Guild Wars 2

I’m new to playing engineer and I’ve now read dozens of posts on various sites, but I simply cannot get a clear picture of what build I should aim for if I want a decent wvw grenadier.

Some people say power+crit trumps condi, others claim the other way. For gear suggestions, I’ve pretty much seen every combo recommended from knight/cavaliers, pure zerk, rabid, everything…

My engineer will ding today and I would like to learn a decent wvw grenadier build that is balanced with survivability and dmg. I know it’s impossible to get op burst. I’ll be gearing with exotics from crafting/tp.

Are you an experienced wvw engineer who would like to teach new engis the way of the wrench? Thank you!

Engineer kits tend to scale very well with power but also happen to apply a lot of conditions. You could really go either way.

You already gave the anwser

you want survivability (tough,vit,heal)
you want direct dmg (power,prec,critdmg)
you want condi dmg (condi dmg)

As a Grenadier with a 400 worldrank, I can say celestial is the way to go.

If it´s just about the most damage, nades on berserk gear definetly hit way more harder than a condi spec, thats for sure. Plus condis can be removed.

its personal preference in the end really… do you like DoTs or do you like DD.. both work well.

When I ran wvw raiding with a guild as an engineer they used both power and condition grenadiers

power build
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqelIq6dHxy5F1LJyoCdWIFSohJqQl95x8xWQIA-j0yAYsASQAILgEBkEYR0YbDFRjVXjpKFkVnJ1bEZ/hQqQAlXAA-w

condition build
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqelIq6dHxy5F1LJyoCdWoCFmIFYm+95xbxWQIA-jUCB4MBkWAgsAkIAJFqIasl1FRjVXDTliIq2HgIqWIgyLAA-w

these builds are made for group combat and don’t have very good sustainability but can pump out decent pressure, they also have plenty of room for playing around with different armors, traits, and abilities.