Guild Wars 2

I initially thought the concept of turrets were cool, but Ive found them to be a complete PITA. I have enjoyed using the Rifle skills, but i don’t know if I should use a Rifle or Pistol+Pistol as I’ve been using the Flame Thrower. Regarding the flame thrower Ive heard people tell me to get condition damage, but it seems to take forever to kill things. I’m level 13 for reference.

What weapons do I use when weilding a Flamethrower?
What attribute helps flamethrower damage best for leveling?
Does having a Rifle or Pistol affect flamethrower damage?
What skills are good to use with a Flamethrower build for leveling?

straight power is going to beat condition damage in time it takes to kill things, unless you can get a large group of mobs to stand in the 4 skill or something.

for your other weapon, probably a rifle unless you decide to go condition damage, in which case pistol/pistol is the way to go, the blowtorch does a pretty big burn.

for utility skills, if you just want to kill stuff fast then elixir u is pretty great, and elixir s can really get you out of a bind, other then that there is elixir…b i think? the one that gives 4 boons, could be useful to give you some more damage. rocket turret is pretty decent as well if you place it properly. rocket boots do a pretty big burn with the tool belt skill, so that’s something to consider if you go for a condition build.

Flame thrower scales with power use a rifle the skills on rifle synergise better with flame thrower and elixir B, C, H put your points into 10 explosives for incendiary powder 30 into fire arms for juggernaut
30 into alchemy for Deadly Mixture and HGH.

I certainly noticed a huge difference using power versus condition damage

And generic advice: you can found out for yourself which weapon is good with which stat by going into heart of mists and swapping pvp amulets back and forth, checking tooltip on skills.

Hope you don’t mind me borrowing you’r thread a bit.
After reading some threads on the forum i’m really doubting if i want to start leveling him again.
I’m really not a fan of the grenade since i uses ground targeting but i really like playing duel pistols and to use elixirs but here is the questions will it be viable to use in the later points in the game for example in expert dungeon’s ?
Guess i’m going to half to use grenades for AoE packs?
And for the record i’m more of pve questing player and dungeons player and a bit of a noob then a pvp/WvW player.

Realtriix.5409:

Hope you don’t mind me borrowing you’r thread a bit.
After reading some threads on the forum i’m really doubting if i want to start leveling him again.
I’m really not a fan of the grenade since i uses ground targeting but i really like playing duel pistols and to use elixirs but here is the questions will it be viable to use in the later points in the game for example in expert dungeon’s ?
Guess i’m going to half to use grenades for AoE packs?
And for the record i’m more of pve questing player and dungeons player and a bit of a noob then a pvp/WvW player.

you’ll get coated bullets eventually, so you won’t have to worry as much about AoE as you seem to be thinking, but if you’re worried you can always just use bombs. though you’ll have to be in practically melee range to do that effectively or have aggro, both of which are bad unless you build somewhat tanky.

Level 80 engineer here. I realize I’m going a bit off topic because you asked about the flamethrower, but after leveling to 80 with trying all the kits I’d like to save you a headache. The by far simplest and easiest (may not not the most fun way to level depending on what you like) way to level is bombs. It doesn’t work until level 20, but put 10 points into explosives and take the Forceful Explosives Trait when you get there. Next put a pistol into your main hand. Power gear is your friend.

1) Walk up to enemies with pistol out, press 3 (It blinds a bunch of them)
2) Pull out bomb kit and throw down fire bomb.
3) Run away while dropping bombs (make small circles to keep your enemy within the fire bomb, also when i say run away I mean your back is to the enemy)
4) Burn + Bomb damage kills things
5) Pick up loots
6) Repeat

Enemies will run straight into your bombs and die and melee critters won’t get to hit you. (Don’t try this without forceful explosives, it is just annoyingly bad.) In Guild wars 2 your “running straight” speed in combat is 210 units, your “strafing” speed is 180, and your “backpedal” speed is 105 and nothing stacks speed boost wise. Enemies are built with the intention than you won’t spend the entire combat with your back faced to the enemy. So running away while attacking works to your advantage. This tactic works far better once you get a reliable form of speed boost through power shoes or speedy kits. One form of speed boost is always on in combat (power shoes), the other form (speedy kits) requires you to kit swap every 5 seconds, the kit swapping version is better if you don’t mind the extra kit management because you can use it out of combat. Make sure to concentrate on taking out ranged mobs first, and when you get swamped drop the smoke bomb next to the range mob and sit inside it spamming bombs until the smoke clears. Once you get good at doing this it makes your life a lot easier, and the build is extremely flexible. I only mandated Bomb kit, main hand pistol, and 20-30 trait points. (Don’t forget you can use bombs under water).

If you want more help leveling let me know, I have plenty more tips.
Also don’t even try this with PvP, people won’t sit in Red Circles.