Guild Wars 2

I had tried engi, pre-HoT, pistol and rifle were about as interesting to me as playing a class to 80, deleting it and repeating the cycle over and over… Hammer and the gyros picked my interests after HoT released, but I know people that I played with had tried Engi pre-HoT and were like “Don’t waste your time”… I eventually decided to try it myself and boom… Fell for the class, hook line and sinker.

Hammer is nice though limiting as I’m pure melee with it. Yet, having stealth and a long reflect boon Some stability in a pinch and much more… I find I swap out elite skills and utilities when I just want to change up my game play. I admit its the most fun I’ve had out of all the professions I’ve tried up to this point. I don’t actually want to try another profession right now.

Oh no… should I have said that part, ANet may read this and decide to break something on Scrapper now

Xyonon.3987:

leviathan.2148:

IMO it depends on what mode you want to play. While in pvp/wvw hammer scrapper is amazing, in pve the other weapons and classic builds are more effective.

Not in the slightest. Thunderclap deals 42’000 dps, Electro Whirl 18’500, Rocket Charge 12’000, Shock Shield 12’500 against a HEAVY armor target (2600 armor). To compare, freeze grenade deals 11’000 dps. Hell even the aa is strong with 8’300 dps, nade aa is only 7’200…

As for a condi build, in raids, abandoning scrapper is abandoning utility for 10% power damage. I guess you can do the math on your own. “Mor effective” is more practice oriented. Medic gyro is the best heal skill for raids in every encounter, especially due the super speed and condi engi being the ones to go to the green fields. Having super speed for everyone makes this task easier, lets the team reencounter faster, more dps, more effective. Same goes for protection in stun phase from it’s toolbelt, also helps scholar bonus professions.

I doubt these numbers…

I havent seen a scrapper in pve … in a very long time

Yea I gave you a wrong description back then aswell used some tooltip numbers … wich apparently are wrong >_>

The real damage of those skills are:

Hammer
24743 over 2.75s -> Positive Strike, Negative Bash, Equalizing Blow
20870 over 1.25s -> Electro-whirl
25942 over 2.25s -> Rocket Charge
24120 over 1.75s -> Shock Shield
34559 over 1.25s -> Thunderclap

Grenade Kit
8192 over 1s -> Grenade
17873 over 1s -> Shrapnel Grenade
2786 over 1s -> Flash Grenade
12203 over 1s -> Freeze Grenade
15256 over 1s -> Poison Grenade
28924 over 1s -> Grenade Barrage

Without quickness, full buffed power meta against HEAVY targets. The reasony why you don’t see power scrappers at all is probably because of the bad influence of “famous” ppl and their recommendations. Most engis nowdays are newcomers who play engi because of the raids, not vice versa.

If you got questions go ahead

Greez!
- Ziggy

Xyonon.3987:

Yea I gave you a wrong description back then aswell used some tooltip numbers … wich apparently are wrong >_>

The real damage of those skills are:

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Hammer
24743 over 2.75s -> Positive Strike, Negative Bash, Equalizing Blow
20870 over 1.25s -> Electro-whirl
25942 over 2.25s -> Rocket Charge
24120 over 1.75s -> Shock Shield
34559 over 1.25s -> Thunderclap

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Grenade Kit
8192 over 1s -> Grenade
17873 over 1s -> Shrapnel Grenade
2786 over 1s -> Flash Grenade
12203 over 1s -> Freeze Grenade
15256 over 1s -> Poison Grenade
28924 over 1s -> Grenade Barrage

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Without quickness, full buffed power meta against HEAVY targets. The reasony why you don’t see power scrappers at all is probably because of the bad influence of “famous” ppl and their recommendations. Most engis nowdays are newcomers who play engi because of the raids, not vice versa.

If you got questions go ahead

Greez!
- Ziggy

Yeah I only made an engi cause I wanted scrapper. But after making it, people told me, go condi… I was like, yeah no, I dont like the pistols and really dont like rifle. So I made power bunker build, and since then been changing it up a bit to make a mix build when I need to a different playstyle.

Although, I’m still experimenting with my build too. I’ve change it a bit since the last time I posted it here, but still experimenting.

Condi now works really well for pve … not so well imho for spvp and wvw …