Guild Wars 2

I have been deleting and resurrecting an engi on my account for quite some time now. I would like to know a few things to try and solidify this class before trying to compare it again to the Guardian.

1. How is it fun? So far I have only ever made it to 33 on engineer and it has been a mediocre experience.
2. What is an Engis main purpose in General PVE and Dungeons? This is the catagory I will be traversing at max level. Guardians is mostly spreading defensive boons, while dealing some nice damage.

Any thoughts, comments, and other will be gladly appreciated.

Engi is one of the most interesting classes. But most of it is wasted on PvEs simple content.

They can do pretty much ANYTHING.
Dungeons :
Great vulnerability stacking.
A range of blast finishers and fire fields for might stacking.
Can use elixers for added support.
Decent damage on single target but AMAZING AoE power damage.

EDIT : Something to note, leveing an engi is tiresome but try and get your bomb, grenade and flamethrower as soon as you can. They make all the difference.

The mediocre experience at low level is normal. Once you’re 50 and above you can start to tinker with the more interesting things.

I along with many people make the mistake of thinking engineers are so limited because of their lack of weapon choices. It’s the opposite. Because of our lack of weapon choices by giving us kits we have so many different ways to play. I would say the only class that comes close is the elementalist. So the only advice I can give is use different kits, turrets, gadgets when things grow stale. Why? Because you can.

Stick with it. After a while everything aside from Elementalist will likely feel a little dull. Leveling may be boring but it’s worth it.

That’s just leveling. Engi truly shines with it’s build diversity and in that it’s trait diversity.

As mainly a dungeon runner of course I stick to the general 66002 build, use my nades/eg/ft as much as possible.

However, I’ll swap things quite often. I’ve jumped into bomb healing builds to make certain events easier. I have my 66020 variation for more dodges, even 64022 for when I really need the dodges and speed. When I’m screwing around I’ve gone with Static Discharge heavy builds. I’ve thrown together bomb focused builds. Even Condi Engi can be quite entertaining.

As an Engi in Dungeons/fractals though your main purpose is to be that missing cog. You’re a one size fits all little widget. Is your guard/mez sub par or even missing? Ok, bring Elixer U and help with reflects. Are you not getting the condi clears you or your party needs? Well we got Fumigate on Elixir Gun for your group and Elixir C for you/group. MIssing a thief or need to help stealth? Well Smoke bomb blasting and Elixir S is there to help. Are you having a lot of people go down? Well you could slot Elixir R. Missing stability or feel like you should help with it? Ok Elixir B. Have a boss that needs pulled or CCd in general? Well Toolkit’s Magnet is great! Might stacking? Sure (you saw my rotation in that other thread )

As someone in my fractal said last night “wow, engi’s have a tool for everything!” the only problem with engi is when you run into people that say stuff like “wait, what? Engi’s have stealth?” It’s not a widely known and explored profession compared to many others. Lots of people think they are all about turrets and grenades, they know them more for their PVP flavors than their PVE ones. Which is a shame as while all those roles above are done better by others, no other profession really covers the variety quite as well.

If there are 2 things that Engi’s do the best though it’s Vulnerability stacking, on non boss mobs we’ll cap it ourselves. On bosses with Unshakable We’ll toss up 10-20 depending. The other thing that is overlooked a lot is our Immobilization uptime. We can keep bosses unable to move. This is especially good on say Tar in Arah p1, and Mossman/Archdiviner in Fractals, though it has plenty of other uses as well.

So basically you just have to explore the possibilities and have fun with it. Leveling is a drag because not all those options are there yet.

Wanna know how I have a blast levelling my engineer? Spvp XD purely spvp trust me on this.

The Engineer doesn’t appeal to everyone! If you’re forcing yourself to like it, you’re better off playing a different class!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

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The Engineer doesn’t appeal to everyone! If you’re forcing yourself to like it, you’re better off playing a different class!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

the thing is, a lot of people find levelling more than the 1st toon to 80 extremely unpleasant. so if he keeps deleting and remaking due to the class holding his attention.. it may just be the fault of the games levelling experience for his loss of interest.

Exping engi is the least fun I had more fun exping guard what I made only as pack mule. Unlike other classes make engi effective you need many chained skills specific gear, runes, sigils, traits what you simply havent while leveling so engi feels very weak. Engi starts be fun after 80 and you get more fun then with all other classes together trust me just be patient.

“How do I keep Engi interesting?”

Play Warrior for a week to get some perspective.