Guild Wars 2

So I made a new Engineer (Charr) and I have some issues with the Pistol / Shield combination… it’s simply that the shield looks weird and ‘hovers’ above my Charr’s hand, back.
I won’t change race since I love the Charr, but my main build plan included P/S.
SOOoo my question is (and I know engis rely mostly on kits) if there are really good builds around with the rifle and if it’s viable in PvE (PvP will be with P/S nonetheless)
Would also be nice if there were some P/P builds, I love the way they look, though they are condition oriented and don’t have the projectile deflect that shield gives.
I plan on doing all PvE content and ‘main’ with this engi.

Thx in advance!

bombkit, nades, rifle-turret, static discharge (s/d is a trait in the invetions line)
go full berserk (power precision ferocity) and spam your turrets BA(belt-ability), as well nades #3/#2/ nades – BA / rifle #3 / #5 and bombkit auto.

learn your cooldowns and keep them all on cd.
Since you will stack often in dungeons, the build should look like this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdIQFAUlUUpPrlYxmKktNSbBNq3A6TMiW/5CEgjC-TBSDgAMXAgelfs7PkoE8V9HQdEAm/GeAACCYUA-e

Since runes of strength are frekkin expensive, you can go with runes of the pack and sigil of fire instead of strength for the beginning.

All gear is exotic in this build, so its up for your imagination what happens when you slowly upgrade to ascended…

Thx for the Response!

Nice to know that it’s very much possible to be great with a rifle.

Was planing on going berserker anyway and I can save up the cash for more expensive runes… Like your build, but I’ll play around with it a bit (might throw in some elixirs – especially for FRACs since the project deflect is super important.

Am fooling around with the rifle a bit (just started lvling) and even at such a low lvl the DPS is pretty amazing! o.O i’m getting 1hit KOs with blunderbuss and Jump Shot

yeah um p/s doesnt actually have any burst which is a lot of what you need for map exploration type of play… 1 shotting critters means you move on sooner. you might find something useful in my sig.

@ creamtoast:
welp this build I’ve posted is the common standard when it comes to do dungeons, but ofc you should experiment around with it and find the way that YOU’re most effective with.

the engi is basically the jack of all trades, but master of none, so if you plan to do pvp/wvw roaming you will find that the variety of powerfull builds is infinite, and since we got some nice new traits lately we can achieve even more devastating ways of dealing with 4 or more players at once.

Read up on all our skills on the gw2 wiki, be aware of all the different combofields / finishers you have and it should be easy for you to find some combination of skills / traits that not only fits your individual preferences, but also works effectively and is a advantage for the people you play with.

Arantheal.7396:

bombkit, nades, rifle-turret, static discharge (s/d is a trait in the invetions line)
go full berserk (power precision ferocity) and spam your turrets BA(belt-ability), as well nades #3/#2/ nades – BA / rifle #3 / #5 and bombkit auto.

learn your cooldowns and keep them all on cd.
Since you will stack often in dungeons, the build should look like this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdIQFAUlUUpPrlYxmKktNSbBNq3A6TMiW/5CEgjC-TBSDgAMXAgelfs7PkoE8V9HQdEAm/GeAACCYUA-e

Since runes of strength are frekkin expensive, you can go with runes of the pack and sigil of fire instead of strength for the beginning.

All gear is exotic in this build, so its up for your imagination what happens when you slowly upgrade to ascended…

Static discharge is in the tools line, not inventions.

typo I guess
And the fact that I’m using the german GUI doesn’t helps as well^^

In my opinion for a SD rifile build i would not take bomb and nades. For pvp for example i take ram , toolkit and rifle turret . The reason is quite simple ,they have a cd on toolkit that is quite an half of bomb and nades … and you make much more damage