Guild Wars 2

Artaz.3819:

MastaPanda.5781:

I roam just fine on a p/p engi. Just need to have map and situational awareness.

Keep at it. Nothing wrong with condi engi but the deck is a bit stacked against you; no where near some of the other classes though as it’s a good alternative at the Scrapper rank (usually you are pulling many of the same traits/utilities even).

To me, PP Engin just feels a lot like Berserker/Warrior where you do your condi burst rotation/reapply as you can and hope they don’t have counters or they just leave/reset altogether.

I like Engin for zerg battles (right behind the front melee train for “clean up duty”) a lot more.

Don’t get me wrong. Condi engi’s have become more bursty as of late. But I feel like that is, unfortunately, the best non frontline build for engi’s. It’s gotten worse with almost every class jumping more onto the Condi train and, well, doing it better. Once there’s a Condi nerf, people will complain about it for a while (engi’s especially), the non Condi players will be happy while writing it off and forget that Condi builds are still a thing. It’s happened before, it just makes engi’s that much more difficult to actually be good with.

As for p/p, that’s just personal preference. I find the shield skills way to clunky for my taste, and I can’t bring myself to give up blowtorch.

I roam just fine on a p/p engi. Just need to have map and situational awareness.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQJAqalcThqrYnXwWLw6FLsFF4HWiBgYHNFPBdwP8JPA-T1xCABAcCAuU9nxUCe8DAQo9HAUPAWK/CAgAMzyMAG6QH6QH6Qbmzc5yc5ysUALqsC-w

This is the p/p I’m running with. It’s fun as hell, and puts out a ton of pressure damage.
Base condi: 2026
With food: 2206
Food and kill stacks: 2471
Food, stacks, and might: 3260

Vojin here, and I approve this message.

I’m Vojin, and I approve this message. Change the tags please.

OK, I’ll start by saying that I’ve been playing engineer since release and it is the one class that I’ve had a lot of fun playing. I mainly do WvW, which brings me to why I’m posting this. I’m currently running a P/P condition build which is doing surprisingly well (even when out manned) but it seems like I’m missing something that I can’t really put my finger on. So any insight would be appreciated.

Armor: a Mix between carrion and rabid (6 Sup Runes of the Undead)
Weapons: Giver’s pistols x2 (sup sigil of agony/earth)
Back piece: Bowyer’s Delight (Malign WvW infusion)
Neck: Symbol of the Deceiver (Malign WvW infusion)
Earring’s: Chrysocola Orichalcum Earing of the Carrion x2
Rings: Chrysocola Orichalcum Ring of the Carrion x2

Traits: 10/30/0/30/0
Explosives: Incendiary Powder
Firearms: Rifled Barrels, Hair Trigger, Coated Bullets
Alchemy: Fast-acting Elixir’s, Blood Injection, HGH

Utility: Elixir H, Elixir B, Elixir R, Elixir S, Supply Crate

I just realized, I should have also put down my stats (too tired to think).
Power: 1436 Attack: 2465
Percision: 1458 Crit Chance: 30%
Tough: 1182 Armor: 2246
Vit: 1810 HP: 24,022
Condition Dmg: 1424 Condition Duration: 30%
Boon Duration: 30%

Link: http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.h16.a.1m.h9|0.0.0.0.0.0|1h.719.1b.719.1b.719.1h.719.1h.719.1h.719|2x.d12.1h.62.1h.62.1h.62.1h.62.2u.d12|a5.u46c.0.u25b.0|30.d|0.2g.2i.2j.30|e

The CoF pauldren’s refuse to show themselves, even when the option to hide them is unchecked. I don’t know if this is a bug that only happens with asura, or with other armors but thought i would post it anyway.

I would have to agree with a lot of the ideas Jeff posted. As an engineer I feel under-utilized. Also, BUMP.