Guild Wars 2

So, this off-season i’ve been experimenting builds that made the use of rifle doable, because i missed having rifle a lot! and i did try finding something, rifle with bursting toolbelts? (nade tb, rocket turret tb, and mortar tb), it didnt workout well (6 loses in a row O.O) despite how damaging it looked.

Juggernaut ft? i managed some wins but still, more loses than wins, and i felt how easily was bursted while on this build, either in duels or in teamfights.

From all what i founded, this is the only build for using rifle, that i finded doable, with a great concistency in win/lose ratio.

Here it is (Amulet is Seekers)

The Drunk Engi build! (That’s how i call it ;P)

The build pretty much concist on abusing HGH to his max potential in order to reach a lot of might, with this build, you should never have problems to have over 13 stacks of might, and you can reach the 25 stacks easily most of the time.

So yeah, the more drunk your engi is, the more powerful he is!

It makes me smile everytime i down someone with this build with hip shot, really, i have downed a lot of people with hip shot with this! (But it’s still important to use Blunderbuss :P).

I’m not gonna leave a guide on how i exactly play it because i feel you might find a better playstile with this build, (i’ll post it if its very requested though).

Any counters? Multiple Condis and multiple Thiefs (Specially Staff thieves) are the counter of this, the build has enough condi cleanse for deal with 1 or 2 condi opponents, but with more, you should consider birng Elixir C over U, the build is fine against 1 thief, but the more thiefs there are, the more it suffers, its all fine, but the moment the thiefs discover you how easy target you are (unless you showed him a lesson in rampage mode), he will start to hunt you down, everytime.

Everything else is doable and fair matches from what i experienced, kinda doable in duels but your potential stays in teamfights (and in how well ignored you are while on this build, it happens very often this xD), so make sure to stay around your teammates most of the time.

Oh, btw, here are some pics about how it went for me in 1 match, and my win/losses of my last 10 matches, everything only playing this build.

Any questions of the build? i’m here :P

Here showing the damage dealt, prob the average imo

The win loss ratio i got one time, only with this build

meh, works in unranked i guess but what doesn’t work in unranked?
wouldn’t go very far in ranked imo.
while i encourage individual build making unfortunately engineer only has 1-2 builds that are good enough to be able to compete with the 1-2 builds every other class has.
we live in dark days when it comes to build diversity.
however, if you enjoy it, play it. congrats on the decent wr.

zaced.7948:

meh, works in unranked i guess but what doesn’t work in unranked?
wouldn’t go very far in ranked imo.
while i encourage individual build making unfortunately engineer only has 1-2 builds that are good enough to be able to compete with the 1-2 builds every other class has.
we live in dark days when it comes to build diversity.
however, if you enjoy it, play it. congrats on the decent wr.

Thank you, and hey, if it doesnt find play in this meta, at least im sharing a build that has meta potential with the right buff balances :P

Looks interesting enough to give it a try. I was looking for a decent condition remover for a while. I just have one tiny little question about your build:

Traits => Tools => Streamlined kits O_O?

I don’t see any kits in your build. Does this trait work with elexirs as well?

HnRkLnXqZ.1870:

Looks interesting enough to give it a try. I was looking for a decent condition remover for a while. I just have one tiny little question about your build:

Traits => Tools => Streamlined kits O_O?

I don’t see any kits in your build. Does this trait work with elexirs as well?

Thank you for noticing me that!, yep, its a mistake, you don’t take streamlined kits, you take Lock On, sorry, correcting the build :P

Just gave it a first try. Yikes! I’m impressed. I only play pve and use some different armor stats and runes. But I end up with the same ammount of might stacks as if I use the FT, which is arround 22. In addition I have some very nice buffs and I havent seen a condition causing real damage so far.

I know a few situations this will come in very handy. Thank you!

I run a pretty close build to this one. Instead of tools and scrapper i use inventions and firearms and marauder instead of settlers amulet. Everything else is the same. It’s so much fun. In fact, i find my variant fun in roaming and zergs (with addition of few soldier gear).

In my opinion it is better if you modify like this :
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFAUlcTh6rY1Vw8KQ+FLsFlYHNFPR4SdRvGYIuBBAA-T5ABgA17PAcBAgeAAAA

Tools without toolkit is not strong as invention ( for the condi cleans and for the blind on struck ). firearm is good with rifle becouse it increases your dps and you have lower cd on rifle . what makes this build unviable , imho, is that you have only projectils …. and with all the amount of reflection and projectils distruction it is not that effective . perhaps you could think to change one elixir for a kit ( in that casae you could take explosive instead of firearm and take short fuse and bombs (nades are projectils too ) )

PierPiero.9142:

In my opinion it is better if you modify like this :
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFAUlcTh6rY1Vw8KQ+FLsFlYHNFPR4SdRvGYIuBBAA-T5ABgA17PAcBAgeAAAA

Tools without toolkit is not strong as invention ( for the condi cleans and for the blind on struck ). firearm is good with rifle becouse it increases your dps and you have lower cd on rifle . what makes this build unviable , imho, is that you have only projectils …. and with all the amount of reflection and projectils distruction it is not that effective . perhaps you could think to change one elixir for a kit ( in that casae you could take explosive instead of firearm and take short fuse and bombs (nades are projectils too ) )

I find fair change scrapper for inventions, but i did try firearms first before tools, and really, i didnt find the cd reduction on the rifle worth it as it was the cd reduction with the elixirs, thats why i dont run that, another thing is that scrapper buffs the toolbelt of elixir b, that, and cd reduction, having it each 16 secs i find it sweet, but oh well, everyone with his own way no? :P