Guild Wars 2

And I am just curious how viable they are in WvW.. I play against a lot of really bad engis as a guard and I am just curious how good they are. Also in PvE as well. I really like the engi class and think i will do pistol/shield for most of it. I am curious as to what build will give me the most edge in PvE and WvW3 Thanks in advance guys.

In WvW, condition engies are pretty good. With the pistols, bomb kit, and tool kit they can inflict plenty of confusion and when built up with long durations, it makes them very deadly in 1v1 fights. Grenadier engineers are also quite lethal, and can hold enemies at choke points just by spamming grenades in front of themselves. It is also very effective to either defend or attack a keep with grenades, due to their AoE and long range. Through a few simple traits they get perma-swiftness, can stack might pretty well, and also have some cool tricks in their bag, like the ability to pull defenders off the wall of a tower or keep, or place elite mortars on a wall to let other players get high damage and range in an AoE as well.

In PVE, the engineer has great AoE and also nice support tools. The Healing Turret alone will give a team nearly permanent regen, and it comes with an AoE Heal and cleanse, too. They can cleric fairly well, removing conditions for the group with the elixir gun and elixirs, also healing and granting boons as well. Engineers have many blocking abilities and projectile reflecting abilities, can be traited to have permanent vigor, and have decent heals so they can tank quite the well. Engineers also have a lot of controls, and have arguably the best immobilize in the game thanks to the rifle + net turret. The big thing is that engineers can do a whole lot of things, so in PVE I would recommend getting every single utility skill, and switching out utilities based on what the group needs or the situation demands.

EDIT: As far as builds go, the engineer clashes a bit there. In WvW, condition engineers are the peak, but condition engineers are only mediocre in PVE. Rather, direct damage builds and support builds seem to have the most worth in PVE. But, if you will be doing a lot of WvW, I would recommend a condition heavy grenadier build, or any of the HGH condition builds floating around these forums.

Forget about PvE builds. Its impossible to mix WvW and PvE for the Engineer, it wont happen. Believe me, I have tried. What’s good in PvE is sub-optimal in WvW and vice versa. How good they are depends on skills and such, but as a comparison I can beat a bunker Guardian with my Engineer 1v1 in tPvP, considering bunker Guardians are basicly unkillable… Only problem is my fingers always get tired 5 minutes into the battle
Engineers can be very tough on their own, very usefull to the group and put down some heavy AoE damage. There’s really nothing they “lack” in terms of flexibility, except possibly kittenty downed skills.

My suggestion is a condition based WvW engineer with fairly balanced stats. Pick the kit swiftness and vigor traits, spend the rest of the points in whatever you want to focus about. For pistols you definetly want coated bullets. Now, why would you go a “balanced” approach instead of full berserker or rampager or whatever? Well because then you can just swap some skills and be decent at PvE as well.

Either way, when someone whisper “PvE?” to your Engineer, answer them “I’ll be right there with my Guardian!”.

Dawdler.8521:

Either way, when someone whisper “PvE?” to your Engineer, answer them “I’ll be right there with my Guardian!”.

I lolled, and then cried because its what I do. (Though sometimes I troll my guild and run my engineer through dungeons instead of my guard)

PvE guard too ha

TheZeus.8617:

And I am just curious how viable they are in WvW.. I play against a lot of really bad engis as a guard and I am just curious how good they are.

That hurts so much…. Imagine that someone took their garden tools to their backyard to build a Porsche. You wouldn’t say that person is “really bad” you’d just say that they “don’t have the tools needed to build a Porsche”

The players aren’t “bad,” they simply don’t have the right tools.

Ezeriel.9574:

TheZeus.8617:

And I am just curious how viable they are in WvW.. I play against a lot of really bad engis as a guard and I am just curious how good they are.

That hurts so much…. Imagine that someone took their garden tools to their backyard to build a Porsche. You wouldn’t say that person is “really bad” you’d just say that they “don’t have the tools needed to build a Porsche”

The players aren’t “bad,” they simply don’t have the right tools.

Sometimes the players are just bad and in the case of the whining engineer players, this is the case 99% of the time. The other 1% is due to lag.

You really should rethink running an Engineer and pick a class people will want in their groups.