Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone. Im currently lvling an alt engineer. Would love some insights/reasoning behind build+playstyle. This thread is all about general PvE+dungeon.

My big question is: Why would I want to utilize Flamethrower kit rather than Bomb kit?

Do note im still lvling this character. But as far as I’ve been using these two kits/traits regarding them, I’ve found Bomb kit to be a little more reliable than flamethrower.

1. With bomb kit-based build, I can choose to go either melee-based play, or just swap some traits with the grenades for certain scenarios/bosses than needs to be ranged to fight. Compared to Flamethrower/ElixirGun builds, there seems to be lacking in terms of options (in terms of range swaps)

The control seems to be balanced on both side. Both bomb/ft have blinds, distance control(knockback vs aoe snare), although Im not sure how strong is the bomb heal traits compared to Elixir gun’s natural Weakness condition in group setting, without dedicated gears for it(heal power).

2. As far for solo play, bombs really seems to outshine flamethrower. Sure, +200 toughness is not something to scoffed at, but with bomb kit you can just kite the mobs around doing consistent damage without being touched at all.(considering most mobs are melee) Not to mention Flamethrower locks you in the awkward animation for full 2.5 seconds, and unless you have the mob(s) in the cone for full duration, you’re missing some damage ticks. To do so you either have to walk slowly in reverse direction or strafe in circles(which I found probably easy to miss the mobs since FT works with your directional facing)

3. Since Engineer really shines at Aoe dmg, both build seems to be in the same power lvl. Although I really hate the constant targetting issue with Flamethrower.(sometimes it just states Miss even though I was pouring my flame directly to the mobs)

Im not dissing Flamethrower builds, but I think I might be missing something, most probably handling my distance with the weapon. Or it maybe just Bomb kits are generally easier to use. Would love some advice/fixes, or even a good video about using/handling flamethrower.

Veldoran.5297:

Hello everyone. Im currently lvling an alt engineer. Would love some insights/reasoning behind build+playstyle. This thread is all about general PvE+dungeon.

My big question is: Why would I want to utilize Flamethrower kit rather than Bomb kit?

Do note im still lvling this character. But as far as I’ve been using these two kits/traits regarding them, I’ve found Bomb kit to be a little more reliable than flamethrower.

1. With bomb kit-based build, I can choose to go either melee-based play, or just swap some traits with the grenades for certain scenarios/bosses than needs to be ranged to fight. Compared to Flamethrower/ElixirGun builds, there seems to be lacking in terms of options (in terms of range swaps)

The control seems to be balanced on both side. Both bomb/ft have blinds, distance control(knockback vs aoe snare), although Im not sure how strong is the bomb heal traits compared to Elixir gun’s natural Weakness condition in group setting, without dedicated gears for it(heal power).

2. As far for solo play, bombs really seems to outshine flamethrower. Sure, +200 toughness is not something to scoffed at, but with bomb kit you can just kite the mobs around doing consistent damage without being touched at all.(considering most mobs are melee) Not to mention Flamethrower locks you in the awkward animation for full 2.5 seconds, and unless you have the mob(s) in the cone for full duration, you’re missing some damage ticks. To do so you either have to walk slowly in reverse direction or strafe in circles(which I found probably easy to miss the mobs since FT works with your directional facing)

3. Since Engineer really shines at Aoe dmg, both build seems to be in the same power lvl. Although I really hate the constant targetting issue with Flamethrower.(sometimes it just states Miss even though I was pouring my flame directly to the mobs)

Im not dissing Flamethrower builds, but I think I might be missing something, most probably handling my distance with the weapon. Or it maybe just Bomb kits are generally easier to use. Would love some advice/fixes, or even a good video about using/handling flamethrower.

Bomb kit scales better than Flamethrower, and is just a better kit all around. I don’t think many people will be able to argue as to why you should use flamethrower instead.