Guild Wars 2

I’d like to know if Engineers are viable for damage dealing and killing in WvW. I"d like to think if I’m roaming and a 1v1 happens, i’d know i had a good chance at beating them. I’m also low level, so I’d like to know a good leveling build to go. So far i’ve been using P/P skills just cause idk the right way to do it.

Basically I’m asking if an Engineer can be one of the top 5 most kills in the leaderboard after a match, and if so, in what situations? Bomb zerging a group, 1v1, or accidental kills like blowing them off a ledge.

It’s hard to answer ‘coz there’s just 5 days till next patch so what I say may change in the near future but I’ll try to help anyway so:

1st) if you want to wvw you should try and join some people that can teach you via TS/skype, I suggest most populated servers like Gandara.

2nd) it’s not all about damage, engi can give some huge support at crucial times, check a couple wvw vids that got posted lately in this section of the forum, I also suggest you to check the small wvw guide ppl provided in the wvw section of the forum

3rd) I suggest you to switch to rifle and start using a static discharge build to level, because it grants good burst and decent dps (static discharge it a tools’ trait), you should be fine with just equipping rifle turret to use the trait, meanwhile you should try to rotate the many kits engineer has to offer, I suggest tool kit for static discharge synergy, this way you’ll also be learning the many ways of an engineer.

So… if you are looking for a list of traits you should be using for leveling better/faster I suggest static discharge from tools traitline and speedy kits from tools traitline again, if you want to try other skills you might have to check our buglist in the stickies, atm engineer has a ton of bugs, even static discharge has those.

I mean I want to be the person that gets kills and is on the offensive. Is an Engineer capable of that?

Also, the Legendaries are really turning me off to Engineer as well. I want to play a class where my Legendary is freaking viable. Not one where it’s always hidden, and doesn’t affect kits at all. Makes them completely pointless for Engineers.

if you want damage, go with rifle and power/toughness + vit or prec. as of right now, i’m a condition build and in a group setting, it’s pretty effective since no one really specs for condition removal. in 1v1, it can get a little tricky since i’m usually waiting for the ticks to kick in. it really depends on your play style and how you want to charge in. there are plenty of guides here that provide a wide variety of viable builds so i’m pretty sure you’ll find something you like.

Sure its viable. I personaly still using static discharge build with great success. Full berserk gear with ascended power, prec, crit dmg items, precision, crit dmg food and oil. Divinity runes and two rifles one with precision stacking and second with rune of fire.
When stacked and buffed with Fury – 3200 attack, 97% crit chance and 118% crit dmg. I am a bit squishy but I have range burst better then 100b warrior on melee, perma swiftness and massive endurance regeneration. Usualy my kill/death ratio is 20:1:-)

What I really like for small fights is the elixir gun. With rifled barrels it gives 3s of weakness with the #1 per shot. You stack that on somebody for a bit and they’l really be off their game.

Look at Maskaganda.2043 build it is a good PP build even do i dont agree 100%
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/The-Spree-WvW-pistols-and-pots-movie/first#post1235768

I use a rifle/grenade build in WvW. For zergs or sieges, you can stand in the middle/back and lob grenades — also to the top of walls to discourage people from standing too close too the edge. The Toolkit magnet can also pull careless people down.

There are other more tanky builds that will let you charge into the enemy zerg. I’ve not tried those out but the people posting them really like them.

Psy.7386:

I’d like to know if Engineers are viable for damage dealing and killing in WvW. I"d like to think if I’m roaming and a 1v1 happens, i’d know i had a good chance at beating them. I’m also low level, so I’d like to know a good leveling build to go. So far i’ve been using P/P skills just cause idk the right way to do it.

Besides, skill trumps any build you can imagine.

Basically I’m asking if an Engineer can be one of the top 5 most kills in the leaderboard after a match, and if so, in what situations? Bomb zerging a group, 1v1, or accidental kills like blowing them off a ledge.

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Besides, skill trumps any build out there.

I use this build a lot

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcUQJAqel0pqb3zy3F17IxIFfuzhUgfDD6hez7dB;ToAAzCpoay0koJbTumkNNqYWB

It is probably considered one of the weaker damage builds, but I like it, and feel confident in any 1v1 match and am more then willing to take on any 2-3 on 1 feeling I have good odds of coming out on top.

Psy.7386:

I’d like to know if Engineers are viable for damage dealing and killing in WvW. I"d like to think if I’m roaming and a 1v1 happens, i’d know i had a good chance at beating them. I’m also low level, so I’d like to know a good leveling build to go. So far i’ve been using P/P skills just cause idk the right way to do it.

Basically I’m asking if an Engineer can be one of the top 5 most kills in the leaderboard after a match, and if so, in what situations? Bomb zerging a group, 1v1, or accidental kills like blowing them off a ledge.

First of all, if you’re an engineer, there is no “accidental” blowing someone off a ledge. It’s definitely intentional, and it’s definitely viable.

