Guild Wars 2

Share your builds here be it for pvp or pve.

Well… ok then. Here’s Mine

General idea is to stay in flamethrower most of the time, switching to pistol/shield, healing kit, and Elixir gun for the support skills (reflect projectiles, apply poisons, health/swiftness/condition removal droppables, Super Elixir, etc). 7 is a ‘loose’ utility slot, to be filled with whatever the situation at hand calls for.

The source for damage is a high crit chance and condition damage coupled with the flamethower’s high rate of attack procing the chance-on-crit traits to stack vulnerability, bleeding, and burning. Elixir gun’s fumigate and pistol main’s poison volley let me stack some poison as well. The extra toughness and might from the 30-point firearms trait is just gravy.

This is what I’m using right now.

I got bored of turrets, and the standard flamethrower build (even though it arguably has the best dps) was getting stale for me too. I’ll probably go back to the flamethrower build when I hit 80, but gadgets are fun and are working well for me.

I made an elixir based engineer which you can see here

Didn’t see this. Here’s mine

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Chop-Shop-Engineer-Build-thread/first#post53910

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#MMMzM9MzMCLlMMCLlM9MGxGMkmkaoR

This is mine, mostly WvW based but it works well in sPvP as well. Built for group assaults but can still 1v1 against just about every class due to the high survivability.

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#MMMzM9MzMoNaVMoNamx0ax0okqzMVb

Amazing for Group WvW and sPvP and I find it incredibly easy to solo and pretty much do anything, going to be putting out a guide / WvW and sPvP footage soon.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fcUQFAUlIqqbnuShF17IyIFM2ECSBgVXie8YU2kB

This is my current build I use for Support in PvE groups large or small.
Main focus of build is removal of conditions and stacking vulnerability, with Retaliation and Healing Combos for area heals.
I did previously have a turret but until all the turrets are deployable I will stick with another Elixir instead. Also have tried this with Pistol and Shield, but have swapped back for leap combo on the rifle. Nice to have retaliation every 20s or so and I am also able to build up a decent amount of vulnerability on target.

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#MzMM9czmoagomoagMxG9MGckqosoa

Here’s mine, though some notes: I haven’t decided on scope or leg mods for 20 in tools, I go that far for the lowered CD on grenade barrage and more importantly bandage self, plus the crit dmg is nice as well. It’s a rifle/grenade build, with using the quick close-range burst of rifle, followed with the overcharged → net shot, and grenading while immobilized. The Elixir C is replaceable with Elixir U depending on what you’re doing, same with Elixir B if you really wanted to. Mortar is for anti-structure or niche usage of the #5 (knock things away caught in it, okay burst), but swapped out for supply crate more often than not.

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#McMzM9MzoaNbMoaNbMG0xaacRcsqzo

Just some notes: This is build really meant for exploring and/or dynamic events in groups as the Speedy Kits talent will simply help you get from a to b quicker. You probably won’t be switching kits all that often in dungeons.

When in a dungeon group I take the points out of alchemy, put them in tools to bump that to 20 and switch out the tools talents like so:

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#McMzM9MzoaNbMoaNbMG0x0GcRcsqVa

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#MVMzz9coLNaMoLNaMxx9MacVqVzqm

Traits to maximize damage output, with Toughness/Vit supplied by the equipment. Pistol Flameblast combos with the Flamethrower Napalm or Bomb Kit Fire Bomb for a high damage long duration burn. Grenades and Flamethrower hand out criticals like nobody’s business, and the grenades also cause lots of vulnerability. Each of the weapons contains a blinding skill, which helps a lot.

Zyph.8401:

This is what I’m using right now.

I got bored of turrets, and the standard flamethrower build (even though it arguably has the best dps) was getting stale for me too. I’ll probably go back to the flamethrower build when I hit 80, but gadgets are fun and are working well for me.

Would you mind posting the “standard flamethrower build” you mentioned? I haven’t been keeping up on theorycrafting or anything yet for the game. I thought the general consensus was that weapon kits were terrible for damage over all. I’d love to take a look at a good flamethrower build.

i use this build:
http://www.gw2build.com/builds/engineer-the-way-of-the-flamethrower-pve-engineer-pve-flamethrower-5716.html

i find it great fun to use the flamethrower and if you buff yourself enough you’ll do tons of dmg