Guild Wars 2

Hi folks,

I’m a returning player, AFG since pre-HOT. I don’t have HOT, I’m thinking about getting it. I do (did) PVE, PUG dungeons and Silverwastes and so on. A couple of days back I made an engi, my eighth character. And I have some questions…

1. So condi Viper’s is the new hotness. AFAICT that’s HOT only, somewhere along the line you need a non-market recipe or component from HOT to craft it. Am I correct?

2. What do you use to attack things that are immune to condi, like doors or Rotmouths or dredge carts? I’ve been spamming grenade kit 1 at them, is there a better alternative?

3. What do condi engineers do underwater? The speargun doesn’t seem so great, apart from the grenade skill. So I’ve been mostly sticking to the grenade and occasionally bomb kits, with a lot of grenade 1. Any suggestions?

4. What do you do if you want on-demand condi cleanse available? There were times in LS2 when I wouldn’t have died if I could only clear that 15 second cripple to get some space… So far I’ve swapped bomb kit to Elixir H when I really wanted a ready cleanse, any other suggestions?

Morte.5916:

Hi folks,

I’m a returning player, AFG since pre-HOT. I don’t have HOT, I’m thinking about getting it. I do (did) PVE, PUG dungeons and Silverwastes and so on. A couple of days back I made an engi, my eighth character. And I have some questions…

1. So condi Viper’s is the new hotness. AFAICT that’s HOT only, somewhere along the line you need a non-market recipe or component from HOT to craft it. Am I correct?

2. What do you use to attack things that are immune to condi, like doors or Rotmouths or dredge carts? I’ve been spamming grenade kit 1 at them, is there a better alternative?

3. What do condi engineers do underwater? The speargun doesn’t seem so great, apart from the grenade skill. So I’ve been mostly sticking to the grenade and occasionally bomb kits, with a lot of grenade 1. Any suggestions?

4. What do you do if you want on-demand condi cleanse available? There were times in LS2 when I wouldn’t have died if I could only clear that 15 second cripple to get some space… So far I’ve swapped bomb kit to Elixir H when I really wanted a ready cleanse, any other suggestions?

1) The only non-market things in association with Viper’s are the recipes for inscriptions, insignias, and recipes for ascended gear. You don’t need the ascended gear recipes typically since you can just craft something cheaper then transmute it in the Mystic Forge by putting in an exotic insignia/inscription, 5 ectos, the item, and an anthology of heroes (costs 10 spirit shards). The recipes you need you buy in Auric Basin from the Exalted merchants.

2) Nope. As far as I know, nothing aside from Power Scrapper Hammer does much door to condi immune things. Though not many things are condi immune in HoT.

3) Arenanet more or less abandoned the idea of underwater fights. Just use grenades and bombs, it’s usually enough.

4) In PVE usually Healing Turret is enough for me. I’ve never had an issue with condi cleanse. Here is a little tip that for some reason some engineers just haven’t figured out. If you are going condi, make sure that you blind a lot. Mobs are extremely susceptible to blind since they attack so slowly. Blinds include : Mortar Gun 4, Bombkit 4, Flamethrower 5, Grenade Kit 3, Pistol 3. Before the changes to Cliffside Fractal, I could easily chain pull and solo one side of the Arm Seals, even at fractal level 80 something.

Thank you, Ging.