Guild Wars 2

Hey guys and gals of the engineer forum.

I have levelled a guard / warrior so far, and the builds for them were pretty simple, but engineer is a whole different beast with all the different kits etc.

Anyone have any idea which wep set / spec is fastest for levelling? Tried Flamethrower and grens so far, grens seem to have a slow flight time, and flamethrower seems to be bringing up alot of misses when circle kitting.

Any ideas and suggestions are very much welcome.

Thank you all in advanced <3
Primal

I tend to run grenades and bombs (+ elixir gun) in PvE. Depending on mood I do use all weapons – rifle, pistol/shield and pistol/pistol. Grenades and bombs give nice AoE damage and CC combined with primary weapons. Takes some time to get used to grenade slow flying time, but in PvE mobs are very predictable, so grenades are easy to use in that sense. Haven’t really used that much flamethrower, but don’t have big problems aiming it. Just keep your target in middle of the screen and close it works quite nice.

Aye, been giving Grenades and bombs (if they get close enough) seems to be pretty good tbh and switching to pistol + shield for knockback and stun (if needed). You may be onto something Bogey, thanks mate

Kits may be superior once you become very good at using them, but they are not at all necessary, and I find them very difficult and distracting. There are enough keys to press and things to watch out for without complicating it with a kit.
Especially for leveling in PVE, you can get by without them excellently. it was much more enjoyable for me to use turrets and elixirs and the occasional gadget (nothing that replaces your basic slots). may be simplistic, but it’s still extremely effective, in PVE at least (dungeons too).
so there’s no need to overcomplicate your leveling with kits if it looks like it takes too much of your attention (as it did to me).

Thanks for the info Clegane. I will give it a whirl

Clegane give good advice. For me I run with rifle and gadgets and I can take on 3- 6 at once even for one is a veteran. Eng are really good at controlling the fight with net and crippling.

primalrage.6051:

Thanks for the info Clegane. I will give it a whirl

Having played melee Warriors (x2) and a melee Thief, making my Engineer was a real adjustment for me. I’m using Pistol/Pistol, which feels like like I have to constantly keep close to melee range as a I kite in and out (depending on which attack I’m using).

Now that I’m used to it, this isn’t as much of a big deal. My personal suggestion is that you might want to use (1) Kit weapon set on your build. In my case, I activate my Grenade Kit when I’m either getting swarmed or when all of my damaging Pistol attacks are on cool down. I can fire all of my Pistol attacks, spam all of my Grenade attacks at my feet, then switch back to Pistol to fire a 2nd round of attacks. It’s really helped me down time that was causing me problems when my Pistols were on cool downs.

(If you’re going the situational Kit spamming route, there’s a T1 Major trait in Tools that grants you 5 seconds of Quickness whenever you activate a Kit. You could even equip it and weapon switch out of it for the Quickness buff. That buff has really made it easy to fire off all of a Kit’s attacks in record time.)

My best build for PvE is rifle, healing turret, shrapnel mine, thumper turret, flame thrower, and supply drop.

I open with the rifle (especially with the rifled barrels trait), kite with rifle skills and shrapnel mine, then drop the thumer turret and switch to the flamethrower for close range, using knock backs to keep stronger melee mobs off of me. I use the supply drop mainly for large groups and bosses (it’s a great AoE stun and the net turret is really useful). I also built pretty tanky, so there’s that.

Sorry, I didn’t realize that shrapnel mine was a racial skill and not an engineer skill. Elixer B would be really useful for PvE as well.

Grenades really don’t shine until you get the tier 3 trait that adds an additional nade to each skill. And flamethrower isn’t damaging enough until you get the tier 2 trait for +15% damage. Early on I just used dual pistols most of the time.

The only way out is the way through.

There is no short-cut to learning this class. It has many viable builds. It can be approached and played in a variety of ways. That is what makes this class so much fun.

Take some time, learn some of the traits and builds, and make one your own based on your own play style.

I suggest you pick dual pistols and go for condition damage. It’s a lot more viable in the beginning than the rifle is in the beginning as it has both AoE options and slot 4 skill deals helluva lot of damage ina cone in front of you. Additionally I’d pick either grenade or bombkit, probably bomb kit for smoke bomb, concussion bomb and big’ol’bomb, bomb kit has by far the most combofields to detonate with your mine detonator (If you dont use shields, besides mine has knockback and is useful for combo detonations and fields.

Lastly I’d pick something like Elixir B, rocket boots or utility goggles. Probably rocket boots if you spec condition damage, as rocket kick deals helluva lot of damage and guess what? Rocket boots are a combo detonator as well! Goes greatly together with bombs kits combo fields…

Yeah, condition build until you get to 30 traits points to put into explosives. After that get the grenadier trait and run grenades, superior in all ways for PvE.

Is there a quick way to swap weapons? For example if I want to swap from rifle to P/S?

@ Netglen

Engineers don’t get weapon swapping. We have kits instead