Guild Wars 2

Right now, I am only level 55 and am using Pistol + Shield. I have been specing into Precision, Condition Damage, and Toughness. Is this viable?

There are two main reasons I ask this. First is that every condition damage item sold by the Karma merchants has Power on it instead of Precision. At least, all of the Karma merchants for the last 5-6 zones I have been in. I have even tried going to alternate zones in the same level range hoping they had different loadouts. Is Anet trying to tell me something?

Secondly, I seem to see other players having a much easier time cutting through mobs than I do. While I enjoy P+S, and understand that the shield is more defensive oriented, I still wonder if I should be doing something else.

At the moment I am running Elixer Gun (orginally was FT), Flame Turret, and Elixer-S. I was going to go with a FT build, but the Elixer Gun seems to do a better job with the build, and using the FT’s number 2 almost always gets blocked, which really only leaves me with the number 1 attack for damage.

I don’t like the Grenade Kit because of the number 1 being ground-targetted, which was the main reason I went with a condition build.

Any tips? Maybe I should be using Elixir-B instead of Elixir-S?

I run a P/S build based on Elixirs, Boon Duration and Toughness. Essentially a durable dps build for the Engi. I dont kill fast, but outlast anything.

I run 0/30/20/20/0. It lets me stay alive but also maximizes condition damage.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-VRw;2Z;0g0o5cQFx0;9;5TJJ;235B06-17f

If you buy two Runes of the Water, and Two Runes of the Monk (lowbie versions on the Trading post) you increase your Boon Duration by 30% on top of the 20% boon duration from the 20 points in Alchemy. Its a good balance of DPS and Durability.

Power adds to Condition Damage if I remember correctly, and that may have something to do with the vendors selling cond+power items.

I lost any faith in condition damage competing with power/crit even in “condition based” weapons like p/p and elixir gun.
Even with those, yes you will do better with power/crit. And getting condition damage from might.

Possibly rampagers, power/crit/cond. that might have merit.

Pretty much all your skills scale with power with a direct damage hit. Explosive shot, venom shot, static shot, blowtorch.
Elixir gun1 , elixir F, acid bomb. (fumigate does scale with power, but horribly)

Exotics from dungeons and karma in orr can be bought with crit/tough/prec.