Guild Wars 2

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

My frands! Vee Wee knows many of you are interested in PvP! But maybe you don’t know where to start! Or maybe you want to broaden your horizons! Or maybe you just want to read Vee Wee’s thread! Vee Wee does not know of a place that has many Engineer PvP builds together! Metabattle is too unreliable and the site owners are woefully incompetent! So Vee Wee will provide you guys, my frands, a list of PvP builds! And Vee Wee encourages you guys to post your own personal PvP builds here! Vee Wee will update it if you guys do!

But before we begin, Vee Wee will give you guys some advice about builds! First, if you are new, use someone else’s build! You don’t know much about the class, so your theorycrafts probably won’t be that good, even if you are a veteran of the game! Many, many years ago Vee Wee tried to teach herself guitar! But Vee Wee didn’t know how to play the guitar! Vee Wee was a bad teacher! This is the same thing! Next, builds aren’t set in stone! Builds are more of what you’d call guidelines than actual rules! You must tailor a build to your playstyle! If a build is supposedly “meta” but you don’t like certain parts of it, then change it to your liking! For better or for worse, this is most important my frands!

When making a build, there are a few important things to remember!

• Dodges! All, and Vee Wee means ALL, successful PvP builds have some form of energy regeneration! This game is focused on dodging, so you must, must, must, must have dodges! You can get more dodges with the vigor boon or with Energy Sigils! Some builds even run both! Make sure you have at least one of these things!
• Condition removal! You must take condition removal! There are lots of conditions in this meta! Some conditions can hurt even when applied by builds that aren’t condition focused! It’s the power of might stacking! Unfortunately the Engineer does not have much condition removal! Fortunately the Engineer’s best heal, Healing Turret, has condition removal built in!
• Stunbreaks! You need stunbreaks! There are so many disables in the meta right now! On a class that’s thuper easy to focus down like Engineer, you need stunbreaks!
• Engineers are fragile! Yes! Believe it or not they are! They are easily focused down! Try to incorporate some way to mitigate burst! Try to find a way to counter immobilizes! Immobilizes are crazy! The easiest way is by blocking! Taking Tool Kit or offhand shield does wonders for your health!

Anyway frands! Here are the builds that Vee Wee could think of off the top of Vee Wee’s head!
P/P
Shameless plug! Vee Wee’s P/P condition build!
Ostrichegg’s ToL2 winning build!

P/S
Grenade/Bomb! <-Empty slot can be Elixir S, Elixir R, or Elixir Gun!
Tanky Grenade/Bomb!
Bomb 3Kit!

Celestial Rifle
Shameless plug! Vee Wee’s Hybrid Engi!
Hiba’s ToL2 Winning Hybrid Engi!
Chaith’s Celestial Engi!

Power Rifle!
Chaith’s Power Engi!

Other
Shameless plug! Vee Wee’s Gadget Build!
Shameless plug! Vee Wee’s Celestial FLAME TURRET THUPER MIGHT STACK META BUILD!
Turret Engi
Grenade Static Discharge!
Rifle Static Discharge!
Power HGH!
Condition HGH!

That’s all for now frands! Hope this helps everyone! Like I said frands if you have builds you want on here, feel free to leave them! Wahoo!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Perma Vigor Turret Engi
Ukune’s Celestial HGH!
Bomb/Grenade Celestial!
Chung’s Decap Engi!

Hey VeeWee,

I had posted about changing from power/hgh bombs with 409 to a tanker 3 kit build. I played about 20 matches this weekend and found that while I could take a beating, I wasn’t doing great with p/s and did only a bit better with rifle.

So first question, when is P/S better than rifle? Is it only in condition builds?
Second, is armor mods worth going full into tools? (aegis, gearshield, and shield 5 is great but you aren’t doing damage while blocking)
Thirdly, when rotating through toolkit, EG, and bombs what rotations are best?

Thanks, just trying to up my pvp game.

EDIT: I also feel like moving from HGH to kits traded off stability for aegis and I’m not sure with all the CC if it was worth it.

Your Bomb 3kit build has the Grenadier trait despite no grenades. Might want to fix that.

hey veewee add this to your list

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlcTp6q1XxELseNCbBBqKI6jEln85DEgkC-TJxHwADeAAa2fAwFAoYZAA

this is what i used as my HGH build in spvp and ive run HGH for aloooooooonnnnggg time so i can confirm that it works efficiently.

also bump to keep on front page.

To add* your rifle static discharge didnt have static discharge on it, im not expert but i think it needs that trait to be a rifle static discharge build, ill also add the go hard or go home version which with a bit of practice found can burst down any target no matter the bunker.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpmqtdxkLseNCdBN6pEmSD6FUhP/pAA-TJBFwACeAAl2foaZAAXAAA

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Fixed the 3 kit build and rifle s/d! Added celestial HGH! Thanks frands!

P/S is a condition weapon setup! You could maybe use it for a power build as it provides many defensive utilities and poison! Rifle is still the best for power builds!

Going deep into tools is risky! Usually there are better places to spend your points! Generally you only go deep into that tree in a power build, mainly Static Discharge! But Armor Mods can benefit fragile berserker builds or supplement tanky ones! Alchemy is the best defensive tree by far!

There are no PvP rotations! You use what skills that you think are best for the situation! If we are talking about the 3 kit bomb build, there are many combos you can do! You can place a large amount of confusion on the bad guy! Concussive Bomb > Static Shot > Prybar! You can always Magnet > Big Ole Bomb! Burning is your strongest condition so try to keep them inside Fire Bomb as much as possible! Use Glue Bomb to set up combos!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Just my thoughts but the builds you have listed seem very NA oriented to me.

Anyhow, here is a couple of my own:

Bomb-Nade Rifle Celestial
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpPrlYx+KseNSaBNq0I6Qulm85JEgnC-TJRHwAFuAAAeAAk2f4YZAA

(can change for Toolkit and take Protection Injection instead for the EU Meta build)

Chung’s soon-to-be nerfed Decap Engi:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpmqlcxWLseNCdBF6RcwQL6GWka8pAA-TJxHwACuAAn2fYZZAAPAAA

Lacks stunbreaks but you have Turret explosion and FT5 to “stunbreak” smartly.

Why settler’s amulet on the turret build? Wouldn’t something like knight’s or soldier’s be a better fit?

EDIT:

ArrDee.2573:

Ukune’s Celestial HGH!

That seems to lead to the SD burst build.

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Settlers because it’s the tankiest amulet Engineers can use! Turret Engis deal worthless rifle damage! Better to increase your survivability than add 100 damage to Blunderbuss! Also updated and added builds! Wahoo!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hi vee wee, i ask you 2 things
which one of this builds do you belive is generally more effective ? do you think it is more effective for pvp a build based on Pistol Pistol or based on Pistol shield for a condi build ?
thanks for answering

sigil of energy at turret build, lmao)

I’ve had great fun with Nap’s turreteer build:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Nap-s-Condi-Turreteer-Tpvp-and-1v1-build/first
Also, this topic deserves a first page so I kinda…bumped it a bit. If…if that’s okay.

How do you use the flame turret meta build build? What’s it for? Decapping? Holding point? Roaming with friends? Picking your nose waiting for someone to 1v1 you?