Guild Wars 2

Reached lvl 80 on my engineer and I’m a little confused on how to proceed.

I’m a PVE player and I’ve mostly leveled using grenades and bombs. My builds a mess at the moment, but I can see a few different grenade builds around.

My main worry is, which armour to pick?

I have enough karma to buy a full set of Exotic Karma Armour, but I want to make sure I pick the right set. I did a bit of searching, but I seem to keep get conflicting views on which is the best stat for grenades. Power or Condition damage.

Can anyone give me some advice?

For PvE, I always go Power and Crit damage. If you go conditions, other players will overlap their conditions and overwrite them. Damage is always damage and cannot be overwritten. I suggest either Soldiers stuff (Power, toughness, Vitality) if you aren’t super brave and Berserkers (Power Precision Crit damage) if you are brave.

So would you recommend,Arcon armor of Dwayna, seems to have the best mix of power, toughness and vitality.

For grenades and bombs you definitely want power, crit chance, and crit damage. That said, you can mix and match the exotic karma armor to get the most out of your stats. The Dwayna rune set is all about healing, so I don’t know if I would go that route.

You get a little less power on the front end, but the Balthasar rune set stacks it up quick and has decent set bonuses (depending on your spec, you should be laying fire down pretty often with bombs and ’nades). If you are just going to overwrite the runes (which is really one of the big advantages of getting these sets) then I would just get the crafted exotic gear that Gates Assassin suggested.

I am not a ’nade/bomb engi myself, but from what I have read you want to go 30 Explosives (Incendiary Powder, Short Fuse, Grenadier) and at least 10 into Tools for speedy kits. After that? The last 30 points are really about your play style, TBH. 5 point dips into Alchemy and Firearms will give you a nice boon stack and decent “on crit” effect. 10 into Firearms have give you a chance for vulnerability on crit which is nice for AoE to help soften things up. You might have to mess around a bit to be happy with the last 30.