Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing an engineer since day 1, but after this recent patch I’m not really sure what sort of build I should be using for different situations. I used grenades almost exclusively in dungeons and WvW, but now I’m not really sure if it’s worth it. I really don’t like using them so frequently because you have to be so “active” when using with manual targetting/attacking, thus making it super hard to move or dodge much. Previously I’d deal with it because they were so much better than other choices, but now I don’t know if I can justify it lol.

I use rifle as my main weapon, and while it is pretty good for single targets it doesn’t do much at all for multiple enemies like in dungeons or WvW. I was thinking of using bombs/flamethrower more, but flamethrower is kind of buggy and not that great of damage, while bombs I die really frequently due to being so up close and personal. So any suggestions of what sort of role I should be aiming for?

Same build as before.

Place your curser in the center of your screen, hold down the right mouse button, now press 1 so the nade target comes up (if you have enables autocast, disable it) now move around and “aim” with the mouse. Get adjusted to ‘looking up’ to aim further away, and ‘looking down’ to aim closer.

Double tap your nade skills to “fire” and play as a third person shooter. Your nade kit just became %100 more powerful. You may soon understand why they nerfed it.

I hear Grenades are a nice setup. Just role condition damage and you’ll be fine. You can still apply Poison, Burn, Bleed stack, and Vulnerability stack.

You might also want to consider 30 alchemy for the Might stacking.

People are overreacting to the nerf.

please englinghten us Monkey Fritz

Might stackin is horrible for grenadier. done that long ago. U may as well smash ur keyboard to wall. Same experience of gaming delivered.

ikiturso.4026:

please englinghten us Monkey Fritz

In what way?
In how to play a grenade kit without limiting your movement? I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what I just spelled out for the op.

does people complain about nades in pve or overall patch notes and PVP?

pve i dont care dps meters dosnt exist

Enlighten us in PVP people Not pve PVP

Monkey Fritz.9052:

Same build as before.

Place your curser in the center of your screen, hold down the right mouse button, now press 1 so the nade target comes up (if you have enables autocast, disable it) now move around and “aim” with the mouse. Get adjusted to ‘looking up’ to aim further away, and ‘looking down’ to aim closer.

Double tap your nade skills to “fire” and play as a third person shooter. Your nade kit just became %100 more powerful. You may soon understand why they nerfed it.

This is how I play. Except I use auto hotkey to hold down the RMB for me and can engage and disengage with 1 click instead of holding (think combat mod) I also use razer naga and razer nostromo so I can move with an analog and hit keys with unrestricted movement. I could hit a moving target pretty consistently and they were always my main source of damage