Guild Wars 2

Hi guys, I have not played engi in awhile, been on my Necro and feel like getting my Engi sorted for raid content. I have a full set of ascended power armour. Should I keep it as that or change to Condi Viper.

What is the overall thoughts of the gw2 community on this

I tried quite hard to make power scrapper work. It was, without question, the weakest class I had played. Skill ceiling too high for too little reward.

Condi at the moment is much better. Easier to do and you output a lot more damage. As a plus, engineers are also one of the best condi classes, so getting a raid spot wouldn’t be too hard.

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Condi is better if you aren’t that expirienced with Engi / Scrapper and do mistakes or when your Chronos are just bad. The more quickness you have, the better power gets, the more alacrity you have – well nothing changes then since both variants get equally boosted.

There are a few things I want to mention about the good ol’ power vs condi engi:

Spirit Vale

• 2 good condi Engis or Scrappers are required for VG
• power Scrapper then deals way more damage than condi Engi against VG

• at Groseval, power Scrapper deals a lot more damage than condi Engi if you miss a kit for skills like Slick Shoes

• power Scrapper is better at ccing or wrecking the flame turrets at Sabby fast, however condi Engi is easier to perform and therefore will most likely deal more damage

Salvation Pass

• at Sloth you have blocks and cap closer as a power Scrapper you don’t have as a condi
• when Sloth starts to sleep, it loses all it’s conditions
• when playing with Necros, condi will be better due to a lot of conditions being “epidemic-ed”
• Slick shoes favor power Scrapper again

• condi Engis hard cc capabilities are rather bad or at least way lower than the power Scrapper’s
• power Scrapper can easily take out multiple mortars immediately, Blast Gyro works wonders here (instabreak, also for Saboteurs!)
• both, power and condi can easily deal with 2 mortars due to big old bomb (instabreak)

• at Matt you barely can use an engi, but when you do it sure will be again because of Slick Shoes

Do you have any questions? If so, please just go ahead and ask! Happy to help

Greez!
- Ziggy

Run my build. Be average! Mercenary rune, Holenbrak, intelligence, doom. Flame thrower, EG, Slick and mortar. Alchemy, scrapper, tools.

The majority of your damage will come from your power, but a very reasonable amount comes from the condi. I’m actually really enjoying.

Condi engi is a solid option, but when you look at power the first question that comes to mind is: Why not use a tempest instead?
So its not that its bad, but there are just better alteratives.

Because a tempest has no slick shoes or instabreaks for multiple mortars / saboteurs without losing dps. That’s why :’D

But yea you’d be better with a tempest for sure if you seek pure damage, unless the engineer is an AI with perfect rotations xD

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