Started out with my engineer and loving it. Was using a flame build, but at level 20-40 I didn’t have a great deal of trait points built up though I would still run around doing a crap load of aoe dmg.
Switch to dual pistol with elixirs…holy shizzle my burst dmg is extremely high, my bleeds / poison hurt a lot now (high +con dmg) in both pvp / pve. So yer, engineer high dps? I don’t die easily in pve, I’m crap at pvp but still manage to kill people one on one or one on two. (some terrabad’s out in WvW!) So I think engies have pretty high dps if you play them right. Just need to figure out what your play style is I guess.