Guild Wars 2

So I’m kinda sick of pvp at the moment since there is no ranking or match making for tournaments leaving most games to be a stomp 1 way or the other, so I decided to roll an engi pve alt.

I’m still low level but picked up the grenade kit.. which seems to do more damage than pistol or rifle, so why should i not just sit in grenade kit and blow up mobs in 2-3 hits all day?

You should sit in grenade kit and blow up mobs in 2-3 hits all day. That’s the point.

rifle is just poorly designed that why grenades do better damage than it, even single target.

pistol will usually do more dmg than grenades if you stack condi though.

while leveling you will be using grenades primarily as the weapons kinda blow for killing things fast.

I level’d from 1-80 using the rifle with a power/precision build, worked great. I always found that the process of ground targeting with the grenade kit for everything was very frustrating, hence the rifle build.
Go into the bottom talent tree for 10/20 points to pick up speedy kits/ static discharge. Gives you perma swiftness (absolutely awesome!) and allows your toolbelt skills to stack on extra AoE auto attacks. If you line up your opponents well you will stack absolutely INSANE linear damage. I recommend picking up rifle turret (never drop it, just use the low cooldown toolbelt skill for extra AA’s and static discharges) and toolkit for its incredibly powerful throw wrench skill (more linear damage stacking, with static discharges to boot.)
Not to mention the rifle gives you amazing kiting/self defense abilities for those pesky veterans and champions.

Yeah, grenades can be tedious to use, but if you are after damage in pve they are superior to rifle.

Although I will admit that burst build is fun to play, its how i lvl’d too. Thing is you can do the same thing with grenades since most the burst comes from static discharge.