Guild Wars 2

I have a build that keeps 4.5 sec of quickness every 10 seconds… what things should you be using (or not using) when you have quickness on? For instance will your hammer 2 block time decrease if you have quickness on? Should you be trying to AA with the ususally slow hammer? What if you need to heal?

Thoughts or tips?

Quickness generally not hugely useful for the Engineer due to no strong channelled abilities, the best uses are Auto attacks in Rifle/Hammer.

Also to answer your other question, defensive moves like hammer 2 and 4 are not affected by quickness as of something like 6 months ago. Still use them if you need to for defense, I guess, but their function is completely unchanged by quickness so, as Chaith said, your best bet is for things like auto attacks. Flamethrower auto is probably the most notably affected, but there isn’t a lot of reason to use it, and if the opponent has retaliation boon you’ll get wrecked extra fast using FT auto with quickness.

It also affects you grenade throws, if you play grenades, so there’s that.

Thanks Guys! So adaptive armour it is then! the 20% condi damage reduction is nice for surviveability.

Incidentally… when you have adaptive armour and your toughness increases, so two would things that gain a % based on toughness (eg. undead runes or your power due to the bottom master trait of scrapper)?

Finally, since your all being very helpful, if you use sigil of leeching and you swap weapons, it says “your next attack steals health”. What if that attack doesn’t hit anything? What if it is blocked? I guess this question also applies to the FT tool belt skill, which I know holds untill you hit something, but I’m not sure if its wasted on an evaded attack or block.

What about Jump Shot and Overcharged Shot?

shion.2084:

Thanks Guys! So adaptive armour it is then! the 20% condi damage reduction is nice for surviveability.

Incidentally… when you have adaptive armour and your toughness increases, so two would things that gain a % based on toughness (eg. undead runes or your power due to the bottom master trait of scrapper)?

Finally, since your all being very helpful, if you use sigil of leeching and you swap weapons, it says “your next attack steals health”. What if that attack doesn’t hit anything? What if it is blocked? I guess this question also applies to the FT tool belt skill, which I know holds untill you hit something, but I’m not sure if its wasted on an evaded attack or block.

I was looking into this the other day, and I concluded that I’m pretty sure it’s actually "your next three (or whatever) attacks that hit an opponent. However, if the attack is blocked or against something invulnerable it will burn the proc without having any effect.