Engineer Leveling Build
Go into Tools for your traits, grab Streamlined kits, perma swiftness is invaluable while leveling. Then Grab your kits, really all of them are worth grabbing, that blind field on Mortar is awesome and I found it extremely useful when leveling another Engi recently.
I’d suggest going towards power and using Rifle, that’s generally better, half the time you’ll come up to something you want to kill and you can just jump shot → Blunderbuss → Grenade barrage and it’s dead. Condi is an option and what I did recently, with blowtorch, flame thrower (incendiary ammo is pretty nice) and bombs/toolkit. Either direction is fine but again I’d suggest the power/rifle direction it’s generally going to be better.
At 45 you get your next trait line and I’d go explosions, makes your grenades hit harder which is the lifeblood of Engi (many complain about the free targetting, I suggest going into options and setting it to fast targetting so that when you release the button they just fire, no need to double tap, also if you have a mouse with extra buttons I’m a fan of my keybinding in that I have the 1 set to the side button on my mouse so it’s just a little squeeze and I can have them flying).
Hope that helps.
Leveling build called Scroll-to-20-Tome-to-80
I am level 21 right now and would appreciate if anyone had some good advice on builds to use as I level. Traits and skills to grab, weapons to use etc. Thanks so much in advance.
Best advice for this new trait system is to get the kits you want/need first and then dump points into trait lines that work for you. Choosing either Tools or Inventions will provide access to your basic movement speed increases. The main difference being Inventions provides sustain, while Tools provides damage. In all honesty, you are free to use whatever you want to level as no one is going to judge you for it, but your life will be much easier grabbing increased move speed as soon as you can. If you would like some completed builds feel free to try one or both of these and just have fun with the class.
DPS Bombs (Dungeon friendly)-
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General PvE/Roaming
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFAUlUUh6rYtWwdLQ+FL3FV4EGQZGYDGhBg4B9D5AA-TxRBABXp8DPdAEt/gGXAAAeAAUq+jZKBBA-e
Personally I never looked back once I got my elite skill (Mortar Kit).
I use rifle for CC when needed, Mortar Kit for most damage, Rocket Boots & Streamlined Kits for speed boosts, and upgraded to rocket turret from rifle when I need to kill stronger opponents. I also use Elixir B. I was using elixir X but I dropped it to have a turret.
I also am new to the game (level 50ish) after not having gotten past level 25 at launch so maybe there’s some magic bullet I missed.
Go into Tools for your traits, grab Streamlined kits, perma swiftness is invaluable while leveling. Then Grab your kits, really all of them are worth grabbing, that blind field on Mortar is awesome and I found it extremely useful when leveling another Engi recently.
I’d suggest going towards power and using Rifle, that’s generally better, half the time you’ll come up to something you want to kill and you can just jump shot -> Blunderbuss -> Grenade barrage and it’s dead. Condi is an option and what I did recently, with blowtorch, flame thrower (incendiary ammo is pretty nice) and bombs/toolkit. Either direction is fine but again I’d suggest the power/rifle direction it’s generally going to be better.
At 45 you get your next trait line and I’d go explosions, makes your grenades hit harder which is the lifeblood of Engi (many complain about the free targetting, I suggest going into options and setting it to fast targetting so that when you release the button they just fire, no need to double tap, also if you have a mouse with extra buttons I’m a fan of my keybinding in that I have the 1 set to the side button on my mouse so it’s just a little squeeze and I can have them flying).
Hope that helps.
Solid advice here. Jumpshot is also handy for both mobility (moves you around a map faster) and for jumping puzzle (total hax).
Also, if you go into Tools, pick up Static Discharge and equip Rifle Turret. This gives you a really strong tool kit ability with a very short cooldown. You don’t really even need to drop the turret itself.