Guild Wars 2

The level 80 dynamic events are nothing but tag feasts. grenades seem a tad slow. bombs have no range for events that have split spawns. So what is the best?

Pistols with the piercing bullets trait

flame thrower, just run around burning everything

Volte.9670:

Pistols with the piercing bullets trait

What this guy said. take Coated Bullets and all your other trait points can go to whatever makes you comfortable, I like speccing into potions too personally but I think a ton of stuff works well.

Yup, pistol. Static shot bounces between enemies at a range in a chain action.

Rifle’s default attack also Pierces. Rifle + High Precision + Superior Sigil of Fire = Occasional AoEs somewhere along your line of fire, centered on enemy struck.

This is also one time when turrets might come in handy – particularly Rocket, Rifle and Flame.

1st Place would go to Duel Pistols.

• Due to its piercing abilities as well as its fast AOE damaging abilities such as Static Shot, Poison Dart Volley, and Blowtorch, you get to tag as many enemies as humanly possible while at a nice comfortable range of 900/1050 (Blowtorch 600).

• The pistols auto-attack also has splash damage, adding even more to its tagging abilities.

2nd Place would be the Flamethrower Kit.

• It also has nice burst damage that allows you to hit up to 4 enemies at once when using its auto-attack Flame Jet. The limit of enemies being hit by Flame Jet is on the engineer bug list.

• If you distance yourself accordingly, you can also use the number 2 Flame Blast, to tag as many enemies as possible.

• No 4 Napalm also allows you to tag as many enemies as possible, but only if they are hit/walk through it.

3rd place would go to the Grenade Kit

• Due to its incredibly fast and high AOE damage you get to tag as many enemies as possible.

• However this kit only works if the enemies are standing perfectly still.

• The downside of the grenade kit is that dodging enemies and maneuvering about hinders your ability to attack. Either by not allowing you attack, due to no auto-attacks, or by making it harder to cast AOE due to constant movement.

• An even worse downside is when the enemy is constantly on the move. This makes AOE casting a pain, often times making you miss simple attacks due to the enemy frantically moving about.

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Last place goes to the Shotgun/Rifle hybrid weapon.

• While the rifle also has piercing shots, the rifles abilities are far more single target oriented, with the exception of Blunderbuss, which shoots out in a mini cone, but only at max range of 400.

IMO your best bet in Orr are grenades and join a party. With the right traits, you can deal 2k+ crit damage. 1 set of grenades gives you as much as 2k damage as soon as it lands, while flame thrower deals around 2k damage IN 2 SECONDS.

Pistols or nades is pretty much our profession at the moment.

FT is good AoE if you can go in, or you air blast away from someone meleeing and then run in, blind and spray, but very often by the time you get in range there’s only half the mobs left to tag.

Nades if you target on mouse pointer are actually great at tagging, you do need to predict mobs movement a bit.

Pistols though, if the mobs are clumped, will simply tag like crazy, but will be kinda meh if the mobs are spread (in which case just sit down and cry as you see a staff mesmer bouncing all kind of fabulous sparkles on every single mob in a five miles radius).