Guild Wars 2

Build: Ascended dire armor/weapons, rabid trinkets. Basic P/S condi, nades/toolkit/elixir gun/mortar|supply drop.

Problem: Learning to WvW. Despite having a fairly defensive set up, I get run over in seconds by bursty builds. Most recent point of annoyance? Blind sided by longbow ranger. Rapid fire, knock down, and I’m half dead. Feel pretty lame getting destroyed without even really getting to fight back beyond a few shots.

No idea how to address it, happens so fast, it feels like they’ve won before I’ve even tried to do anything.

See ranger coming or first/second arrow and hit your Shield 4 and laugh

The challenge of learning to play a 3 kit Engi, (I’m assuming you are new to Engi?) is staying alive long enough to learn which rotations to make, in which order, as different situations arise. If you aren’t really proficient with Nades (I’m not and I have 4,100 hours on Engi, lol), you might want to change them out for something else. Also, maybe drop Shield for another Pistol.

Also, maybe trait heavily in Alchemy and Inventions, and just try and survive long enough until you learn your rotations.