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Hey guys. So as a few of you might know, I’m relatively new to the WvW scene. I mostly only did PvP. I never enjoyed hotjoin (8v8) because I considered it to be too zergy for me, so I shrugged off WvW for a long time with the idea that it was all zergs. However, about 3 weeks ago, I decided to give it a try anyway, just to get a change of pace. I realized roaming was actually a thing you could do, and had a ton of fun killing people with my lvl 20 engi. So, with the help of cof p1, I power crafted him to 80 & got him some gear. It’s been a fun couple of weeks, & I’ve learned a lot.

When I first started, my build consisted of speedy kits, nades, & full glass carrion. Soloing camps was a breeze, I won almost every 1v1, but would have some difficulty dealing with larger numbers. I decided to throw some more survivability into the build, and to add in HGH to make up for it. I miss speedy kits, but am pretty happy with what I came up with.

The Build

Traits

10/10/20/30/0

Explosives: V – Incendiary Powder
-A big chunk of my damage comes from this. It pairs up beautifully with blowtorch at the start of a fight, throwing on a nice 14 seconds of burn.

Firearms: VI – Hair Trigger
-Because this build lacks nades/bombs/FT, my main source if damage is the P/P combo. The 20% faster recharge is invaluable and allows me to re-apply conditions quicker than most classes.

Inventions: VI – Cloaking Device – VII – Power Shoes
-I have to admit, I was never a fan of this tree line when I did PvP. The traits didn’t seem all that useful to me, but I forced myself to take it so I could have some extra toughness. The more I played WvW, though, the more I fell in love. The Cloaking Device is excellent for getting away from zergs, stopping spikes, and sneaking up on someone mid-fight. I chose Power Shoes because I found myself running away from zergs very often. I really like this trait, engineer’s don’t have many gap closers and this really does help you get around the field during fights.

Alchemy: II – Fast-Acting Elixirs – X – Cleaning Formula 409 – XI – HGH
The bread & butter of the build, your basic HGH alchemy lineup. Not much to explain here, when you run HGH, you don’t get a lot of wiggle room in this tree unless you want to greatly sacrifice your potential.

Gear

Armor

I run full carrion, except for the leggings, which are rampager. Having rampager legs gives you an extra 4% crit chance, which helps to get off your incendiary powder.

Runes

2x Major Rune of Water
2x Superior Rune of Water
2x Superior Rune of Fire

Weapons

Pistol #1: Carrion with Superior Sigil of Battle
Pistol #2: Rabid with Superior Sigil of Corruption

Trinkets

Full rabid trinkets, rampager’s amulet.

Buffs

Koi Cakes or Rare Veggie Pizzas for 40% condition duration.
Quality tuning crystals (or the step above if you really want to waste money)

Utilities

Elixir H – Chosen for use with HGH. Protection is great.
Elixir B – Again, chosen for use with HGH, and is your main source of swiftness.
Elixir S – I personally save this almost exclusively to stomp, but it occasionally lets you get out of some sticky situations. Will completely mitigate someone’s spike if you time it correctly.
Toolkit – I love this utility. It gives you access to some great skills, which are:
2: Box of Nails – Comparable to thieve’s caltrops, but on a 10s recharge. Great for kiting.
3: Pry Bar – Not only does the initial hit do some big damage, but if you run this build, you will find a large chunk of your damage comes from confusion. If paired with the pistol’s Static Shot, you can throw on 7 stacks of confusion, which at times does over 1,500 damage per skill use.
4: Gear Shield – Excellent skill for WvW. 3 second block lets you run through zergs, mitigate spikes, and keep people at bay.
5: Magnet – My personal favorite, especially in WvW. It’s a great skill to open up fights with, but I use it all the time to catch fleeing foes. Can’t count the number of times I’ve killed people just feet away from their keep door thanks to this.
Supply Crate – An extremely powerful elite, it has the potential to completely turn fights around. Not only does it drop turrets to immobilize & burn your foes, it also comes with medpacks that you can pick up for a few extra thousand health. Best of all, the initial drop comes with a 2 second stun, which makes it excellent for spiking.

