d run power wrench over leg mods.

hmm. well…

make sure you group w/ a guardian or 4 at all times so they can donate some stability

besides that, you seem to have the right idea… stack tough/vit and use the protection and damage reduction traits.

what more can we say?

we say “ft doesnt do much, bombs have more utility”, you say “i like ft”. k. meh.

You should replace Lemongrass Poultry Soup with Omnomberry Pie. Dat retal! I go straight 0/0/30/30/10 with FT/EG/Slick Shoes.

Edit: NVM about the pie. You don’t have enough crit chance. Try Mango or Peach Pie instead. That retal proccing on FT will eat you alive.

I have been running FT for months now and haven’t had problems with retal, then again I don’t just flame jet the whole time I rotate my skills and tools so I don’t think retal will be much of a problem. As for Bombs I know they have more utility I just am not a fan of them in a non condi build. I do like the elixir gun as well but the FT brings more to the table IMO.

I will look into the trait flip TY for that.

Tested the suitability today by rushing into a 50+ blob solo. I only popped Elixir X and stood there without attacking. It took them 18 seconds to get me into a down state after I got their attention. I did it again a second time and popped everything as I would normally and was able to get in and out without much trouble. Thanks for the input so far I think it is strong.