Guild Wars 2

Sorel.4870:

I nearly always run HGH lately. It’s just too strong. If you play marauder, having it just for Elixir X and Elixir S is worth it. If you play celestial or condi, try using EG with HGH. The low CD Acid Bomb, Super Elixir and stun breaker stack a ton of might, and give you an insane mobility and survivability. It’s just a shame that the minor trait that removes condition on elixir use doesn’t work with EG.

Cool beans. I’m definitely going to give this a try.

Is anybody running an HGH build since the update?

What does everyone think of the build?

I happen to find it pretty fun to play, but haven’t put it to test in dungeons or PVP yet.

@Rozbuska Thank you. Interesting build. Love the crit damage, and you still have a good amount of health. I have to say the two skills I haven’t given a lot of attention are the elixir kit, and the flamethrower. I’m definitely going to have to give this a try. I see by changing up the traits, I can gain swiftness from the kits, and change up my runes also, so this has definitely given me a bit to consider. Thank you.

My only question would be where I see where the condition removal comes in with healing mist, so I would assume you use it by overcharging, and moving like you would with a P/S condi build, I was wondering what a basic rotation would be like in this build?

One of my biggest issues when I was experimenting was finding a solid rotation between all of the kits, and kit skills. While I know it’s mostly situational, as the Engineer class is versatile and adaptable, I found I was basically laying on conditions with the pistols, and then using the bomb kit when enemies got close, then bridging distance with rocket boots, and sort of repeating this until everything was dead. (I usually only had to do it twice at most before I wore down mobs with conditions and direct damage.) But I found it to be that I was only using pistol skills, and bombs, and not much else.

Hello. I picked up Guild Wars about three months ago, and after experimenting with most of the other classes, I found that I was very comfortable playing with the Engineer. I love the versatility, and mid range damage capability, and the ability to also lay on some good condition damage.

I just got to Level 80, and decided on a Power Turret build as I leveled using the turrets, and found this play style to be fairly comfortable. The I’m running Runes of the Centaur on my armor to help with speed and swiftness which is one of the build issues that I had as far as mobility, however, the other that I’ve had which I’ve read many say was a big issue was condition cleansing. Doing PVE, I’ve run across a few trash mobs that will hit me with about 4 or 5 conditions, which slows me down, and does considerable damage over time. While I am highly survivable, like insanely so, I don’t simply want to survive through my battles. I tried P/S, and found that I wasn’t using the shield too often (But that would likely change with time and experience.) and I did very much enjoy using the bomb kit, though I had trouble finding a good mix of skills and traits that I felt made a really solid character.

I’m open to suggestions. I love this class for it’s versatility, so I realize I will have to be flexible. I plan to do some WVW and possibly some PVP over time as now I am just farming, and trying to complete my map.

I basically want good survivability without sacrificing too much mobility, and still being able to lay on some good damage rather that be direct, or condition. If anyone has some suggestions as to some good condition removal tricks to work in there, that would be helpful too.

Thank you for taking the time to read.

~Dre

Still low level, but love my character’s design.

I’m looking for a guild on Darkhaven that does some role-play, and questing, as well as PVP and PVE.
I am fairly new to the game, but not MMO’s, or role-play.
I am fairly casual, as I do work and go to school, but I am on almost every evening, and some times during the day.