Guild Wars 2

Hi,

After playing a few hours with the class I realized that Rifle+Bomb Kit is what I enjoy the most and wanted to know if that was possible for PvE or PvP?

After maxing out Rifle Trait should I just go Vitality or Explosion? Vitality I get shorter Elixir and longer Elixir as well as remove condition so I not only help myself but my group!

Explosives Traits increase damage by 10% and radius of mines and I can always switch to Grenades with the Trait that throws extra grenades if I need to stay at range!

Any thoughts?

Go into explosives for shrapnel, 10% explosive damage, and the grenadier grandmaster

In firearms, vulnerability on crit, and 20 other points in whatever your utility suit is going to be.

The last 10 put it wherever you want, I recommend alchemy.

Congrats, you’re in with now the majority of PvE Engineers. lol

Right now, the grenade kit is the go-to DPS for the engineer. I’ve been messing around with a lot of builds and have not come across anything that comes close to grenade/bomb spam. So yes, welcome to the club. Here’s your jacket.

The rifle can be pretty powerful even without any trait points into Firearms.

Here’s my current PvE Rifle+Bomb kit build and I enjoy it alot:
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#MzMM9czmNohMmbMxMp0xVackVRqo

I really don’t like the grenade kit and imho it’s fairly overpowered at the moment and it’ll probably be nerfed sooner rather than later, so I’ve conciously steered clear of it, opting for the bomb kit instead.

This might not be the most deadly engineer build (atm anything with the grenade kit is) but it’s still pretty powerful and it’skittenfun to boot (ymmv).