Guild Wars 2

hello, first post here, soo i got my commander tag a few months ago, even tho i did not step foot in wvw until Friday when my server magumma made it into the gold league. anyways i have been useing my engi who has my commander tag when no other commanders are on to get some stuff going on. but the problem is i am a squish ball, i have a set of zerkers and rabid. but neither work for my purposes in the act that i feel relegated to the keep walls with my grenades. its hard to tell people to push a zerg off the keep if your not leading the push. anyways back to my point, i need a build i was looking at pvt set up with flamethrower, or should i go dire and run a bomb build or something, i dont know, or should i just throw the towel in and hop on the warriorwaggon and get my op hammer warrior a tag too. anyways i am posting this here because i fail to find a proper youtube commentator or blog or forums posts on here and places like the gw2 reddit, that talk about a proper engi tank build.

just make sure you take stabilized armor (10 inventions), protection injection (10 alchemy), and maybe even prot-on-being-critted whatever its called (20 inventions). run either soldiers, sentinel, dire, rabid, settlers, or knight/cavalier mix. something with either a primary toughness stat or both toughness and vit, for maximum survivability.

i will say theres nothing quite like magneting some poor wretch when youre being followed by a zerg!

Aye, that never gets old. Similarly with putting BoB next to someone who’s downed by a cliff and walking off

The Toolkit shield is the hands-down best block in the game, p/s gives another block, soldier’s or even better sentinel’s makes you tough as kitten, Bomb 4 means “whoops, no more melee damage for a few seconds”.

If I had infinite spending money and a reliable zerg, here’s how I’d build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqelIqaZ38SyF17IxIFdW0hUYfDL6h+tsjB-jECBIjChkDAUIJMnrIaslNFRjVZDT9iIq2guIa1SBIryI-w
28k HP, 3333 Armor, two blocks, a good heal, and plenty of CC. Plus, take drastically reduced damage while CC’d.
However, this build is pretty kitten expensive, and has almost no killing power in a 1v1. Staying power, sure, but not killing power.