Guild Wars 2

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Alright so purpose: Solo Roam / Small-Group play in WvW.

Thought/Idea behind the build: Sustain/Outlast my opponent, have enough crit chance/damage, as well as attack to apply respectable DPS w/o going overboard/glass. Enough toughness/armor and vitality to survive surprise bursts to then turn the tables on my attacker.

Please thoughts on this, for personal reasons, my reaction time isn’t what it used to be, and I tend to fat-finger things, resulting in missed opportunities.

It’s pretty much the standard hammer/scrapper build, with small variations in the armor stats. Is there a reason you aren’t using leadership runes?

When I roam, I personally use the rifle, because hammer is easily kited by ranged classes and every class with an escape ability (read: every class that is not called “engineer”). With rifle I can keep reliable pressure on enemies near and far.

scorekeeper.6524:

It’s pretty much the standard hammer/scrapper build, with small variations in the armor stats. Is there a reason you aren’t using leadership runes?

When I roam, I personally use the rifle, because hammer is easily kited by ranged classes and every class with an escape ability (read: every class that is not called “engineer”). With rifle I can keep reliable pressure on enemies near and far.

I use, Durability Runes, for the Prot/Regen and added Toughness mostly, are Leadership Runes better? I do notice that I get kited, hard, when using Hammer, but have always seen/read or heard, so much hate for our rifle skills, that I am kinda, “Put-off” on using it, although I liked it when I was leveling, do you find good success in it, and how would you change the build, drop scrapper and pick up Firearms?

Odokuro.5049:

and how would you change the build, drop scrapper and pick up Firearms?

Sure, if you wanna severely cripple your small scale capabilities.

Outside of pure max condi dmg engie, scrapper traitline and skills is the only viable thing for WvW. Yes of course you can use rifle if you want, but as a weapon it’s mediocre. I would only recommend it if you are good with your kit swapping cause the only way you’re gonna win fights is sustain and clever tactics… and for that I dont think your gear is tanky enough.

Dawdler.8521:

Odokuro.5049:

and how would you change the build, drop scrapper and pick up Firearms?

Sure, if you wanna severely cripple your small scale capabilities.

Outside of pure max condi dmg engie, scrapper traitline and skills is the only viable thing for WvW. Yes of course you can use rifle if you want, but as a weapon it’s mediocre. I would only recommend it if you are good with your kit swapping cause the only way you’re gonna win fights is sustain and clever tactics… and for that I dont think your gear is tanky enough.

What would be considered, “Tanky Enough”, should I get a certain amount of Toughness? Maybe Scrapper isn’t my thing, because I’m all for sustain/tanky, but I also don’t want to take far far longer to down someone, ect.

Odokuro.5049:

scorekeeper.6524:

It’s pretty much the standard hammer/scrapper build, with small variations in the armor stats. Is there a reason you aren’t using leadership runes?

When I roam, I personally use the rifle, because hammer is easily kited by ranged classes and every class with an escape ability (read: every class that is not called “engineer”). With rifle I can keep reliable pressure on enemies near and far.

I use, Durability Runes, for the Prot/Regen and added Toughness mostly, are Leadership Runes better? I do notice that I get kited, hard, when using Hammer, but have always seen/read or heard, so much hate for our rifle skills, that I am kinda, “Put-off” on using it, although I liked it when I was leveling, do you find good success in it, and how would you change the build, drop scrapper and pick up Firearms?

Leadership gives more boon duration. Durability runes are fine though, the toughness and resistance share is nice, imo. While I believe there are problems with the rifle, it’s still our only consistent ranged weapon for power builds, and in wvw where many classes have the ability to kite and port around, rifle, imo, performs okay and sometimes better than hammer. If I am in a zerg I will run hammer, but solo or with a couple of people I use rifle. The trick with rifle is to know when your opponent cant dodge your abilities. Jump shot is actually pretty powerful if you land it, I’ve crit for 7k before.

The firearms line really is for the Condi build. I would never drop scrapper line in wvw or spvp. Engi really is pigeonholed into taking scrapper and alchemy lines in these game modes, which is unfortunate since we are supposed to be a versatile class. In my rifle build I use the same traitlines as your build, alchemy, inventions, scrapper. My utilities vary, depending on how I feel like playing.

