What’s your favourite way to deal with conditions and break stun and immobilize on an engineer?
Coming from a warrior main, this has always been something that frustrated me. Shrug it Off is such an amazing skill – short recharge, breaks stun, cures a condition (two with soldier rune set) – but it never occurred to me that others might lack something quite as awesome. As an engineer I find myself having to equip more skills to get the same job done.
Rocket boots gets an immediate +1 for breaking stun AND curing movement conditions. However its use can be uh… problematic. You might not want to be 900 somethings behind yourself when you feel like breaking stun. Although for other circumstances turning around helps mitigate this. Toolbelt burning skills are also nice.
Medkit’s condition removal is a handy one for everything besides immobilize (must… walk… into… bottle!) which makes medkit and rocket boots combine well. Insofar as flying across the world can be ‘well’. I certainly might rethink this combination near any cliffs or fighting in a jumping puzzle, if you see what I mean.
Elixir S is pretty amazing. Invulnerability, stunbreaker, and while not exactly ‘stealth’ it does make you sneakier. When you really need to get into a WvW fort with 30 enemies at the door, run up behind them and take a swig of this stuff first – see if they even notice.
Elixir X is a surprising one – I don’t typically resort to an elite to save myself. But it almost always gives me Rampage, which means more health, stability, and CC. Can be nice for getting out of bad situations. Hilariously, if you’re traited for elixir recharge, you get this on a lower recharge than a warrior (though iirc his might last longer).
Elixir R… eh. I’ve put it to good use in PvE – gives you twice as many dodges for those really hard hitting mobs. Sadly it doesn’t have the awesomeness of invulnerability, plus its toolbelt skill recharges really slowly and doesn’t heal enough even to fully revive an NPC. Does cure conditions, but again, not something you want such a long wait for ideally. Might be a better one if you’ve traited for toolbelt recharge, but I’ve not tested that.
As far as conditions alone go, elixir C is hard to beat, especially with recharge reduced. No more conditions, lots of boons, yay! Sadly the lack of stun-breaking means I can’t safely carry it by itself, for fear of being pummelled.
Finally… I’ve considered that elixir traited with the condition removing option might make S useful too. Retaliation, swiftness, -1 condition. Could be handy in a tight spot, ideally with others for further conditions.
So… what’s everyone else using?