Well, I think that’s about it. If you have any questions, feel free to let me know.

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TL;DR – The Video

My third WvW video. I had a lot of clips, and I only ended up using about half. It is rather long, but the music isn’t bad and I believe it to be pretty entertaining to watch. If you guys think that the video is too fast-paced (I sped up the clips), let me know! I’ll try & be better on the next one.

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wow this build looks exactly what I am after. Sadly my confusion focused bomb toolkit build just isn’t working anymore I get locked down and not enough toughness then dead.

what do you do your ruins in your armor? undead?

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Shanks R Us.2489

wow this build looks exactly what I am after. Sadly my confusion focused bomb toolkit build just isn’t working anymore I get locked down and not enough toughness then dead.

what do you do your ruins in your armor? undead?

Haha, sorry, I knew I forgot something.

2x Major Rune of Water
2x Superior Rune of Water
2x Superior Rune of Fire

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Jesse.1592

cool so just tried it and seems it works better for me however I only see rabid in rare? so do you not use exotic trinket pr pistol?

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cool so just tried it and seems it works better for me however I only see rabid in rare? so do you not use exotic trinket pr pistol?

Nope, they’re all exotic. There’s some with different names, karma vendors are also an option.

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Am I missing something or is this just Mask’s build but with a very slight change in traits?

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Am I missing something or is this just Mask’s build but with a very slight change in traits?

Yep, someone pointed that out last time. They are pretty similar. This is what I came up with to fit my playstyle, I guess so did he.

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Everything is Mask’s build by default dude..now just watch the cinematics.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the Engineer , I still prepare a victory speech.

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1:05 – I like the dodge out of the stomp! I’ve gotten fairly good at this too, though I have yet to learn which professions have downed skills that should be dodged.\

1:13 – I bet those players were thinking “he’s not coming down here, it’s just one engineer”.

I played Mask’s “old” build before the confusion nerf when confusion was OP, and I was still less than 50% in 1v1s. I am so impressed when I see you guys taking on multiples, but I’m also confused. I just seemed to die much easier with the same build, gear, and what I thought was the same playstyle. But I must be missing some very important things. Are casting animations a big part of your game? Because I know very few and don’t really know which ones must be dodged. Anyway, nice video.

I admit there’s another part of my playstyle that needs work, though. Once I unload I know the right thing to do is be more defensive and kite until I’ve got some skills to work with. But I tend to stay in rather close range so that I’m in position for when blowtorch and prybar are off cooldown. Maybe that’s just something I need to learn through repetition.

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were you that engie that was running a squad of 3 capping the northern camps in SBI borderlands over and over last week?

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were you that engie that was running a squad of 3 capping the northern camps in SBI borderlands over and over last week?

Did you happen to see a [TRI] guild tag? if so, that was probaly Him, one of our guildies and I, if not then i dont know lol

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were you that engie that was running a squad of 3 capping the northern camps in SBI borderlands over and over last week?

lol, I have been known to do that. Right before the reset, there was at least 5+ sbi just camping up there with siege & stuff, was hilarious going in & seeing how many waves we could take on.

1:05 – I like the dodge out of the stomp! I’ve gotten fairly good at this too, though I have yet to learn which professions have downed skills that should be dodged.\

1:13 – I bet those players were thinking “he’s not coming down here, it’s just one engineer”.

I played Mask’s “old” build before the confusion nerf when confusion was OP, and I was still less than 50% in 1v1s. I am so impressed when I see you guys taking on multiples, but I’m also confused. I just seemed to die much easier with the same build, gear, and what I thought was the same playstyle. But I must be missing some very important things. Are casting animations a big part of your game? Because I know very few and don’t really know which ones must be dodged. Anyway, nice video.

