I use this build mainly for wvw.
First off the gear, what i use is full rabid with 15% boon and 40% might duration runes, i use those because this build can quite easily give you 25 stacks off might.
weapons and utility- i use p/s with sigil of battle and corruption, and then utility’s it’s toolkit/ eg (depends on play style) bombs/thumper turret and supply create
Traits- explosives i go 3/8/12 invention is 4 and 6, then i go 10 into both alchemy and tools for perma swiftness and vigour.
This build is about managing your blasts, myself, i like to use the blast finishers from shield/eg and bob into the fire bomb, this will keep your might between 15/25 stacks but obviously it is sometimes good to hold onto the cd just when you get to low hp then finish onto the water field instead, this also very handy as it works well with automated medical response, if you get all those off together this is a massive heal.
So why the thumper turret? All i have to say is 3 blast finisher at the same time every 50sec!
Being realistic you can get 5 blast finishers of in one field, this is 18 stacks of might, 15 from the blasts and 3 from the sigil.
Or you can blast into your smoke bomb which will give you around 10/11 sec off stealth,
5 blast into the super elixir is 15 sec’s of retaliation, or you could just use them for one big heal!
Now the reason i chose cloaking devise and auto defence bomb dispenser is if i get court of guard, what i like about this is if they are mele they will be blinded and if ranged well im in stealth, 5 sec should be enough time to counter my attack, but lets say they do manage to take my hp down quite low,
just drop another smoke bomb to give you that little extra time to blast into, then drop you healing and thumper turret and blast away, that 5 secs off cloaking devise and 10sec of stealth from blast finisher, this should give you time to run away, but if you do stay and fight your next heal will pretty much be ready to use, and with the bonus of the cool-downs being not from from use themselves.
Also on a side note every time you drop a fire bomb make sure you keep using throw wrench as often as possible for those extra burns.
And better yet this is all aoe, who wouldn’t want you by their side!
Also for pve you could swap the master trait out for granadier , it proven to work very well.
I would love to make a video off me destroying people in wvw with this build but my pc is rubbish and cant handle frap that well, so i would love to see other people take up the challage and just show others how diverse and powerful this build is. i know koroshi.2658 makes engineer vids and he seems to have a similar style to myself so would love to see he put one out! *hint hint
Hope you enjoy my build, rip hgh!
(edited by Dajas.4715)