Playing my Gw2 Engi again after a long break!

Playing my Gw2 Engi again after a long break!

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Posted by: Deathsmasher.5207

Deathsmasher.5207

I haven’t played guild wars 2 since the September-October and I was clueless to know what had changed with the class. This past week I’ve been doing plenty of research and have found out that the condition elixir build is still the best choice to pretty much do anything with the engi. I am sorry to say that I am a little disappointed to see the turret engi isn’t used as much and I know that they recently got buffed, but still don’t quite have the stopping power they really “should” have. However this is from out of game research and looking around from posts and stuff. Could someone point me in the right direction to find some pretty fun leveling, sPvP, WvW, and dungeon builds?

I last recall that I was about 30ish and I was using a 4 kit build with constant swapping(mainly because it was just so fun), I hear that has somehow been nerfed and really could use some help starting back up again. Thanks for your considerations.

Playing my Gw2 Engi again after a long break!

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Posted by: Leadfoot.9071

Leadfoot.9071

I’m with you – kits are a lot of fun. The nerf related to kits has to do with the change to the Kit Refinement trait – the effects on kit swap got changed drastically (the previously OP effect on the grenade kit – grenade barrage – was removed completely killing the 100nades build) but more importantly the effects are now on a 20 second internal cooldown so it’s very difficult/ not feasible to rely on them in a meaningful way (unless you have one kit I guess) so nobody is using the trait anymore. I think for levelling and dungeons it doesn’t matter quite as muhc though.