Guild Wars 2

Hey Engineers,

I had two bad runs in a row last night with my bomb build. Mobs just kept targeting me and I hit the floor more times than I’m comfortable with. I am looking at a 30/30/0/10/0 for vigor in combat and I thought that dodge bombing may mitigate the 10% crit damage loss while helping me stay on my feet easier.

I tested the damage of these and it seems a bit lower than bomb auto but not too bad. It seemed when auto attack crit for 2.6K dodge bomb was around 2.1k, solo w/no buffs.

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Blood~

I tought it’s the same bomb :o Maybe it is not affected by traits and sigils etc.

is your only idea of damage mitigation to dodge?

personally i can’t build an engineer without permanent swiftness. if you’re having survivability issues take elixir r, elixir s, tool kit, shield, or some blast finisher to use in your smoke field, rocket boots for example.

I generally don’t have an issue, just got squished on a couple runs. All my toons are mostly Zerker.

My dilemma was dropping 10% crit damage from Tools to gain Vigor trait as I want to keep as much DPS in my build as I can.

An extra dodge would have made the difference in each of my floor mat moments, not my only idea of damage mitigation. I think its all I need though.

I’ve since looked at running some different kits and skills. I generally don’t like Elixirs but I may have room for one. I usually don’t run Bombs and Grenades together but I’ll switch um and traits as needed through out a dungeon.

Lastly, more testing has given me closer results on AA bomb and Dodge bomb, I think I was just seeing RNG messing with me.

Thanks much,

Blood~

So your question basically comes down to glass cannon or not. Cant have it both ways. Either sacrifice same dps for survivability or glass cannon it and learn to dodge like a pro.

running bombs is not always a good thing, esp. if you tend to just stand there and ogle your numbers. i’ve found the flamethrower to be a better tool for dealing damage and staying somewhat out of harms way.