Guild Wars 2

Hi guys!

Well, I’m basically a bit too noob in this game, I still have a lot to learn. That’s why I boughy myself a complete Power/Precision/Condition Damage gear. Yeah, I might hit hard with two pistols, specially with 955 condition damage and 81% crit chance, but still… I don’t like it for PvP/WvW, I’m sure a fart would last longer in a PvP than me xD
The main stupid thing of this is that I spent 210k karma on the gear, so… meh xD

So anyway, now I’m thinking about getting a complete Power/Toughness/Vitality gear (including jewellery and weapons). Is that viable? I don’t mind if I dont have an uber DPS, I just want to be able to last enough in combats to slowly kill my enemies or help my teammates.

I also guess I should forget about dual pistols with a PTV, but would a pistol/shield be viable too? I haven’t done almost any PvPs but from what I’ve seen, it seems pretty good, but meh, I must ask xD
The rifle would also be viable, right? At the end I guess both combos are viable, but, again, I MUST ask :P

I’m way too noob in this game so I’d like to make sure of these kind of things, since I don’t want to waste 210k more karma stupidly xD

Thanks!

Rifle would scale best with that power of your build.
But since your main concern is staying alive, I think the shield is an extremely good option.

They are different playstyles, not much to say about those weapons except: go to the Mists or pve and try them…

You will miss the crit if you go full pvt.
But as long as your damage source is scaling best with power, you will still hurt things.
For example: I can see pvt working great with a bomb build, even with healing bombs (without extra +healing gear that is).

Another option is: replace one piece with pvt at the time, untill you feel you live longer.
That way you can keep the max ammount of crit at that point. Don’t just ‘replace all’.

all in all a full power-vitality-toughness set up is certainly usable.
of course you’ll feel the damage difference, but power by itself hits like a truck without critting, given you use the corect weapons.

Tool kit for example, bombs, rifle as mentioned, flamethrower as well. They are all mostly power based.

You could try Condition Damage, Precision, and Toughness gear (Rabid). For WvW the key stat is Toughness imho.

I would stick with the current gear. Until you improve as a player, your going to probably get your heinie waxed – no matter what you do. Your current gear is certainly viable. And nothing motivates more than getting curb stomped. It’s happened to us all at one time or anther.

Soon.5240:

I would stick with the current gear. Until you improve as a player, your going to probably get your heinie waxed – no matter what you do. Your current gear is certainly viable. And nothing motivates more than getting curb stomped. It’s happened to us all at one time or anther.

this is very true of course, but let’s not foget his gear has no vitality and no toughness, at all…
Depending on his build, this could be extreme glass canon… which isn’t the best place to start on an engineer I think.

His build should fill in the gaps he lacks in defenses.
Somehow I fear he hasn’t taken many defensive traits at all

Gear alone will not keep you alive. True, with full Rampager gear you’ve got no added survivability stats. But that only means your playstyle has to be altered. If you’re planning on speccing for condition damage you’re going to have to account for slower kills. If you want to gear PVT you can facetank a little more, but not completely. All in all, no matter your gear, your playstyle needs to complement it. Use elixirs (stun breaks), use shield (block, knockback, blast finisher), use toolkit (cripple, bleed, confuse, gear shield), use net turret (immob). Find out where your current build is lacking and adjust. Could be as simple as a couple traits, in which case you don’t need new gear either. Or at least not all new PVT gear. Throw a few pieces in.

Yeah, right now my fights are: elixir, elixir, pew pew, dead (me xD). I do have to improve a lot… know when to dodge, what skill use when I have to use it, etc.

I guess I’ll just try the PVT gear in the mist and check how it works.

Thank you all for your help

By the way… am I the only one who thinks the engineer should have the same shooting animation with the rifle as warriors? I hate watching myself shooting from the hip at long range xD

Regnum.7102:

By the way… am I the only one who thinks the engineer should have the same shooting animation with the rifle as warriors? I hate watching myself shooting from the hip at long range xD

There have been numerous threads dedicated to just that point.