Guild Wars 2

What is the current meta for Condition engineer in raids? I’m using the metabattle one for dungeons, but is that what I should be running?

Also, I don’t see mortar in the rotation on Metabattle. Am I supposed to fit that into my rotation?

mortar has soft ccs that are useful. f5 -> 5 -> other blasts for quick healing. shooting from 1500 range is better than not shooting from 1500 range, when it comes down to it.

it shouldnt be a normal part of your rotation except for maybe the blast. its there more for support, because the other 3 elites arent good and it at least has uses. you could take crate instead to pop break bars if you wanted.

Poison mortar is absolutely worth using if the target isn’t going to move out of the area. It is also useful when the 900 range on grenades isn’t quite enough.

Knox.8962:

Poison mortar is absolutely worth using if the target isn’t going to move out of the area.

base 2.5 secs is crap. really really bad. a pistol 2 does about twice the condi damage (+3x the power damage) for twice the cast time and requires melee or large hitbox instead of immobility. if you want to burn time between cds, pistol 2 is your best bet.

edit: oh, and it suffers from “not a fire or water field” syndrome too.

I think their point was if you’re on green circles sometimes they take you out of grenade range so use mortar there.

Here ya go:
Condi Engi Video Guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0HeqybrxEQ

And ya, mortar is more of a contingency for when a boss is out of range of grenades as well as for the blast finisher. It’s also worth using anytime you’re running to the fight or running back.

On something like Gorseval where you don’t really have much range issues, you could probably be better off with Supply Crate.

NinjaSonic.1392:

I think their point was if you’re on green circles sometimes they take you out of grenade range so use mortar there.

well thats not a normal rotation now is it :P

Poison mortar is 5×2.5 base poison w/ approximately 0.8s cast, or 15.625s of poison per cast second.
Poison dart volley is 5×6 base poison w/ a 2.15s cast time, or 13.95s of poison per cast second. Both of those skills are much better than the grenade auto attack.

PDV hits for more physical damage, and is the better option overall, but the fact remains that they’re fairly close and both way better than grenade AA.