Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone. This is my first post, and I’ve got a little problem. I’ve been speed leveling an engineer and I absolutely love it so far. Flamethrower is insanely fun, and so are grenades. However, after I originally tinkered and found a build I liked, I recently found a different one. It’s worth noting that my intention is to create a middle of the road character. One that does good damage while still being fairly durable, and will be wearing a full soldiers (Toughness, power, vitality) set. This build is also primarily looked upon as a WvW build, since it’s what I enjoy doing the most.

So, the first build. This one uses Flamethrower and Grenades, which is really fun for me. The ten into toughness makes it a bit tankier, and taking the conversion into power trait goes perfectly with my gear and Juggernaut.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcEQJAqel0pyaHxSdF17ISoCSIoHAWddXfe8WtFEC

Now the second build. This one I did some number crunching and found out that the Flamethrower seems to do comparable damage despite losing the 10 points in explosives. Not to mention it’s overall more tanky than the previous build. This build relies mostly on Flamethrower and Elixir Gun.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcEQJAqel0pyaX3SdF27IBoH6tu3VkCM34PKYbbB

The problem is I can’t really decide which way to go. Is being a bit tankier and having comparable (Perhaps slightly more) flamer damage worth having essentially no ranged AoE? My grenades would be pretty terrible without grenadier. So I’d basically be using Elixir Gun for support and on single targets at range, Flamethrower up close, and probably Mortar whenever a big fight or keep defense was happening. Please offer me your opinions, and help me decide! Thank you for reading.

You like using grenades and flamethrower?, i would say go that route (for starters its funner for you).

Though, grab incendary ammo instead as your 10 pt explosives trait. It benefits you more no matter what your doing. Also mortar isnt a good replacement for grenades, its a pretty horrible elite. Nades seem to travel farther when traited and do WAY more damage, mortor is easily destroyed while your trying to use it (and your a sitting duck while using it where grenades you have mobility). It does not scale with stats (so all your gear is not helping you…well condition damage might help it but other stats do not, so once again grenades will hit harder). Mortar just is really bad atm, so you’ll get annoyed pretty early on.

Your first build sounds like it will work and if its whats fun for you, i say go for it. I might suggest grabbing elixer S instead of B though…unless you need the swiftness, elixer S is amazing for those “OH S#()$” moments when a theif or some kitten jumps you and you need to escape in a pinch or buy some time.

Hope this has been helpful. And whatever you do, make sure your having fun.