Guild Wars 2

I’m playing an Engineer and everything has been smooth sailing until now. I’ve played zones well above my level, 2-3 person team WvWvW, and dungeons as soon as I got to Lv 30.

Now I’m Lv 54 and just got to Bloodtide Coast for the first time, coming from Lion’s Arch. It’s a Lv 45-55 area.

I go directly east and trigger the Alpha Drake quest. I fight it for nearly 10 minutes and only get him to 50% health. Sometimes he goes back to full health! A ranger shows up, and we kill the drake super fast. Amazing!

I go directly east, and do the ghostly pirate Lionguard quest. I’m alone again, and it’s very difficult. Not so much that I’m dying, I’m not, I’m kitting for minutes on end and barely killing anything. Finally after a very very long time, I kill most of them and a champion ghostly pirate shows up. I fight it for another very very long time and thankfully another player shows up. Oh no, how sad, it’s a guardian. It takes us a very very long time to kill the ghostly pirate.

Please help me out. What am I doing wrong? I’ve tried to understand how to improve but I just don’t see what to do. I’ve tried many different build, different trait set-ups…

Right now most of my gear is Precision and Condition Damage (since I’m using the pistols). I have Flamethrower which I swap to just to use Knockback and Blind as needed, and for the burning tool-belt skill. I have Slick Shoes to knockdown enemies as I kite, and Elixir B because… well… because Elixir B is always useful :-)

I bought strong weapons and armor from Trading Post (very pricey).
I’m Traited and Geared for damage.

How am I killing so slowly? Please help! :-S

If you killed those two mobs with only one other player, you’re not doing anything wrong. Is it possible you are merely facing a challenge rather than having a problem?

I feel like my engineer has been getting weaker and weaker as I level up, also.

I have a ranger and he’s 10 levels below my engineer, and he has more power than my engineer. Both have +20 traited to power.

I think the kits need to be looked at; some of them are decent but many of them I don’t think are scaling correctly.

Well, it took way too long to kill those mobs. And I couldn’t finish the “end boss” of each event.

It’s a challenge, but it still needs to be completed, not just abandoned because it’s impossible for one person.

So I joined some other people (as party) doing some quests in that place, we had lots and lots of difficulty… we (4) were from Lv 44 to Lv 55.

In a area 45-55, I don’t know what’s wrong. Are we really THAT bad?! I want to improve, of course, but I don’t know what I need to do.

We’re going to do a dungeon, so I’ll let you know how it goes ;P

Well, I won’t talk about the dungeon (I wanted to see how skilled the other players were) because I spilled water on my mouse and it was difficult to pay attention after that :-P

Anyway, back on topic, does anyone have any ideas how to make my engineer even more strong than she’s already traited and geared for? Did you as an engineer notice a sudden difficulty in Bloodtide Caves or another area? What did you do?