Guild Wars 2

Hello friends,

I’m currently working on a build for my engineer, focussed on roaming. Here’s what I have so far, notes below.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=VZ;4cP-9-l6BR-x0;9;4ijm;0257138237;4383;3jSD_NaD-W0kjpa0;0Ng0-8999p8B9C9D943XWc7B1;9;9;9;9;9;9;07c8M

First off: I made the accessories as glassy as possible for now. I’m considering replacing some of this stuff though and mixing something that will leave me a bit more durable by adding a bit of toughness/vitality/healing power. Have to figure out which one of those would be most beneficial to a roaming scenario.

• I imagine vitality is probably the best choice since toughness only protects against physical damage, and with everyone and their dog running condition builds, probably be next to worthless. Unsure about how healing power works exactly, would have to look that up.

Secondly: I have 5 different runes selected. This is because I’m not 100% sure yet on which rune to take, as it also depends a bit on point 1, so these are potential candidates.

• Balthazar – probably not enough sources of burning (bomb kit + rocket kick) for this to be worth it, even with the incendiary powder trait

• Perplexity – seems the obvious choice, with 3 sources of confusion from abilities alone, with an additional potential 8 stacks of confusion from the rune itself if you play it right (would have to interrupt a skill for 5 of the stacks)

• Krait – would play nice with the firearms trait increasing crit chance on foes affected by bleeding

• Undead – if I’m not mixing in much toughness at all, this one probably doesn’t make all that much sense

• Tormenting – torment would get applied by the sigil on my pistol, and with this rune the duration would be longer, curious about the 6-combo effect though, if there is an aoe cap of 5 people here, and what they classify as “nearby”. I imagine this rune would be more interesting for zerging, overall.

I’m quite keen to get some comments and suggestions on what I’ve got so far, what with all the changes in the patch and whatnot.

Why go Heavy Armour Exploit? You already have streamlined kits for swiftness and Steel packed powder for vulnerability. Perhaps High Caliber would take more advantage of Sharpshooter, or even Chemical Rounds of Increased Condi Duration.

Also, 6 runes of the undead instead of all these runes with +25 condi would make more sense. You’d buff a bit of your toughness and you’d get 7% of that into Condi damage. Maybe?

i run runes of the sunless on dire gear with rabid accessories, runes are whatever but the old dire/rabid combo seems to still be the best for condi engi. there are still a lot of power roamers around.

@Pseudoshrub: that’s why there’s a note, those are simply runes that are potential candidates for the build. Obviously I’m not that kittened that I would use one of every rune type. :p

As for the Heavy Armour Exploit, I was mainly doing it for the vulnerability – I was looking at the longer condi duration from pistol skills though, extra long blind could be very useful when you’re getting trained by a melee.

The additional 10% crit is also awesome of course, but it does depend a bit on what they classify as nearby. I’m not near my home pc at the moment so I can’t look up what the distance is to classify for “nearby”.

@choovanski: I do have a full dire set already, just wanted to give sinister a shot, going glassy as hell and seeing where that lands me. Would be ideal to get the (hopefully limited) durability from the accessory slots.

sinister or rampagers with cele accessories could be nice?

yeah, sinister + perplexity for gear is seeming quite likely, not quite sure about accessories yet (part of the reason for this thread)

first, go balthazar or aristocracy/hoelbrak/strength until they nerf burning and hgh… balthazar is cheapest of those, think about your runes later lol

second, since you arent using lemongrass or -36%, use pizzas cuz then you wreck everyone who doesnt use those and you counter those that do and since engi is freakin op well… just hope you can avoid someone with 100 condi clears. but seriously, duration food is much much stronger than any other condi food.