Guild Wars 2

vincecontix.1264:

Basically almost never lose to a necro I can count on one hand the amount of necro that have actually been able to beat me on my engi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNEAqkpVdaQ&list=UULforKFmWjekyotM8u3OlyA this guys attitude was very bad but he was one of the best necro I vs so far
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxnsNysvq9w soloq

That Warrior made me laugh.
Still in basic gear, so it looks like they have made a new alt warrior and used a cheese copy and paste build.
Chases you around for ages then goes on to say “go away nerd”.
Absolutely priceless.

Quick ground targetting on and all you have to do is aim and press and release hotkey. Really not difficult.

Buy the light boots from the northern vendor in Bloodtide coast, throw them in forge then salvage the outcome. You get good amounts of high value silk from there.
It’s excellent cash, but very tedious as you need to travel between zones every time you fill inventory, then spam forge.

Firstly I suggest creating your own guild purely for the storage space. It takes a good few days to get a decent size tab, but it’s definitely worth it.
After that (and during) do world bosses and dungeons.
Save up all your exotics and rares and when you get a decent amount, toss them in the forge. Hope you get a precusor. Hope you get a precusor, then hope you get a one of decent value (or the one you actually want).

A friend of mine got 3 precursors in 100 staff gambles. I had 9g left, spent it on rare shields and managed to get ‘The Chosen’. Took me like a day after to get the cash so I could actually list it on the TP.

Though, I’ve spent atleast 600g on forge since and had no luck.
You’re better off just getting the rares/exotics yourself.

Don’t bother wasting your time trying to act clone-like.
Anyone with decent experience will spot you no matter how hard you try.

You’re better off just spamming clones and having them explode. It’s far more effective.

Trying to determine who is who between 3 clones and you, or having clones constantly running around and exploding in your face.

Keep you and your clones moving (by shattering), in and out of stealth and porting around is the best way to confuse your opponent. Don’t try to blend in. It won’t work against majority of players.

GS #2 applying the might stacks to you more reliably.
I hate when my GS bounces off someone who is a tank\heal or just a random friendly NPC that isn’t going to benefit much off it.

Faster attack/stronger hits on Staff auto. Possibly a faster projectile also.
I really don’t think Greatsword is good enough as a Ranged weapon. I love the utility and animations on staff, but I feel the auto-attack is really lack-luster.

Can’t think of a #3 at the moment.

if I were you i’d lose the force sigil and take energy instead.

I would also take 2 points from Earth and Water and put them into Arcane for perma Vigor and boons on attunement swaps.

I would also completely rework your trait points in Water and go with Piercing Shards (Cone of Cold does surprisingly good damage here) and Cleansing Wave.
Soothing Wave and Disruption boon durations are far too low to be useful in my opinion.

By going into Arcane you also get Fury often.

P/P is fun, but definitely not worth using in PvP/WvW/Competetive situation.

Messing around? Sure.

Prybar does surprisingly decent damage in condi builds.

I crit for around 1.5k (very low or 0 might stacks) in PvP.
Then you have the high damage from Confusion come in. Definitely worth using.

I really wish they’d better the world chests.
They DO exist.. but there are very, very few of them.. and the rewards are like 99% blue items.

Finding a chest while travelling on Gw1 and using your trusty lockpicks was something I found very entertaining.

It’s a shame the equivalent on Gw2 is extremely disappointing.

Yeah it was really good.
Actually looked like a movie opposed to a cutscene.

I loved the new area unlocked in S2, and when I hit the part that was a sort of Jungle it was absolutely beautiful.

I’ve ran turret build several times in Solo Queue and I never encountered someone who knew how to counter turrets.

vincecontix.1264:

Zach.3264:

Really nice, could you post a build for the Elixir build too?
I tried playing one earlier but my output seemed different.

That elixir build was just me experimenting though it turned to be quite alright. I will add the build when I get home.

That’s one long shift!

Don’t forget to post build!

Depends.. you’re obviously good/enjoying playing bombs if you’ve stuck with them for so long.

Turrets are really borderline overpowered in my opinion, but you’re practically rooted to the one spot. You also completely rely on attacks with 1 weapon which makes it a really, REALLY boring build to play.

