Guild Wars 2

I’m new to engineer, looking for fast leveling builds and high support build, I run with some strong guild mates and am looking for mad stacks of weakness, vulnerability, etc to help me team out.

Goggles can apply vulnerability with the toolbelt ability, and isn’t half-bad otherwise. Cooldown may be a bit long to be worth it, though. YMMV.

You’ll probably want a grenade/bomb build. Focus on cycling between them to keep your enemies blinded, poisoned, burned, bleeding, and confused. Support through enemy damage reduction. Weakness isn’t too difficult, it just requires timing with dropping one of your blast finishers (destructed healing turret, good timing with bomb toolbelt, etc) on the grenade poison field.

You’ll come to hate ground-targeting, though. This is a real “carpal tunnel incoming” build. If you don’t feel comfortable hitting all the number keys WHILE running, dodging, and mouse-targeting you may want to opt for something less twitchy. Very high skill-ceiling, but very intense playstyle.

Spec down the explosives line first. Throwing 3 grenades instead of 2 is huge. Then aim for healing bombs for team support and survival.

Whenever someone says support, my first thought is elixir gun. It can cripple, give swiftness, apply vulnerability, aoe heal, give regenerate, poison, and weaken foes. Downside is it’s often lacking in direct damage, as bleeds only stack to 25 and most groups have multiple people who use bleeds. It’s also just one kit, so you still have room for 3 more things, such as bomb kit or grenade kit. As for healing ability, in a support role, healing turret or medkit is the best. (Honestly, healing turret is usually superior of those two, but medkit can be traited to be thrown, something very useful in a backline support.)

Elixir gun’s auto can stack weakness indefinitely on non-champion mobs.

As stated by Jarin, if vulnerability stacks are your thing, definitely want to go full explosives. Traited grenades (Steel Packed, Kit Refinement) can quite easily aoe stack vulnerability to 25, as well as routinely aoe blind and freeze.

20 points into Alchemy can net you Cleaning Formula 409, removing conditions on elixir toss. Kit refinement in Tools allows you to drop a second Elixir Gun Super Elixir for an additional condition removal.

Rifle is great for immobilizes on even Champion mobs, while pistol 3 is a nice relatively low cd blind. And don’t forget shield’s three interrupts!

Thanks, I’m really liking flame thrower for leveling, but end game when I get to fractals, I think support will help more than anything. My team and I just hit fractals 22 and got an infused engineer ring from a chest so I’m trying to look forward: )

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this what i been using for dungeons and fractals i change the inventions adept trait depending on situation. its mainly focused on healing your team with everything and damaging with FT or bombs wich also heal.

as for why pistol and shield well the shield #4 is a blast finisher so i drop the heal turret then hit the self destroy and #4 shield skill at once and bam double AoE heal

formula 409 is nice and all but it doesnt stand up to the EG #3 fumigate cleans up to 5 conditions of allies in the cone range and has a fairly short cooldown ,then theres the kit refinement super elixir wich wipes away all conditions and heals over time leaving you yet another super elixir in reserve and guess what by the time you use this the elixir fumigate is already out of cooldown so 409 is rendered useless wich is why i slapped the 15% FT damage the bomb heals are small but when you combine the EG and regen and bomb heals you actually heal about 800-1000+ hp per second so it aint that bad

bombs how are they useful you may ask melee players cant thank you enough for this #4 is an AoE blind so you can heal your allies while damaging and keep them save from harm then you can follow up with pistol #3 another blind and confusion and then you got FT’s #5 another Blind.

oh yes food i either use Saffron ice cream wich grants me about 150 healing power or saffron scented poultry soup wich removes a condition from me each time i heal (wich is very often) with a cooldown of 10s.

Your link is not working, thanks for all the input guys, I’m learning a lot. What is the best way to increase condition durations?

In pve/wvw, you can stack runes (lich, nightmare, lyssa, and mad king) and food (rare veggie pizza) for a total of +50% condition damage duration. In addition, you get 1% for every point in the explosives trait line, for a total max of about 80% (as a support build you’ll probably only hit 60%, no need to go that deep into explosives).

Also, always try copy/pasting any link that says “bad link,” usually it just the forums being weird.

Creld.8702:

In pve/wvw, you can stack runes (lich, nightmare, lyssa, and mad king) and food (rare veggie pizza) for a total of +50% condition damage duration. In addition, you get 1% for every point in the explosives trait line, for a total max of about 80% (as a support build you’ll probably only hit 60%, no need to go that deep into explosives).

Also, always try copy/pasting any link that says “bad link,” usually it just the forums being weird.

2x Mad King, 2x Lyssa and Rare Veggie Pizza gives +60% Condition duration (bugs aside). Going 4/6 Mad King also gives +15% Bleed duration.