Phink’s Tanky Tool Kit Engineer!!
So, I’ve been trying to figure out a new and fun build to use for PvE. Well, I think I may have come up with one that I have found to be pretty good! Enjoy!
Sections:
1. Gear
2. Spec
3. Role in a dungeon
4. Rotation (kinda)
5. Ending
So, let’s get started!!
Gear: For this build, we will be using Knight’s gear. You can craft this gear, but it from the TP, or farm dungeons enough for the armor. Knight’s gear is toughness, power, and precision. Why do we want so much toughness though? For one, we will be very tanky, and engineer already has a high base health (plus we get a little vit from our traits). Second, we take the trait “Energized Armor” which gives 5% of toughness to power! That’s awesome! For your weapons, I use the Rifle (Rifle 5 gets me into the action quickly). I put a Sigil of Force on there just for a nice 5% bonus increase.
-If you don’t need to be so tanky, feel free to switch out some Knight’s accesories and necklace/back for berserker’s to get some more damage/crit chance.
Now, for the fun part of the guide! The build we are going for here is an AoE based build that inflicts vulnerability/cripple, while doing a good amount of damage and still supporting our party. The skills chosen are pretty much necessary, however, you can always change out your elixir for something else if you prefer. We will be going a 0-15-30-5-20 build, picking up traits to buff our turrets, and deal more damage, while at the same time decreasing toolbelt skills and being tanky.
-Firearms: We take “Precise Sights” to inflict vulnerability every crit, which will be happening quite a bit for us (over 50% crit chance). We take the extra 5 points to get the increased damage to enemies under 50% health.
-Inventions: This is kind of the bread and butter of this build. First off, 300 toughness is awesome. We take “Metal Plated Turrets” and “Rifled Barreled Turrets” to make out Thumper do more damage, and keep it alive. It’s also important to keep our healing turret up. The biggest trait in this line is “Energized Armor”, converting 5% of toughness into power. That’s a lot of extra power. The minor traits just help us stay alive throughout fights.
-Alchemy: We had 5 points left over. Not necessary to put them here, but an extra 500 health isn’t too bad. Plus, Elixir B isn’t too shabby either.
-Tools: The tools line is awesome for this build in my opinion. We take “Power Wrench” to buff up our Throw Wrench (Which does awesome damage), and reduces out Tool Kit skills cooldowns by 20%! We will be throwing wrenches a lot, along with other tool belt skills, so “Static Discharge” helps add some DPS to our engi.
3. So, now that we have been over the gear and the spec. How do we use them in a dungeon? Well, we are around to take aggro off our team members, slow enemies to make kiting easier, remove conditions, make water fields (healing turret), do damage, and grant some boons. Playing as this kind of engi, we are meant to take a lot of damage…so that our team members hopefully don’t. Thumper Turret does a good job slowing down enemies for kiting.
4. Rotation: As far as rotation goes, I usually jump in with Rifle 5, swap to tool kit, throw down both turrets, use box o’ nails (TK 2), spam throw wrench on CD, and throw elixirs when possible. It could look something like this. Something to keep in mind is that Tool Kit 1 does cleave up to 3 targets.
Rifle 5 —> TK --> Thumper Turret —> Healing Turret --> TK 2 —> Throw Wrench --> TK 1 spam
I use the tool belt skills whenever appropriate, with the healing turret overload when the group takes a lot of AoE damage.
5. Conclusion: Well guys, I hope you all try out this build. Leave some feedback on how I can improve the guide/the build! This build isn’t nearly perfected yet, but it’s a good start, and it’s crazy fun for me to use. Hope I didn’t miss any important topics, but if I did please make sure to let me know! Have a great night everyone! Phink out!