Guild Wars 2

So I was playing around with my engineer again after taking a break and decided to try a 0/30/0/20/20 build. I’m doing p/p or p/s with utilities being grenades with the battle and speed potions. Traits being to increase pistols range and piercing along with reduction of cooldowns. Potions are reduced cooldown and cleanse conditions. Finally I took the zap toolkit usage and scope which gives a 10% buff to my crit chance if I stand still.

For my gear i’m slotting all minor and major divinity runes. Going more to precision emphasis with increased crit damage. I have Major sigil of earth and a sigil of might for my pistols, with the might I can switch out for chance to steal health on my shield.

So…is this completely messed up or viable for pve/ wvwvw? Any recommendations to make it better?

From what the wiki says, sigils of the same type share CD timers. You might want to shift over to two different types of sigils. Either a stacking and a proc on crit or perhaps a more permanent thing, like Accuracy or force with one of the proc-ing sigils.

I tried vuln and might on crit thinking I could give myself a power boost with my FT, but I didn’t see as drastic a change in damage as I thought I would. Dunno if that’s because FT just wasn’t hitting the targets correctly (possible, but I saw damage and plenty of crits at 39% crit chance) or the sigils were actually sharing a cooldown.

Whatever you do, don’t use the target dummies across the land to test your theories. They are damage-able items, which you can’t crit on.

I haven’t totally tested the theory of sigil cooldown sharing, but I do trust the wiki. If you want your own testing grab a sigil of might and earth and test them out on the golems in the Mists.

— On the WvW/PvE idea —

WvW and PvE are . . . different monsters. WvW includes PvP elements, and you will be severely disappointed when you find that the build you owned a monster with didn’t even faze an enemy player.