I admit there’s another part of my playstyle that needs work, though. Once I unload I know the right thing to do is be more defensive and kite until I’ve got some skills to work with. But I tend to stay in rather close range so that I’m in position for when blowtorch and prybar are off cooldown. Maybe that’s just something I need to learn through repetition.

Thanks!

Warrior, engineer & necromancer downed skills can be evaded. The guardian push can be blinded, & if you fake stomp you can get a mesmer right as he pops up. There’s a lot of little tricks that you pick up along the way, these are only a few.

Yeah, I didn’t expect to do as well as I did in that clip. I was doing it for fun. They were SBI players sieging BP’s tower, and BP was just sitting in it waiting for them. I left the rest of the clip out, but after I downed that guardian, I also downed the mesmer. Before I could stomp though, BP decided to come & zerg the rest of them along with me, lol.

GW2 is an action MMO, and watching movements is a very important part of the game. I think the reason I stay alive so long is because I am good at moving around. When I ran my glass cannon build, I’d run with a sigil of energy & perma vigor. Man, I miss that. I could stay alive for a LONG time just because I could evade all the big stuff. Got hard when there was more than 3 on me, though.

Oh, also, swap back & forth between your range. When they’re on cooldown, glue shot them & go say hello. Then kite away with box of nails and let the condi do the work for you as you use your pistols.

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yep, it was you. you kicked my kitten on my engie but I learned some awesome things to do, thanks for helping me improve my engie skills! (I paid attention to guild tags after I died lol). You sir are one awesome engie!

btw my build is 10/20/0/30/10, spec’d for more swiftness and vigor, was thinking about taking 10 out of firearms for 10 in inventions for Cloaking device rather than 1050 range.

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Shanks R Us.2489

yep, it was you. you kicked my kitten on my engie but I learned some awesome things to do, thanks for helping me improve my engie skills! (I paid attention to guild tags after I died lol). You sir are one awesome engie!

btw my build is 10/20/0/30/10, spec’d for more swiftness and vigor, was thinking about taking 10 out of firearms for 10 in inventions for Cloaking device rather than 1050 range.

Haha, glad I could help! Cloaking device is really handy, but will probably only be beneficial if you roam/solo as much as I do. If you’re with a bigger group, you don’t get as much out of it. Also, my playstyle is very much “in your face” – so the extra pistol range wouldn’t suit me. It might suit you, though.

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Jesse.1592

ah now I see. well crap now I gotta run thie qeuast to get that karma vendor in mealchor

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the extra pistol range helps me hit people on top of walls. I run pretty much the exact same skills as you but run med-kit instead of elixir H for the perma swiftness and higher fury up-time, makes running to places much faster and more crits of incendiary powder. The downside is I have no access to protection.

I play the engie very up on your face while roaming but it lacks the Aoe’s twitch must Aoe the thief’s shadow refuge twitch, unless you’re running grenade kit, sometimes swap it in for a siege but that’s about it.

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hmm so anyone know how or when people will group up for cathedral? seems the area is just dead

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Yeah, this build lacks aoe. But that’s ok, just wait for the refuge to end —> use your throw elixir S or box nails → kite or gear shield.

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man totally want this rabid exotic but no one in malchors for the event.

guess ill have to post a set time or something in pve?

know any tips to getting a party to form for this meta event?

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Shanks R Us.2489

man totally want this rabid exotic but no one in malchors for the event.

guess ill have to post a set time or something in pve?

know any tips to getting a party to form for this meta event?

Just guest a server that already has it done

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yea, this is pretty much the same as my last build, except you run power shoes while I run protective shield.
you should just run ac a couple of times and get superior runes of the monk instead of major water :p

is power shoes really worth it tho?
while in combat I never have any issues with speed, swiftness its pretty much permanent and for escapes I just drop glue shots and box of nails behind me, while avoiding damage with S/gear shield/throw S.
My shady math tells me protective shield is about a 7% total reduction in direct damage in a long fight and probably a better choice there, but I never really tested power shoes, always dismissed it as unnecessary.

good job on the vid.

