Guild Wars 2

Hey there,

I am still kind of new to GW2, despite playing GW for a good length of time and owning it since the release. I am “maining” (highest level at 72) Engineer and loving it. I have been trying to research trait builds and such that fit my play style, admittedly I am still figuring out. I was wondering if people have any recommended Control/Decent damage builds for the Engineer. I love our class and out of every class I have attempted to play this is about the most fun I have had playing MMOs.

Thank you.

What is your play style?

Good control you can get with rifle or pistol/shield, you can also get that with the Flame Thrower or the tool kit.

For damage, grenades and bombs kind of win. you can get decent dmg with a condition build with pistols, or with the FT.

For grenades maybe a 30/0/20/0/20 build. bombs a 20/0/30/0/20 build. FT build would be 10/20/0/20/20 build. In any one of those builds, you can move traits around.

Keep in mind that because they fixed so much of the class (besides turrets), in regard to utility skills there are a ton of different versions of similar builds, and not one build that is the best per se. It all depends on your preferences, environment, and how you play. You don’t need rocket boots or slick shoes in a small closed-in environment, you may want another gadget or elixir.

As Varqov said, there’s no one build that trumps any other. Every engineer build will be specialized for one or two roles, and will do very well in those regards.

As far as control builds go:
-Rifle is a great control weapon.
-Shield is a good control weapon.
-Toolkit is an amazing control kit.
-Flamethrower can be used as a good control kit, though I personally don’t love using it for that purpose.
-Most gadgets have great control.
-Most turrets have great control.

Most control builds tend to be also defensive builds by nature, but they still deal damage adequately. Any given build will have good matchups and bad matchups. For example, a quadturret build using Rocket Turret, Net Turret, and the rifle can keep an opponent permanently knocked down or immobilized. As a result, they are a hard counter to thieves (who have few means of avoiding or negating CC), while being hard countered by guardians (who have unparalleled stability access). A toolkit/gadgets build will not be able to shut down a thief as easily, but will have a far better time with a guardian.

Thank you all for the responses! I have been trying to research it but this has given me a starting place to figure out how to spec and what weapon/kits to use.