Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I man Viper/Sinister engineer for raids so far and I love it. I heard how good Scrapper Tank is for the second boss and I wanted to try it. Most people are using rabid gear for that role, but Trailblazer seem so good for this role. I started to accumulate the material needed to do the build, but at the same time, I wanted to see what other people were thinking about it so here it is.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQJAqalUUhOvYfWwELQ7FLsFFdwP8JP4HWiBwXFmhHAA-TRiHQByT9ndp0jcaBq1DA4F7PIOdAA4EAQQlBQRJYAAEgdT3AwQH6QH6QHa7W3Cd3Cd3kCAmlVA-e

The trinkets are the same I have on my Viper/Sinister build. And I changed only the stats of one of my pistol, because I’m near completion for my HOPE so with the same sigil it will be easier for me to just swap the stats.

Once I have my armor, I’ll test out if that’s enough for my own surviability. My guess is that i will need to swap some trinkets from sinister to rabid tbh, but I’m not sure yet, I’ll have to see when I have my gear.

Trailblazer Ascended vs. Rabid Ascended will give more damage up until you get to 100% burning and bleeding duration. The damage difference between that and a full Viper/Sinister setup is pretty small (less than 10%). Engineer is by far the highest DPS tank you can run.

You’d probably want to run this setup in reality. Shaped charge is going to do virtually nothing for your damage, so you’ll want Short Fuse. Glass Cannon also adds very little direct damage, so the quality of life benefits from the larger AoE on the grenadier trait is probably worth it as well.

If you feel like you have enough survivability, you can swap Rapid Regen for Mass Momentum for a ‘free’ 200+ power in this setup. It won’t buy you a ton of damage since you have such poor power ratios on the skills you’ll be using, but it is something.

If you need to be even tankier (I’ve been in some pugs with really bad healing… it happens), you can drop explosives for alchemy and pick up the Iron Blooded trait for absurd levels of damage reduction.

Ya Short Fuse is a mistake. It should have been in my build.

For Grenadier, it’s a small different and it’s debatable. Yes Glass Canon is small, at the same time grenadier is pretty useless. The Velocity change nothing to your dps and the blast radius increase of 60 is too small to make a difference with the spirit when you bring Gorsaval to the wall. So I prefer the small increase of dps from glass canon. But either way it won’t change much.

2100 Toughness seem a bit too much. In pugs maybe, but otherwise I want to increase my damage, not reduce it. Cactus salad is nice. It’s an easy way to increase my surviability if I need it. I will probably keep using Koi Cake, but it’s a nice substitute if our main Healer isn’t available for exemple.

I don’t see any reason to take Trailblazer for both weapons and the amulet tbh. They are expensive and and I already have the Viper for both. If someone with Rabid Rings and Accessories still think he need a bit more toughness, then yes that would be a good choice, but it’s not really my case for now.

I think i’m gonna take something in that range

From max dps
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQJAqalUUhOvYfWwELQ7FLpFF9xn8PPYJuiHw3GGANAA-TRiHQByT9ndp0jcaBq1DA4F7PIOdAA4EAQQlBQRJYAAEgdT3AwQH6QH6QHa7W3Cd3Cd3kCAmlVA-e

To a bit more survivability
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQJAqalUUhOvYfWwELQ7FLpFF9xn8PPYJuiHw3GGANAA-TRiHQByT9HypFoWPAgio07F7PIOdAA4EAQQlBQRJYAAEgdT3AwQH6QH6QHa7W3Cd3Cd3kC4ulVA-e

I’ll probably be somewhere in between.

Glass Cannon is going to add about 150 DPS to your overall build. Just landing 1 or 2 grenades that would have just barely missed would make up that gap. A full Sinister/Viper engy is doing less than 4500 Direct damage DPS, so 5% more than that is pretty small. When you look at it on a tankier engy, you’re going to gain even less damage.

There is really a TINY difference in damage between the Trailblazer + Sinister vs. Trailblazer + Rabid. If the small difference in damage is worth the extra risk you’re welcome to do that. Just know that you’re adding a few hundred DPS in exchange for the pretty significant Damage Reduction loss.