Odokuro.5049:

Dawdler.8521:

Odokuro.5049:

and how would you change the build, drop scrapper and pick up Firearms?

Sure, if you wanna severely cripple your small scale capabilities.

Outside of pure max condi dmg engie, scrapper traitline and skills is the only viable thing for WvW. Yes of course you can use rifle if you want, but as a weapon it’s mediocre. I would only recommend it if you are good with your kit swapping cause the only way you’re gonna win fights is sustain and clever tactics… and for that I dont think your gear is tanky enough.

What would be considered, “Tanky Enough”, should I get a certain amount of Toughness? Maybe Scrapper isn’t my thing, because I’m all for sustain/tanky, but I also don’t want to take far far longer to down someone, ect.

I can live with 2700 toughness myself, it just depends on your comfort. I run knights gear, a mix of trinkets (zerk, marauder, knights), zerk rifle and it suits me okay. I am at 17k health which is kind of low.

scorekeeper.6524:

Odokuro.5049:

Dawdler.8521:

Odokuro.5049:

and how would you change the build, drop scrapper and pick up Firearms?

Sure, if you wanna severely cripple your small scale capabilities.

Outside of pure max condi dmg engie, scrapper traitline and skills is the only viable thing for WvW. Yes of course you can use rifle if you want, but as a weapon it’s mediocre. I would only recommend it if you are good with your kit swapping cause the only way you’re gonna win fights is sustain and clever tactics… and for that I dont think your gear is tanky enough.

What would be considered, “Tanky Enough”, should I get a certain amount of Toughness? Maybe Scrapper isn’t my thing, because I’m all for sustain/tanky, but I also don’t want to take far far longer to down someone, ect.

I can live with 2700 toughness myself, it just depends on your comfort. I run knights gear, a mix of trinkets (zerk, marauder, knights), zerk rifle and it suits me okay. I am at 17k health which is kind of low.

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Would something like this work out? I mean it looks solid to me, but I’m no build expert.

Odokuro.5049:

Would something like this work out? I mean it looks solid to me, but I’m no build expert.

Don’t go over 100% on boon duration- there is an in game cap at 100%, anything above is wasted stats. Other than that, yeah it looks fine.

WvW is really about your personal playstyle- what works for 1 person may not for another. And it even differs b/w classes. For example, I play a staff thief, all zerker in WvW. 14k health, and I do just fine because thief has so many evades and escapes. That’s a death sentence for an engi though, since we have 1, maybe 2 mediocre escapes, thus we need toughness and a little bit of vit to help us tank and sustain fights.

Odokuro.5049:

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Alright so purpose: Solo Roam / Small-Group play in WvW.

Thought/Idea behind the build: Sustain/Outlast my opponent, have enough crit chance/damage, as well as attack to apply respectable DPS w/o going overboard/glass. Enough toughness/armor and vitality to survive surprise bursts to then turn the tables on my attacker.

Please thoughts on this, for personal reasons, my reaction time isn’t what it used to be, and I tend to fat-finger things, resulting in missed opportunities.

I’d recommend more blind. Smoke Bomb dispenser is a must imo. Autodefense Bomb Dispenser Trait

Might is lacking because you don’t have flame thrower or the elixir weapons on your setup, mortar and elixir gun produce the elixir might building as well as the cleansing you’ll need for conditions.

If you were interested in toughness I’d suggest these traits instead of what you’ve chosen for the scrapper line:

Perfectly weighted, Mass Momentum, Final Slavo work together to build might more.

I’d also use Elixir R because you can throw it down to rez you if you get downed it works at least 1 time and you can drink it to remove condis and recharge your dodge. Remove B and replace with R trust me you’ll get the effects of B when you reach 75% hitpoints it happens no matter what you do with toughness.

Either use medic gyro for more stability and might or you can use the AED which prevents you from dying for 1 lethal attack

In general its a nice build. However watch out for enemies with loads of CC. You dont have any stun breaker. A mesmer steals your boon and CC’s you. A warrior can CC your stacks away and ruin your day with conditions.
Besides, even with Leadership runes, you barely have any condi cleanse