Guild Wars 2

Good morning Engineers.

For quite awhile now I’ve been playing my Engineer in a healing bomb build. I found a great build several months ago, and I truly do love the bomb aspect of the gameplay. I feel tho with how I play, I may not be getting the most out of healing bombs.

I tend to WvW 80% of my time. Probably spending 60% of my time in large groups. When I’m with a commander I tend to push in with him, dropping bombs at my feet and causing a ton of havoc. I think it’s especially effective when I push past there lines and drop bombs that they tend to run into while back peddling. The thing is I’m not sure I’m getting any of the heals from my healing bombs, as I usually am constantly moving.

On the other side of it, the regenerator, while healing me for a lot less, will provide me with constant healing, without worrying about positioning.

I currently run
30/0/30/0/10

But if I went with the regenerator I would go

30/10/0/20/10
I also would lose a bit of power here, as my + power from healing score, and +power from toughness score, would be lost. But I gain a good bit of crit, and 200 range on my rifle.

Any thoughts. I’m almost sold on the regenerator but I haven’t been able to pull the trigger.

the minor traits for alchemy will trigger earlier in a fight than the inventions and Transmute is an extra source of condi removal (at 8% chance tho)
You can also take invigorating speed for more dodges or protection injection to make up for lost toughness

You can group heal just by taking healing turret, you don’t need a grandmaster trait
Power bonus from performance enhancement is usually low

TLDR: Other traits in Alchemy can make up for lost toughness, bomb already does good dmg on its own