Guild Wars 2

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http://www.youtube.com/user/MrAmadeuson

Waka that was both rude ans uncalled for! Eveb if you think thats true, then keep it to yourself, he didn’t ask for our opinion about his build! :-)

To the op, do you have a picture of the weapon skin, at my Phone amt, so can’t log in and would like to see the skin! Been looking for a good shotgun skin! ! :-D

You do talk about having acces to more 2-3 different kits in many of your examples, and you also talk about how we can do HGH and have lot’s of boons and amazing damage on the same time

Even then, if you don’t state that, which is fine, we can say that, you still manage to mess it up, because when you compare everything to other classes. you still underrate how big a price it is to give up an entire Utility Slot, to get acces to a second weapon set. What good are you with no CD on the weapon swapping if they just chain CC, because don’t have room for the things I have stated several times? I really doubt that you ever played a Engineer vs any decent players

No you ain’t saying take 4 kit’s, but every time you start talk about what the Engineer can do you “pick” stuff where we somehow have 2-3 Kits + Boon Stacking Utility + Stun Breaks + Condition removal.

Which you still fail to understand we can’t have, and the reason why close to everyone that reply probaly will take you for a fool from now on, is that.

I can’t be kitten to state it anymore so this is the last time: To do what you say we can do, is not posible! Even then, running a 2 Kit build, which I do and love a lot, we pay a high price for:

Only one utility spot open, and you are lacking:
A Stun Breaker
Condition Removal
Boons stacking Skils (Regen being the only boon, which comes from Toolbelt skill on Elixir Gun, if you actually have that one)

You also have: Weak Skill 1 on your weapons and Kits and lower damage, and need to use more trait points that will pinghole you into the Kit’s.

And finally, Yes, Engineers are the only one having this! Gongrats! Why? Because it’s our special class Mechanic! Just like Memsers are the only one that got weapon skills that can spawn Pet’s, and Rangers being the only one that have super strong Pet’s! The fun thing is, It’s all ready balanced! They balanced that with how strong out Kits are and giving them all weak points that we can’t cover unless we pick other utility!

Gesus…

@LonelyReaper

Gesus you don’t understand it, I think Toss Elixir R is an amazing skill, what I wanted to point out for you, which you cleary don’t get.

Is that the more kits you take, the less utility skills you can take to cover weak points. I didn’t ask for all Tool Belt Ability or Utility to be a stun break, I never said that. THe point I made was if you run with 4 Kits you will have:
No Stun Break, No Condition Removal (Unless Elixir Gun which remove one on skill 5), and no real acces to Boons. Now, I do think that’s quite balanced for having that many Weapon Kit’s, but the Price is there, I play a very very dangerous way if running that.

And you are wrong, from every logical view, because you try to balance every proffession around the same core principels, which you can’t.
if we get 5 second CD on swaps, why shouldn’t the rest of the proffessions only have 5 second CD on the swap? Or at least a Trait that gives them that? why can a necromancer run full minions and have acces to his Proffesion Mechanic, while I can’t? and Why can a Ranger and Memser have Pet/Clones and still have other Utility? The way you try justify a nerf that ain’t nessacry is simple wrong.

The Weapon kit’s function on a very different way then other weapons, and hence it can’t be compared the way you do…

also, LOOOL at your Turret Comment hahaha

Also
^ What Kharr Said is right

@LonelyReaper you clearly don’t know what you are talking about:

First off, the “Utility Skill” we get from Tool Belt is locked to our Utility Skill we pick, which means we can’t just pick whatever we like, let’s take your example, because I like to run that
Tool Kit and Grenade kit, you actually said Bomb kit as well, so here:
You get: Throw Wrence, Grenade Barrage and Big Old Bomb, which means: No Stun Break, No Condition Removal, No Boon granting skills of any sort.
Can you play like that? yes of cause you can, but the price for running the 3 kit’s are allready high, because you have none of the above mentioned.

Now, The only Tool Belt Skill that remove a condition, is Elixir C and Elixir R (which got a 120 sec CD, and ain’t meant as a condition removal per say). No other of them works as a condition removal nor a Stun break.

