Looking for advice on 'condition bunker'

Looking for advice on 'condition bunker'

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Posted by: Code.5719

Code.5719

Hi all,

I’m new to GW2, playing since mid December 2013.


I am an experienced MMO player and love GW2 so far. I have a Guardian and Necromancer at 80 and an Engineer at 27 – the PVE side of the game isn’t really grabbing me, but I absolutely love sPVP and can’t wait to get involved in tPVP.

Unfortunately, neither the Guardian nor the Necromancer are particularly resonating with me in sPVP. I feel that I could enjoy pure bunker Guardian in an organised tPVP setting, but in sPVP it is very boring.

After getting ~ 100 matches under my belt, I’ve experienced most classes and popular builds. One of the most intriguing to me is Engineer – I abandoned my PVE engineer due to complexity as it was the first profession I tried. Now that I understand the game more, the complexity is attracting me. However, it is quite difficult to find recent builds for s/tPVP Engineers.

I have heard rumblings that an s/tPVP build of Engineer known as Condition Bunker Engineer is one of the most viable builds in the current meta. However, I am struggling to find information regarding it.

Some of the choices are obvious – Pistol/Shield, Nightmare (or similar) runes, sustain utilities. Unfortunately, I’m not yet familiar enough with the game systems to feel comfortable winging my build completely – I will definitely customize a build to match my personal playstyle, but I do feel the need for a skeleton build and some discussion regarding combos so that I can start from somewhere.

From scratch, what I’ve come up with is this.

Although already imposing on you, I’d also like to understand the Stun Break and Condi removal capability of the engineer – I know that Elixir S is a stun break and Elixir R provides both Stun Break and AoE Condition Removal. I’m not clear what the other viable choices are though.

Any and all advice would be much appreciated. Thank you for your time!

(edited by Code.5719)

Looking for advice on 'condition bunker'

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Posted by: ellesee.8297

ellesee.8297

lots of people for some reason refer to the standard condi engi build as a bunker. it’s not a bunker. here’s a tankier version of the build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqelIqyX3zSiF17IyoCdmoH5n+ZZfeIXsFEC-ToAAzCpI0SplTLjWStsaNEZuA

then there’s an actual bunker using condi though without stability the role of an engi bunker will always be limited, as it is the bunker’s job to get the stomps on the point. you need something like a soldier warrior to take over that role.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQFAUlIqqbH5ynF17IRoHF2+qV0D9bZH/pgcB-TkAg2CrIMSZkzIjRSjsGN+A

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Looking for advice on 'condition bunker'

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Posted by: Linc.6834

Linc.6834

I was just using your second build ellesee with a couple changes:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqelIq6ZX3SdF17IRoH2/+qV0D9bZH/pgcB-ToAg2CrIaS1krJTTymsNNAZuA
It was soo much fun, practically immortal. And if you take Elixer B and use it properly, along with healing mist you can keep from being decapped. I found it fun to assault mid or far point with someone else and just camp it for the whole game, you can easily hold off 2 or three people yourself.

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