Guild Wars 2

Can someone recommend a scrapper build for doing stuff solo on the new maps?

I just made a post about this as well, im tired of playing condi but I get owned using power scrapper

Imo power scrapper is way better in pve open world than condi. You’ve got way more utility like reflection and blocks and lightning fields with superspeed and heal or cc with leaps. For the new maps I use this build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASncoClYh9ZBGpC0ehFIkCMb+mTguO3zB9LAimpB-TBCBABlpEDr9HlHnpEEgLAQe6AC4BAMqKBVquDA-e

I sometimes swap the bomb kit or the bulwark gyro for purgy, but most of the time it’s like this.

Greez!
- Ziggy

I see you are using Zerker is assassins okay also? Especially since heavy armor exploit and no scope proc off crits? Thnx!

You shouldn’t get over 62% crit chance as engi. Well you could go for 70% if you are soloing open world, since there you will most likely not get affected by warriors precision banners. But remember that you will have a decent fury uptime (+20% crit chance) and you’ve got the trait “Hematic Focus” who will further grant you +10% free crit chance against bleeding targets → against ANY target

If you want to use the same gear for raids, go full zerker since there you’ll be using “High Caliber” in melee for another 10%, leaving you with everything above 52% wasted.

Greez!
- Ziggy

Thnx for the info! Just recently went rampager juggernaut with hgh. Almost perma might and perma swiftness is supa awesome! I might go back to scapper and try this out tho! It definitely looks fun!

I’ve been trying to figure out how to do a PVE power scrapper, too. Condi is fairly easy, but getting a power build is hard. The biggest issue I have at the moment is that I don’t feel like I’m doing well. Currently, I have a few things I’m switching between.

The base build is this.

-Elixir Gun is there for acid bomb, stun break, and the occasional condi cleanse/heal
-Bulwark Gyro is there for the reflect and for additional defense
-Elixir B is there for swiftness and fury. This is the “spare slot” currently, as I swap it out the most.
-Mortar is there to provide a ranged offense. The blind field and the toolbelt also help out, too.

The utilities… are odd. I am constantly torn between what to use. Other options are

#1: The bomb kit. The auto attack does more damage than hammer auto, but the hammer has such good defense and utility. The bomb kit has a blind and fire field, but I already have a good blind field and I find myself not needing the fire field.
#2: The Grenade kit provides a good ranged offense, and it makes for a decent option if I want to use the supply crate. It doesn’t provide as much utility, though, as any non-ranged rotation is basically 2-4-swap.
#3: The flamethrower can be used to self stack might with a clever combination of traitss. Otherwise, just use 2-5-swap.
#4: The elixirs are there as I need them. The default is Elixir B, and everything but C makes an appearance from time to time.

I’m finding the turrets, gyros, and gadgets to be nearly useless. It seems like, for the first time, I actually have spare utility slots. I’ve considered swapping to an outright might-stacking build and just going with flamethrower/bomb kit + several turrets for blast finishers.

The traits are similarly divided.

Firearms: This one is first because it is fairly straightforward. With fury, High Calibur, and Hematic Focus, I achieve 87% crit rate. No scope and modified ammunition are fairly simple as well. This line doesn’t change much, except when I feel like running Juggernaut.

Explosives: The first two entries don’t change much, but the last one changes every time I swap utilities.

Scrapper: this line, I’m not even sure what to go with. Currently I’m going with independently functioning traits: The protection on heal doesn’t depend on anything, and neither does vuln/weak on daze and the damage boost. But… there’s other combos to go with. Shocking Speed and Rapid Regeneration is the more defensive build, and Mass Momentum can add additional damage even in zergs.

The main thing that bothers me is the lag. I don’t mean high ping or connection drops. I mean the delay between a series of actions and their payoffs. One of the reasons why I stopped using the bomb kit is that, with constant kit switching that horrendous delay on fuses kept sucking away precious seconds. Sometimes it takes so long to lay down a combo that the enemies have moved out of its radius before the first hit begins.

