Guild Wars 2

I’ve been running with my Engi alt for a while now, just building him mostly at random, but now that I’ve hit level 70 I figure it’s about time to put a little more thought into his build. I started with turrets and had a lot of fun with them but switched to Elixers to wait for the Deployable Turrets trait to get fixed, specifically this build . I’d been using the Flamethrower for a while there but my DPS seems higher and safer with pistols now that I have Coated Bullets.

In any case, that’s all neither here nor there. I was wondering what build is considered “the” build for Engis these days? I’m not necessarily looking to copy it but I’d like to know what’s supposed to be good.

Our highest sustained dps kits are bombs and grenades, so our most popular PvE builds center on one of those two. A lot of people choose bombs for a tanky, supportive/healing build, and trait something like 10/0/30/20/10. It can hit a good balance of damage, healing, and crowd control.

Probably the most popular builds center on grenades—lots of vulnerability, pretty good ranged damage in PvE, with still enough room for some escape/support skills. Those builds generally look like 30/0/0/10/30 or 30/20/0/10/10. These builds are generally glass cannons that lay down constant damage and stacks of vulnerability.

i’m using a rifle condi/power build with discharge I use the medkit toolkit ramhead rifle turret supply drop I fire off the discharge from the fkeys while firing rifle shots. traited to do some condi damage, bleeding burning

I have elxr S defense and use kit refinement and speedy kits and barrels

10/20/0/10/30

It works well

I use any on heal in slot 6 runes set or grove set and i use sigil of air on gun

I run 30/10/0/20/10

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-V70;2Z-Vg0u5VQFx0;9;4T9-J916A5;319-5;0L;5sV2DsV2D5BL

I think double Pistol for 2 Sigils is very good, too. But I’ve always had a Rifle and I find that I am very often able to safely Blunderbuss + Jump Shot on every Jump Shot recharge (nice damage) so I see no urgent need to swap to 2 Pistols.

This build is very boring but Grenades are still the best damage we have. You will be pressing 1 a lot with this build.

You’ll be full glass but with Elixir S and Elixir R, you’ll have a ton of survival. You’ll also have a lot of condi removal for yourself and your allies (great in pugs where people often seem to disregard their own condi removal).

I play in PvE static discharge/perma vigor build with full berserk gear. On lvl 38 fractals still without problem.

I think you have an excellent build now OP. Elixir builds are very solid. It may benefit you to mix 3 rune sets to max boon duration to further their benefit. If you are comfortable with an elixir bbuild, I would stick with it.

Ok, thanks guys!