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yea, this is pretty much the same as my last build, except you run power shoes while I run protective shield.
you should just run ac a couple of times and get superior runes of the monk instead of major water :p

is power shoes really worth it tho?
while in combat I never have any issues with speed, swiftness its pretty much permanent and for escapes I just drop glue shots and box of nails behind me, while avoiding damage with S/gear shield/throw S.
My shady math tells me protective shield is about a 7% total reduction in direct damage in a long fight and probably a better choice there, but I never really tested power shoes, always dismissed it as unnecessary.

good job on the vid.

The first time I tried power shoes, I stayed alive for a solid 4 minutes with 5 people chasing me. I couldn’t get away, so I just kited back & forth. I went back & timed it later, it was literally over 4 minutes. Now, if you think about it, that’s a long time. Especially when at least 1 of them was an elementalist. The extra mobility in combat lets me out maneuver just about anyone. I play on Anvil Rock, and we’re almost always outmanned. Zergs from the other servers run rampant, and I run into them way more often than I’d like. When you have sheer numbers on you, your utilities can’t take you as far. Sure, I have my shield, nails & glue, S & throw S, but I also have something none of them do – 25% faster speed. As you probably know, when you get enough distance between you & a zerg, they lose interest and let you go. I like to consider myself rather good at escaping, and I think it has to do with my power shoes. Now, I may just be crazy & lucky, but it’s worked for me thus far. As for protection, I just count on it from Elixir H / throw H.

Oh, also, I hate mostly anything pve. The only thing I can do is cof p1 & that’s because it takes 6 minutes…I don’t think I could do AC to get the runes, I’m sure it’d take me hours >_>

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Im wondering whats the points in those frapses? Why you dont go to sPvP?

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so since he doesn’t zerg around with a blob calling target on his own team mate so you can blob easier, he should go spvp? is that what u saying?

@ shanks, makes sense, I suppose I should give it a try but I’m probably dropping 10 points in inventions tomorrow anyway to get coated bullets.. if those patch notes are real ofc.

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Then kite away with box of nails and let the condi do the work for you as you use your pistols.

I was watching your vid and scratching my head wondering why your opponents were dropping so fast when I just didn’t see any “big numbers” like I usually see in vids like these. Then I started watching the condis you were putting on them right at the start of each fight, and even if they cleared the first round, you just piled on round two! Wow. Glad you’re on my team (AR). Guys like you just might gain engies a bit of respect vs. “oh look, free loot bag!”. ;-)

I have an 80 engie that I play around with in WvW from time to time, mainly just to be a kitten and annoy people in tower/keep offense/defense with FT and BoB. Setting people on fire then blowing them out of towers/off of walls just never gets old, LOL. Makes for a horrid roaming build though, so I roll with my Thief when I’m in that mood. Good on ya for making a roaming engie work. :-)

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Im wondering whats the points in those frapses? Why you dont go to sPvP?

I did tPvP for a long time, I WvW for a change of pace. WvW is much less predictable, the map is much larger & there isn’t a number restriction of 5.

so since he doesn’t zerg around with a blob calling target on his own team mate so you can blob easier, he should go spvp? is that what u saying?

@ shanks, makes sense, I suppose I should give it a try but I’m probably dropping 10 points in inventions tomorrow anyway to get coated bullets.. if those patch notes are real ofc.

Ha, I always wondered why people would call targets on their teammates. That’s pretty funny. Whenever more than 5 people start following me around I try to lose them =P.

Coated bullets is a little enticing, but you have to remember that it’s only going to benefit pistol 1 & 2. And, because pistol 1 is bugged, you’re only going to get the bleed on your initial target.

One of the sigils on the weapons is wrong, and my trinkets are a little weird. So right now, for me, I have:

Coral jewel on backpiece
Crest of the rabid on each earring
Rabid ring with chrysocola jewel
Rabid ascended ring
Rampager’s ascended amulet

Then kite away with box of nails and let the condi do the work for you as you use your pistols.

