Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, I’ve been playing this game for a few months now and I just now made my first second account and I chose engineer. My goal with this account is to turn it into a glass cannon dps who can take on glass cannon thieves and mesmers. If you guys know of a good build for this or can give me any helpful tips on the class I’d appreciate every bit of it, Thanks!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Warning-Do-not-roll-an-engineer

Engi glass cannon can’t take thieves/mesmers, it takes done button to dodge entire burst and you have absolutely no survivability.

I know for a fact that glass cannon can be rolled on engineer, it’s just more difficult than it is for thieves and mesmers from what I’ve heard. And I personally don’t care about that post because it’s all based on preference.. I just want to know a good GC build please and thank you.

OP rifle/static discharge builds are all over the net. they work
thieves and mesmers lol.

I’m not limiting myself to ONLY a GC build; but I’d prefer it. If you guys know of a good build for engineer in general I’d like to see them as well. Like I said, any tips would be appreciated!

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Because I was working through the builds anyway…

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=VW70;0B-sPFn0l6gSFx0;9;5T-9T;1283;10;015BI;2R;0G3G3G3G35BR

Static Discharge is the silicate shooter of choice these days, from what I’ve seen, with variations into Explosions for the procs. It’s not perfect but I think it might be the closest the Engineers have until ArenaNet fixes our bugs.

Mesmers and thieves are suposed to kill spam happy glass cannons. Not the other way around. If you want to kill mesmers and thieves, dont go glass cannon.

Yeah, you aren’t going to out DPS a thief when they stealth, or fall into the mesmer tricks. A 1v1 setting w/ glass cannon engi is a good surprise for catching some people off guard with some hard crits. You can definitely bomb hp bars, but Thief and Mesmer classes have a way of hunting down dps classes who hang out outside the group, you will end up being the hunted. Best way to go is toughness and vit if you want to null DPS classes.

If you are really set on DPS you need to also have some control and survivability. Using traits can help, but keep in mind you don’t have anything to stealth (very long), or teleport. But you can run around pretty fast. Knockbacks, stuns, cripple, freeze also very useful. DPS Traits i run keep everything on + Crit damage %, and + power. Ive read some places where 1400 is all the power u need for good attack, and keeping the rest on crits. That’s viable too. (But i’ve gone full power for grenades GM) if you stay in the rifle, power at 1300~1400, so long as u put everything else into ur crit damage, is recommended.

Eurasian Dynasty > Lunar Corporations, just btw.

TIP: Grenades suck in wvw, you might hit people once or twice, but you aren’t going to kill anyone. Also your ‘1’ button will hurt.

Bargaw.4832:

Eurasian Dynasty > Lunar Corporations, just btw.

TIP: Grenades suck in wvw, you might hit people once or twice, but you aren’t going to kill anyone. Also your ‘1’ button will hurt.

Yeah, always thought ED and UCS was a little too geopolitical tho don’t u think?

But seriously, OP, go 1300~ for damage if u r all on rifle, (thats like 10 traits in explosives), and pump a lot into damage percentage (and gear for crit procs!!!)
Try this build out http://www.gw2build.com/builds/engi-spvp-dd-dps-glass-8753.html

LOVE AND PEACE

Chain lightning is the way to go for glass cannon dps.

SimpleKingly.5021:

I’m not limiting myself to ONLY a GC build; but I’d prefer it. If you guys know of a good build for engineer in general I’d like to see them as well. Like I said, any tips would be appreciated!

they’re all over the forums. click anything with the word ‘build’ in it …>_>;