I haven’t played engi for a long time. I’m used to the other classes getting almost immediate payoffs for their actions. I’m not sure if it is just me, or if I am doing something horrendously wrong.

i typically run ft/eg/x (usually rocket boots) with firearms/inventions/scrapper in full zerk and with runes/sigils that help me cap might. the dps is nothing special, but its enough for open world, which is where mobility and sneak gyro really shine. thats what power scrapper is really good at.

I run a Scrapper based on mobility, some quick burst dps, and whole lot of kiting with the rifle: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFAUnUUBdehtoCmYBsehF2iKcpuoXDME3gAgO4P+kH-TBSBwAo0B84CAMc/BEm/up+TElgFV+B4BAQKA9UGB-e

Bunker Down does pretty well when you kite enemies. Lots of little heals and little added damage pops.

When enemies get too close you have slick shoes, jump shot, overcharged shot, net shot, blast gyro tag, AND supply crate for a nice little grab bag of control options. You also have eight seconds of super speed for when it’s time to run away screaming.

I run this in open world successfully:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASnUUBtpitoCmYB0ehlNj6722tebc7KgAg+rT73G-TxRBABiqSgZKBf4CAQp6O4pDAgHAwV7PK/AA-e

You can replace the two gyros of course, depending on what you do. I like the damage of the blast gyro and the utility of the shredder gyro, but of course depending on the situation, you can take whatever you want.

I runt this on open world
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdQQFASnUUB1ahlYBuoC0ehl3iacG7isge3D+j/7BnwAA-ThRBABU8AAwTHgZKBB4CAc1+jyPKV/JAACwNvZAwNv5Qv5QvZA-e

Focus on high damage with minor survivor… open world is boring

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASlUUhSuYNVwxLQ7FLsFFdwP8J/YcMG/I4IeiBAA-TRSBABDt/w96AMTJIWKFwTDxVK7e4CBAwDEgS1f2MMAEgI4dXmpRERESBknyI-e

Ran this solo through entire HoT story, including mordremoth. Use it in open world for everything, works great. Static discharge with hammer kickers. You melt enemies. Use dodges and double shield if you bite off more than you can chew. Should be no problem 1v1 a chanpion.

basz.6129:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASlUUhSuYNVwxLQ7FLsFFdwP8J/YcMG/I4IeiBAA-TRSBABDt/w96AMTJIWKFwTDxVK7e4CBAwDEgS1f2MMAEgI4dXmpRERESBknyI-e

Ran this solo through entire HoT story, including mordremoth. Use it in open world for everything, works great. Static discharge with hammer kickers. You melt enemies. Use dodges and double shield if you bite off more than you can chew. Should be no problem 1v1 a chanpion.

Dude ive been using this with modified ammunition and applied force and im DESTROYING things. I love it! Most fun ive had in pve in a long time tbh thank you. in a long fight obv condi is the way to go (so its said) but ive been using this in frac and such and laying waste

Azure.8670:

basz.6129:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASlUUhSuYNVwxLQ7FLsFFdwP8J/YcMG/I4IeiBAA-TRSBABDt/w96AMTJIWKFwTDxVK7e4CBAwDEgS1f2MMAEgI4dXmpRERESBknyI-e

Ran this solo through entire HoT story, including mordremoth. Use it in open world for everything, works great. Static discharge with hammer kickers. You melt enemies. Use dodges and double shield if you bite off more than you can chew. Should be no problem 1v1 a chanpion.

Dude ive been using this with modified ammunition and applied force and im DESTROYING things. I love it! Most fun ive had in pve in a long time tbh thank you. in a long fight obv condi is the way to go (so its said) but ive been using this in frac and such and laying waste

What kind rotations do you guys use?