I was watching your vid and scratching my head wondering why your opponents were dropping so fast when I just didn’t see any “big numbers” like I usually see in vids like these. Then I started watching the condis you were putting on them right at the start of each fight, and even if they cleared the first round, you just piled on round two! Wow. Glad you’re on my team (AR). Guys like you just might gain engies a bit of respect vs. “oh look, free loot bag!”. ;-)

I have an 80 engie that I play around with in WvW from time to time, mainly just to be a kitten and annoy people in tower/keep offense/defense with FT and BoB. Setting people on fire then blowing them out of towers/off of walls just never gets old, LOL. Makes for a horrid roaming build though, so I roll with my Thief when I’m in that mood. Good on ya for making a roaming engie work. :-)

Hey thanks, glad to be here. Engineer’s I think are the best at re-applying conditions as quickly as possible. As for the engie respect thing, I think I’m getting there. It used to be I’d be “the target” to try and gank, the initial burst would almost always be on me. Well, that didn’t usually work out for them too well, and now it rarely happens. Maybe the other teams are starting to realize what a tiger finisher is.

Engineer isn’t what comes to most people’s minds when you say “roamer,” and I don’t know why, but I enjoy playing classes that others don’t consider “good.” When I played PvP, as you can see in the picture I’m gonna post below, my first 1,000 games were 100% warrior. Why? Because everyone said warrior’s sucked for pvp. After hitting 1,000, I decided I’d try something else. My friends all told me to roll a thief, it’d be great for my aggressive playstyle, but I wasn’t interested. I wanted a challenge, and going invisible while hitting 10k+ bursts didn’t seem hard. At the time, the only other class that was disregarded as useless as a warrior was the engineer. Took some getting used to, but I stuck by it. Glad I did, I like this class.

The second picture is current, I haven’t pvp’d in a while.

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Coated bullets is a little enticing, but you have to remember that it’s only going to benefit pistol 1 & 2. And, because pistol 1 is bugged, you’re only going to get the bleed on your initial target.

I know, I’ve used till the last balance patch before this one. pistol 1 + coated bullets will hit twice on the same target at max range or when shooting from above. also when enemies clump together, perfect to stop resses, especially combined with p2 and p4. you have to play a bit with your positioning but tis well worth it. just useless for most duels. if its true we can get it for 20 points instead of 30, then Im happy :p

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Coated bullets is a little enticing, but you have to remember that it’s only going to benefit pistol 1 & 2. And, because pistol 1 is bugged, you’re only going to get the bleed on your initial target.

I know, I’ve used till the last balance patch before this one. pistol 1 + coated bullets will hit twice on the same target at max range or when shooting from above. also when enemies clump together, perfect to stop resses, especially combined with p2 and p4. you have to play a bit with your positioning but tis well worth it. just useless for most duels. if its true we can get it for 20 points instead of 30, then Im happy :p

Yeah, it would be nice of them to give us the 10 for free, I’m sure a lot of engineer’s will be using it. Since I’m always roaming though, I probably won’t. I don’t really defend towers…I’m a bad WvW objective player

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I wanted to start getting into a bit of PvP using a build where I had a good understanding of the mechanics. A P/P+TK+HGH boon duration build was my choice. After getting past the obvious traits (Fast-acting elixirs, 409, HGH, Hair trigger), I chose the rest of the traits based on a mix of defense, offense, and utility. Turns out I chose the exact traits you did.

Power shoes is the trait that I consider most questionable, but after seeing that I’m able to run circles around other professions while on capture points, often getting behind them when they do their big forward attacks, I’d say they’re pretty handy. It’s only hotjoin, but last night I was on the winning team in 14 of 15 games, and I was top 3 in 13 of those. Felt pretty good considering I generally lose all 1v1s in WvW.

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Shanks R Us.2489

I wanted to start getting into a bit of PvP using a build where I had a good understanding of the mechanics. A P/P+TK+HGH boon duration build was my choice. After getting past the obvious traits (Fast-acting elixirs, 409, HGH, Hair trigger), I chose the rest of the traits based on a mix of defense, offense, and utility. Turns out I chose the exact traits you did.