Anyways, if you want 1v1 killing capability, I think you pretty much need rifle and toolkit, otherwise your opponent can just run away when you get them low on health. Trait the toolkit to cripple, and rifle’s net shot will severely slow down runners. And you should always have magnet for WvW anyways.

fluidmonolith.3584:

Psy.7386:

I’d like to know if Engineers are viable for damage dealing and killing in WvW. I"d like to think if I’m roaming and a 1v1 happens, i’d know i had a good chance at beating them. I’m also low level, so I’d like to know a good leveling build to go. So far i’ve been using P/P skills just cause idk the right way to do it.

Basically I’m asking if an Engineer can be one of the top 5 most kills in the leaderboard after a match, and if so, in what situations? Bomb zerging a group, 1v1, or accidental kills like blowing them off a ledge.

First of all, if you’re an engineer, there is no “accidental” blowing someone off a ledge. It’s definitely intentional, and it’s definitely viable.

Anyways, if you want 1v1 killing capability, I think you pretty much need rifle and toolkit, otherwise your opponent can just run away when you get them low on health. Trait the toolkit to cripple, and rifle’s net shot will severely slow down runners. And you should always have magnet for WvW anyways.

With the Elixir gun you can have someone constantly crippled as the cripple skill lasts for 5 seconds and the recharge rate is exactly 5 seconds.

Apart from that to answer the op my Engi does very well in WVW and great in sPVP too. There are probably a good handful of builds you can go with. After a bit of testing this is my build:

Kits – Flamethrower/Bomb Kit/Elixir Gun.

I use those kits as the F-key skills are very useful and so are the Flamethrower/Elixir kits. With this set up I have 3 healing skills with ANY weapon equipped. My dedicated healing skill, the F key for the dedicated healing skill (I find prayer of Dwayna best for WvW as a human) and the F key for the elixir gun which is a nice 1k – 1500 healing at lvl 80 with my build.

The Big ol Bomb F key skill does a nice 2k damage usually and is great for pushing back huge groups of enemies.

As for the kits themself I mainly use Flamethrwoer when in the heat of it as I have the traits that give me hp regen (usualy about 140 hp per split second), +200 toughness when it’s equipped, +15% damage with it and constant stack of about 5-6 might.

Elixir gun comes in handy if you want to give an extra healing to yourself and allies and when you need to remove conds from allies. Also as stated above if you think your single encounter enemy is gonna run off, constantly cripple him for a secured victory.

Btw the Flamethrower is GREAT for flushing out those pesky hidden thieves and mesmers. Just spray it in any direction and more often than not you will find them!

Anywho gl with your Engi and I hope you have fun with it as after all Engi is the “fun” class to play!

I’ve been running Maskaganda’s build for about a month. There’s no doubt in my mind it’s as good as anything else out there 1v1. Only thing holding me back in some fights is how good I am. I’ve come across 1 mesmer that after about 3 long passes at each other we both decided neither was going to die. I came across a bunker build guardian in which we both were fighting each other in down-state 3 times during the battle. It happened to be on the middle island of the BL and we kept rallying when some quaggan would kill a krait we’d both splashed with AE damage. (THAT was an awsome-ly fun fight.) In the end I choose not to hit him with supply crate when it had been off cooldown for a bit (for the second time) in favor of more bleeds and conditions and he took the victory. If a thief gets me in a tight corner I just don’t have the skills to deal. If I can face one with lots of room to maneuver I can down them or they run away. It’s not a build for fast kills but you tend to be the one standing when the smoke clears.

GW2 is a great game in that any profession can hold its own. Some have it a bit easier and I won’t say Engi doesn’t have it a bit tougher but if you are willing to adapt your playstyle to the situation rather than sticking with just a faceroll you’ll do fine playing anything.

Shadow.3475:

Look at Maskaganda.2043 build it is a good PP build even do i dont agree 100%
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/The-Spree-WvW-pistols-and-pots-movie/first#post1235768

I’m glad to know it’s working out so well for you lanny.
I haven’t lost a 1v1 in weeks either. I came close to losing against a very good mesmer yesterday, he got me down to 700~hp but I managed to bounce back and kill him. Funny thing is I spoke to the guy later and he told me I was the first guy to kill his mesmer 1v1… and that he had an engineer which he dropped after not being able to do anything with it in wvw.
Last time I lost a 1v1 with my engie was in a couple of duels against players I had beaten numerous times before. One of them was a condition thief that had alot of cleanses, stealth and regen, a perfect build to counter me; even so we were 2-2 that time (about 6-2 for me overall) and the fights took over 5 minutes each. The other one was an engineer… go figure.

@shadow, might telling me what you disagree on my build?

granted im asura and use pain inverter with the build….u can use pistol 3/bomb 3/wrench 3/pain inverter to get over 4k confusion…even vs d/d eles u can stack so much conds beforehand that they can remove it