Guild Wars 2

So, thief is kittened up everywhere pretty much, I was thinking if I should swap my ascended armor to Viper’s and use them on my engi, am I fine if I can’t do dps rotations well?

Should I focus on important skills like Blowtorch, Static Shot, Incendiary Ammo, Napalm, Fire Bomb, Concussion Bomb(?), Shrapnel Grenade and some other skills from Mortar Kit?

On phone, I’m sure someone else will give you a better description.

Depends how much the target moves, as I find flamethrower 4 hard to land.

That being said, the ones to keep on cool down are roughly:
Ft toolbelt skill
Ft #4
Blowtorch
Fire bomb
10000 grenades toolbelt skill
Nade 5
Nade 2
Pistol #2

Fill gaps with Nade 1

Fully buffed (25 might, 25 vuln and warrior banners) skill priority for a condi engy should look like this:

Incendiary Ammo – infinite
Blowtorch – 37900
Napalm – 27500
Fire Bomb – 24900
Shrapnel Grenade – 21300
Grenade Barrage – 15900
Poison Grenade – 14200
Concussion Bomb – 11900
Poison Gas Mortar – 10200
Static Shot – 9100
Poison Dart Volley – 8200
Big Ol’ Bomb – 8000
Freeze Grenade – 6800
Detonate Flame Blast – 6500
Grenade – 5300

The numbers are the approximate damage per cast time not counting sigils or procs other than shrapnel.

You can see that there is a pretty big dropoff after shrapnel grenade and then a steady decline after that.

The procs add somewhere in the neighborhood of 5k additonal DPS on top of those numbers.

Hey, since I’m in the same spot as the OP (main thief and looking for an exit) maybe you guys can help me out with this questions:

1). for the encounters where the target moves often, should FT be replace by what?
2). what are the wisest break bar disruption skills? (racials included)
3). how come Concussion Bomb is so high? Is Confusion that good for PvE?

Thank you

Use the skills with most damage as often as you can. Right now there is no longer a proper rotation, thx to alacrity :P Now the only thing that counts is the inner clock that remembers every cd on every kit.

Xyonon.3987:

Use the skills with most damage as often as you can. Right now there is no longer a proper rotation, thx to alacrity :P Now the only thing that counts is the inner clock that remembers every cd on every kit.

Even before alacrity, the Rotation was only a theoretical one.

As long as you prioritize all the burns and grenade 2, you should be fine.

lorddarkflare.9186:

Xyonon.3987:

Use the skills with most damage as often as you can. Right now there is no longer a proper rotation, thx to alacrity :P Now the only thing that counts is the inner clock that remembers every cd on every kit.

Even before alacrity, the Rotation was only a theoretical one.

As long as you prioritize all the burns and grenade 2, you should be fine.

^this. It’s not realistic to keep up a set rotation in raids anyways due to all the movement, but watch engis in kill videos and you’ll see a lot of them downing bosses without using anything close to a rotation.