Power shoes is the trait that I consider most questionable, but after seeing that I’m able to run circles around other professions while on capture points, often getting behind them when they do their big forward attacks, I’d say they’re pretty handy. It’s only hotjoin, but last night I was on the winning team in 14 of 15 games, and I was top 3 in 13 of those. Felt pretty good considering I generally lose all 1v1s in WvW.

Yup, a lot of people aren’t too sure about the power shoes, but I really like them, they fit my playstyle quite well. Sad to say, but the vast majority of people in WvW run away from me. Since I don’t have any gap closers, power shoes helps shorter the distance. A lot of times, I can actually run in FRONT of them & drop down box of nails.

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Posted by: Dan.2940

Dan.2940

Thanks for letting me know all your little secrets Nick
If AR ever fights Ebay again, ill make sure to dance on your warm dead body

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Posted by: Jesse.1592

Jesse.1592

yea finally got all my exotic rabid and loving this build> just great damage and greatr survivability. Finally getting my bags with my engi once again (since the bomb nerf).

Thanks shanks this build is just priceless (for me)

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Posted by: Nekroseth.5186

Nekroseth.5186

Not sure if the rec is this bad quality or the Hd does not work on Youtube, could not even get out skills on bar.
At any rate, i wanted to see, if Engineers are truly that melee and mid ranged class, and they are…and that got me terribly dissapointed. I am surely not rolling one if the game style is like this.
Besides that you seem skilled, and good vid. Gl Hf.

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Posted by: Cempa.5619

Cempa.5619

Dont you get the sam boon duration from x4 Altruism and x2 Water/Monk

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Posted by: Shanks R Us.2489

Shanks R Us.2489

Thanks for letting me know all your little secrets Nick
If AR ever fights Ebay again, ill make sure to dance on your warm dead body

Pssh, you can be watching my no-delay stream on a second monitor & you’d still lose <3

yea finally got all my exotic rabid and loving this build> just great damage and greatr survivability. Finally getting my bags with my engi once again (since the bomb nerf).

Thanks shanks this build is just priceless (for me)

Glad you like it! Make your matchup fear engineers.

Not sure if the rec is this bad quality or the Hd does not work on Youtube, could not even get out skills on bar.
At any rate, i wanted to see, if Engineers are truly that melee and mid ranged class, and they are…and that got me terribly dissapointed. I am surely not rolling one if the game style is like this.
Besides that you seem skilled, and good vid. Gl Hf.

I think I replied to you on the video, sorry I haven’t been checking this thread lately.

Like I said on there, if you put it up to 1080p I’m not sure what’s going on. I play on max settings and my recording software isn’t set to low, so it’s mostly on youtube’s end. Shouldn’t be that bad on 1080, though.

As for the gameplay, not all engineers play like me. In fact I’m sure most don’t. As I’ve mentioned before, my first 1,000 games in tPvP were 100% warrior. Because of this, I have an aggressive ‘in your face’ playstyle that I carried over to the engi.

Dont you get the sam boon duration from x4 Altruism and x2 Water/Monk

Altruism:

1): +25 Healing Power
(2): Give 3 stacks of Might to nearby allies when using a healing skill. (Cooldown: 10s)
(3): +50 Healing Power
(4): +15% Boon Duration

Water:

(1): +25 Healing Power
(2): +15% Boon Duration

30% boon duration. Apposed to:

Water:

(1): +25 Healing Power
(2): +15% Boon Duration

Major water:

(1): +15 Healing Power
(2): +10% Boon Duration

Fire:

(1): +25 Power
(2): +20% Might duration

25% boon duration, and if it scales how I assume it does, 45% might duration.

If I ran superior monk instead of fire, I’d have 40% for all boons, which would still be better than running 4 altruism. The healing power that I get from the runes isn’t a major part of the build, it’s just a small side-effect that probably helps a little bit.

