Guild Wars 2

Hello there;

Two years ago I made a mistake and played engineer. And now whenever I play with my main (ele) or another class I tend to turn back to engi. And sadly I am not very good at it. I can hold myself really well with my ele and ranger, but when it comes to engi, it is a different situation. I learned how to play engi before all this scrapper thingybut now I am flying blind.

I dislike grenade kit.
I semi-dislike the hammer
I love elixir gun
I love rocket boots
I really love mortar(in zergs and stuff. Otherwise stealth gyro it is).

I am using inventions, alchemy, scrapper for roaming with scrapper runes but it feels underpowered. Any suggestions on anything ?

I quickly drew up this. I sometimes play something similar except I use the viper gear I have for fractals, so I play pretty hit and run and its obviously pretty glass. You could also take shocking speed and work in another gyro (bulwark, purge, and blast could all work) to go with the two blast finishers you have.

It’s a pretty fun build. Double stealth and double elixer s work well with rapid regeneration, but you’ll have to be sneaky about things and beware of the condi bombs.

Are there any power roaming build? Not a big fan of condition.

Cinder.2056:

Are there any power roaming build? Not a big fan of condition.

I suppose it depends on what your goal is. Honestly hammer is going to be the most effective weapon for engineer currently in WvW roaming, no way around it.

If you’re looking for a decent power build, I’m bias towards the build I play of course. Build. But it does use hammer.

Outside of using hammer, most power builds I’d recommend would be using grenades which you dislike.

As for your current build, I think the difficulty is when it comes to getting used to how you are something of a bruiser support/damage who does need some setup to be useful in fights. But the support you bring is great overall and does win fights even if you aren’t getting huge numbers.

Helly.2597:

Cinder.2056:

Are there any power roaming build? Not a big fan of condition.

I suppose it depends on what your goal is. Honestly hammer is going to be the most effective weapon for engineer currently in WvW roaming, no way around it.

If you’re looking for a decent power build, I’m bias towards the build I play of course. Build. But it does use hammer.

Outside of using hammer, most power builds I’d recommend would be using grenades which you dislike.

As for your current build, I think the difficulty is when it comes to getting used to how you are something of a bruiser support/damage who does need some setup to be useful in fights. But the support you bring is great overall and does win fights even if you aren’t getting huge numbers.

Im not the OP XD, i love hammer, so thank you for the build.

Cinder.2056:

Im not the OP XD, i love hammer, so thank you for the build.

Haha whoops! If you wanted to see it in action, (aka shameless plug) Video.

Well you are right, and thank you very much for helping. I have tried some variants but nothing is as strong as hammer as you said. But I will try and find other options also

My favorite WvW build uses EG and Rocket Boots. Naturally, it’s condition based, and for me it works better than the hammer build, because it can’t be kited that easily (thank you Tool Kit):

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vdQQJAqancoC9dhlcBubBEqiF2iiO4H+lXsjminA8DLxAA-TViHABnpDgJlBlo+DlKBtQLBAPAA02fY5TAwRK9IEgi1A-w

If you made it by mistake you shouldn’t play it all… sorry to be so harsh.

I have been running this for a long time roaming. Its very solid and in my opinion much stronger than a hammer build for roaming. Hammer gets kited far too easily for my tastes.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFAUnUUBtbhlcB2UBEqilJjacEqgIgeur79W8ZKgAA-TVCFQBIRJmSUGQgLAg60BUI1fY3+DXUJIAeAAIUpBpAMXmF-w

I like this build tbh:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASnUUBtbh9dBGpCEqiF2iSsjminAMELxAgu5P+lH-TFSGABRp8TR1I8VVFCVJAm9HA4CAU+DA0BknSwAAIAG6QH6QH6QboDdoDdoDtUACqzC-w

It’s odd I know, but I love hybrid builds, and this doesn’t lose much direct damage while gaining reasonable burn ticks. It’s pretty easy to get 20 odd stacks of might while fighting, so the burns do hurt. Rocket boots mean it’s harder to kite me, and bulwark gyron is just too good defensively imo.