Guild Wars 2

I have a low level engineer, I plan on getting to 80.
so my question is this.

how are engineers endgame?
are they still really squishy?
are they any good farming karma and gold?

In my experience, they are great farming events with a couple other people around, other help since we don’t deal much damage. However our AoE options allow us to tag and help kill lots of mobs. I def do not find my engineer to be squishy at all, use the right armor, weapon, buffs and food, I am pretty much unkillable in any PvE situation.

so what kind of stats am i going to be wanting on armor for engineers?

also am i better off dual wielding pistols? or a single rifle?
so far i love dual pistols, not sure how viable rifle is though.

It all depend on how you want to play, you want condition damage or burst? Do you want to use kits or not? Obviously power/toughness/vitality armor will help keep you alive, you can increase your offensive traits with your trinkets and food. Rifle based static discharge is popular build, I’ve been using flamethrower and enjoy it, lots of people love the shield so they roll pistol shield. Try what you like, then see how you fare

I’ve got PVT gear on my level 80 and his survivability is great. I’ve got 30 in firearms and alchemy as well so he’s quite tough.

Engineers have a couple of builds that are decent endgame but their real problem right now is that no matter what you can do acceptably well, somebody else can do better and with less effort. Needless to say that leaves you LFG in almost every situation. They can still run with the zerg and aoe tag really well. Not that that’s anything to be proud of.

Engineers aren’t too bad in endgame PvE. My flamethrower engineer is definitely not squishy and deals decent aoe damage, so it can farm gold reasonably well in dungeons. In PvP and WvW, I think they take a lot of skill and effort to play with not enough reward, relative to the other classes.

my engi is level 73 and i found having a precision/condition build does more damage than pure power and crit damage if you like me can stack 10 bleeds under 8 seconds wich makes the target lose about 1000 damage per second plus the extra 1400-2000 i deal using grenades and flamethrower. as for pvp you’ll regret being engineer.

Coated bullets and pistol

Amazing for farming monster spam events!

Depends what you call an endgame.

Farming Cursed Shore? Sure, nice AOE tagging does the trick.

PUG-runs of AC? Yeah, doable. You can even be better than some of those random derpers.

Arah, cof speedruns, fractals 10+ with organized groups? You’re pushing it. Need to do everything you can to keep up with other professions.

In the end you’ll be nothing more than a sub-par necro substitute. Let’s hope our finest our is still in future.

Isslair.4908:

Depends what you call an endgame.

Farming Cursed Shore? Sure, nice AOE tagging does the trick.

PUG-runs of AC? Yeah, doable. You can even be better than some of those random derpers.

Arah, cof speedruns, fractals 10+ with organized groups? You’re pushing it. Need to do everything you can to keep up with other professions.

In the end you’ll be nothing more than a sub-par necro substitute. Let’s hope our finest our is still in future.

^ THIS.