I can only suggest trying turrets, but if I were you, I’d stick with bombs. It’s a much more enjoyable play style.

1 man riot…

OH DEAR GOD!

I’m disappointed as this has happened to me, but with T3 Norn heavy, T3 Human light, T3 Asura Medium and T3 Human Medium.
Though, I suppose it could be argued, that before the Wardrobe update you would have to pay for them again if you wanted them back.

Bomb kit is great for PvE.
Can easily kite mobs in circles while they stupidly run over your bombs ^^

Silly AI

Wrench actually does pretty good damage in power builds, but yeah.. it’s much easier just to use Rifle and you get better slots on it also.

ikiturso.4026:

I would like Anet to see do something! We are so out of current meta! Some hamsters make decent builds but we are way off! Our auto attacks need serious buffs.

Engineer’s have several kits, our auto-attacks aren’t meant to be on par with other classes.

Really nice, could you post a build for the Elixir build too?
I tried playing one earlier but my output seemed different.

I have mixed feelings.

I play Turret Engi occasionally and I believe it plays a HUGE part in helping your team win, because you can solo guard home against a vast majority of players. I also find it really fun to watch the hate messages pour in, rather than reply to them I just laugh it off.

That being said, I do find it a very boring build and I’m not too keen being rooted to the one area.

But ye.. don’t worry about people complaining, enjoy it.

Sorry I should have mentioned. This would be primarily for WvW/PvP!

Hi folks. I was bored and decided to mess around with build calculator and managed to find a build that utilizes Lightning Hammer for a lovely 100% critical chance and still maintain decent Power.

The build is here

What do you guys reckon would be more DPS? the above build, or standard full zerk with 2.4k~ Power (no BL stacks) and 60-70%~ crit chance?

thanks,

EDIT: Should have mentioned sooner, this would be primarily for PvP/WvW.

Wyrden.4713:

ThiBash.5634:

If you’re fighting a longbow ranger, proper timing of Magnetic Aura (try to reflect a rapid fire) works very well. But I’ll bet you knew that already. :-)

Wyrden.4713:

u use meteor when dueling?._.

Why not? At worst it’s area control, at best people are stupid enough to actually enter the blast zone. If you center it around yourself, you can be the bait that gets people into the area. And once they’re inside fighting, you’ll outdamage them.

usee, during casting meteor u r too vulnerable, ppll just can do great hitting stuff and be sure to land if someone casts meteor, i as s/d ele always kill other eles when dueling if they start casting meteors

Meteor Shower is actually very good during duelling.

Ew everyone rocked the Gas Mask, now everyone using that new skins from LS.

If you swap trinkets for Zealot (Zerk backpiece) and swap runes you still get a tanky build and decent damage.

ArrDee.2573:

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Because the overcharged Rocket Turret has a knockdown! Everybody knows only Warriors are allowed to have AoE CC! Additionally the Rocket Turret is not that great in any game mode so use it sparsely!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

A simple Yes/No would have been just as helpful.

ArrDee.2573:

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Bunker Down is pretty awful!

1. You have to go deep into Firearms which is a pretty bad tree!
2. The trait itself stinks!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

That was a very in-depth post.

Soldier runes with a shout build are excellent.

Arantheal.7396:

PS run turret builds if you want to bunker a point.
easy to learn and currently pretty OP for other classes, therefore the fastest success-experience you can get.

This is not a good idea. Playing a build that you -let’s face it- don’t do very much with isn’t going to get OP the experience they are looking for.

People don’t say it enough.. but make your own build, pick the traits YOU want, and practice with them. Yes, you’ll probably be bad, and yes you’ll probably get heaps of abuse through chat. Though, that’s all part of the learning.
You won’t get good until you experience the bad.

If your Engi is a PvE character I’d suggest getting 80. I played a lot of PvP on my Ele (level 64) and I constantly got frustrated because I couldn’t do as good as I’d like to be doing. I finally made the push for 80 and ran some dungeons for a day or two. When you get a feel for cooldowns actually learn what each ability does (rather than having a rough idea), then you will start to progress.

In short, just practice.

