Guild Wars 2

So I’ve been looking through a lot of builds lately and I was wondering why I never see any based around support with the elixer gun. I joined a sPvP and tried a build with it but due to my in-experience with the class, I just got stomped.

It seems like you can pump out some good condition damage, plus it gives you access to another 2 heals on top of your heal button. The spray seems to suffer from some of the same issues flame flamethrower does and the #1 skill kinda has an odd, unappealing sound (sounds like you’re shooting bubbles at them), but other than that I would love to run a support build with this.

Ideally, I would just follow around 1-2 teammates, healing, controlling, and poisoning. Would need to be focused mostly on survivability .. as a supporter cannot support if he’s dead.

Its really strong for pve. The lack of any hard CC makes it fairly, meh, for pvp.
There is some cross purpose in effect and traits as well.
20% cooldown, and 15% range are in firearms. Which is crit and condition damage.
15% damage is in alch. (this is only the direct damage part) Alch gives vit and boon duration.
All of the alch “elixir” traits, do not work on any of the elixir guns “elixirs”. dunno of big, or design.

Inventions gives +healing for the guns healing. but there are no elixir gun traits in inventions.
invigorating speed, and backpack regen, are two good alch traits that are not directly elixir gun oriented. but are nice to have.
Its hard to make a good elixir gun build. Its damage IS quite high though.

Having to force AA every time, I think largely turns many away as well.

there is at least good gear. shaman.
And it does make a good back up for p/p builds.

I’m not much for pvp so I can’t comment there, but the elixir gun is my go-to weapon in dungeons. If I change up my main weapon based on the pull I can basically point at any enemy I want and make it useless indefinitely, and my party never ever has to worry about conditions. It even puts out noticeable damage with acid bomb since stuff there is stupid enough to stand in it.

My build hovers around 10/20/20/10/0 with the last 10 kind of floating around depending on my mood. Bonus range and CDR are a must, and Invigorating Speed meshes really well with Elixir F. The 10 in power is mostly so I have the option of bigger bombs, but Incendiary Powder is always nice to have.

This is the build I have been running for PvP:
http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.4.8.0.19.0.0.0.0.0.80.91.95.96.102.7.7.35.229.0.0.246.248.251.0.0.0.272.277.0.289.0.0.10.30.0.20.10
It’s a Elixir Gun/Flamethrower build that focuses on being an all around group fighter. You have a good set of CC, support, and damage all in one. Kit Refinement gives you a extra Super Elixir and Flame AoE. Fumigate is mostly for stripping conditions off allies.
It’s solo fighting is a little weak but if you are running with 1/2 other people taking points your worth 2 people in a fight.

I’ve posted a elixir gun/flamethrower build on the engineer build sticky. Feel free to check it and the other elixir gun builds there out.
Other than that, most that could be said about the elixir gun has already been said. It’s great for support and most decent engineers i’ve met use it when in a group situation.

Try this.

http://en.gw2codex.com/build/16776-elixir-gun-dungeon-fun

Though if you’re feeling squishy feel free to put more into inventions byt taking from the Tools line.

I can’t speak for PvE, but for PvP you shouldn’t use a build that focuses on any single kit. I use Elixir Gun as one of my 4 kits in tournament sPvP (the others Flamethrower, Med Kit and Tool Kit), and no doubt it’s amazing but my build is not specific for it.

One thing I’ll say is Kit Refinement makes Elixir Gun amazing. Having double Super Elixir is sweet.

I use this for solo-queue tournament sPvP. It’s basically god-mode unkillable engineer, and I still have 3100+ power (although my crit sucks) and can easily solo offensive-specs:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fcAQFAUl0pyaX3SyF17IyoCfWoH4ngJhieofVmjB

(I haven’t come to a conclusion on runes/sigils yet, but I focus on vitality → toughness → power)

I ran a few times in sPvP and, after a few tries, got a pretty good play style down to make it viable. You can’t kill a whole lot, and you really have to stack toughness and vitality. For the build I went, I tried to stack healing power, and then followed other people as pure support, primarily melee people.

My results were pretty consistent. I couldn’t kill a whole lot, but I rarely died in a match. Throwing down an elixer C where I was about to die took some practice, but it gave me a second life.

For primary weapons, I recommend shield/pistol for the knockback and stun. I’m no pro either, so I can’t get into all the details, but from my experience playing, it definitely seemed a viable build.