Guild Wars 2

I have just started an engineer and I have gotten pretty familiar with the class’s mechanics. I just need help figuring out the right build I have a Crit/Dps based build here for Scrapper. Let me know if it is any good or if there is a better way going about it.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASncoCtpiFpCuoCEqil7jCshiosIciCgLi+Wj1aF-TJBBABF8AAA4CAY0+DyXGAA

You wanna keep full gyro?, i would swap shreder gyro for purge gyro, that poor gryo it’s in a bad state for the moment, but overall, you should be good, you might want to sacrifice a gyro for elixir gun for have access to range damage, Bunker down should do a great synergy with your build since you have a high critical chance, swap and take it.

Think about getting alchemy trait tough, without elixir s (either as a passive or as a utility), i think you will have a hard time surviving, but anyway, your decision man.

You are sacrificing a lot of sustainability for the sake of “dps”.

If you rather not use the current (as of 2016) meta build (or build something off that, mainly keeping the Paladin’s Amulet), here are some suggestions to keep you alive a bit longer (while maintaining your idea of wanting to DPS):

Firearms

• Swap ‘High Caliber’ for ‘Heavy Armor Exploit’ (make note of the Swiftness, you’ll have nearly permanent Swiftness during battle)

Inventions

• Swap ‘Medical Dispersion Field’ for ‘Bunker Down’ (Med Kits on crit are way more useful). ‘Medical Dispersion Field’ would be better if you are focusing more on sustaining and support.

Scrapper

• Swap ‘Mass Momentum’ for ‘Rapid Regeneration’ (you’ll have a lot of swiftness from ‘Heavy Armor Exploit’ [Firearms], and lots of superspeed from ‘Final Salvo’ [Scrapper]

For Runes/Sigils:

• If you are keeping Sigil of Accuracy, use a 2nd sigil that benefits off your Critical…like Sigil of Air.
• Honestly, Sigil of Force + Sigil of Air might be better for you since your Critical percentage is already over 50%. Sigil of Blood for sustain is good too
• Since you are favoring DPS: I’d use Rune of the Scholar over Rage. You lose 5% critical damage (194% instead of 199%), but you’d benefit from the added power and +10% damage above 90% HP more-so than having less power. Even Rune of Strength would be useful since having Might is almost always a given when attacking with a Hammer.

In the end, while it can work…it doesn’t always. The sustain that Paladin’s amulet gives you is more beneficial than dying often. Engineers sadly aren’t the best DPS class. They are (at the moment) really good at supporting and sustaining (bunkering) and that’s really what the meta is at the moment.

Engis can try other builds, but then you are putting a lot of faith on your team…if you have a team that can support it, then good on you.

Adding to what Lust said, if you are interested in a dps build, maybe you should give condi engi a try.

I did it! I perfected my dps build. Now I may have not went with your advise BUT I had found that sneak gyro does provide me with quite a bit of survivability and so did switching to the alchemy trait. Along with switching to the alchemy train I discovered how much Fury stacking the engi was capable of and with the hammer dishing out high damage I couldn’t resist and I practically gain fury on most of my critical hits within the range of 240 and since hammer is close range I sit with a steady 81% critical chance. And after getting used to it I have even had successful 2v1’s thanks to my sneak gyro. Here is the Fury stacking Scrapper build
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASncoCtoiVXBGpCEqiF2iiu5P+lHcEPxAQsjmiZE-TJBBABKcBAA4BAY0+DyXGAA