Guild Wars 2

Is it me or since the update does it feel impossible to 1v1 an engineer without getting swept? They seem to out damage, out heal, and out buff me at every turn. What’s the best way to counter them?

Conditions.
/15 char.

condition spam or hang out till someone on your team shows up to make it a 2v1.

Or leave the node and go find something else to fight/cap.

Engies spam boons and CC like rappers spam girls in Music videos, you cant rip boons fast enough and its very hard to just burst them down with so many turrets and aoe + the short duration triple healing they can pull off… (healing turret + use healing turret active + blow it up for aoe regen + press F1 again for another heal after turret is gone)

all of that is on i think a 15s CD…

i’ve played both mes and engi extensively so let me give you some tips. Fighting engi is like fighting thieves: you need to prevent their opener at any cost (thief: backstab/steal, engi: burning proc) and this is why you need to stealth right away and get a positional advantage (LoS preferably) to put out the pressure before the engi can get any hits on you! Getting a good shatter off this way is essential to force engi to pop defensive cooldowns (i.e. gear shield or elixir s). Now comes the second part of the fight: engis lack stability, have horrible stunbreakers and is most effective when he can spam nades etc. freely so getting a daze chain off is vital. Rest is basic game knowledge: count dodges, if the engi stealths he’s probably trying to magnet pull, try to be as far away from him as possible, a lot of nasty stuff will come your way otherwise (full nade x3 hits, pry bar, swap sigil procs…)

Engineers can’t deal with conditions and are very vulnerable to diversion (daze shatter). It’s also pretty simple to just bait out their two shield blocks and burst them afterwards. Staff/GS has a very favorable matchup against Engineers if it’s abused properly.

Very possibly just me fighting noob engineers, but I’ve had very little problems with a phantasm build. They target me (probably this is the noob factor right here) and the phants just chunk em down. I always roll with MoD as well and yes this helps a lot as someone said. I also run with serious condi cleanse.