Guild Wars 2

Well, for starters I’ve had my engineer at 80 since the second day of early access and I’ve been kind of winging my builds from then. As of right now my current build is dual wielding pistols, with Elixir, h, b, and u. With battering ram and crate. I’d like for the expert engineers here to review this build personally and I’d like to see some outlook. Or even point me towards an even bigger damage dealing build. Because at this point in the game I’m finishing world explorer and aiming towards my legendary weapons more and more every day. That being said I don’t want to get the legendary pistol and then have to /facepalm due to the fact that rifles hit harder, or vice versa. I’m talking PVE wise guys just to let you all know, I’m confident in my PVP build (rifle stunlock with bomb kit).

I appreciate your feedback in advance all of you.

I have also included a picture of what my stats currently look like as of today.

For a sturdy PvE damage build, you could always go with 10/20/0/10/30.
Take Explosive Powder, Hair Trigger, Rifle Mod, Invigorating speed, Speedy Kits, Static Dscharge, and Power Wrench, with Med Kit, Tool Kit, Utility Goggles OR Battering ram, and rifle turret. Supply crate, for your ultimate, obviously.

It’s (arguably) the best dps build that an Engineer has, with berserker gear.
The entire focus of the build is to crit often and hard, and Static Discharge helps alot with that. The utilities might seem a bit weird, but this is because of their Tool Belt skills. They either have the lowest cooldown to trigger Static Discharge, or they’re good in general to have as a “utility” utility.

I’d recommend posting up what your traits look like as well so we can help you.

Captain Swag.5893:

For a sturdy PvE damage build, you could always go with 10/20/0/10/30.
Take Explosive Powder, Hair Trigger, Rifle Mod, Invigorating speed, Speedy Kits, Static Dscharge, and Power Wrench, with Med Kit, Tool Kit, Utility Goggles OR Battering ram, and rifle turret. Supply crate, for your ultimate, obviously.

It’s (arguably) the best dps build that an Engineer has, with berserker gear.
The entire focus of the build is to crit often and hard, and Static Discharge helps alot with that. The utilities might seem a bit weird, but this is because of their Tool Belt skills. They either have the lowest cooldown to trigger Static Discharge, or they’re good in general to have as a “utility” utility.

I’m going to have to attempt your setup that you’re giving me here, but from what you’re saying is that rifle is the best damage dealer? It feels as if it’s better burst, but less sustain as dual pistols has a LOT of sustain compared to rifle.

Yes, it is a “burst” build, but the whole focus of the build is low cooldown times. It’s not like, “everything at once and you’re useless for a long time”.
And generally, in PvE everything dies fast enough for burst to be more helpful than sustain.
Another good thing is that it wont get hit by the upcoming Boon hate as hard as others will.

Stay away from condition damage. If you want to use conditions, invest in duration.

Ah, thanks for the info. I’ll be making the switch to rifle now.

Feel free to add me ingame if you’ve got any questions. I’d be more than happy to answer.

AlietteFaye.7316:

I’d recommend posting up what your traits look like as well so we can help you.

Here’s my traits.

Falenn.5932:

AlietteFaye.7316:

I’d recommend posting up what your traits look like as well so we can help you.

Here’s my traits.

Are you looking to do absolute maximum DPS? If so, I have to recommend going with a Grenade build.

AlietteFaye.7316:

Falenn.5932:

AlietteFaye.7316:

I’d recommend posting up what your traits look like as well so we can help you.

Here’s my traits.

Are you looking to do absolute maximum DPS? If so, I have to recommend going with a Grenade build.

I’m aiming to maximize my dps, yes. I’ve went grenade before but it was bland and it was a pain hitting moving targets. I’m aiming for something more single target with huge dps.

Falenn.5932:

AlietteFaye.7316:

Falenn.5932:

AlietteFaye.7316:

I’d recommend posting up what your traits look like as well so we can help you.

Here’s my traits.

Are you looking to do absolute maximum DPS? If so, I have to recommend going with a Grenade build.

I’m aiming to maximize my dps, yes. I’ve went grenade before but it was bland and it was a pain hitting moving targets. I’m aiming for something more single target with huge dps.

Grenades is maximum single target DPS, I’m afraid. There is nothing that can compare to them, sadly. It is bland, and hitting moving targets is a bit more difficult, but in general (at least for PvE) moving targets aren’t something you face very often.

AlietteFaye.7316:

Falenn.5932:

AlietteFaye.7316:

Falenn.5932:

AlietteFaye.7316:

I’d recommend posting up what your traits look like as well so we can help you.

Here’s my traits.

Are you looking to do absolute maximum DPS? If so, I have to recommend going with a Grenade build.

I’m aiming to maximize my dps, yes. I’ve went grenade before but it was bland and it was a pain hitting moving targets. I’m aiming for something more single target with huge dps.

Grenades is maximum single target DPS, I’m afraid. There is nothing that can compare to them, sadly. It is bland, and hitting moving targets is a bit more difficult, but in general (at least for PvE) moving targets aren’t something you face very often.

