Guild Wars 2

Hey engineers,

Wondering if anyone on these forums has much experience playing an Engineer in a coordinated focus party and could give me some insight.

My core role revolves around displacing squishy backliners with Magnetic Pull and dispatching of them alongside some Thief/Mesmer friends, however I’m not 100% sure as to what build to use.

I’ve narrowed it down to either a Static Discharge build due to the high burst and Analyse revealed which is incredible against Mesmers and Thieves who are my main targets. But I’m unsure whether to go for Celestial Armor and mix in a few condis, full burst with Assassins and Zerker and try to disengage straight after burst or to go for a Knights variant.

Thanks for all replies and all insight is welcome.

(BTW I know that Engineer isn’t the most conventional pick for a focus party but please disregard that as I know its effective.)

s/d zerker is your best bet.
It may sounds ridicolous to bring a zerker to a zerg, but if you pick self-regulating defense, you have all the defense you’ll ever need.

Even tho they orbit, backliners tend to bring at least some kind of tanky stats to the raid, and breaking necros can actually be a challenge if they see you coming. But if you run full zerk in a nuke s/d setup, you can effectively breach their survivability regardless and even become bold and take targets in the melee train out.
nothing will safe you from the trains’ wrath, but with self-regulating defense, TK block and rifle #5 you have enough escapes / blocks / invuln to become a uninteresting target for them again and proceed focusing vital parts of their zerg.

I run this build myself:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpkrtdxmKseNSeBN6kclqAyAsAROwcA-T1BFABCcBAQS5HJ7PkmOAAeAAFq+zVKBJFwo6qA-w

Alright thanks. I’ll give it a go.