Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

I’m quite new to the game, i dont really understand everything yet. I was wondering how i go about building a support engineer.. and would i need different armour etc. for WvW and PVE ? i what skills should i use ? and any tips that could possibly help me down the track

For PvE I’d recommend to drop the supporter idea and focus on dps (for dungeons) and mass-tagging (for farming Living Story).
The reason for this is that people just want to clear dungeons as fast as possible, and berserker gear is your best bet for this.

this would be a typical dungeon nade-spammer for starters.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUvpKxmc3n9zyt72Fr317ItF0oCDoPxIa7nbYAOKA-TBSBwAFV+FRJ4N1fIu/AKdEIM/B4BBk/CCIKgIC-e
you can upgrade it with runes of strength later on (but they are pretty expensive) and slowly exchange the exotic gear with ascended ones.
also make sure to use slaying-potions for the dungeon you’re entering. (flame-legion-slaying for citadel of flame, f.e.)
This build also works nicely for map-completion and LS-farming, if you switch empowering adrenaline with forceful explosives.

For WvW however you have a valid option for going support.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqelUUvp6z+ZXyN5y+afFr317IpFUo3YHHgIH5W+4ECAA-TBiEABJcCBES5nDPIASVCOj6PAY+bp9HIRPBZAKGDA-e
this is a celestial bomb-healer for starters that can survive in the melee-train and heal people up, while also giving soft-cc via blinds, cripple and chill.
make sure to blast your waterfield with shield #4 and Big old Bomb, while using elixir S either for escapes for for stomping people safely. Toolkit gives you a nice 3-seconds block and #5 is perfect for pulling necros, eles and other backliners into the wrath of your zerg.
if you tend to get overloaded with conditions, you could aim for runes of melandru instead, which further decrease condi- and stun-duration, but are a lot more expensive.

Both builds are just examples of what generally tends to work out, but engineers have various options for PvE and WvW, so experimenting with traits and utilities on your own to get a feel for them is the best advice I can give.

Thank you. would you be able to tell me what a conditional Engineer is ?

Conditions:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Conditions

If you improve the condition damage stat it makes you a force to be reckoned with in wvw and pvp. Look for attacks that have red symbols in the descriptions, such as burns, poisons, confusion, etc.

On the note about supporting. dps build will always make you an asset in a party while supporting is situational. Supporting is a generally for more experienced players if you’re an engineer in my opinion, the easiest support class being guardian. Leave support to when you’ve seasoned yourself a little, but you don’t have to drop the idea.

I just finished the main story on my engineer with my healing elixir bomb build, which is not any sort of accomplishment. I actually took away a few points…

- Pick up groups are likely to be disorganized, so you can’t expect 25 might stack or fury to be guaranteed.
- The elixir gun brings a good amount of support on it’s own.
- Stacking vulnerability, which my build did not do is hugely important. It’s actually very big on support as it brings up the dps of the whole group.

To that end I’ve spent some time on it and here is what I’ve come up with:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqelUUvpKxmc3n9zyd72Fr317IqFUoj6GDAoaxnn4BaKA-TRSBwA3VVhuJoIKBvqE72+jaFlVegSPQ+TAAgHAQAgDAuOIKAxC-e

Gear I would really like to have and I think you can do basically anything with:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpEr9ZxdLseBA-TBSBAB0s/QjKBHV9nrU6VmyA80BAwDAIvLAQAgDAuOAA-e

6/6/0/0/2 rifle with empowering adrenaline, explosive powder, grenadier, precise sights, rifle mod, modified ammunition, static discharge using grenades, elixir gun and flamethrower is the most dps you can achieve.
That being said, if the fight is longer you can replace empowering adrenaline with shrapnel, explosive powder with short fuse and rifle mod with hair trigger.
Furthermore, replacing flamethrower with bomb will give you more support because of the superior might stacking and the smoke field it provides which blinds and can be used to stealth. Replacing rifle with p/s gives you an extra blast finisher, reflect and block but it is a considerable dps loss.
Any other advice in this thread is pretty bad. Robert out.

I sometimes run a combat healer build. Pistol shield, apothecary gear, triple kit bomb, wrench, elixir gun. 2,0,6,6,0. Bomb heals, 2 water field, multiple blast finishers, multiple interupts, 4 regens. I run it with different runes at times but currently using perplexity. The idea being I am a bunker for the group with area heals, area stealth (for a quick target break), might stacks, area conditions removal, area damage reflect and the added threat of stacking confusion on enemies that decide to engage the stack. I would NOT specifically recommend the perplex runes but once you and your group understand the build and with good communication you can create a very good bunker area. It’s complicated and you’ll be very dependant on the group but it is effective when done properly.

WvW stuff, not for pve.

I guess a lot depends on your group role. If you have support eles or guards id leave the bulk of sustain to them and focus on what you are good at, DPS and utility support with blasts and fields.

I look at myself as condi pressure in the lull between our venom share condi burst/epidemics. But I can also bring some good utility to the table with my fields and blasts. I have steel packed powder to up my groups overall dps, and the usual incendiary powder that goes with condi/bunkers. Plus all the other condi spam a necro would love to epidemic.

I actually ditched the elixir gun in group play for several reasons, i found rocket boots better than acid bomb for my personal play style. Rocket boots break immobilise, when that train comes calling you will be flurried(not fun sitting under 12 secs of immob from devourer venomshare either), that’s generally a 4 sec immob that they will look to stack more immob on top of for the epi. RB’s are still a blast finisher and has the rocket kick which burns the target. This has good synergy with my condi dmg and forgeman runes, light fields are easy to come by from the guards so im not missing super elixir and i run grenade kit so blasting my poison field gives out AoE weakness.

Im actually looking to try elixir infused bombs at some point but i find mostly our groups sustain comes from the Guardians(they do it so well), they empower, dodge roll heal provide crazy boon support and condi clear and blast my water field. Every time that water field goes down i am blasting it 3 or 4 times just by myself(big ol bomb, magnetic inversion, detonate turret, rocket boots), add in a hammer blast or 2 and you can start dragging some serious healing out of that water field for the group.

smoke field, fire field and poison field same deals depending upon what the group needs at the time.

Bomb heal builds are definitely very solid since the bomb kit itself gives a lot of utility. I might suggest something like this if you want heavy support. (WvW)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUp6q9ZxdLseRiaBF6bsxAAqLIyQmlPFBA-TFyGwAAeAAhV/RvSQjK9CqMI9+Di1BQ4CAQGgitA-w

I like to use elixir gun for these purposes because fumigate really helps out people, and Elixir B is the only way to get stability but at least it’s group. Heal bombs with sigil runes = good.

I was in tPvP the other day with a support engi that had a bomb heal build and was about support and survivability. I stood next to him and spammed condition on all the things and he kept me alive and pushed enemies back out of melee range (still in grenade range though). It was pretty awesome as I’d never seen a build like that before. I may have to try that at some point although it’s not really my play style.

Jeff.5489:

I was in tPvP the other day with a support engi that had a bomb heal build and was about support and survivability. I stood next to him and spammed condition on all the things and he kept me alive and pushed enemies back out of melee range (still in grenade range though). It was pretty awesome as I’d never seen a build like that before. I may have to try that at some point although it’s not really my play style.

Grenades are 1500 range traited. It’s kinda hard not to be in range for them.