I see. What about that rifle build that was reccomended above? I’m trying it out as of right now before I have to resort going back to grenades.. hah.

Falenn.5932:

AlietteFaye.7316:

Falenn.5932:

AlietteFaye.7316:

Falenn.5932:

AlietteFaye.7316:

I’d recommend posting up what your traits look like as well so we can help you.

Here’s my traits.

Are you looking to do absolute maximum DPS? If so, I have to recommend going with a Grenade build.

I’m aiming to maximize my dps, yes. I’ve went grenade before but it was bland and it was a pain hitting moving targets. I’m aiming for something more single target with huge dps.

Grenades is maximum single target DPS, I’m afraid. There is nothing that can compare to them, sadly. It is bland, and hitting moving targets is a bit more difficult, but in general (at least for PvE) moving targets aren’t something you face very often.

I see. What about that rifle build that was reccomended above? I’m trying it out as of right now before I have to resort going back to grenades.. hah.

The one recommended above isn’t a bad build by any means, but it is certainly much more about the burst damage every 15s or so. In between all that is damage from your Rifle attacks, most of which do their best damage at terrible ranges. Not only that, but Grenades will definitely beat out the damage from this build.

To be honest with you, I run a SD/Grenades build. It has burst potential along with the perks of using Grenades for sustained damage.

AlietteFaye.7316:

Falenn.5932:

AlietteFaye.7316:

Falenn.5932:

AlietteFaye.7316:

Falenn.5932:

AlietteFaye.7316:

I’d recommend posting up what your traits look like as well so we can help you.

Here’s my traits.

Are you looking to do absolute maximum DPS? If so, I have to recommend going with a Grenade build.

I’m aiming to maximize my dps, yes. I’ve went grenade before but it was bland and it was a pain hitting moving targets. I’m aiming for something more single target with huge dps.

Grenades is maximum single target DPS, I’m afraid. There is nothing that can compare to them, sadly. It is bland, and hitting moving targets is a bit more difficult, but in general (at least for PvE) moving targets aren’t something you face very often.

I see. What about that rifle build that was reccomended above? I’m trying it out as of right now before I have to resort going back to grenades.. hah.

The one recommended above isn’t a bad build by any means, but it is certainly much more about the burst damage every 15s or so. In between all that is damage from your Rifle attacks, most of which do their best damage at terrible ranges. Not only that, but Grenades will definitely beat out the damage from this build.

To be honest with you, I run a SD/Grenades build. It has burst potential along with the perks of using Grenades for sustained damage.

Could you refer me towards your traits if you don’t mind?

Falenn.5932:

AlietteFaye.7316:

Falenn.5932:

AlietteFaye.7316:

Falenn.5932:

AlietteFaye.7316:

Falenn.5932:

AlietteFaye.7316:

I’d recommend posting up what your traits look like as well so we can help you.

Here’s my traits.

Are you looking to do absolute maximum DPS? If so, I have to recommend going with a Grenade build.

I’m aiming to maximize my dps, yes. I’ve went grenade before but it was bland and it was a pain hitting moving targets. I’m aiming for something more single target with huge dps.

Grenades is maximum single target DPS, I’m afraid. There is nothing that can compare to them, sadly. It is bland, and hitting moving targets is a bit more difficult, but in general (at least for PvE) moving targets aren’t something you face very often.

I see. What about that rifle build that was reccomended above? I’m trying it out as of right now before I have to resort going back to grenades.. hah.

The one recommended above isn’t a bad build by any means, but it is certainly much more about the burst damage every 15s or so. In between all that is damage from your Rifle attacks, most of which do their best damage at terrible ranges. Not only that, but Grenades will definitely beat out the damage from this build.

To be honest with you, I run a SD/Grenades build. It has burst potential along with the perks of using Grenades for sustained damage.

Could you refer me towards your traits if you don’t mind?

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2|4.1c.h2|0.0.0.0.0.0|1g.71c.1g.71c.1g.71c.1g.71c.1g.71c.1g.b1c|2s.0.2u.0.1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.8g.67|u27b.k45.0.0.k26|0.0|e

I’m not completely optimized anymore, though. I used to run full Berserker’s (now I just mostly do WvW so I’ve got a few different pieces). On top of that, it’s my personal belief that it’s better to spend 10 points less in the Precision tree and to put it into Crit Damage.

Something more like this:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|4.1c.h2|0.0.0.0.0.0|1g.71c.1g.71c.1g.71c.1g.71c.1g.71c.1g.b1c|2s.0.2u.0.1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.8g.67|u27b.a5.0.0.u26c|0.0|0.0.0.0.0|e

And of course my Runes have been stuck in that gear for far too long, etc. But you get the idea.

Thank you aliette. You’re the best. Have a great evening!

Falenn.5932:

Thank you aliette. You’re the best. Have a great evening!

You’re welcome. Feel free to add me in-game if you need any more help, and if you want, follow me on Twitch. Thanks!