Guild Wars 2

Is there any good AoE build for Engineers?

Grenades?
Just saying..

Bombs.

They can be traited for AoE heal. Set up combo fields.

For what? wvw or dungeons. grenades. no other option.
Solo pve. Spvp. bombs, grenades, or p/p can all aoe well.

Main hand pistol with coated bullets (30 point firearms).
OR
Grenades with grenadier (30 point explosives).

Both are fun and do well enough.
Don’t believe the hype that “grenades” are the only option for dungeons if you want to do AoE. You will cramp up, get fatigued, and end up playing poorly in the long run (I see it more often than not). Seriously, go run Lupi as a Grenadier and tell me you are having a good time.

I have done every path in every dungeon except two paths in Arah, and have played pretty much every build the engi has to offer from flamethrower to bomberman and everything in between and right now pistol with coated or grenades with grenadier will BOTH end up offering you competitive AoE dmg.

In three seconds Casia and her friend Coglin will proceed to kitten all over this post. You can believe them if you want. I could personally care less.

well I certainly wouldn’t say nonstop grenade spam is fun.. haha.

But honestly the 15stacks of vul, and mathematically much much higher damage, at range, so you aren’t getting hit by all the melee attacks in pve. The math says grenades do 3-5times as much damage. Its hard to say other things are valid options when something does 400% more damage.

I agree that grenades are definitely not the only way for AoE. I almost never use them outside of WvW, and then I do not use them a lot. I like to use bombs. I feel they also work well for combo fields for my pistol shots.

how viable is a bombs in dungeons pvp?

AoE pistols, bombs, and grenades are all situational to different situations. I personally just feel that bomb with p/p or p/s work well together.

i do like tha p/p build just tryin to find what works well with it since im not a fan of grenades