Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I have been having a hard time finding any tips for dealing with Windcaller in the Queen’s Gauntlet (w/o any gambits). Only once have I gotten even close to winning the match, the rest of the time I am batted around the cage by tornadoes and gust.

I am primarily a PvE casual player, so don’t really have any depth of knowledge on builds, etc. I have tried combinations of Elixir Gun and Pistols or Rifle. Net Turret, Flame Turret.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Thanks!

What I did was use a Static Discharge/Turret build, but it was a close thing and full of “Argh! kittening tornadoes!”

Thinking back, I’d probably have used Elixir X (for the stability) and hoped to get the Rampage form in order to blitz as much damage into her as possible.

Yea Elixer X, in the hulk mode you can kick his kitten for a bit. Also go for vitality and condition dmg. When you get the chance, burst his face full of granades. The high vitality will keep you alive when being tossed about. Also use HP regen trait, food and what else you have. High power/might stack might kick in nicely too. You might try elixer S i guess, since it has 50% chance for stability, but tbh its too short anyway. Kinda crappy. Engies are so horible when it comes to stability :/. I envy human engineers with avatar with stability :P

burst her down fast or stack a bunch of conditions and run from the tornadoes.

Go condition damage.
Get 25 stacks on a sigil of corruption, which is very easy as people are always zerg farming the pavilion.
Take elixir s and spec for the free elixir s at 25 percent.

Supply drop her right away and fire static shot and pdv then just auto attack her. The strategy is to apply as many bleed stacks as you can until a tornado hits you. If the tornado bats you into another tornado just pop elixir s and find a safer area to continue auto attacking.

Thanks all for the responses, I’m going to try some of this tonight, but did have some follow ups/questions:

Anymras.5729:

What I did was use a Static Discharge/Turret build, but it was a close thing and full of “Argh! kittening tornadoes!”

Thinking back, I’d probably have used Elixir X (for the stability) and hoped to get the Rampage form in order to blitz as much damage into her as possible.

Kittening tornaoes has been my mantra, I did try Elixir X, but the damage was not as high as I hoped.

Grenix.1576:

. . . Also go for vitality and condition dmg. When you get the chance, burst his face full of granades. … Engies are so horible when it comes to stability :/. I envy human engineers with avatar with stability :P

How would I boost up Vitality? Food or is this something I should tweak with traits? I redid my traits focusing on alchemy and firearms. I happen to be a human engi, the Avatar of Stability did not do much damage, although it kept me up.

Decklan.7540:

Go condition damage.. . .

What would you use in addition to Elixir S for the utitilites?

Again thanks for responding, I do appreciate it.

Well, you could go total cheese mode and get rifle turret and rocket turret.

So skills would be
Whatever heal your comfortable with (turret, med kit or elixir H)
Rifle Turret
Rocket Turret
Elixir S
Supply Drop

What you would do is supply drop, then rifle turret, then rocket turret. Then overcharge both turrets.

That build should let you kill her pretty easily.

Remember though, I wouldn’t take that build anywhere else in the game other than the gauntlet lol.

elixir x is only good with full zerker armor. rampage can hit pretty hard. you don’t want to pop it immediately, only when she gets lower on life and more tornadoes start to appear.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqalspSXnvSiF17ICoC5loHPGlNZfewWpFEC-jQyAIsASZAICg5vioxWBDS1Nsl3opuxUwER1iAYWA-e
this is what i used to beat pretty much everything in one try except deadeye and liadri. i swapped out elixir b for elixir r for liadri. you could swap out b for r for this fight too if you’re having trouble.

i also took out the 10 in firearms and put them into tools for permanent swiftness for liadri

Hello again,

I finally beat Windcaller tonight, wanted to share build/how in case there are other poor engi souls such as myself that were stuck forever.

Traits: 0/30/10/30/0
Rifle w/Flame Thrower, Elixir U, Elixir Gun, and Supply Crate
No food or stacks.

I tried hitting her with Rifle to knock her our right away dropped Supply Crate. When she would catch on fire, I hit her with Flame Thrower, knocking her back as much as I could, and switching off to Elixir Gun on occasion.

Thanks again to all who offered their help, I do appreciate it. (At this rate thought I doubt I’ll get my mini)