Guild Wars 2

And why don’t you use it?

*Excluding Medkit.

Should be easy.

Med Kit, because it does nothing.

Med Kit. It’s worthless.
Mortar and Bomb Kit get honorable mentions.

Kits in order from high to low usage: Grenades, Mortar, Tool, EG, FT, Bomb, Med kit.

I use EG very rarely

PvE point of view: Kits in order from high to low usage:

Always

• Grenade Kit
• Mortar Kit
• Bomb Kit
• Elixier Gun
• Flame Thrower
• Tool Kit
• ~no Kit at all~
• Med Kit

Never

after the obvious med kit… it would have to be tool kit because to me its only situational in pve and generally not used in pvp or wvw simply because hammer has the defensive stuff it offers. not that its not good, because it was integral to both pvp and wvw for years in my mind, and its only been buffed. but hammer frees up that utility slot.

Bomb kit. Its useful, but I can’t stand how boring it is. I would love to dump grenades for the same reason, but sadly they are still irreplaceable.

Grenades or bombs, I hardly ever use those. Don’t like traiting for explosions so I have no use for them.

I mainly PvP and WvW though, don’t know much of the PvE world. Then I use FT more than anything. Super boring…but that’s all PVE to me…just boring.

i use mortar the most for swapping for that swiftness trait and the occasional needed ranged fight
prolly least used is elixir

I can’t recall a time when I’ve ever slotted Bomb Kit. Heck, if you asked me what skills Bomb Kit actually has I couldn’t even tell you most of them… there’s a fire bomb and the toolbelt is a blast finisher… I think there’s a smoke bomb?

It just really doesn’t appeal to me in the slightest. A (basically) melee attack on a delay that requires literally spamming 1. Not my cup of tea at all. I’ll deal with “1 spamming” with grenades as they’re really good (and I play condition) and I’ll deal with it using Mortar since I like the siege aspect. But if I want a melee skill I’ll use Flamethrower or Tool Kit. Or Hammer, now.

Also, even though its sub-par I prefer to run Turrets or Gyros as my utilities while either using just 1 or no kits, so even less room for a kit I really don’t like either.

The only kit I never use is med kit. I cycle through them depending on the mode. My favorite kit is EG. I guess I generally only use flamethrower in raids, but that’s just because I tend to favor other utilities in pvp and open world.

High to low usage

1) Tool Kit
2) Mortar
3) Elixir Gun
4) Grenade Kit
5) Bomb Kit
6) Flamethrower
7) Med Kit

Always: Elixir Gun, Med Kit, Mortar

Sometimes: Flamethrower, Bomb Kit

Never: Grenade Kit, Tool Kit

ft, i really hate it . My favourite kits are nades and toolkit , but with this meta the kit i use more often are :
Elixir gun
Toolkit
nades
Mortar
Bomb
Medkit
Flamethrower.
You will take i am mad but i prefer to play with medkit ( which i hate rather then with ft ) , I hate that kit i realized only since some monthes how eg is great even if i play engi since 3 years… but i have not used it soo much before

Flamethrower is my favorite all the way, engi is unplayable without that kit.
Medkit worst because it only makes me cry.

1. Flamethrower.
2. Mortar kit.
3. Bomb kit.
4. Tool kit.
5. Grenade kit.
6. Elixir gun.
7. Medkit.

FT and EG the only kit I use, others – especially bomb with its weird animation (they should return to previous bomb kit representation imho) very rarely…

Never used : med kit

Pve mostly used: bomb kit, nades

Pvp mostly used: EG, Tool Kit

WvW mostly used: Mortar kit

I’m actually surprised by the answers.

DGraves.3720:

I’m actually surprised by the answers.

What were you expecting, matey? Might help the thread if you told us what you thought would be the answers and perhaps, why.

For me least used is grenade, I’ve never liked them, though they are much better now with the AC mode. Not really a need to give them a go since I have mortar for range. Always use Elixir, It’s utility is just far too great and the damage/blast from Acid bomb, too good to pass up.

I’ve tried to use Medkit, until a more recent patch which stopped kit activation from using the “on heal” skills in traits and runes. That was it’s only real saving grace for me. Now it’s pretty much completely worthless.

Long story short; considering total usage time, least used must be grenades.

Oh, I was surprised by the number of people who do not use grenades or bombs. They just seem so popular in the upper tiers that I thought for sure I’d see nothing but “Oh, EG” or “Toolkit” but no, a lot of people use a much wider variety than I thought.

It’s actually comforting to know the game isn’t so … black and white.

I dont use bombs or nades. Legendary lag aside, I just dont like using nades. I like blowing stuff up, I mean who doesnt, but for some reason I cant get with it.

Actually … there is that one med kit trait that grants you 33% more healing. With that and a full heal gear you get up to 1800 HP and 177% outgoing healing, wich results into 1.2k heals with the medkit aa. Then there is more heal with other stuff, but just sayin, it might be enough to be a healer – not a good one ofc but it’d work if you lack one.

Still the worst kit tough xP

That’s just it, the investment to make it suboptimal is far too high. What really annoys me about medkit is that EG arguably does the job better. With fumigation and Super-elixir you have a AoE heals and condition cleanses, which are better than Medkit with no investment, an extremely significant damage skill tied into it which is also a blast finisher and you can support your allies by perma-weaknessing mobs. Then there’s the tool-belt; stun break and AoE regen. EG is the better med-kit.

Agreed – but in the end I say medkit #1 is “ok”, but #2-5 are like none existent! They should have the same effect as they have now, but with the skill animation of #1, so you’d have aoe heal and boon apply / condi cleanse etc. That’d make the Medkit REALLY good.

From most to least.

Elixir Gun
Toolkit
Mortar Kit
Bomb Kit
Flamethrower
Grenade Kit
Medkit

Yes I know I’m crazy for hardly ever using Grenade Kit but I strictly WvW with my Engi and I dislike nades.

I’m always running Alchemy so Elixir Gun is a must for that clutch stunbreak/cleanse/heal and Acid Bomb is great for finishers, damage and general mobility.

Toolkit is just hands down my favorite kit. I enjoy every skill in it and Pry Bar is one of my favorite skills just for how hard it can hit and how rewarding it feels to land it. Gear Shield is also a life saver almost more often than Elixir S is.

Mortar Kit is great for range, Posion, Blind and the water field. I enjoy dropping the blinding shell on melee targets for damage mitigation, helps a ton.

Bomb Kit is nice while I’m using rifle. Gives me that melee range pressure when I need it and keeps the Teef’s away from me. Also love blasting that fire field when ever I can.

Flamethrower is fun when mowing down zergs. I slot it when our group isn’t facing a lot of pressure and we’re mostly just plowing through our targets. Great for tagging and bagging!

Grenade Kit I’ll only usually equip when I’m running 4 kits. It’s not very often but a big part of why I love Engi is because I love all the options I have so running 4 kits is really exciting to me. Unfortunately without Elixir S it’s not very wise to roll that many kits in most situations and thus I don’t usually use Grenade Kit. Just dislike the feel of it over all.

Medkit, we all know the reasons. I don’t mind Bandage Self but the kit itself is just crappy. The AA needs to heal way more and personally anyway, I liked the old functionality where you just dropped medpacks at your feet and could run through them like the medpacks at Sentry’s. Was a lot more simple and reliable than what it is now.

Excluding med kit, bomb kit I only use it for raids which I rarely do now.