Guild Wars 2

Hello fellow Engineers! I’ve been reading the forums a lot lately, but I thought I would ask my question directly: How can I improve my build?

For some back story, I, like many others, have been playing the game since Beta. Since then, I’ve played an Engineer, and although I have two other level 80s and the other five classes at my disposal, my Engineer is always the one I fall back to. I love her to pieces, and I wouldn’t have her any other way.

Anyway, I run a Condition/Crit build (and I have been running this build since October), but I like to provide support to my group as well (I mostly run with my guild), so I wanted to see if there were some of you here who could suggest ways I can be more support (Note: There isn’t a lot of CD removal outside of my Healing Turret because I regularly run with Guardians/Warriors/Necromancers), although I am considering a more in-your-face tanky build as well (If you can provide suggestions of how to make that transition, that’d be awesome too!)

Gear
Armour: Full Twilight Arbour Rabid (Pr/CD/Tgh) gear, head to toe
Main Hand: Mystic Pistol of Corruption (Superior Sigil of Corruption)
Off Hand: Mystic Pistol of Earth (Superior Sigil of Earth) (Occasionally swapped for a Kodan Shield)

Accessories
Back: Prototype Fractal Capacitor (Rabid)
Earrings: Gargoyle Skull, Chrysocola Orichalcum Earring of Carrion
Amulet: Jade Wind Orb
Rings: Ouroboros Loop (Infused), Mellaggan’s Whorl

I run 30/30/10/0/0, and my utilities for groups usually look like:
6: Healing Turret
7: Elixir R
8: Bomb Kit (Often switched for Elixir S if running Lupi)
9: Grenade Kit
Elite: Supply Drop

As it stands, I think I do decent damage output and I still provide minimal support.. but I’d like to be able to swap it up every now and then and go mostly support. What do you guys suggest for someone in my case? I’m also more than happy to hear out some suggestions regarding on how I can improve my current build (Utilities I can change? Accessory suggestions? Trait changes? Lemme know!)

Thanks in Advance,

- Nova

Something like this is very effective for a more support build that still does a lot of condition damage. It is very effective, I am using it currently both in team fights, GvG, and solo roaming.

I change out burn on crit for larger bomb explosion radius depending on situation.

You could also swap sigil of corruption for sigil of life if you wanted even more support by boosting healing instead of damage. Which I am going to play with myself next time I do an all guild WvW night to see if the added healing is stronger than the added damage.

It would also be a very easy transition, I was running basically all rabid myself and simply swapped my jewelry over for Apothecary (which is cheap now!).

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqelIq6ZH5yuF1LJxoCdO0D8bY1KSR+1/nCsF-j0yAIMEkWApFgkHgcYR0YrmFRjVPDpZwUrK16YAvyyqFCYxcA-w

well an easy way to provide more group healing is to swap something for thumper turret.

If you drop thumper, overcharge it, and then denotate and hit the tool belt. Basically 2 double taps with the right keybinds, you get 3 instant blast finishers you can toss on a water field for a burst of AoE healing from your healing turret’s tool belt.

Or 4-5 blasts with your bomb + healing turret detonate.

All in all if you time it well and get use to running it, you can do burst heals of 3-5k AoE every minute.

It is also nice for might stacking on a fire field, you can easily set your team up with 9-12 stacks before a fight.

Keep in mind the turret detonate blast finisher is now off you, and not the turret, so be sure to stand in the fields when you use them.

Velron.3729:

Something like this is very effective for a more support build that still does a lot of condition damage. It is very effective, I am using it currently both in team fights, GvG, and solo roaming.

I change out burn on crit for larger bomb explosion radius depending on situation.

You could also swap sigil of corruption for sigil of life if you wanted even more support by boosting healing instead of damage. Which I am going to play with myself next time I do an all guild WvW night to see if the added healing is stronger than the added damage.

It would also be a very easy transition, I was running basically all rabid myself and simply swapped my jewelry over for Apothecary (which is cheap now!).

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqelIq6ZH5yuF1LJxoCdO0D8bY1KSR+1/nCsF-j0yAIMEkWApFgkHgcYR0YrmFRjVPDpZwUrK16YAvyyqFCYxcA-w

This is awesome, and good to know I only need to make a couple of changes. I’m definitely going to be trying this out; thank you so much

Karast.1927:

well an easy way to provide more group healing is to swap something for thumper turret.

If you drop thumper, overcharge it, and then denotate and hit the tool belt. Basically 2 double taps with the right keybinds, you get 3 instant blast finishers you can toss on a water field for a burst of AoE healing from your healing turret’s tool belt.

Or 4-5 blasts with your bomb + healing turret detonate.

All in all if you time it well and get use to running it, you can do burst heals of 3-5k AoE every minute.

It is also nice for might stacking on a fire field, you can easily set your team up with 9-12 stacks before a fight.

Keep in mind the turret detonate blast finisher is now off you, and not the turret, so be sure to stand in the fields when you use them.

I’ll have to fiddle with the Thumper! I haven’t used it in a really, really long time. Thanks for your suggestion, I’ll give it a whirl!

The trait Sharpshooter in Firearms gives you a 30% chance to cause bleeding on critical. Adding a Superior Sigil of Earth is, imo, redundant and not that valuable. Your not increasing the chance to apply bleed by that much. I forget how much you increase the chance, but it’s not by 60% (someone correct me if I’m wrong). So I would change that sigil out.