Azure.8670:

basz.6129:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASlUUhSuYNVwxLQ7FLsFFdwP8J/YcMG/I4IeiBAA-TRSBABDt/w96AMTJIWKFwTDxVK7e4CBAwDEgS1f2MMAEgI4dXmpRERESBknyI-e

Ran this solo through entire HoT story, including mordremoth. Use it in open world for everything, works great. Static discharge with hammer kickers. You melt enemies. Use dodges and double shield if you bite off more than you can chew. Should be no problem 1v1 a chanpion.

Dude ive been using this with modified ammunition and applied force and im DESTROYING things. I love it! Most fun ive had in pve in a long time tbh thank you. in a long fight obv condi is the way to go (so its said) but ive been using this in frac and such and laying waste

I’d like to know the rotations on this also. Would this build be good for raid dps also?

Rotation always is based on priority. Use the skills with the highest damage, if it’s on cd, use the next one, repeat. Just try to use Kinetic Battery properly and you’ll get another sweet boost.

However the build is rather garbage for raids, don’t even try to use it there. It has low dps and is only good for bursting low HP stuff.

If you really want to destroy stuff in open world I suggest you change the build a bit.

You should use a flame thrower with Juggernaut, Mass Momentum and Applied Force so you’ll have 10-15 stacks might (strength runes = 15) and 30% quickness uptime.

You can’t keep up with your build even against the FT aa now. So what next? We still have SD and tools. You should pick 2 of the 3 utilites your using right now.

• Rifle Turret for highest damage over time
• Tool Kit for highest survivability and blocks
• Personal Battering Ram for great damage and best cc

Then PLEASE DO NOT USE AIR, rather use Bloodlust or Strength. Air deals 0.3 x power every ~4s wich is lower, MUCH lower than 250 power from Bloodlust or the ~10 stacks might (~300 power) from Strength. I’d suggest Bloodlust here (aslong as you won’t frequently go downstate) since Strength is only better at 8+ stacks might and gets basicly useless in a zerg where other might buff you.

Greez!
- Ziggy

can vouch for strength sigil capping out might when solo and using strength runes, its pretty sweet

Yup, you have to see it like this:

Your around 2500 power. Now with maxing out might, you’ll be at 3250 power, wich basicly means “you now deal 30% more damage”. Better than any other build.

The core of a solo build should always be the FT. Then you pick either alchemy / tools / inventions for EG, boon duration and condi cleanse / burst and raw dps / sustained dps and survivability, heal.

Or you play whatever you want and just for fun!

If you’re going for a pve solo flamethrower build try using Fried Golden Dumplings. 20% boon duration and might on crit with no icd.
You’ll hit often enough with 30%+ quickness uptime to easily reach 25 might even without a sigil of strength and strength runes.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASncoCFpi1aBmXB0ehl7iS8g+hcAcBjwAg+2j9cH-TxRBwAeugAo0RERJIgHEw19HlfIMBdT9HRBEYA-e

This is what I’ve been using. Just swap out bulwark for EG depending on the fight and use sneak gyro with toss elixir s to sneak around.
I’m sure a few tweaks can be made (like the rage sigil), but this build has worked very well for me so far.

That’s because you use alchemy wich grants you boon duration, aswell as HGH. Can quote myself:

Xyonon.3987:

The core of a solo build should always be the FT. Then you pick either alchemy / tools / inventions for EG, boon duration and condi cleanse / burst and raw dps / sustained dps and survivability, heal.

But fried golden dumplins for open world seems a bit tryhard Not that I’d complain, I LOVE tryhard! But I think for the average player that’s too expensive.

Better swap rage with bloodlust btw. The CD is killing the sigil and 250 power are already ~10% damage increase.

Defenitly is a great build for open world tough. Maybe Elixier H as heal skill? but depends on how solid your 25 stacks might are. I think you’ll be at 20-25 tough

greez!^^

Steinpilz.5078:

Can someone recommend a scrapper build for doing stuff solo on the new maps?

I use something like this

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASncTBlYhVXBmXBEqil3iS8ieik47BnwAg+4D+kH-T1RBABLcBAA4BAw/+DYq+jZKBvS5He6AIFQgDtA-w