Guild Wars 2

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First to say I’m theorycrafting alot and always try to stay away of the main stream,
cause I know what main stream builds are capable of.
My Engi (76) is still not 80 and its the seventh char I made.

I’m wondering why only a few ppl talk about bombs because I fall in love with it.

I have 30 points in Explosive for maximum boom, and 30 points in Inventions for huge support via Elixir-Infused Bombs and lvl65 cleric gear (without jewelry atm).
I can almost brainafk enemy groups in pve and hell I can get a Dolyak down while 2-3 ppl hurt me at the same time.

my build…

Explosive:
- III Forceful Explosives
- VII Explosive Powder
- XII Autodefense Bomb Dispenser

Inventions:
- II Explosive Descent, or III Metal Plating, or VI Cloaking Device
- IX Elite Supplies, or X Autotool Installation
- XI Elixir-Infused Bombs

This build lacks at …
- Conditon remove; only have Med Kit and Cloaking Device
- Swiftness; only have Med Kit
- Stability; can evade stunlock only via Smoke Field + Blast Finisher

This Build shines in melee fights, and it seems to surprise most enemies
The damage comes with Bomb#1-3, while Net-/Thumper-Turret and/or the Rifle hold the enemy in place.
Every 10-20sec I switch to Med Kit and get me some nice extra support packages and then I switch back to root the enemy and spit bombs again.
It needs a bit of coordination so you wont get hit to often and you wont miss the enemy.

Its always saver to run with a premade team and both sides take profit (area heals, area condition reamove, area swiftness, …).
It gets worse when your team pin down a enemy (group) and you all jump on top of that.

I didnt play this build in PvP jet but I’m willing to do that and then I share my experience with you guys.
But I have to get 42 SP first, cause my main goal is to reach 250 SP with this char!

I’m hoping you guys have some similar experience and wanna share it.

addion: kitten title cant be chanced, So I had to go with this topic

There are a lot of bomb based build. I even saw glass-cannon bomb engineers in PVP killing an opponent in a blink of an eye. It’s a matter of preference and of curse the lack of range attacks may be a disadvantage.

I recently made a Bomb build for my Engineer, 30/20/0/0/20

Explosives: III, VII, X
Firearms: II, V
Tools: III and either II or IX

Berserker armor and Cavalier jewelery, 2 runes of Altruism and the rest is Ruby Orbs. Sigil of Battle on Rifle.

Utilities: Medkit, Bomb Kit, Net Turret, Goggles

Once you start combat you can switch to Medkit for instant 8-9 might, and get 20 seconds of Fury with Medkit 5 and Goggles.

Can stack might further by placing your turret and Big ol’ Bomb then using Bombkit 2 and destroying the turret. Switch back to Rifle occassionaly to add more vulnerability and use 3 and 5. I’m only in green gear with 1 piece of Exotic armor and my bombs hit for about 2500 on crit

Edit: Used in PvE

I have a somewhat similar build.

http://youtu.be/JWjsArR10w0