Guild Wars 2

So I’ve played my engineer for 320 hours and still no fricken clue if I’m playing it right or whatever. Basically I got almost all carrion stats with perplexity runes, 2 pistols, flame turret and missile turret, and 1 elixir to cure all conditions. Traits are set up for mostly everything turret based with a couple skills for pistol such as recharge rate and bullets piercing. This is alright but I feel sorta whimpy and it seems a bit of a struggle. Especially compared to my ranger who can kill something in just a few seconds before anything reaches me. Any ideas is much appreciated. This is for PVE btw.

Yep, u do it wrong. If u want to kill something instantly, you should go to power based build, rifle bombs flamethrower toolkit/elixir B, power crit chance crit damage.

If you’re just doing solo PvE content, you can go condi or power. Carrion will allow you to do a bit of both, but you’re going to need a kit. For carrion gear, either bomb kit, grenade kit, or flamethrower kit, or any combination of the three will work. Then if you still want turrets you still have two slots for those.

All this of course is assuming you are just having fun solo in open world and do not care about being optimal. Otherwise you would need to switch it up to a power build as previously mentioned.

yeah you did your gear fine but your utilities (and prolly build) sound like suck. give nades and/or bombs a shot, and use traits that buff those (but not healy bombs, too deep in inventions for pve).

engi wants to be at different ranges to output the best damage, where your ranger just wants to stay away and pew pew all the time. so you need to learn when to dodge melee attacks, and to slowly chain your cc/blinds so that each ranged attack misses.

you also may want to consider switching to some rabid gear and make use of incendiary powder, engi condi builds in general feel like theyre missing a lot of damage if you dont take that trait.

For information about equipment:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Best-PvE-build-for-engineer-and-investment/first#post4260538

In PvE turrets are hardly ever useful outside of AFK farming an event. Instead, you’ll want to use Grenade Kit, Bomb Kit or both.
However don’t expect that any other profession is as laid-back in open PvE as the ranger.

A very durable open PvE build:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqelUUpEr9ZxdLseRSaBNq0AqMKyQulPPhA8UA-TBRNgAnK/A0Dgo+jtSQA-e
You can fairly easy get a Soldier armor by doing Ascalonian Catacombs, path 1 and 3 are doable even with PUGs.

The above build provides permanent Swiftness, virtually permanent Vigor, constant self-healing, 3 blinds, 3 snares, 2 knockbacks, 1 block, 1 projectile reflection and 2 condition removes on a fairly short cooldown (Elixir Gun #5 removes 1 condition on impact). If you’re used to these utility skills you should hardly ever have any survivability issues in open PvE.

If you want a more offensive build for open PvE or dungeons watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYWpstTq528#t=75