Guild Wars 2

Hey guys. I’d like to see what the tankiest build for engi is that the people here can come up with. I don’t usually care about killing someone to fast, and I’d rather take my time and kill them slowly if possible, but the main goal would be to be tanky as kitten. So, post your tankiest engineer build here and feel free to rate them, try them, etc.

This is my tank build that I’ve been working on so far (This is in PvP, so I don’t have any food). I was able to last 5 minutes against a warrior who had the most insane kind of bursting ability and I killed him first, and then he killed me after a lot of running around etc. (5 minutes, literally)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqel0pSXH5yuF17IxIFdW0hUUYDL6h+tc+B-ToAg2CrIwShlDLDWSssYNEY+B

tl;dr Post your tankiest Engi build here. It can be PvP or WvWvW. Trying to make tankiest engi build out there.

Very nice build I guess it is one of the tankiest builds.

I watched a tanky youtube video with this Build:

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mcMM9VmlNGMmlNGMa0xx0czVqosb8khA7070m7kIM70V7ofF8ofy

but on your build are the sigils “wrong” they share the cooldown so you should change one of this sigils before you run.

@Lupanic: Thank you for pointing that out! I didn’t notice lol. I tested this build out in one of the dueling servers in PvP, so I didn’t get as much experience with taking on multiple people, but there were some people that I was could’ve fought while standing still because I was so tanky lol.

Now it looks fine. I like the block abilities in your build because of the mesmer

Well thank you. The runes of the guardian were inspired by the STD Build that was around a while back. I like how there’s no stun break in this build, and yet it can still be as tanky as kitten lol.

Interesting post. This is a real challange! Let’s make a Troll-gineer that can stay alive and hold a point like a motherkittener)

Hey! In theorycraft everything is possible..

First of all why not choose only 5 runes of the Guardian. You din’t need the 6th that gives 1 second burning, in stead get Dwayna which offers more healing power.

Go healing power all the way (inventions) and unlock elixir infused bombs. Every explosion will heal. Take a bomb kit and constantly spam it running from enemies around and spill glue from time to time to slow them down. The shield will give you more toughness and skill will recharge faster. Push them around.

Take Elixir R to recover from stun, refill endurance and revive faster if you get knocked down.

Go alchemy all the way to have the most vitality. Unlock all protection triggers. Take rune of energy to gain more endurance and hidromancy to chill foes.

Take a look at the traits: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqel0pSY3zyuF17IxoCdO0jCbY1K6Rl1vjB-ToAg2CrIwShlDLDWSss3M+YCC

JubeiTM your build is without vigor, isn’t it? And your sigils are also “wrong”. You should never take two sigils with the same effect. For example both on weapon swap means = 1 sigil is useless.

@JubeiTM: Troll-gineer is my favorite kind of play with the engi lol. I don’t have to kill them, but I like to mess with them lol. Killing them is a bonus.

I chose the 6 runes of the guardian because between the shield, and the gear shield (one of the best blocks in the game as far as uptime in my opinion) I can put a lot of burning on my opponent, and a lot of times they won’t really notice it that much, especially if they keep attacking, they just burn themselves a whole lot more lol. I was actually thinking of taking 10 points out of alchemy and putting them into inventions for the elixir bombs and switching out elixir b with bomb kit since it’s such a great kit.

Lupanic.6502:

JubeiTM your build is without vigor, isn’t it? And your sigils are also “wrong”. You should never take two sigils with the same effect. For example both on weapon swap means = 1 sigil is useless.

Yup, I got carried away. Then he will use Superior Sigil of Smoldering. The man loves to watch his foes burn, now it will happen 10% more

Penguin recently posted his current sPvP build. It uses a very high health pool to trigger Automated Response much earlier than most. We have a lot of “at 25% health” triggers. Pushing our health pool as close to 30K as possible means that these trigger at 7.5K health which is a decent amount. I’m gonna play with this idea and see what I can come up with.

I messed around with pretty much the same build except I took dwayna runes and a life steal sigil and also the trait that makes you immune to conditions over the vigor on swiftness one. I also took elixir R instead of B. It was extremely tanky but susceptible to heavy condition burst (not sure there are many “tank” builds that aren’t). You put out almost no pressure at all but you can sit there and take a beating from three people for quite a while before being overwhelmed. It’s pretty funny the comments people /say and when they just give up and leave.

EDIT: Giving credit where credit is due – the build is based off the bunker build that OstrichEggs posted in his “My tPvP builds” thread.

I wanted to keep my stamina up as much as possible, since avoiding damage is better than healing it. I thought long and hard about FT vs. Elixir R, but in the end I thought the ae blind + knockback / reflect were preferable. I was also torn between Melandru and Dwayna runes, but I went with Melandru since I don’t have a stun break. I’m just unsure really how effective 25% is in practice.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqel0picX3SrF17IxoHdW0bOkiCbYRKyv+B-TsAA1CtIMSZkzIjRSjsGNa48x8DA

@Grackleflint: That’s a really cool idea. Now I want to mess around with it lol. Props to Penguin.

@Leadfoot: In pvp I went and got 6 of each of the runes that I considered tanky and one of the ones I tried was dwayna. I actually went against a condition mesmer who actually got me down to about 3k hp, and I didn’t have the auto response. Then again, that might have been a result of me playing effectively against him by mostly attacking the real one. Yeah, I agree with you. The comments are hilarious lol. “You’re freaking tanky as kitten!” etc

@Mister Mustard: Yeah, that is pretty nice, especially since we can have perma vigor fairly easily. Does Adrenal Implant stack with Vigor so we can have 150% energy regen?

Do you lose the 90 toughness you get from shield if switch to the flamethrower? If not what if you use the Juggernaut trait in Firearms alongside that…?