Guild Wars 2

Trying to get pro help from people who have played engi a lot. I’m not sure which build is better (and I’m going full offense):

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFAUlUUharYXWwELQ+FLvFVYR1ap23DGhBw4aUj5IA-TJBFwACuAAI3foaZAAPAAA

Or

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFAUlUUhaqYjXwkLQ7FL5FF4BGAV13+9fB44VEilIA-TJBFwACuAAI3foaZAAPAAA

Is there better? Also, when Scrapper hits would it be worth my time to swap toolkit for that… uhm Bomb Gyro?

I would recommend swapping out Battering Ram for Utility Goggles for two reasons:

1. Blinds are bad. No one likes them.

2. If you have two abilities that have a cast time, you can’t use both at the same time (obviously). Analyzes applies 10 stacks of vuln, is instant, and procs Static Discharge. What does this mean? That you can roll your face across F2-F4 and have every single ability go off at once, as the only one that you actually have to cast is Throw Wrench.

This makes your burst much more instantaneous, and harder to react to, as stopping to cast a second ability might not allow you to get the drop on the enemy.

It also adds a much needed stunbreaker to your build.

For an elite use either Supply Crate or Elixir X. Both are useful as they have some great CC that can prevent them from stopping any part of your wombo combo. Not only that but you have to remember, Med Pack Drop is essentially a second heal. At 0 healing power it heals for something like 7k in total.

Also swap out a sigil of fire for something else.

Thanks for that =D. For the Fire swap, what can I swap? I know its a bad sigil, but I can’t find anything that meshes well. No point in rage, I made a caster style build. Force sounds good on paper, but in practice adds very little. Blood only works if I’m not at full hp (and I intend to get the drop on them, so getting hit is not a good intention to set). What would you suggest?

Also, thoughts on the explosives build? It seems to work well on Kyhlo and Nifhel because of the narrow passages and my mine field. Thanks again by the way =).

Serious Thought.5394:

Thanks for that =D. For the Fire swap, what can I swap? I know its a bad sigil, but I can’t find anything that meshes well. No point in rage, I made a caster style build. Force sounds good on paper, but in practice adds very little. Blood only works if I’m not at full hp (and I intend to get the drop on them, so getting hit is not a good intention to set). What would you suggest?

Also, thoughts on the explosives build? It seems to work well on Kyhlo and Nifhel because of the narrow passages and my mine field. Thanks again by the way =).

Its not that its a bad sigil, it’s just that its redundant to have both lightning and fire sigils. In fact I think they share a cooldown. You should get accuracy or even a swap sigil (it will work if you go toolkit and then back to rifle)

Also if you really want full damage balls to the wall you can drop Inventions and get Firearms. The 10% attack speed is actually really good and the 20% cdr is great as well, and there is nothing wrong with Modified Ammo (as well as the bleed crit minor traits)

Also I recommend, if you do take Utility Goggles, to grab Takedown Charge instead. You will already have analyze and if you don’t win the fight against the thief/mesmer within the first few seconds chances are you are dead anyways.

Takedown Charge and AA Rocket together add ridiculous burst to an already very bursty build.

Also if you take the Goggles, remember that you can use them to stunbreak out of the self-stunning component of Overcharged Shot.

I decided to show you what I would do with a SD build, here:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFAUlUUhSuYbXwmKw6FL5FF4BGAV13+1fD44VMilIA-TJBBwAY3fAwFAocZAIPAAA

Also notice the way I set up the skill order. Throw Wrench should be the FIRST button pressed because it has a cast time, then analyze to set up, and finally Surprise Shot. You want to give them as little time to react to the doomsday combo as possible, if even one of these misses or they dodge you’re looking at a very angry enemy and you being a sitting duck.

In fact, something very wise to do is probably to auto attack them from a distance IF they already see you. Wait and see if they just preemptively waste their dodges on your auto attacks, THEN shoot netshot and go all in. Don’t use it out of the gate, because they will have all their endurance to dodge it with.

Ricky Rouse.1583:

In fact I think they share a cooldown.

different sigils have not shared icds for literally years

insanemaniac.2456:

Ricky Rouse.1583:

In fact I think they share a cooldown.

different sigils have not shared icds for literally years

Yeah I wiki’d it after.

why does force not add much?