Guild Wars 2

Hello guys,

I’m new to WvW and would appreciate your advice/opinion about these two builds.
Which one do you think is better for small scale roaming?
The reason I ask is because I need to buy different runes for each build and I don’t have a lot of gold

P/P – HGH build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqalspqbnvSdF1LJxoCdGUh8K6xjp8k/oAAsF-jUCBINAoOJkWAkEJIZSFRjtKsIas6GYKWER1eFFRrWIgFrBA-w

3 Kit build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqalIqiY3zyuF17IyoCdmoH5nl5Yfe8WsFEC-jUyAINAUXCpFgkogkJLiGbBrIas6GMFLRUtXpIa1CBsYNA-w

Thanks a lot!

Quick things: Noble runes come from a dungeon, so they don’t actually cost any gold. The builds might not have enough crit chance to proc IP very often.
Elixir Gun as your main kit might not be the best choice (Don’t get me wrong, I love elixir gun in multi-kit builds), as it lacks AoE damage for those 1vX/XvX encounters while roaming.

Honestly all I can tell you as to which is “Better” is to try them both. Both are strong builds.

What you can do to decide which to try first is to watch some videos of engis roaming using similar builds to see which playstyle interests you more.

P/P HGH (Toolkit, not EG, though)
http://youtu.be/Ot6nsWKXs7U

3 kit (Though he is perplexity, which is getting nerfed)
http://youtu.be/QQd53qlCvo8

3 kit one seems generally better to me.

K U T M.4539:

(Though he is perplexity, which is getting nerfed)

You are wrong my friend, they rune of perplexity has no incoming nerf, i can guarantee you that.

coglin.1867:

3 kit one seems generally better to me.

K U T M.4539:

(Though he is perplexity, which is getting nerfed)

You are wrong my friend, they rune of perplexity has no incoming nerf, i can guarantee you that.

They have been nerfed yesterday there is an 8 sec icd on the 6th bonus now. So it won’t get nerfed again and It still very strong. I use 3 kit build and swap out EG for toolkit depending on situation but with prybar, concussion bomb and pistol 3 you can still stack 15 stacks quite easily and reapply them pretty frequently I use either perplexity or scavenger runes depending on the mood I use dire armour and rabid trinkets with 1 dire weapon and 1 givers to give me 80% duration with food.

I think you’ll have a lot more success with the three-kit build, and it will be way more fun/challenging.

You may want to actually re-think your rune choice though—you won’t notice the extra bleed/poison duration. If you want to have really, really long conditions, use a couple of giver’s weapons on top of your pizza and use runes that give a flat 10% increase to condition damage.

i like the 3 kit build better but maybe you can consider the toolkit. the pull and the block are really useful in smallscale battles
also i’d go with dire gear with either scavenging or undead runes

When I’m not running a zerker burst build I run a 3 kit build (nades, bomb, EG) sometimes I’ll swap EG for TK but overall I find EG more useful.

I prefer roaming with my SD zerker build because I feel like I can simply do more with it but for small group play if recommend p/s and 3 kits for sure.

I don’t mean to hijack this topic but I didn’t want to start my own either. Be warned this might be my random rambling and thoughts. Now I know there aren’t any set builds and players change skills depending on what fits their playstyle but I have weirdly found the best success with pistol/shield, grenade kit, elixir S and Rocket boots. So i run a basic condition build with Perplexity ( nerf doesn’t really affect me or my playstyle I never concentrated on getting confusion on) but the thing is I am having a terrible time trying to play any other build/skills.

Not really much of a question here but I am so addicted to rocket boots I simply can’t roam or play without it. I then had a little trouble finishing players in a 1 vs x so I replaced bombkit with elixir S and started doing much better. I don’t really have any problems with other classes except mesmers which I know just kite to oblivion but I’m worried that i’m missing out on some more potential by using only 1 kit. Just wondering if anybody has thoughts on this? Apparently my playstyle is pretty “in your face” because people seem to be getting hit by most of my nades

Sorry for the rambling I was just interested in some tips and opinions from more experienced engineers!

I do not feel you adversely limit yourself at all by using just one kit. As you said, you made tweaks and changes to adjust for how you play. That is one thing I personally feel the engineer as a profession thrives on.

Bonsai.8964:

i like the 3 kit build better but maybe you can consider the toolkit. the pull and the block are really useful in smallscale battles
also i’d go with dire gear with either scavenging or undead runes

Took the words right out if my mouth. Love the 3 kit builds the best, so far. I just got into engineer and love it so far, nice bottle break from my ele. But I’ve seen a couple vids from the guy In riot and like his build. I tweaked it a little bit though and swap out alchemy trait for elixir condi cleanse with EG for solo roaming and when I’m in a group I change it to healing with kits and TK.

I hate perplexity runes because they’re entirely broken and just stupidly OP. So I stand by my undead runes! :-P

I’m curious as to how swiftness/vigor is going to be after dec 10th.