Guild Wars 2

Now that my primary character’s almost done, I’m looking for some tips for engineer. Planning to focus on conditional damage, so I’m going for pistol and flamethrower. While the other 3 skills, including healing will be turrets.
What secondary attribute should I focus on, Toughness or vitality? Reason I’m not aiming for power is because using flamethrower would usually put me close to enemies. And which traits are best to work on? I’d prefer 2 increased all the way to 30 and 1 up to 10.

I’ll be honest, turrets aren’t that great at the moment but I suppose it can be made to work so I could go:

Pistol/Shield(not pistol/pistol, as you will be getting burning already from the flamethrower)- Gives you plenty of defensive options.

Healing Turret- Remember, this isn’t a turret, never use it as a turret. If you use this as a turret you are doing it wrong. Now, I should say, there is currently a bug with all turrets, that happens when you pick them up, and it occurs if you try to pick them up as soon as you spawn them, which leads to you having a full cooldown rather than a 25% shorter one. As a result, I recommend using healing turret like this: Spawn it, leave it for exactly two seconds, to give you 15 or so seconds of regeneration, and giving you time to overcharge it if needed. And PICK IT UP. If the healing turret is deployed, you have no self heal, so the best way to use the turret, is to not use it like a turret.

I’d then take a flamethrower obviously, and I’d consider using it mainly for the combo field to help you blast through it and shoot through it, and for the short cooldown knockback. And, if you aren’t facing ranged foes, then its a generally good idea to use this to kite and fight melee people.

Net turret is there to help you kite and keep distance of course, its one of the few turrets that is generally good at its job. Simple enough job in your build.

Rocket turret because it adds to the general level of burning and AoE for you, and because you can place it at a further distance, it should improve its surviveability if you space it well enough.

Supply crate because its the only viable elite in PvE and PvP.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fcEQJAqelIqyanrSbF17IRoHJ2wLG0j8W37+pAbB;TIAAzCpA

Something like this seems workable.

Focusing on the rabid set might work, toughness helps you survive a tad. Precision helps with crits and procs. And condition damage is self explanatory.

I’ll be honest here the elixir is a better heal than the healing turret especially when you’re soloing . The chances are your going to have to dodge out of your healing turret besides the Supply Crate will provide one later .

As for traits when it comes to Pistols you need to put points in power otherwise you wont dish out enough straight damage with them later. Also keepp in mind since your doing a turret build that Accelerant packed turrets is in Fire arms and you’ll need at least 20 to get it .

As for toughness versus vit go toughness , you’ll get buffs to your turrets and the Supply Crate elite ( I personally am putting 30 in it ). You can always put Vitality runes on if you feel you need more health later.

I don’t know about the rest of you but I don’t sit under the healing turret for the insignificant HoT. Just put it down and explode it for the healing combo field?

Good luck with engie.

Do keep in mind RACE as a factor when you make an engineer

race adds alot of variety to the profession with their profession mechanic. You can turn any racial heal and utility skill into a second set of skills.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tool_belt

I would say go Vitality. I don’t notice much of a difference whenever I add toughness, but I always notice having more life.