Guild Wars 2

Hello my fellow engineers.

This build has been in my head since the ama and I wanted to share the theocrafted build and a few of my thoughts with you along with a few assumptions…

Basically this build focuses on heavy use of blast finishers. Alone by dodging and swapping to medkit you´ll have 4(!) blast finishers every 10 seconds. This build focuses on utilizing them to the maximum.

The Link only shows my choices of (future) kits, amulett, and and a sigil:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAElsTpPr1ah2LA-T5wHwAl3fAwDAoYZAA

• Rifle: Burst, CC…

*Medkit: One of our Blast Finishers. Also nice synergies with my preferred runeset

*FT: Possible instant stability with new Juggernaut trait. who needs stunbreaks with this!? Firefield and low cd blast finisher. Also burning and knockback.

*Bombkit: blast finisher and knockback, firefield, confusion, everything. I looove this kit xD

*Motarkit: knockback, RUMORS of #3 becoming a waterfield… and even if it doesnt become one the #3 heal is nice… it will replace grenades for this build.

Last utility slot:
*Exlixir gun: in case juggernaut doesnt work as anticipated… maybe personal preference… blast finisher more heal, more poison…
*Toolkit: block pull… do i really need to explain this?
*Elixir R: more doges mean more blast finishers! also the ress is very nice
*Rocket Boots: blast finisher, mobility… and just because I like them!

Runes:

• Strength/Hoelbrak: You stack tons of might. Whether you want it or not!!!
• Altruism: My personal favourite lol. I just like them…. really. Even more might, more fury… btw I´ll do the maths for might later for you guys.

second sigil: pff no idea yet xD Doom, geomancy, battle, air, fire, leeching… can imagine all of them working well.

Explosives:

Minors

• Evasive Powder Keg (!Important!)
• Steel Packed Powder
• Explosive Powder

Adept

• Not sure yet… tbh I´m waiting for the third adept trait

Master

• Short Fuse

Grandmaster

• Evasive Powder Keg = Blastfinisher (!Important!)
• (Could also go for the motarkit trait. But tbh I don´t think they´ll make its autoattack a blast finisher)

Firearms

Minors

• Sharpshooter
• Target the weak
• Target the maimed

Adept

• Crit chance < 600 range

Master

• ROBO LEGS!!!

Grandmaster

• Juggernaut (only if the stability stack is there immediately when switching to ft. If so, then stunbreaks are for the WEAK! and I´ll use alixir r or rocket boots, lol… If we have to wait 3 sec for the stability stack then elixir gun and:)
• Incendiary Powder

Inventions

Minor

• healskill removes condition from allies (I dearly hope they also remove one form us)
• Grant regen to yourself and allies when removing a condition
• Helaing power increased under the effects of regeneration

Adept

• using a heal skill triggers a blast finisher (I assume a 9sec icd. Otherwise way too crazy with medkit. !Important!)

Master

• Heal-Splosion (blast finishers heal. Again I assume it will get an icd of maybe 5 seconds. Either that or it will be either rather weak because it´s blanaced around the engineer having powder keg = blast finisher OR too strong because it´s balanced around not having many blast finishers)

Grandmaster

• Incoming heals heal allies for a % of that heal… is what I´d go for. Though I´m not sure if it triggers from engineer´s own heal, don´t know what the percentage is, and so on… Depending on that I´d maybe go for
• Bunker down with medkits

Pros:

• + A minimum of 36 BlastFinishers in 60 seconds
• + Fire Field
• + Smoke field
• + 10 knockbacks in 60 seconds
• + Even without IP huge burning uptime
• + Assuming a huge amount of group heal
• + higher amount of condicleanses for group
• + good cleave, though probably not as good as with grenades
• + good condipressure
• + good physical damage
• + High mobility
• + Immobilize
• + NO NADES!

Cons:

• - No Vigor
• - Less swiftness than before
• - No Transmute
• - No hidden flask
• - No Backpack Generator (even though I believe the blast finisher heal could cover this…)
• - No Inertial Converter
• - No nades…

Not decided/Confirmed yet:

• Motar #3 Waterfield
• Possible instant stack of stability
• Possible Block and Pull
• Possible Ress

Though everyone with a little bit of knowledge of this game will now go: “What? This is ridiculously overpowered!” and I can´t tell you otherwise…

Mathematics:
Bomb #2 + 2x dodge + swap to medkit + dodge = 12 stacks might for 22 seconds
Wait 10 seconds and repeat.

That´s a easy permanent 24 might stacks! Not only For the engineer but for EVERY ALLY around him!
Just imagine ths with a waterfield…

I don´t need to tell you, that this is ridiculously overpowered on paper, right…?
A celestial burst decap support 25-mightstacks engineer with ton of group and self heal is sadly just too much…

To early to care about making new builds, especially since a lot of them are TBD. I’d rather think about bringing back my old builds with added guns and hidden missiles.

That’s not to say that this isn’t a good idea. I actually like your idea but my excitement is tempered by the fact that nothing is final.

Yea traits and skills arent finished yet and we dont anything about our elite spec. To early to theorycrafting anything:-)

Haha yes I realize it´s quite early ^.^
But things like this ama just trigger my theocrafter inside xD

This possible build just instantly came into my mind after I heard the changes and wanted to discuss the possibilities to see what people like about the changes. What could possibly be too powerful or even too boring/ineffective and maybe just implement few of my thoughts and hopes.

with the stats being removed from the traits I Think there will be alot of fun new metas.
For example, now u can go explosives as a dmg line, inventions or alch as a sustain line, and Tools as a utility line.

For those of you who have played Archeage, the specs work like that; two comdo specs and one off spec. I’m thinking we’ll see alot of builds like that. Gonna be fun!

let’s say you’re a WvW:er and you want a mokittenps build (i don’t evne know if the mortar will be good for dsp, but lets say it will)

The build could look something like this:

Explosives:
Rocket belt thingy or grenadier
Dmg vs vuln
mortar

Inventions:
healskill → blast finisher
healsplos
bunker down → medkit at ur loaction (sweet sustain for a longrange dps)

Tools
mainly bcs speedy kits (which is kinda sad)

Something like that