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Posted by: Alkaholic.3875

Alkaholic.3875

@Shanks: Can u explain the pros of Carrion over Rabid/Rampager? Thanks…

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Posted by: Shanks R Us.2489

Shanks R Us.2489

@Shanks: Can u explain the pros of Carrion over Rabid/Rampager? Thanks…

Don’t really need precision in this build, I’d rather have a larger health pool to deal with conditions & multiple enemies better.

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Posted by: Turlandio.6581

Turlandio.6581

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Tooldealer – Yak’s Bend

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Posted by: notanewmethod.8267

notanewmethod.8267

I liked this build better when it didn’t include power shoes and was posted by Mask.

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Posted by: Shanks R Us.2489

Shanks R Us.2489

I liked this build better when it didn’t include power shoes and was posted by Mask.

Thanks for your input bro

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Posted by: Naustis.8510

Naustis.8510

Em, i was using this build half year ago, when i didn’t know how to use kits Oo

btw. it suck :<

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Posted by: Shanks R Us.2489

Shanks R Us.2489

Em, i was using this build half year ago, when i didn’t know how to use kits Oo

btw. it suck :<

I do OK with it

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Posted by: Dan.2940

Dan.2940

wow this build looks exactly what I am after. Sadly my confusion focused bomb toolkit build just isn’t working anymore I get locked down and not enough toughness then dead.

what do you do your ruins in your armor? undead?

Haha, sorry, I knew I forgot something.

2x Major Rune of Water
2x Superior Rune of Water
2x Superior Rune of Fire

Too cheap to replace those major runes with Superior Monks? Or is major runes new meta or something

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Posted by: Shanks R Us.2489

Shanks R Us.2489

wow this build looks exactly what I am after. Sadly my confusion focused bomb toolkit build just isn’t working anymore I get locked down and not enough toughness then dead.

what do you do your ruins in your armor? undead?

Haha, sorry, I knew I forgot something.

2x Major Rune of Water
2x Superior Rune of Water
2x Superior Rune of Fire

Too cheap to replace those major runes with Superior Monks? Or is major runes new meta or something

More like too lazy to run the dungeon. Can’t buy monk runes

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Posted by: Dan.2940

Dan.2940

wow this build looks exactly what I am after. Sadly my confusion focused bomb toolkit build just isn’t working anymore I get locked down and not enough toughness then dead.

what do you do your ruins in your armor? undead?

Haha, sorry, I knew I forgot something.

2x Major Rune of Water
2x Superior Rune of Water
2x Superior Rune of Fire

Too cheap to replace those major runes with Superior Monks? Or is major runes new meta or something

More like too lazy to run the dungeon. Can’t buy monk runes

You’re one lazy mofo, what dungeon is it? ill do it with you homie

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Posted by: Shanks R Us.2489

Shanks R Us.2489

wow this build looks exactly what I am after. Sadly my confusion focused bomb toolkit build just isn’t working anymore I get locked down and not enough toughness then dead.

what do you do your ruins in your armor? undead?

Haha, sorry, I knew I forgot something.

2x Major Rune of Water
2x Superior Rune of Water
2x Superior Rune of Fire

Too cheap to replace those major runes with Superior Monks? Or is major runes new meta or something

More like too lazy to run the dungeon. Can’t buy monk runes

You’re one lazy mofo, what dungeon is it? ill do it with you homie

It’s AC. Anything but CoF p1 is too much pve for me >__>

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Posted by: Tyaen.5148

Tyaen.5148

Thread Necro.

Have you switched to Dire yet?

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Posted by: Shanks R Us.2489

Shanks R Us.2489

Thread Necro.

Have you switched to Dire yet?

I’ve got a 4th video thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Zane-s-Fourth-WvW-Roaming-Video-HD/first#post2876145

But, no, I haven’t. JUST LAST NIGHT, though, I was looking at it. I’ll probably switch over, seems to make more sense for my build.

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