Guild Wars 2

im currently using 10/10/0/20/20 and choosing traits up to this point has been logical and made sense. now im level 72 and I have the next 10 points to invest in a certain tree but I am unsure of what to go for.

any ideas?

I use bombs with the increase radius trait, faster recharge on pistol skills. vigor when I get swiftness and elixir S at 25% hp. swiftness when switching kits and tool kit recharge faster.

I may take bombs recharge faster, burn on crit, stealth on immobilise, 25% endurance regen or immune to conditions under 25%.

I will be using a mix of rabbid and carrion gear.

ill be in pve and wvw. probably more wvw though.

Hard to say before the new/changed traits are announced, but as it looks now, I’d say Automated Response. It’d help significantly with pure condi builds, particularly necromancers and other engineers, and unless I’m much mistaken it also renders you immune to all soft and hard CCs, which the smart guys will start trying to use on you at around 30-25% health anyway.

That’s my own opinion, though, and is based mostly on the fact that you said you’d be doing mostly WvW.

PS. Bring a condition remover as well, Automated Response doesn’t make you immune to conditions you already have on you, only new incoming ones. You’ll want to ditch any conditions you have once you hit that 25% limit.

ah right thats interesting (how automated response works). I think there’s more options in the alchemy line than others so may be a good one to test first.

thanks for the advice man.

and I realised shortly after posting this that the changes are coming in a day or so… hopefully for the better!

Hmmm, Automated response is good, Protection Injection and Protective Shield are good, if you use your pistols a lot you could go for increased pistol range. Cloaking device tends to be super helpful in WvW, as well.

Since you’re going conditions, you could also try incendiary powder, gives you more burn. You might not need it though if you run other means for getting burns, like rocket boots or OH pistol.

(Also, completely unrelated to trait points, I run a similar condition build and you might want to try out a Geomancy sigil. They’re dirt cheap and work really well in Melee condition builds like yours)

Saki Asakura.6479:

Hmmm, Automated response is good, Protection Injection and Protective Shield are good, if you use your pistols a lot you could go for increased pistol range. Cloaking device tends to be super helpful in WvW, as well.

Since you’re going conditions, you could also try incendiary powder, gives you more burn. You might not need it though if you run other means for getting burns, like rocket boots or OH pistol.

(Also, completely unrelated to trait points, I run a similar condition build and you might want to try out a Geomancy sigil. They’re dirt cheap and work really well in Melee condition builds like yours)

I was thinking the same about incendiary powder but thought I’d rather go defensive to start with, being that im quite new to engie. my only access to burning is my bombs I believe, I will play with burning more in the future I think, I like dumping confusion on people too much to worry about that right now ;-) also got to try make space for it in the build somehow.

and I use a geomancy sigil at the moment! with corruption too. using pistol shield, can’t give up that blast finisher, knock back and stun! love me some CC.

what sigils do you suggest/advise using? undeads an obvious choice but is there anything else that is fun to play with?