Guild Wars 2

My engineer is way too squishy and dies regularly, damage is ok at best.

My current build is http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mzMzz9Mz0MoRgMMoRgMax0x0VmobMRq

I have full rampager’s gear with runes of the adventurer. and do PvE/Dungeons.

Any suggestions?

There are several ways to increase your damage and survivability. First, you could trade one pot for flamethrower and take juggernaut. You’ll get more might stacks and 200 toughness. You also won’t need so much precision, so you could get some carrion and rabid gear instead of all rampager’s. (You won’t need so much precision because the flamethrower hits very fast, so you’ll get maximum burn/bleed/whatever else to proc on crit with lower crit chance.)

What food are you using? Just using 40% condi duration pizza would raise your damage dramatically.

Do you want to maintain the same build, or do you want to do damage while being able to survive despite having to play differently?

Also if you tell us what dungeon runs you mainly do it might help a little.

I enjoy my main hand as a pistol but I’m up for either pistol or shield on off-hand. I would prefer to use turrets or elixir’s over weapon kits. Overall I would like to be survival focused.

I’m currently doing story mode dungeons, not sure if i will do explore mode paths more than once for the achievements as I’m not too much into random groups.

Pcmanrules.5693:

I enjoy my main hand as a pistol but I’m up for either pistol or shield on off-hand. I would prefer to use turrets or elixir’s over weapon kits. Overall I would like to be survival focused.

Mix soldiers armor with either carrion or rabid trinkets, depending if you value crit-ing a lot (probably rabid if you want to get any use out of incendiary powder).

Soldier gear(pow,tough,vit)
+
Carrion trinkets(cond,pow,vit)
or
Rabid trinkets(cond,prec,tough)

Alternatively, if you don’t mind your dps dipping, you might want to try out some Apothecary trinkets (heal,tough,cond). I like healing power in my dungeon builds, but I wouldn’t recommend it if you keep incendiary/go for rabid, as your %crit will drop even further.

You’ll find it very difficult to feel powerful using only a main-hand pistol to inflict damage. The autoattack is just extremely weak. If you really don’t want to use any kits at all, I think you’d better use dual pistols so you can at least keep burn up.

You can take some turrets, but the don’t do a lot of extra damage. 10 more points in explosives could give you turrets that knockback when they die, which is a pretty good defensive trait. I would suggest rifle, flame, and healing turret. Unfortunately, you’ll give up a lot of might stacks unless you take flamethrower/juggernaut.