Bombsaway.7198:

If anyone should snipe, it should be the ranger really.
If we got another kit, it would likely be more of a gadget kit IMHO.

Snipers are meant to be stealthy. Having a large Panther/Wolf etc wouldn’t exactly aid you in being stealth-like.

To be fair, most builds look good when you deck the calculator out in full ascended and infusions

Looks good though.

Engineer is fine where they are.

In my opinion it’s probably best not using Gadgeteer at all. The boon durations are really poor.

If I was going for a Hybrid I’d probably play something like this.
Stats seem to be very good in all areas, maybe lacking in toughness a little. Though, you get plenty of Swiftness and some good mobility with the selected utilities and ofcourse Rifle.

Not sure who this would be better suited to.
The abilities you’ve suggested sound better suited to a Thief however.

ukuni.8745:

working as intended unfortunately

That’s disappointing.

Thanks for the speedy response, however.

Hi folks, I’ve been playing my lowbie Engi in PvP for the past couple of weeks now and I’m continually experimenting with builds.

I tried running HGH with Elixir Gun today and expected to receive might stacks from using Acid Bomb (#4) and Super Elixir (#5) as they are noted as “Elixir” in the tool tip. However, I was disappointed to find that they did NOT grant any might stacks.

HGH tooltip states that you gain Might upon using an Elixir, as the other Elixir skills such as Elixir H (Heal) are noted as “Elixir” in the tooltip, shouldn’t the last two abilities on Elixir Gun grant Might also?

Is this working as intended, or is it a bug?

TIA!

Really not sure about WvW as my Engi is only a lowbie for PvP.
But I’ve been using this build. It does excellent condition damage, turrets do great sustain and provide a ton of boons (constant 3-6 might). You also have a ton of CC through exploding turrets and shield.
Plus, you can chain 20+ seconds of reflects.

Quick build I threw together and it looks decent.
Build

Zefrost.3425:

Why?

Maybe because Mortar and Elixir X are garbage?

But supply crate is op..

motherbox.5493:

Can you share a link to the build?

Sorry.. completely forgot to link it haha.

Here you go.

Oh god.. double fail. I don’t know why.. but I read PvP for some reason. Sorry ><

But yeah.. touching up on what Rozbuska said.. there’s no reason to use anything other than full damage gear in PvE. It’s too easy to bother wearing anything for extra survivability.

Not a full tank build, but I run this in PvP a lot and it’s incredible.

Don’t be afraid to pick up turrets, you can chain 20+ seconds of reflects with this build. Has excellent healing, good condi and good pressure from turrets.
oh.. and did I mention it has insane CC?

Pistol/Shield with knockback turrets.
Often people think this is bad because turrets are rooted, but it’s actually quite mobile. Both Flame and Rifle turrets have really low cooldowns. I tend to take Rocket Turret for that extra CC, but the low cooldown can put some people off. You may wish to swap that out for nades/TK

I reckon “Engineer” would be quite fitting.

Wouldn’t mind having them be unlimited. Though, It doesn’t bother me too much.

Could anyone get a screen grab of this greatsword please?

I missed it..

EDIT: Oh, is this the Katana everyone is raving about?

I don’t really pay much attention to story (don’t call me names!), though it seems a little TOO obvious that Aerin is the one behind it, so my bet would be with Master of Peace.

MauricioCezar.2673:

Zach.3264:

Are you referring to the vine underneath the starting WP?

I was hunting chests and noticed a vine under there that was either breathing or pulsing.

Yup. That creepy vine is yet makeing me nervous.

Also, have another giant vine near the sparring rock, that is too high to jump over it. But its obvvious about mordremoth corruption, since it not fits anyway well with tha paisage.

There’s also a large vine besides the attackable vines near start that you can climb half way up. There seems to be a large plot of land at the top which leads towards the west. Though, you’re unable to climb any further up (yet).

I reckon this is fairly common knowledge though, since it’s hard to pass by it and not try to climb it

Are you referring to the vine underneath the starting WP?

I was hunting chests and noticed a vine under there that was either breathing or pulsing.

I think I’m still rocking the white aqua breather you get at level 1 (or so) on all my toons :\

Yeh, you need to have him targetted. Took me about 10 attempts before I figured this out