Guild Wars 2

I found the healing gyro pretty useful in some occasions, but it still cant compare with the Healing Turret, Sneak Gyro can be good at WvW in some occasions too, but beyond that the rest are so underwhelming that it would be a waste using that utility slot for them instead of a Kit or Elixir.

Does anyone have good PvE build for gyros yet that is powerful and satisfying?

How is Bulwark gyro underwhelming? The 600 radius makes it easy to stay in its effect during combat, and it has a ton of health so dying isn’t much of a concern. And the toolbelt is the best projectile reflect skill engi has.

After playing, I find Bulwark Gyro incredibly useful, and I LOVE the instant activation (even while knocked down) of the Healing Gyro. Combining the two, I have a toolbelt that gives AoE Protection and Bulwark Gyro, reducing damage by a good 65% or so.

The toolbelt skill on the Blast Gyro is now a Stun Break, so it’s much more useful than before. You can also use that skill out of combat to speed up NPCs and the Blast Gyro itself is good for break bars.

The Heal Gyro Toolbelt is also incredibly good with Rocket Charge. You get 3 heals out of it and it applies protection. The Heal Gyro itself is also instant and can be used while CC’d and detonating it is fairly damaging and is a daze.

The only really bad thing about Gyros are that they’re still very stoopid AI wise.

Immensus.9732:

I found the healing gyro pretty useful in some occasions, but it still cant compare with the Healing Turret, Sneak Gyro can be good at WvW in some occasions too, but beyond that the rest are so underwhelming that it would be a waste using that utility slot for them instead of a Kit or Elixir.

Does anyone have good PvE build for gyros yet that is powerful and satisfying?

There may be some corner cases where the gyros could be useful in PvE, and that is in part to the recent changes Anet made with summons taking less damage from cleave attacks. However, once you play the game a bit more you’ll quickly come to realize that relying on AI, for anything, is very frustrating.

Its incredibly unfortunate that Anet chose to go with more AI, especially where engie already have turrets that are complete garbage (aside from the heal turret which is amazing).

Stealth Gyro is OP. It’s 30s of stealth, as long as you don’t move out of range.

And no, enemies do not care about your gyro whatsoever. You can essentially stealth through an entire explorable zone, and enemies will be looking at the flowers instead.

My only complaint is it STILL doesn’t stick close enough.

Only gyros I’m not liking at Condi, Blast, and Whirl.

ANort.1425:

How is Bulwark gyro underwhelming? The 600 radius makes it easy to stay in its effect during combat, and it has a ton of health so dying isn’t much of a concern. And the toolbelt is the best projectile reflect skill engi has.

Numerous things were recycled in creating these ‘new skills and traits’, and the bulwark gyro largely borrows from mesmers illusionary defender. And these types of skills that tank part of the damage for you do not have a ton of health. Keep in mind that is game is only balanced around pvp so if it had an actual ‘ton of health’ it would make the engie too tanky in smaller fights, so the health is balanced around that situation. In anywhere else in the game, because it is funneling damage from anyone in range it can be taking massive amounts of damage (eg. 5 allies in range get hit the gyro gobbles up 50% x kittens and is essentially tanking up to 2.5 times the damage from a single attack). A much better choice is to use player activated defense such as positioning, dodges, blocks, blinds, movement/evade abilities, invuln, etc etc to avoid getting hit in the first place.

Kain Francois.4328:

Stealth Gyro is OP. It’s 30s of stealth, as long as you don’t move out of range.

And no, enemies do not care about your gyro whatsoever. You can essentially stealth through an entire explorable zone, and enemies will be looking at the flowers instead.

My only complaint is it STILL doesn’t stick close enough.

Only gyros I’m not liking at Condi, Blast, and Whirl.

If you use it without swiftness on yourself and on level terrain so it doesn’t have pathing issues it’ll keep up.

If the gyros all had perma super speed they’d do better at keeping up, but that still doesn’t help the situational pathing issues.