Showing Posts For Sherlock.2035:
Great video as always Ukune…now we just need Woodstock to make some more!
How can you make a post about Engi’s being OP without mentioning Mortar??? Need I say more?
I’ve consulted this guide many times. Extremely well done.
Two builds from an engi commander on SBI: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fcEQJAqelIqSX3zylF1LJxIFce0hUY/7LSh+t8nCyF-jUDBYfI4fAoigkDgEEA0HIJqFRjtMqIasKbYaYER1WdAWzKaG0pWKgiEGB-w and http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fcEQJAqelIqSXn1y3F1LJyIFd2oFSh9JhgKAYiUofNGA-jUDBYfI4fAoigEEAkGg0HIJqFRjtMqIasKbYaYER1WdAWzKaG0pWKgiEGB-w
Always a pleasure to watch and keeps me coming back to p/p.
Perhaps the underwater bomb version of kit refinement?
You mention you use this or a variation for WVW, can you throw up a link to the build with gear etc?
Much appreciated. I’ve played condition for a long time, looking for change.
In the description there’s a link to my WvW roaming build and customization suggestions!
Awesome stuff Chaithh. Any suggestions for those of us that don’t have Celestial yet?
Look up Wolfineer, Ukuni99, Prozap GW, and Yishis Gaming. I would also check out the twitch for ostricheggs and chaithh.
Maybe I’m reading this wrong, but 10 in explosives could mean just 10. 2100 condi damage suggests 30 in firearms and with the semi-high vitality perhaps he’s wearing dire. I’m terrible at theorycrafting, but maybe 10/30/0/10+/10+?
From his earlier post…
The Build
Traits
10/10/20/30/0
Explosives: V – Incendiary Powder
-A big chunk of my damage comes from this. It pairs up beautifully with blowtorch at the start of a fight, throwing on a nice 14 seconds of burn.
Firearms: VI – Hair Trigger
-Because this build lacks nades/bombs/FT, my main source if damage is the P/P combo. The 20% faster recharge is invaluable and allows me to re-apply conditions quicker than most classes.
Inventions: VI – Cloaking Device – VII – Power Shoes
-I have to admit, I was never a fan of this tree line when I did PvP. The traits didn’t seem all that useful to me, but I forced myself to take it so I could have some extra toughness. The more I played WvW, though, the more I fell in love. The Cloaking Device is excellent for getting away from zergs, stopping spikes, and sneaking up on someone mid-fight. I chose Power Shoes because I found myself running away from zergs very often. I really like this trait, engineer’s don’t have many gap closers and this really does help you get around the field during fights.
Alchemy: II – Fast-Acting Elixirs – X – Cleaning Formula 409 – XI – HGH
The bread & butter of the build, your basic HGH alchemy lineup. Not much to explain here, when you run HGH, you don’t get a lot of wiggle room in this tree unless you want to greatly sacrifice your potential.
Gear
Armor
I run full carrion, except for the leggings, which are rampager. Having rampager legs gives you an extra 4% crit chance, which helps to get off your incendiary powder.
Runes
2x Major Rune of Water
2x Superior Rune of Water
2x Superior Rune of Fire
Weapons
Pistol #1: Carrion with Superior Sigil of Battle
Pistol #2: Rabid with Superior Sigil of Corruption
Trinkets
Full rabid trinkets, rampager’s amulet.
Buffs
Koi Cakes or Rare Veggie Pizzas for 40% condition duration.
Quality tuning crystals (or the step above if you really want to waste money)
Utilities
Elixir H – Chosen for use with HGH. Protection is great.
Elixir B – Again, chosen for use with HGH, and is your main source of swiftness.
Elixir S – I personally save this almost exclusively to stomp, but it occasionally lets you get out of some sticky situations. Will completely mitigate someone’s spike if you time it correctly.
Toolkit – I love this utility. It gives you access to some great skills, which are:
2: Box of Nails – Comparable to thieve’s caltrops, but on a 10s recharge. Great for kiting.
3: Pry Bar – Not only does the initial hit do some big damage, but if you run this build, you will find a large chunk of your damage comes from confusion. If paired with the pistol’s Static Shot, you can throw on 7 stacks of confusion, which at times does over 1,500 damage per skill use.
4: Gear Shield – Excellent skill for WvW. 3 second block lets you run through zergs, mitigate spikes, and keep people at bay.
5: Magnet – My personal favorite, especially in WvW. It’s a great skill to open up fights with, but I use it all the time to catch fleeing foes. Can’t count the number of times I’ve killed people just feet away from their keep door thanks to this.
Supply Crate – An extremely powerful elite, it has the potential to completely turn fights around. Not only does it drop turrets to immobilize & burn your foes, it also comes with medpacks that you can pick up for a few extra thousand health. Best of all, the initial drop comes with a 2 second stun, which makes it excellent for spiking.
/sign. Looking for some sort of official reply.
I’m able to join wvw now.
I relogged and am still getting the error. Looks like if you’re already in wvw you’re safe.
Anyone else in NA getting this error? Some of my guild are in WvW, but whoever isn’t is unable to join.
I like the build as well; specifically the survivability, but I did find it rather difficult to kill people especially in 1v2+ scenarios. Eventually they just ran off. I took some power food to get it about 1500 and that seemed to help.
Thanks. Looking forward to trying it.
Grackle, being new to turrets, what’s the strategy with thumper? When/where/overcharge etc. Thanks!
Mask, are you keeping toolkit or switching back to elixir c?
Thought I only had 70% boon duration, but forgot about trait.
(edited by Sherlock.2035)
I can vouch for the lemon grass poultry. Works really well if you’re a late healer like I am.
Bump for any new engies
Hello! I run only Alchemist and this is what i use.
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mcMzz9mMoRvMMoGvMax0x0VoVbMRq
I do not support and i feel like if you want to support your team you should spec and gear accordingly.
My gear is full carrions, jewelry and all. it focuses on condition damage. Stack up your might with elixirs before you enter battle and during the battle. After that simple bleed, poison, and burn your foes away.
If you are doing pistol/pistol or pistol/shield go condition damage because going full power/crit is better suited for rifle.
I actually started out pistol/shield but found it was only helpful defending and not chasing and i had no way to slow or immobilize people. Taking damage from arrow carts back out and put on shield. Roaming and killing? Put on the glue gun.
I use mini when i think i need more survivabilty, this skill is amazing and is in my bar most time. Sometimes I swap this out with quickness potion as its more aggressive and lets me really put the pressure on. Eventually you will know the situations you need condition removal elixirs, elixir R, or whatever the situation requires but im just showing you what i roll around with in wvw most times.
Goodluck and i’ll check back here if you have any other questions.
What runes you running?