Guild Wars 2

Hello Engineers! I am loving your class but I am bewildered with the massive amount of options and playstyles.

I hope you can help me find a playstyle based on the following:

1. I don’t PvP. It’s the least of my concern.

2. So far, I can’t seem to find a really nice use for kits. Flamethrower is nice but it misses to often. Grenades are unweildy. Bombs are super duper awesome but very situational (actually I’m just having a hard time using them against ranged). I’d prefer not to use kits but if I had to, it would be Bombs or Elixir Gun.

3. I love the pistols. The rifle – not so much because there’s not a lot of AoE and the attacks seem slow. Yes, I LOVE AoE damage. I don’t mind giving up some single target viability for AoE damage.

4. Not really a fan of elixirs.

5. I love turrents. I just hate the fact that Pickup is also bound to F and it’s really annoying when you accidentally pickup your turret when you meant to pick up loot.

What I’m looking for is one of these (please state as well what utility skills you bring and what stats you focus on):

1. A pistol/pistol or pistol/shield build OR

2. A bomb kit build OR

3. A turrent build (I love the turrents).

Thanks