Guild Wars 2

Greetings and thanks for reading.

I am a new player to the game, trying a Charr Engineer. I have a 59 Ranger but wanted something a bit different. To put it bluntly I am having massive problems with survivability.

At level 19 I was “making it” in the starting zone. However, between adds aggroing on me from clip distance, two veterans and trash all swarming me, I died a bit. But made it through.

The next zone is worse. (More Ascalonians). I have Trebuchets hitting me from point blank range, two and three cannons targeting me from distance, and adds respawning almost as fast as I kill them.

I find an underground cistern where the 21 Veteran Mage is doing 500 damage every 3-4 seconds. So if I don’t kill him (and the things that spawn with him) in under 20 seconds, I’m dead again.

Either I need to switch back from Bombs to Grenades, or upgrade (if possible) my healing turret, or something. Because, quite frankly, I die more in 20 minutes on my Engineer than I do in 20 levels on my Ranger.

My gear is all level 17 (I used the Krytan skin) and my weapon is level 14. I will upgrade my weapon (rifle) and see if that helps my Bomb DPS. (Again, new to the mechanics).

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.