Guild Wars 2

Hello,
I play an Engi as my main in PVE, and I recently took an interest in SPvP. I am having a lot of fun, and I can take down Warriors, Guardians, and Ele’s 9 times out of ten, no real problem. But when I go against Necros, Condi Hunters, and thieves, I seem to be having a lot of trouble.
I am not too concerned with necros, they kindo counter everyone right now. But I would like some advice on how I should fight the Hunters and thieves.

Here is my build:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vcAQJAqelUUpEr9ZxkLseRiMqQnBqQeJSBmZZfe8WsFEC-ToAAzCuIaS1krJTTymsNNCZ6B

It’s a condi build. I mainly use Grenades, but I try to pop in and throw down the #2 and #3 with my bombs when I can, as well as the #2 and #3 on the toolkit. I try to keep my opponent knocked down as much as possible with the #4 shield skill, and my Big ‘ol Bomb.
I do have a lot of trouble with condition removal. I tried to use the med-kit for the #4 skill, but it’s a bit clumsy, and sometimes seems as if it actually doesn’t work at all.

Any advice is appreciated.

-you don’t have any stunbreak and you don’t have any defensive cc traits like protection injection or stabilized armor. you need those
-you don’t have vigor or energy sigil. you need at least one of those. dodging wins the game.
-undead runes are meh. use nightmare or adventurer.
-leeching and geomancy sigils don’t stack.dont’ stack. substitute one with corruption. smoldering is an option if you run nightmare for +50% burn duration.
-you’re using bombs without forceful explosives. you need forceful explosives in any bomb build.

I don’t like bombs and grenades in the same PvP build. I can’t say anything is wrong with it persay, I just think in PvP your utilities need to have some important things in them, and using two slots for AOE damage isn’t the best use of those few slots. Elixir Gun could help you, Elixir C is nice when condi players dump all their condis on you (good players will wait for you to cleanse before dumping everything on you, so use Healing Turret when you first get a couple). Elixir S is so good in sPvP as well, keeps damage off you and gives you a stealth to get away or stomp.

The PvP build I’m currently using is in my sig, it’s more or less what some of the high level Engineers are using right now.

I understand where the OP is coming from though, bombs and grenades together are too much fun in PvE. Since that’s where I spend most of my time and I had pistol/shield, I didn’t see much usefulness in toolkit or Infused precision trait, etc. But man those things are great versus human opponents. I love elixir S too for protection/escape. Condition duration is my favorite in wvw (except for against necros lol)

Your build is too man-mode and has not enough defensive traits/utilities. Ellesee nailed most of it.

If you face an obnoxious amount of Condi Necros and or Condi Rangers, Condi Engineers, then learning a power build will put you at a huge advantage.

http://www.twitch.tv/chaithh/c/3933105

The build is my regular power tournament build:

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQFAUlIqiY38SyF17IyIFdmoJSh+ZZfe8WtFEC-ToAg0CnIqRVjrGTNyas1ME5AB

But with Lyssa runes and Elixir X over Supply Crate. It’s quite specialized..

Thank you everyone for the advice, it has given me a lot to think about. I swapped out my bomb kit for elixir gun, and Blood injection for invigorating speed, both of which seems to have help quite a bit. I will try a few more of the suggestions you all have made, and I am still open to any other advice you have.

Here is the adjusted build I am running:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vcAQJAqelUUpErlcxdLseRiMqQnBqQeJSR+ZZfe8WsFEC-ToAAzCpIaS1krJTTymsNNCZKA

removing bomb kit effectively removed all your reliable burning which is your strongest condition. your only burning now comes from incendiary powder which is a great trait, but unreliable. maybe you’ll proc it on a mesmer clone or ranger pet and it becomes just a wasted cooldown. i’d run offhand pistol to make up for this burning loss.

also smoldering will do nothing without nightmare runes. burning ticks round down. so if you have 5.9 seconds of burning, it will only count as five seconds, or 5 ticks. with just smoldering you have 5.5 seconds of burning. with smoldering plus nightmare, your incendiary powder reaches the 6 second mark giving you an extra tick of burning.