I don’t get it: Rifle burst dmg > 2 Pistols? And Grenades > Bombs?
Looks like I am doing it something wrong. Lvl 42 Engineer here. The funny thing is, that I can do best burst with :1. Tool kit and Bombs (greatest damage at all)
2. Double Pistols (ok dmg)
3. Rifle or Elixir gun (nothing special)
4. grenades, Flamethrower … (hard to hit moving targets, so I don’t use them a lot).
I realy like to use Bombs for leveling. Best single target dmg + AOE dmg!: You run in the middle of 4 or 5 mombs and blow them up in a few seconds, without loosing 50% of your health
Once you get to lvl 80 and have all your trait points then rifle/nades because your hardest hitting builds. I run a power/prec/crit build with 30/20/0/0/20. Basically you want the explosion end line ability grenadier, I can not stress how much damage your nade kit will do with this. Also I go 20 down firearms for range and damage bonus on rifle. Then I drop the last 20 on gadgets, speedy kits is a must have to keep mobility up, and the static discharge is where your burst DPS comes from . I use med kit for healing, and condition removal, then I slot rifle turret due to the very fast toolbelt cooldown, followed by wrench kit again for the toolbelt skill of throw wrench, and lastly the grenade kit. I will alternate my elite with supply crate and motar depending on situation. Please note that I mostly WvWvW, followed by farming in Orr, then dungeons.
When going single target I will net shot using #2 rifle skill, followed up with rifle turret toolbelt then throw wrench tool belt. These both hit hard and throw wrench will hit twice. Each time I used the toolbelt I proc’d a static discharge, each one critting for over 3K. Also because of precision and crit my default rifle attack is hitting really hard. Most things are dead by this point, if not I can either use the grenade toolbelt for an insane amount of damage, or I can save the cooldown and blunderbuss with #3 rifle skill. The nice thing is my toolbelt cooldowns are 10 sec, 20 sec, 30 sec for each one. Also since I am using med kit for heals I will proc a static discharge when healing cause even more damage. My survivablity is based off of mobility. With speedy kits I gain swiftness when using a kit. I switch to med kit, get swiftness, pop #5 ability to extend the buff, pop #4 if I need to clear a condition.
If I am going after groups, then grenade kit all the way until my hand is tired from spamming the buttons.