Guild Wars 2

Saki Asakura.6479:

I run a FT/EG HGH build in WvW, and it holds up pretty well. It is a balanced build that allows me to do high damage while still being able to shrug off some hits.

Most of my FT damage comes from my might stacks, retaliation, and near permanent fury from elixir B and H (which gives me ~2300 power, 60%+ crit chance and ~900 condition damage). I also benefit from the damage and mobility from Acid Bomb (one of the best skills on my bar), and cond removal and healing from Super Elixir.

Toolkit is great in WvW. Prybar hits like a truck, Magnet can pull enemies into your group, and Gear shield can save you from being bursted down. Elixir S is great as well. I’m just not sure how effective FT can be in a build with Tool Kit and Elixir S, you’re giving up a lot of power from boons.

However, if you want some general WvW tips for Flamethrower:

-flame blast is really good for both attacking and defending points of interest. It does a huge amount of damage, and can be used from range unlike blunderbuss and prybar, but it is slow and hard to land for max damage. Ideal targets are people autoattacking gates, manning siege weapons, defending walls, or attempting to revive other players. Getting hit for 5000-9000 damage is a pretty convincing reason to make them run away, or at least stop what they’re doing for a while. Acid bomb is also great for this, if you decide to run that.
-FT 1 can shoot through gates and walls. Flame Rams causing problems? Stand about a foot or so from your gate on the inside and burn away.
-air blast is amazing for interrupting stomps. You can also launch people off of cliffs if you aim it right.
-napalm does not put you into combat. If you can put it down without getting attacked it lasts a long time and will put anyone who walks through it into combat, slowing them down. Its kind of useless for escaping if you’re already in combat though.
-Don’t feel obligated to stay in FT all the time, even with juggernaut! Use blunderbuss and jumpshot to increase your damage, use net shot to keep people from escaping, use overcharge shot to get some space and set up flame blast.
-Most importantly, don’t autoattack someone who has retaliation. You’ll die real quick.

Thanks very much for your time! Its very detail and informatical. So do u suggest i run berserker gear with FT to get that high damage? How about the defensive point i wanted

Amadeus.5687:

Don’t get to scared of using the Flamethrower in WvW if you really love that weapon! Depending on what you want to do, you can use it in WvW, for large group fights ect. It can (and sees) use! You can both do it the HGH might stacking way with Elixirs, or you can go for a more supportive Flamethrower using Elixir gun, depending on what you like! Aim for some P/V/T gear, or a mix of Valk and Knight armor, cause you gonna take some hits on the frontline with a Flamethrower! for solo roaming I don’t recommend it tho, it have some serious trouble there!

Thanks very much for your tips! Btw, i been watching your video while i was leveling my engineer and i was very inspired! Thanks again for the fun you brought to me.
As i know you didnt have any FT build in your video(maybe i just didnt cover all of it). And in the meantime i tried to use bomb kit/genade kit to replace FT because of i found a lot of fun in your confusion bomb build. So what stat and trait u suggest me to run with for a bomb kit, tool kit combination?

Wolf.5816:

Are you wishing for PvP Flamethrower advice? Or PvE?

See in the title, WVW

I just got my engineer lvl 80 today. now im thinking make it does high direct damage with FT(i like flamethrower personally:). I plan to use rifle, and FT, tool kit, elixir S and supply crate as utilities. Question is what stat i should build on?
I do want to stand on the battlefield for a bit longer so may need some defensive point as well.
Please help me out by giving me some suggestions. Like what stats, runes and traits i should run with.
Thank you!
Bill

Yeah I am thinking about a Longbow/GS build because I’m tired of my SB condition build. Can u share me ur trait, gears and amulet etc?

How u did the ele skill?

mrauls.6519:

Post a screenshot of your stats/equipment so we can get a better idea of what to tell you

Yep, sure! I’ll do it tonight after work. Thanks for your willing to help.

Ynna.8769:

I mostly do just sPvP, so I have little ideas about stats, but an important part of being a good Hammer Guardian is knowing when you shouldn’t use your Hammer. What’s your other weapon set?

Also, with those traits 1v1 will mostly be an endurance fight for you. Just do what you can to stay alive and wear out the opponent.

As for tricks specific to the Hammer: Try to keep Retaliation up (see above) with your finisher. It triggers of both your Symbol and Ring of Warding.
By combining the last three skills (Start with Banish), you can get quite some breathing room against melee opponents, which can be useful for letting your health replenish through passive effects.

Thanks for your replay. I’m interested in the idea that u say about retaliation. Can explain a bit more on that why its good for a hammer user?

And FYI I’m using GS(sometimes Chang to sword/focus) as back up weapon. This is mainly because I sometimes find difficulty to catch some range players. So GS @3 and sword @2 will be helpful.

Hi, i’m running with berserker gears with fighter runes. Currently i have 2.9k power, 2.8k armor, 800 heal, 35%crit chance and 50% crit damage. I am using hammaer and GS as back up (sometimes change to sword/focus). I mainly do WvW and runing with some guildies.

I wish to do some hybrid damage but always find hard to kill player in 1v1 and 1v2 situations. So I wanna learn some play skill as a guardian hammer if anyone can give me some suggestion. Like some play combo or adjust of my gears.

Ah, worth to mention that i m using 0-5-30-30-5 trait. So sometimes i play support roll in team.

Thanks for your time.
Bill Ge

Obsidian.1328:

Malicious Training (T1 Marks) increases your pets condition duration, and Expertise Training (T1 WS) increases your pets condition damage. Both are decent to have.

The stun-break you are referring to is Lightning Reflexes.

Thanks for your reply. But what pet I should use? I won’t prefer that make pet do condition for me but I rather want them to do some direct damage, protection or control enemy for me.

As said, im runing a condition ranger in WvW. i ve got 1.5k CD without food and 25 corruption. Its working pretty well and i can own ppl in a 1v1 1v2 combat. Im using shortbow and GS. But as a condition ranger, what utilities skill u suggest the better? i use cripple traps, signet of hunt and the skill which and stun break evade back for a distance(cant remember the name). And also trait? bleed on cri is important and i also like gain quickness on swap pet. how about others? And last thing is about pet. i know CD done by pet doesnt scale up with my specc, so any pets u suggest in WvW for my build?
Thanks for your time

I’ve tested that it does not affect the pet with the runes u apply. I’m running full condition ranger in wvw and I can do like 120bleed per stack. But my pet can only do 40-50 bleed damage that are applied by it. Besides, all stat of pet is always staying the same whatever the gear u are wearing. Signet is another case tho. Is this helpful to you?