Guild Wars 2

I’m looking for a change of pace with my engineer. Still playing mine since day one of release and never get tired of him. Leveled every class to 80 and still say engineers are where it’s at.

That bring said, I want to be as effective as I can in dungeons and fractals. Right now when I jump into PvP I’m on my thief, WvW and it’s the elementalist and dungeons seems to be either my warrior or guardian. Now I’ve spent the most amount of time in fractals with my engineer but I don’t seem to as effective at 15+ as I would like with my engineer.

So what do you all run? Nades? SD? Healing bombs?

Basically I’m open to anything. Let’s hear it.

80 views and nothing? Am I really to believe there does not exist a single build viable in dungeons or fractals?

I tend to run either bomb with sd or ft/eg builds, most people still seem to prefer grenades though because they don’t like being that close to stuff I guess (I basically refuse to use them because carpal tunnel is not high on my priority list). If going the bomb route or really the ft/eg wear as much zerker as you can handle, for grenades either zerker or rampager (still on the fence which one is better). Mostly though it’s really going to depend on your team composition what is going to be successful for you since you are only one member of the team.

Mathrin.3590:

80 views and nothing? Am I really to believe there does not exist a single build viable in dungeons or fractals?

With all due respect, this is a question that is asked every day. The threads are there. I understand that the search feature on this forum is broken, but you would find your answer looking back even just a couple pages through the Engineer folder history.

My build is in my signature.

The hard part is that there isn’t any one “effective” way to run an engineer. You could run a build completely different from others, and still contribute meaningfully.

30 explosive, take grenade range , 20% cd for gren and bombs and incinidary poweder
10 in fire arms, pistol CD
20 alchemy invigorating speed, and backpack regen
10 in tools for speedy kits.
kits you should use – elixir gun, bomb and gren (u can change explosive from grenede range to bomb radius increase whenever u want , just a perk of this build)
the elixir gun u can replace to what ever, heal should be healing turret (i suppose i dont need to teach you how to use it)
and thats about it, this build is everything, and its a god in pvp and with the gren range it owns wvw

itamar.4690:

30 explosive, take grenade range , 20% cd for gren and bombs and incinidary poweder
10 in fire arms, pistol CD
20 alchemy invigorating speed, and backpack regen
10 in tools for speedy kits.
kits you should use – elixir gun, bomb and gren (u can change explosive from grenede range to bomb radius increase whenever u want , just a perk of this build)
the elixir gun u can replace to what ever, heal should be healing turret (i suppose i dont need to teach you how to use it)
and thats about it, this build is everything, and its a god in pvp and with the gren range it owns wvw

A note on incendiary powder, A.) It’s single target, and B.) if you have another class that applies burning alot (looking at you guardian) it becomes more or less worthless, probably a better option would be 10% more damage from explosions or even shrapnel if you really want to bleed the hell out of stuff (and it’s aoe). Everyone seems to discount the bombkit as en effective way to deal damage, but with 25 might and 25 vuln + a warrior banner and proper food and trait setup it’s easy to get 8k+ auto’s from bombkit, it’s why I like to pair the kit with sd, and run toolkit and then any of the other standard sd utilities you find useful. You still have perma swiftness and vigor for lots of dodges and then toolkit for the 3 second block, or even using the toolkit pull to yank a single target to you if someone is going to go down and you want to give them a shot by pulling the mob away. The disadvantage of course is that you have very limited condi removal in that setup.

ShadowPuppet.3746:

itamar.4690:

30 explosive, take grenade range , 20% cd for gren and bombs and incinidary poweder
10 in fire arms, pistol CD
20 alchemy invigorating speed, and backpack regen
10 in tools for speedy kits.
kits you should use – elixir gun, bomb and gren (u can change explosive from grenede range to bomb radius increase whenever u want , just a perk of this build)
the elixir gun u can replace to what ever, heal should be healing turret (i suppose i dont need to teach you how to use it)
and thats about it, this build is everything, and its a god in pvp and with the gren range it owns wvw

A note on incendiary powder, A.) It’s single target, and B.) if you have another class that applies burning alot (looking at you guardian) it becomes more or less worthless, probably a better option would be 10% more damage from explosions or even shrapnel if you really want to bleed the hell out of stuff (and it’s aoe). Everyone seems to discount the bombkit as en effective way to deal damage, but with 25 might and 25 vuln + a warrior banner and proper food and trait setup it’s easy to get 8k+ auto’s from bombkit, it’s why I like to pair the kit with sd, and run toolkit and then any of the other standard sd utilities you find useful. You still have perma swiftness and vigor for lots of dodges and then toolkit for the 3 second block, or even using the toolkit pull to yank a single target to you if someone is going to go down and you want to give them a shot by pulling the mob away. The disadvantage of course is that you have very limited condi removal in that setup.

yep, anyway the build i gave him is VERY versatile and works for literraly everything, especially in pvp