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Don’t you worry about the viability of power Engi, it’s in a great spot, even for Fractals and Raids. I use power Engi against 50% of the Raid encounters and 100% in Fractals and open world.
As you are mainly looking for an open world build, I’d suggest you two slightly different ones. One for the casual open world stuff, like participating events etc, and one for (soloing) hero points.
The Flamethrower build is simply a must for an Engi playing open world (tiny exceptions). With this build you’ll have plenty of AoE, condi cleanses and a high uptime of all the important buffs. The hammer offers you a block and a good reflection uptime aswell as a long lasting AoE stun/daze with #5 into #3.
Don’t forget to cancel the aftercast of Elixier Gun #4 and hammer #3 by “dropping a bundle” via weapon swap button.
The most importnat thing for fighting Hero Points is breaking their defiance bar. This results into a 5sec stun and 50% increased damage during that time. Unfortunately too many ignore the bar completly …
Overcharged Shot (thx stability from Flamethrower! <3) and Blast Gyro will immediately annihilate the whole defiance bar of any not upscaled Hero Point (also works for Fractals bosses). Their cd perfectly fit the recharge time of the bar, so you will be able to proc the stun and increased damage around 30% of the duration of the fight.
Sadly, the hammer cc isn’t really fast due to hammer #5 into #3 and has a way too long CD to be a good and constant defiance bar breaker. You could use a lightning field generating traited Medic Gyro though, and swap between gyro into hammer #3 and hammer #5 into hammer #3 together with blasty. But you lose a whole lot of quickness uptime – ergo damage – this way.
I hope this was helpful. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
Greez!
- Ziggy
Thank you for this post, was very informative!
Just one question though. When it comes to levelling/before Scrapper, would you just spam Flamethrower #1 for DPS or is there more to it?
Cheers