Guild Wars 2

I find a lot of people use the healing turret no matter what. And instead I use Elixer H to trigger HGH, (including toolkit) giving me four might. How come people always use the healing turret anyway?

How do I counter rangers, thieves, and guardians? I find that these three classes are my Achilles tendon. Hunters, outrange outright. Thieves Out burst me. And Guardians kinda stall me out. The others I don’t have too much trouble with.

I want to get the most damage I can out of the grenadier kit/ and mortar kit, what stats would I focus on to get the most damage out of them?

How can I improve my builds?
Currently I have two builds:
(Crit and power focus build)

Build 1 (This is the one I really want to fix up)
(Focus on Condition Damage and Power)
Rifle
Sigil: Sigil of Peril & Sigil of exploitation
Rune: Rune of the Berserker
Amulet: Carrion Amulet
Utility & Heal: Elixir H, Grenade Kit, Elixir Gun, Flamethrower
Elite: Mortar Kit

Specializations:
Alchemy:
Protection Injection, Inversion Enzyme, HGH

Firearms:
Heavy Armor Exploitation, Pinpoint Distribution, and Modified Ammunition

Explosives:
Grenadier, Shaped charge, Shrapnel.

(I originally was going for a grenadier/mortar build. And I found that it turns out, I made my eliixir gun and flamethrower for stronger at the end of the day. Should I just scrap the explosive build and just go for flamethrower and elixir build. Or is there anyway to salvage this build and turn it into a mortar and grenade build.)

Rifle
Sigil: Sigil of Peril & Sigil of exploitation
Rune: Rune of the Eagle
Amulet: Marauder Amulet
Utility & Heal: Elixir H, Grenade Kit, Elixir U, Elixir B
Elite: Mortar Kit

Specializations:
Alchemy:
Protection Injection, Backpack Regenerator, HGH

Firearms:
Heavy Armor Exploitation, Skilled Marksman, and Modified Ammunition

Explosives:
Grenadier, Shaped charge, Shrapnel.

I like the damage on this build, but I die hilariously quickly…

Elixir H isn’t used because it’s more interrupt-able and has less sustain than Healing Turret. With explosives your healing turret is a knockback too.

Elixir S and Self-Regulating defenses over Elixir U and Inversion Enzyme/Backpack Regenerator. This gives you the necessary breathing room to stomp, run to allies, and stealth to survive pressure, learn to like it or be destroyed when you run DPS engi

In your carrion amulet build absolutely take Incendiary Ammunition, in PvP it just way outpaces the alternatives. Personally, I find Grenades, Elixir Gun, and Flamethrower to be too YOLO offensive to work, when I use core Engi I feel it’s necessary to pick between grenade builds and Flamethrower burn builds. Elixir S and Tool Kit is the secret to living long enough to wear people down with Incendiary Ammunition.