Guild Wars 2

I’m leveling an engineer right now, but it’s unclear to me what stats actually have an effect on different abilities. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Flamethrower – I know my weapon has no effect on this, but does anything else in my armor change it? Condition damage? Power? Precision?

Grenades?

Bombs?

Do most leveling engineers find it’s better to go for damage stats, or just try to stack Toughness / Vitality to try and live long enough for the opponent to die?

Thanks,

Belak

I’ve been a successful WoW raider from vanilla through Cata.
I understand traditional MMO mechanics and know how to execute them.
I understand that GW2 does not follow those.

That said, I would love to learn how to CORRECTLY play GW2 dungeons.

So far (I’m playing a 45ish Ranger), I’ve only run the first two dungeons and both were in story mode. We did it with a guild group of similar experience level players. We were all on vent. It still turned into a complete massacre and zerg-fest or rezzing and throwing ourselves at fights.

I regularly go from full health to down w/o ever seeing what got me. It’s not like there was a big boulder coming my way and I didn’t dodge in time.

So since the game apparently has no dungeons that teach you the right way to play them, I’m coming to the community for help. Teach an old MMO’er new tricks. How do you run GW2 dungeons the right way?

Thanks in advance,

Belak