Guild Wars 2

Could someone please explain (or link me to an explanation) of what these builds actually are? And their main benefits over other builds?

I often see people referring to them on the forums but no description of what they actually mean xD

For reference, I’ve played about 300 hours on my engineer, play mostly PVE and a little bit of WvW. I currently use pistol-pistol, healing kit, rifle turret, radiation field, flame turret and supply crate.

I apologise if this has been explained before in a glaringly obvious place that I’ve overlooked…

1. HGH: refers to a elixir focused setup with 30 in alchemy and HGH +Cleaning Formula 409 traits. And there are multiple ways to spend rest of the 40 points and different gear setups. Might and boon duration runes can be used to great success with these.
-You can do condition damage and crit proc (rabid&carrion mix) focused Nade HGH with 30/10/0/30/0.
-Flamethrower HGH with -/30/-/30/-, might runes rock here. More direct damage geared here.

2. 100nades WAS a Kit Refinement (tools trait) ONE SHOT spec. You basicly used Rifle immobilize, ran inside your opponent and swapped to grenade kit (old kit refinement barrage proc) + threw toolbelt Barrage at the same time. One shotted anyone using similar berserker gear like the engineer.
Doesn’t exist anymore in it’s old form, but you can still use similar build decently, just lacks the 100nades part.

3. I’m not exactly sure about the last one. But my take on something like that would be healing setup with 20/-/30/-/-, bombkit, healing turret, pistol and elixir gun. For healing and tanking frontline wvwvw for example.
spvp mass controlling objectives you could add a second turret and turret knockback trait IX. How ever I don’t feel like the healing focus would be as strong for spvp, rather PVT, drop the gun and add elixir. Would be my GUESS.

Sabull is there with the first two.

The Heal bunker changes a bit and has a lot of variants but here’s the basic set up:

Med Kit
Optional (Tool Kit, Elixir S, Elixir B, Elixir Gun)
Bomb Kit
Optional (Tool Kit, Elixir S, Elixir B, Elixir Gun)

0/0/30/20/20
(Take Tool Kit and the Power Wrench Trait)

OR

0/0/30/30/10
(Elixir Gun Version)