Guild Wars 2

So I power leveled my engineer to 80 using Tomes of Knowledge, and I only have about 20 hours play time on him. I know, lazy.

I am mostly interested in doing some tPVP and WvW roaming with this character. I primarily play thief, and I hate fighting engineers. Seeing them totally wreck $*#@ and all the abilities they have intrigued me.

Took mine into hotjoin the other day just to mess around, I was pretty terrible. So many abilities.

I guess I am looking for suggestions for builds that aren’t too advanced but still fun to play and will help me learn this class. I still PVE with my guild from time to time but I learned that fighting against other players will really get you to understand your class mechanics and how to play them. The Teldo Dailies have been really helpful, but figured I would ask here.

Ultimately I am looking at having high survivability and deal with multiple opponents as I have seen so many of you guys do.

Vladis.1082:

I guess I am looking for suggestions for builds that aren’t too advanced but still fun to play and will help me learn this class.

The complexity of Engineer, as well as the vast number of skills from kits that can be equipped at a time, are its primary strengths. There are a couple straight forward builds, but mostly for PvE. As the jack-of-all-trades profession, we’ve got the ability to do kitten near everything. WvW and PvP will require you to know your skills well.

Rifle/SD build is probably the simplest to use. Here is the framework for it. The crux of it is to use the Static Discharge trait with your toolbelt skills to burst an enemy, along with your rifle. I prefer to sub out Rifle Turret with Rocket Boots for more burning, an escape, and a blast finisher, but that’s up to you.

Keep an eye on the thread you’re using as a guide. Phineas also posted a guide here for PvE meta a few months ago but it’s still perfectly viable (30/30/x/x/x).

I would prefer to use Rocket Boots or Slick Shoes in place of a turret for sure. I cant remember the exact traits I used when I was messing around in hotjoin, but I was using Rifle, healing turret, grenades, tool kit and slick shoes. I figured out the burst that always destroyed me when encountering some engineers (magnet – pry bar – overcharged shot – throw wrench – blunderbus – jump shot) Pretty fun to do, but man, lots of keyboard dancing.

But there were instances where I would get overwhelmed in a fight and like my brain would freeze up and I didn’t know what to do

Will give that Rifle/SD build a try. Thanks for the tips.

yes that build is chaith’s power build.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQFAUlIqaeH5SiF17IyIFdmoJSR+pffe8WtFEC-TkAg0CnIyRljLHTOycs5MEB
a simple kill combo is magnet > pry bar > overcharged shot > throw wrench > net shot > slick shoes > grenade barrage > blunderbuss > jump shot > grenade spam.

you can use the same build in wvwvw with additional might stacks and some condition damage.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQFAUlIqaeH5SiF17IyIFdmoJSR+pffe8WPIEC-jECBYjAkIAZmKrJqCiVhFRjVVTQWXDT5KpA-w

i prefer conditions so i run for wvwvw:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqalIqyXH5SiF1LJyoCdGoC5lIF6nl95xbxWQIA-j0BB4iBkWAk+AITtIaslWFRjVdDTHjIqGA-w
and for solo/team queues:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqalIqyXH5SiF1LJyoCdGoC5lIF6nl95xbxWQIA-ToAAzCpI0SplTLjWStsaN+YuA