Guild Wars 2

Greetings all,

I need help with my build. im lvl 36 with 1 point in explosives and 1 in firearms. My skills are as follows.

Rifle-Healing Turret-Throw Mine-Elixer B-Personal Battering Ram-Supply Crate

Basically what ive been doing with this build ive created is juggle enemies till they all die.
With the rifle skillset, ill trap them with the Net, then when they get close enough i use the battering ram or overcharged shot to knock them back. If im attacked by more than 1 enemie ill use the mine. I can sustain myself pretty well with dodges while juggling up to 3 enemies at a time. If i need a boost in DPS i use elixer B as it buffs damage and crit chance.

I dont like using the turrets because i usually have to kite mobs to the turret for a dps boost, and by the time they’re dead other mobs have respawned. So for mobility i dont use turrets. I also dont like the bomb or grenade kits either. Am i missing out? I tried both and they seem alright, but just with my rifle i seem to survive more. I occasionally have problems with ranged mobs, but i just get in close with the Jump Shot and use F3 (wich is the small mines).

So far it seems pretty good as ive solod this entire way to lvl 36 so far. Anyone have any constructive advice?

For leveling you can pretty much use whatever you want and be successful. A few points to consider:

• If you do any kind of grouping such as events or even hearts where other players are around (grouping doesn’t only take place when you actually form a group with someone in this game), knock backs can be very frustrating for other players because of how common ground targeted aoe fields are and pushing mobs away from melee players.
• All the time spent juggling will actually increase the time it takes to kill enemies. Consider bomb kit, instead of juggling you can simply drop a smoke field to keep the mobs blind and aoe all three mobs at the same time.
• If you enjoy the playstyle, then you should continue to play that way. Just try to be mindful of how your knockbacks might affect other players.

Its an okay build :-). This is the brilliance of engineers – theres soo many different playstyles. Many arent as effective as you could be, and neither isbthis one, but its still funcyional, and thats whats important. Whatever works well for you and you have fun playing, is a good build.. As mentioned above, watch out for your knockbacks in group scenarios.

One thing that bugs me a bit is that you dont have a kit. Engi main weapons are pretty lackluster in my experience, not dealing all too much damage on their own and not having weapon swap. I almost always have at least one kit on my toolbar – they eo way more damage, or it at least feels that way. In any case, it gives you a second weapon skill bar which is always nice.

Greetings Maviard! Ziggy here, engineer teacher, like to help new engineers where I can

As a new player you will of course not have the best equip, nor runes and neither expirience. I suggest you use a rifle + bombs for leveling since, like others already said, the engineer basic attacks normally suck. The other 2 skills aren’t that important, so try them all!
Expirience is knowledge and knowledge is power! Test your skills and keep in mind that every skill has a toolbelt skill wich can be completly different from the main skill and sometimes making it worth taking. Since you can’t see those toolbelt skills without unlocking the skill itself, I’ll show them all to you if you want.

You can pm me ingame, aslong as you are EU and not NA, I can show you what ever you want and teach you stuff My name is Ziggs Ironeye, but call me Ziggy.

If you got any questions, go ahead! Greez!
- Ziggy