Guild Wars 2

I have a lvl 80 fully equipped Warrior. I looking out for leveling an alt, started a thief but not satisfied. I am slightly inclined towards Engineer.

I have read 300+ post on “Warning: Do not roll an engineer”. My requirement is simple to all those who have lvl 80 engineer.

1. Are Engineer class good at PVE ?
2. Can they tackle 3-5 mobs at lvl 65+ zones ? (having warrior, never died in PVE, almost soloed most of the zones, except for Group events – he is a beast )
3. I play WvW , Looking at the comments , i can see that Engineers have good place in WvW.
4. I never do PVP. (So i do not have to worry about)

Please share your comments.

1. Right now no. They are only good at PVP in that there are plenty more options available, when they finally changed the pvp pve coding to separate the damage ratios between these two types of combat behaviors, pvp came out on top. Also, there are bugs that havent been addressed on both sides but seem not to affect pvp gameplay in the slightest.
2. you can if you setup a tanky style build but either way get ready for all of your combat experiences to take a year and 4 weeks to finish each time you fight something. So much for every class being equal in combat or not having the issue of not being good in combat and suffering for it.
3. I see people post their WvW builds all the time apparently the only build hit with the nerf bat was the grenade build.
4. as an avid PVEer you’d be better off playing a warrior or thief right now. Honestly this class has a long way to go before they fix it. I’m hoping it will be within the next three months. It will be if they want the PVE engineers to come back.

1. Sure. They can get a little boring at times in instances, but what class doesn’t?
2. Try 9-15 with the right grenade build per nerf. 3-5 is still easysauce.
3. WvW is excellent. 1500 range grenades, perms swiftness, burst, and beef. Doesn’t get much better than that.
4. Neither do I. I think this is where the kittening about underpoweredness comes from.

Love it in PvE, playing supporty at the moment with Elixers and the elixer gun. I have no problems in PvE at all. I simply love the class, if you do too, who care if it sucks? Gaming is about having fun, period.

for PVE theres two words for ya: Bombs and Grenades

Bombs have hig AoE damage and if you get a nice group on you drop the #4 skill followed by #3 and watch the mobs destroy themselfs . grenades simply have decent damage traited and stack up conditions.

I love my Engie in WvW, but hate it for PvE. I can beat multiple creatures, but it takes a very long time ……

In all fairness I hate grenades, and am rebelling against them being our only method of doing damage.

I’m running a 4 kit engi with nades bomb medkit and elixer gun mostly stack conditions so i have exotic carion gear and cursed sure often it takes a more active approach to gameplay than a warrior to have success but thats part of the engis charm engis have a lot of problems right now but with skill you can still pve and have a lot of fun as for builds you sought of need to play around and find what suits you

I have played the engineer for a good 4 months now in sPvP, tPvP, WvW and PvE. I’ve done every single dungeon besides Arah Explorable and I’m currently doing Fractals 8. My engineer is, of course, level 80.

1. Are Engineer class good at PVE ?

I use a variation of the 100nades build for PvE. Because I have kit refinement, I can switch between great support through Elixir Gun and huge damage/conditions with grenade kit. All I have to do is switch my armor out for healing armor or berserkers. They’re heavily underrated. Elixir R is the greatest thing a terrible group could ever come across.

2. Can they tackle 3-5 mobs at lvl 65+ zones ? (having warrior, never died in PVE, almost soloed most of the zones, except for Group events – he is a beast )

Easily. Ball them up, throw down the 100nades combo and roll out. Continue to blast them with grenades, pistol blinds and whatever else you have equipped.

For melee mobs, throw down a freeze grenade and nuke. Then take out your pistol and throw down glue shot. If you have bomb kit out, drop a glue bomb. They’ll NEVER hit you once.

As for ranged, take them out quickly with a rifle spike with 100nades. Engineers do SHOCKING amounts of damage in their spikes. Seriously. 14k easily in less than a second.

For mixed groups, snare the melee, spike the ranged and then go back to the melee. Med kit is usually enough to keep you alive.

3. I play WvW , Looking at the comments , i can see that Engineers have good place in WvW.

Definitely. Grenade kit is great for taking out siege and keeping enemies off of walls. Tool kit can yank people really nicely from walls and once they decide to buff mortar, we can be walking sieges.

4. I never do PVP. (So i do not have to worry about)

100nades is great in PvP, and there are a few good bunker builds out there.

Side note

You’ll hear a lot that grenade kit was nerfed. This, while true, really doesn’t matter. They only nerfed the auto attack. Shrapnel Grenade and Freeze Grenade still do crap tons of damage and the 100nades spike DEFINITELY does plenty of damage. Anyone who stays on grenade kit and nukes with the auto attack isn’t doing it right anyways. Engineers are about kit swapping, utility and conditions. In fact, most of our pressure is from the wide array of conditions we can inflict.

As seen above: If you love ground targeting, grenades are the only viable damage source

I don’t do much PvP or WvW, but I run a condition damage pistols build and it works fine. I even got props today for almost completely soloing a champion -level event monster. Granted, there was a LOT of kiting needed and I did start to lose it right at the end before some guy came and helped me finish it off, but still, he was impressed. I also seem to pull a lot of attention from mobs in dungeons. Not always a good thing, but there ya go.

Point is, My Engineer does just fine.