Guild Wars 2

I find the Thumper useful for general PvE just because it has so much health and tends to take aggro pretty easily. Unfortunately, the whole stationary and cooldown thing applies.

Also just use the Rifle Turret for bleeds whenever I have it equipped. Then just pick it up immediately after so hopefully it’ll be ready for the next engagement.

Thanks for all the help so far. I’ll look into some of those swiftness and vigor traits.

[Edit] Also, thanks for the pretty indepth comment, Maullus. I think I might try that out pretty closely for now, until I get a better hang of things myself.

I’m having an extremely difficult time figuring out how I want to build my Engineer for leveling and some dungeons.

It’s only level 32 now, but I feel like I’m having a lot of issues. At the moment, I’m running 0-10-0-10-2, with Elixir H, Elixir B, Elixir U, and Grenade Kit. However, I feel constantly squishy with little damage, with just enough CC that if I’m only fighting a single mob, I can avoid getting hurt. But the moment I aggro anything more, I go down in a flame of spamming heal, never having enough dodges (coming from my perma-Vigor Guardian, it’s frightening not having enough dodges), and just barely getting out of the confrontation alive.

Anyone have any tips for starting an Engineer? Ideally, I would like to focus on using the Rifle and just plain doing damage, since my Guardian already fulfills its role of just staying alive and supporting my team. For a while, was experimenting with Turrets in PvE, but given their stationary nature and cooldowns, I really felt that they were only useful when I needed to do a Skill Point challenge or something similar.