Guild Wars 2

I’m thinking of starting a new character, as Elementalist just is a bit too samey for my liking, and Engineer sounds like it has some cool potential. In particular, I’m looking at the Scrapper elite.

So, my question to all the engineer players out there: should I pick up the class and is the Scrapper elite worth it?

Scrapper is pretty nice in WvW and from what I hear PVP (I don’t do sPVP). For PVE it’s /meh, situational usefulness but as a whole not what is primarily used. Core Engi is still nice though.

As Jerus said,

In PvE, scrapper is meh. The damage output is low compared to a warrior or thief, and the defensive capabilities are generally only useful in high projectile scenarios (IE Fractals). Core engineer is still quite good though.

In PvP, scrapper is a hell of a tank. And I hear it’s a good roamer in WvW.

Engi can be great fun in all game modes.

Scrapper has its uses in PvE also.
It has great defensive capabilities that help on harder content (like HoT) and can do very well on overland zergs with the Flamethrower.

Core engi is better than scrapper for a pure DPS role when you don’t need to generate your own might (although you could with combos).

If you know how to dodge scrapper is nearly useless for pve since the biggest advantages are the block and evade on hammer it does have some niche uses in some very fringe cases. Core engi is superior in almost every way and unlike other HoT Elite specializations there is no direct synergy with the scrapper trait line and other engi traits and after the last balance patch some scrapper traits have been further devalued now that daze was removed from gyros but hey that trait is still there and the same to modify your daze duration that you have very limited access to now.

shrug

So for some one like me that sucks at dodging the Scrapper would be great for PVE, do you stay in Hammer the whole time, should I keep
Flamethrower in utilities to have a lootstick, what other utilities should I use?

I’m coming into with out much familiarity with an Engineer other than hearing their rotation is spamming everything and then wait for cool downs to
Reset.

Scrappers are so good! They get 3 leap finishers on their rocket charge, massive damage on the shock shield, extreme cc on oil boots and did I mention INSTACAST gyros with the ability to daze when instantly destroyed?!?!?! SO GOOD RIGHT Ahahahaha…oh wait “cries”

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Scrappers are so good! They get 3 leap finishers on their rocket charge, massive damage on the shock shield, extreme cc on oil boots and did I mention INSTACAST gyros with the ability to daze when instantly destroyed?!?!?! SO GOOD RIGHT Ahahahaha…oh wait “cries”

And tbf, we deserved those nerfs, what they forgot is to give us something at exchange of those nerfs :c

And tbf, we deserved those nerfs, what they forgot is to give us something at exchange of those nerfs :c
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I agree the scrapper spec was quite over-tuned XD I guess I’m just still salty about the cast time being added to medic gyro