Utilities
Bomb Kit:
This will be the weapon/kit you will be using in close combat. You can kite people, provide combo fields (smokebomb for stomping) and deal a lot of damage with it.
Also the Big ol´Bomb will be part of your spiking combo (again – this will be explained later)
Slick Shoes:
Those things are just so good and synergize so well with the bomb kit its incredible. You can keep your opponent down for about 3-4 seconds if you spray a small circle around them. You need to use them offensivly, thats how they really shine in my opinion but you can also slow down pursuer with it. The toolbelt skill Super Speed is a stunbreaker and can get you in and out of a fight really quickly.
You can also use it to set up your oil slick faster but its obviously not a good idea against classes which use heavy CC themselfes.
It doesnt work too well against enemies with teleport abilities like thiefs, mesmers and elementalists.
Throw Mine:
In my opinion this is amongst the single most versatile ability the engineer has.
-use it to stop enemies from stomping your teammates
-place a mine on a downed teammate when rezzing, to knock away people coming along to stomp him
-knock people of ledges
-because it is unblockable you can cancel block skills (whether it be gear shield or shield stance, guard blocking skills) -it
-cancel healing skills (it even works on Shelter … but from my knowledge it doesnt cancel the heal itself)
-use it as an ordinary blast finisher
-strip a single boon (especially if you see that the enemy only got stability – lich form for example)
-knock people out of shadow refuge
-place it under your feet to interrupt teleporting guards/thiefs
The toolbelt skill is really nice – it is too good to rip away all those precious boons from guards and warriors. When they think they should be immune to your CC you just strip the stability.
Elite
Supply Crate – nothing more to say. It is just the best in many situations.
But you can take Elixir X if you feel like you want to “troll” even more.
Runes and Sigils
Why superior rune of the Air ?
I was playing around with many runes and if you want maximum damage in PvP this is – in my opinion- the way to go. The lightning strike can hit up to 3k or even 4k damage (it does also work if you are in the Tornado Form from Elixir X .. scaling even higher to 6k damage).
Otherwise you can also take runes of speed if you are feeling that you dont want to take speedy kits but still want to be fast.
For Sigil i take the Superior Sigil of Fire because it seems to fit the best into this build.
Amulet : Berserker
Combo
Now i want to explain the spike-damage combo i have mentioned several times.
Basically it is like this :
Slick Shoes (you can equip the bomb kit whilst doing that to pull in more enemies)-> Big ol´Bomb -> Minefield right onto of the knockdowned foe(detonate instantly ) -> Blunderbuss ( Overcharged Shot -> Jump Shot)
This will kill many professions really quick unless they got stability already (in that case you use the minefield to get rid of that first) or have not used their teleport-stunbreaker yet.
You can trick some people into using their stunbreaker by throwing multiple annoyances onto your enemy before you do your combo. Net shot, Throw Mine, Overcharged Shot followed by Jump Shot put quite some pressure onto them.
Thats about it so far. I might add different stuff later on.
Please be mindful that this is my first guide.
I hope you enjoyed reading it and have fun with this build.
If you got any questions you can message me in-game : Prof Dr Morris Katz
Have Fun =)
