Guild Wars 2

Hi all!

Levelling my engineer currently, as I can finally transmute my pvp rifle on my wvw engineer

So I’m trying to create a build that suits me, uses S/D and rifle, and can hold his own a little bit in roaming. I do not wish to be top of the foodchain with this, just have some fun and be able to not die every time things go south.

The build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vcAQFAUlUUpkr1Ux+KseNSM6Bp78oBpIv+VkC9TZA-zkyAYfEsFABBhIAk8KiGbZsIasKGMl7QUVxweDMyAssFA-w

Note that the rifle will also have sigil of air and that the crit sigil got a slight boost, so base crit is actually 51%.

Do you think it is viable? Is the leg mods/poultry/melandru combination worth it on engineer? What about Alchemy VI?

Help needed, thanks!

On your build:
Should work.
However:
I wouldn’t go for Cleansing Formula. Better IS for vigor (which will help at dodging all attacks, DD or cond). Also Melandru might not be the best rune choice for an offensive build. Also: Leg Mods? Not saying it’s bad but you’re focusing too much on countering conditions imo, crippling your build in other areas. Against immob/chill you have OS.

Sigil of force adds more overall damage than accuracy, even more so since the crit nerf. On crit sigils like Air might be an even better damage booster.

Might include some inspirations: https://www.youtube.com/user/Algeyr/videos

Silinsar.6298:

On your build:
Should work.
However:
I wouldn’t go for Cleansing Formula. Better IS for vigor (which will help at dodging all attacks, DD or cond). Also Melandru might not be the best rune choice for an offensive build. Also: Leg Mods? Not saying it’s bad but you’re focusing too much on countering conditions imo, crippling your build in other areas. Against immob/chill you have OS.

Sigil of force adds more overall damage than accuracy, even more so since the crit nerf. On crit sigils like Air might be an even better damage booster.

Might include some inspirations: https://www.youtube.com/user/Algeyr/videos

Wow man, those are some informative vids! Subbed

I thought about the vigor, and I will think about it again I guess. I saw somebody else use it with just elixir S and it seemed to work out alright. Also, the 15 minor in Alchemy is decent. And the vigor on swiftness got nerfed to half uptime at best.

But I do tend to focus on condition resistance a lot, yes. With other classes, I experienced that in this meta, you can’t counter conditions enough. Immobilize and chill can be applied rather spammy, so just one move to clear them other then the heal seems insufficient.

Also, sigil of accuracy got a 40% buff (from 5% to 7%). I want to test out how it works. For burst, crit chance can’t hurt, and I also intend to use sigil of air as my other sigil.

I could not find a build vid or a build descrpition in your vids? Just that you are using 10/10/20/0/30? What traits/gear/runes and everything?

Thanks for the help!

I’m using something close to your build with a few exceptions.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpkr1UxtLseRCdBN6wMlSDyFUBR1wPFAA-TlCBwAQuAAY3fUu5VJBO1fA8AASpDgiSw8aISYCixBCgMALbB-w
or
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpkr1UxtLseNCbBN64MmaDqN85IEgWD-TlCBwAQuAAY3fUu5VJBO1fA8AASpDgiSw8aISYCixBCgMALbB-w
Gadgeteer is great with SD. Utility goggles now gives 5 stacks of might and fury. After a knockback ( any turret,rifle #4, or you can swap out rifle turret for Battering Ram) pop utility, and hit your f4 f2 f3. You will have a good burst and it will be extremely fast due to your quickness from the knockback.
I put in the trait for exploding turrets due to the sort of “get off me” you may need to get some distance from heavy melee hitters. Damage isn’t great, but it’s better than nothing.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpkr1UxvLseNSeBN6rUlgAyAkPRGwbA-TlCBwAC3fAryNAPAAvKJwp+TKdAUUCmXDRCTQMOQAkBYZLA-w

There you go, added perma vigor and aegis, but did strip away some of your dmg.
Rocketboots and the the pull will easily catch up to any fleeing enemy, and protection is kinda pointless if you already have aegis. If you still feel too tanky (like I would with this build), swap the aegis with the gadget-buffing trait – kitten you a-net for this long, unrecallable trait names. Also stunbreakers (missing elixier S) are over-rated if you have already a soft cc-breaker and dodges like crazy.