Guild Wars 2

orning all,

First things first I mostly play on my Necro and Warrior but am slowly figuring out that Warrior is pretty poor these days and Necro is farily immobile which doesn’t excite me much at all…!

My first and only level 80 is my Engineer, however shortly after hitting 80 I decided to not bother playing it, purely because I couldn’t stand being Asura on my Engi, it just didn’t sit right, I hated it, not sure why, just did… This morning I decided to make a Male Human Engi and give it a go, with the backpack and the rifle, already visually much more appealing to look at whilst grinding out games, so love it so far.

I’m very newb with my Engi, generally I pull my rifle rotation then jump into Nade kit and work my way into using wrench 2/3 if I can for some extra DPS… Figure Wrench 3 hits pretty kitten hard. However I have NO IDEA how to do fire field, this is why I sucked at my Elementalist, I have no idea how to do it, or how to sustain them… can anyone give me an example of how to properly do these combos on an Engineer?

I’m running the soldier rifle build that I saw on metabattle as it seemed to be the strongest, I rarely ever group queue, I almost always solo queue… how viable are we with our builds? do we have quite a few we can safely run for queueing? or are we limited to a certain 1 or 2? I found on my Warrior I only really do well with a GS/LB variant of the GS/Hammer build…

so yeah, long story short for people who get sick of reading… Had an 80 asura engi, hated it, made human engi, love it, used to play warrior/necro, now realize theyre pretty lame.. so back to engi. playing soldier rifle, no idea how to use fire fields or create combos… are we solid for solo queue?

Cheers all :P

I feel for you, i rerolled my first guardian because he was Asura.

Engi is in a strange state atm.

If you played one previously that involved using a rotation of Rifle and the odd other skill you will find a completely different playstyle is required to get a similar success from it and its up to you if you like that or not. The old rifle rotations will still do ok though.
However, If you played a multi kit spec and were happy swiftly changing kits back and for to use the optimal specific skill to fit into your rotation (e.g Confusion bomb, pry bar, shield knockback and pistol to stack 17 confusion . ) The same gameplay is there but the focus is on burn.

If you liked turrets then its bad news.

Yeah asura is awesome but not always hahaha. Human I’d a lot nicer to look at on engi, retooled my asura warrior to norn too.

I love stance dancing, it’s what I love about engi. I loved it on Ele but tun I found Ele got very dull to play.

I swap a lot probably never for the right things but I do the old Nader 523 wrench 32/5 rifle 2354 etc etc… It seems very viable still, engi, seems all top teams run them still too. rampage is a fun edition also, wrecking lords solo is always entertaining with rampage.

My 1 downfall is solo pve feels quite weak, I seem very squishy and rotation seems like a mind kitten.

It seems out of all my classes that I play, engi is my strongest choice for success. I play necro warrior and engi.

Honestly if you enjoy the constant juggle This class does it best.

I no longer do dungeons or fractals so i cant really help you there but i do a ton of open world to fund my other stuff. Burn is so good for burst atm it works great in open world. Sustain dps isnt great so im not sure how people spec for the other types of pve.