Guild Wars 2

Ok last question, before starting my engineer experience, is tool belt really important to use ? I guess yes because it’s a specificity of the class but I will probably need to change keybinding because default one are not great IMO.

thanks everyone for your answers.

So if I understand what Yobculture said, engineer has good defensive stat without vita/robu stuff so no need to go with full tanky stuff like I was thinking.

Is the HoT spec really intersting or is it just for more survivability ?

And not very important thing but does engineer good for explo ?

Hello everyone,

I’m returning to GW2 few days ago and after playing some hours on my main character (Thief), I wanted to change a little bit because I get some difficulty with survivability. I was always interested in playing engineer because the system of kit look cool.

I started looking some forum topics and saw a lot of people complaining that engineer is not in a good spot right now. But anyway I think I can have fun with this class and start thinking about a build more fun than efficient.

My idea is to go for a tanky/condi build. I would like to try a set with Condi damage/vita/robu. I think about getting some zerk stat (or at least some power stat) with ring, earrings and amulet to improve damage.
I will probably use Flamethrower and grenade kit.

Do you think it’s a good set to kill mobs fast enought without searching for big number ? What weapon should I equip ? Any advice about spec ?

For the moment I am just looking for playing PVE open world, not aiming for raid stuff.

My engineer is 80 and I’m going to farm the HoT hero point to get the HoT spec even if I don’t know if I will use it

As a returning player hyped by the new extension, I was hesitating between going back to my revenant or to my thief because the futur spec of both of this class looks cool.
But to be honest I played revenant in the past just because I was tired to die on the HoT maps because thief are squishy. But your guide really help me to get back to my thief and not be lost with new meta.
This guide give me motivation for trying to master the class.
But I just have a question, I plan to do mostly PVE because of the extension so do you have any advice to improve survivability.
And do you think it’s better to get some defensive stats or go zerk and work on dodging and using skill with blind.

Thank you for this amazing work and sorry if my English is not very good but I’m from France