Guild Wars 2

Hi guys, I apologize first, I am not a very smart person and I cannot figure things out on my own. Whenever I ask questions, people responded by telling me to read guides, and I have. But after doing what the guides told me, I don’t feel much improvements in my performance. I have always been a follower of guides, and I cannot stray too much off the beaten path.

Please just give me a pistol/pistol build, and the rotation I should be doing, and also the Stats I should be wearing for my armor.

One guide told me that pistol/pistol should use Condition damage+, but then another said that’s not gonna work because that’s only for bleed, and not when you kill things fast. So I really don’t know what to wear, my gears are mix and match of condition dmg, power, vitality, toughness, and I’m just confused.

Can someone please just help tell me what to wear and what to do and what traits to equip, for my pistol/pistol build? I’m good at following instructions and too much freedom is not good for me.

I am using this trait build someone posted, and he was wearing pistol/pistol as well. But he seems to focus on too much elixir stuff, and elixir doesn’t do damage for me. So I equipped bomb and grenade, hold on for 2 minutes, let me post 2 pictures, my skills and my traits.

Pistol/Pistol works best with carrion armor (pow/vit/cond).
You may want to switch 1 or 2 pieces out for crit/vit/cond.

For WvW non-zerging, bomb kit & slick shoes + random elxir are superb choices.
For traits
-the tier 2 alchemy ‘elixirs remove conditions’ is a must.
-the tier 3 firearms ‘pistol shots pierce’ makes sure you always hit your target
-the tier 1 explosives ‘bombs have larger explosive radius’ is a must too

you can freely choose how to spend your remaining 10 points and the non-specified traits.

I’d use a different build for dungeons though, but I don’t do dungeons with my engineer.

@second post, It’s really useless to pick the V explosives trait on P/P with a bomb kit, as you can keep burning up 100% anyways. If I’d use the same traits & gear as you I’d pick P/S, since with 50% crit chance, fury & that trait, the offhand pistol is made useless.

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Pistol/Pistol works best with carrion armor (pow/vit/cond).
You may want to switch 1 or 2 pieces out for crit/vit/cond.

For WvW non-zerging, bomb kit & slick shoes + random elxir are superb choices.
For traits
-the tier 2 alchemy ‘elixirs remove conditions’ is a must.
-the tier 3 firearms ‘pistol shots pierce’ makes sure you always hit your target
-the tier 1 explosives ‘bombs have larger explosive radius’ is a must too

you can freely choose how to spend your remaining 10 points and the non-specified traits.

I’d use a different build for dungeons though, but I don’t do dungeons with my engineer.

@second post, It’s really useless to pick the V explosives trait on P/P with a bomb kit, as you can keep burning up 100% anyways. If I’d use the same traits & gear as you I’d pick P/S, since with 50% crit chance, fury & that trait, the offhand pistol is made useless.

Thank you, so maybe I should change the explosives trait to the larger radius trait one then.

I don’t like pistol shield because It doesn’t do enough damage for me, so I’d like to stick with P/P.

I like to use this for my pistol/pistol build, as I don’t like running the standard pure elixirs, because I find the kits give more flexibility and utility and I like the switch on the fly playstyle.

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/engineer#10|10|1207|4700|4603|4052|4065|0|0|0|0|30|1866|1419|1426|0|0|0|0|20|1015|1478|0|20|1446|1883|0|0|0|0|28034|28023|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|

Things of note with this build. Toolkit can be changed out for anything you like, but I use it for block, pull, aoe bleed/slow and mainly for WvW. I also use FT a lot in this spot and sub a few traits to flame/elixir kit ones. You can sub in whatever you want here though. Same goes for the third utility, choose as you like/prefer. Sigils and Runes are also personal preference.

For stats, I wear a mish mash of things, but in general I like to keep crit at 30+ and health at 18k or above, I then dump the rest into toughness and condition damage and the cond/prec/tough gear is what I lean towards with other supplemental equips.

This is a great pistol/shield PvP build I found on this forum, and use. Let conditions do the damage.

http://en.gw2codex.com/build/7868-pvp-engineer-condition-spam-bus

For PvE I found bombs are better and faster at killing mobs than anything else. You will level pretty fast with bombs. And they are great for multiple mobs. Just weave around inside their group, dropping bombs. They will not really be able to hit you for some reason.