Engineer Raid Meta
Wahoo!
I wanted to try raids and joined a learning group and they said the zerk ascended gear I spent hundreds of gold on over the course of several weeks is worthless to which I asked if I could change the stats to condi since that’s the new PvE meta and they said no don’t bother Engi is worthless except for one boss. They really hurt my feelings. PvE elitists are the biggest bullies. #bullyzoid
It almost feels like we fell back in time for about 2 or 3 years. There are too many “I started to play Engi because of Red Guardian” or “OMG A BREAKBAR, IF WE JUST HAD 64s KNOCKDOWN ENGI!!” kind of people who don’t even know other traits and skills but those on Metabattle. Most of them are just still kitten by the desperately needed Slick Shoes nerf… :/ Almost all people forgot about what Engis can do.
Your zerker gear is perfectly fine for Raids and completly legit for every – single- boss!
I’m an elitist myself – a pretty deep one when it comes to Engi – and I would never ever abandon a good Engi player. The main problem here is the “GOOD” tough…
engineer doesnt offer anything to the team , lacks boon strip, thanks to the slick shoe nerf now lack in the breakbar breaking department , lacking in boon giving and lacking in mobility
so basically all engi has going for it is running Vipers for raids
and thats mostly for the vale guardian
Lemme tell you a few things you might not have known Engis can offer your team:
- Engis have only ~10% less damage than an Ele or Thief and is Nr3 in DpS ranking (Staff Ele vs large hitbox increases the gap by a lot!)
- Engis are able to offer super speed for VG.
- Engis are able to offer Protection when required, like breakbar phase at VG.
- Condi Engis are able to take 2 spirits at Gorse on their own and blind the adds to prevent kicks.
- Power Engis still have the most cc of all professions in the game (except venomshare thief). Rocket Turret is the new Slick Shoes with huge damage on toolbelt.
- Engis are able to reflect and blind for Sloth and Trio.
- Engis are the best suited for taking out mortars or saboteurs while also clearing the respawning snipers in between.
- Power Engi offers reflect, bulwark, high ranged dps, cc, mobility, emergency heal and gyro, super speed and protection for Matthias without being suiqshy or vulnerable to knockdown or red bombs. HOW DO YOU NOT WANT THAT!?
Btw:
- Throw Mine and Mine Field both strip boons and have 15 and 17s CD without alacrity. So 1 or 5 boons every ~8s.
- Blast Gyro deals 332 defiance bar damage on specific targets like saboteurs or mortars. Ram and it’s toolbelt deal 332 dbd aswell good direct damage. Rocket Turret’s knockdown rocket combined with the turret detonation knockback sums up to 450 dbd. It’s toolbelt deals as much damage as big ol’ bomb and has the same cd.
- Hammer skills or just traiting scrapper for super speed is a lot of mobility.
So much about raids. But now that fotm came back to live too, there is nothing more powerful than a condi engi in T3 or T4 fractals. But that’s a different story now, this is about raids… ;P
Greez!
- Ziggy WAHOO!!!
Ziggs Ironeye – Engineer | Madame Le Blanc – Mesmer | Mentor (PvE) | EU
“Mentoring engineers / mesmers and showing you what you can do with your fantastic class!
Just pm me for my advice! Always eager to help!”
“Mentoring engineers / mesmers and showing you what you can do with your fantastic class!
Just pm me for my advice! Always eager to help!”
Ziggs Ironeye – Engineer | Madame Le Blanc – Mesmer | Mentor (PvE) | EU
“Mentoring engineers / mesmers and showing you what you can do with your fantastic class!
Just pm me for my advice! Always eager to help!”
“Mentoring engineers / mesmers and showing you what you can do with your fantastic class!
Just pm me for my advice! Always eager to help!”
Lemme tell you a few things you might not have known Engis can offer your team:
- Engis have only ~10% less damage than an Ele or Thief and is Nr3 in DpS ranking (Staff Ele vs large hitbox increases the gap by a lot!)
- Engis are able to offer super speed for VG.
- Engis are able to offer Protection when required, like breakbar phase at VG.
- Condi Engis are able to take 2 spirits at Gorse on their own and blind the adds to prevent kicks.
- Power Engis still have the most cc of all professions in the game (except venomshare thief). Rocket Turret is the new Slick Shoes with huge damage on toolbelt.
- Engis are able to reflect and blind for Sloth and Trio.
- Engis are the best suited for taking out mortars or saboteurs while also clearing the respawning snipers in between.
- Power Engi offers reflect, bulwark, high ranged dps, cc, mobility, emergency heal and gyro, super speed and protection for Matthias without being suiqshy or vulnerable to knockdown or red bombs. HOW DO YOU NOT WANT THAT!?
Btw:
- Throw Mine and Mine Field both strip boons and have 15 and 17s CD without alacrity. So 1 or 5 boons every ~8s.
- Blast Gyro deals 332 defiance bar damage on specific targets like saboteurs or mortars. Ram and it’s toolbelt deal 332 dbd aswell good direct damage. Rocket Turret’s knockdown rocket combined with the turret detonation knockback sums up to 450 dbd. It’s toolbelt deals as much damage as big ol’ bomb and has the same cd.
- Hammer skills or just traiting scrapper for super speed is a lot of mobility.
So much about raids. But now that fotm came back to live too, there is nothing more powerful than a condi engi in T3 or T4 fractals. But that’s a different story now, this is about raids… ;P
Greez!
- Ziggy
It seems like we can ask anything to our beloved profession… Can we also organize wedding ?
But in your list, there is one thing that is lacking : we are not ready to be a raid healer
. I tried several times to make it work on the paper but apart from those times when your group is packed on a boss (say Gorseval for example) there is no chance to have a good healing presence on several spots, and with that we don’t even buff too much our teammates. I’m sure you already tried to figure that out, have you found a good way of being an engi healer or at least a good buffer?
I know that only Ele can do almost everything and that we should already happy with what we have. Other profession don’t have as many tools (pun!) as we have and are restricted to fewer roles … but who cares about the others :P
Ziggs Ironeye – Engineer | Madame Le Blanc – Mesmer | Mentor (PvE) | EU
“Mentoring engineers / mesmers and showing you what you can do with your fantastic class!
Just pm me for my advice! Always eager to help!”
“Mentoring engineers / mesmers and showing you what you can do with your fantastic class!
Just pm me for my advice! Always eager to help!”
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for there you have been and there you will long to return.
for there you have been and there you will long to return.