Now, you say we get an extra 2-3 utility, which again, is somewhat true, but yet not. First of, for each kit we pick, we “loose” one utility skill, so running one of these saxy 4 kit builds you talk about, would leave us with the exact same amount of utility skills as the rest! Now, if we do decide to not take up kit’s, let’s say we build a P/S Full Elixir Build, then you are right, I then have 4 “utility” skills more then the rest, but I have NO other weapon swap.

Also, our Tool Belt Skills are quite bad, many of them, the different is we can’t just pick the good ones and leave the bad ones alone, because if we want an utility skill we will get that Tool Belt Skill. Personal I hate Toss Elixir S, If it all ways gave Stealth I would love it, not this wierd thing it got going. It also goes the other way around, I find myself forced to use Rocket Boots because I want the Rocket Kick, even while Elixir R or S would have been a way better skill.

Now, the reason I say it’s silly you try compare a Mesmer ( Or any other proffession) with no CD on his weapon swapping to a Engineer with no CD on Kit Swapping, is because it makes no sense, at all! You simply can’t do it, no matter how you twist and turn it the proffessions are so different that something like that can’t be compared.

And the reason you are called a troll, is becuase you want something that works just fine, nerfed…

BrimstoneAshe.5043:

Has anyone experimented with IP + Napalm specialist?

Yup I have, a long time ago I made a build for that, tested it our last week, still works wonders ^^ The amount of Burning we got acces to as Engineer is insane, so going for 100% Burning duration and stacking as many skills that give burning as you can are fun times!

@LonelyReaper

Whare you are suggesting is the worst Idea I have yet come across about Engineers! Gratz with that!

First off, your logic is flawed, you try to compare class mechanic’s and Weapon swapping in a weird logic:

As an Engineer we can pick up Kits, they have no cooldown, but take 1 second to equip! This comes at a price:
1. No second weapon (and only 3 real weapon options, which makes it quite easy to figure out what we got up that sleeve)
2. It takes up an Utility slot, leaving us with one utility skill less to pick (Means less Stun Breaks, Less Condition removal ect, which punish us A LOT in multi kits builds)
3. Reduced Damage, and Weapon Kit’s are specialised in a way normal Weapons ain’t! We need to spend a lot of traits on them, and most kit’s can’t work in all situations (See as an Example Bomb Kit, Pure melee, no semi ranged or Gap Closing ability in the set, which means I’m useless if stuck in it at range for 5 seconds) – Edit: Also our Skill 1# on all kits and Weapons are some of the worst in the game, also one of the prices.

Now, we do also have our Tool Belt, in which we gain an bonus skill (Close to all of them is weaker then a standard Utility Skill of ours and other proffesions), But that’s our Class Mechanic, it’s out UNIQUE thing. it’s need to be seen on with the proffession as a whole!

Mesmers F1-F4 skills wouldn’t make any sense of work, if they didn’t have any way to make the Clones or Phantasm, or even more silly, if they only could get acces to them trough Utility skills.

Comparing our Kit Swapping with Elementalists Attunement swapping I understand, but you do it a dumb way, mostly because, they allways get 4 “Weapon” sets, that function very well with each other, and still having acces to Utility Skills.

They will allways have them, no matter what, If I pick 3x Elixirs or Turrets as an Engineer, I will still have only my Main hand weapons, which is why we get the Tool Belt skills, to “make” up, for the lack of weapon swapping (which is kinda flawed, in special Turret’s, but that’s another debate)

Anyhow, your idea is silly and unessacry, the Engineer is in a pretty sweet spot at the given time, the only one that’s “maybe” OP, is HGH, which really ain’t because there is no CD on swapping, but how well Engineer scales with Might (and how silly long duration Grenade Kit’s conditions have)

I personal run my Condition Grenadier quite often in PvE, swapping into Max Condition duration gear, swapping out Tool Kit for whatever I feel I want to use at the time, often bomb kit or Elixir Gun, and Med Kit I swap for Healing Turret!

It got Perma Burning, Perma Posion, Nice loong lasting bleeding and can put out 15-20 Vulnerbillity stacks quite easy! It works just fine up to FOTM Level 15-16, that’s the farest I have bothered to go ^^^
I would swap Power Wrench for Scope, but it does still appear bugged to me for some reason <.<

I just fixed the link to it, was bugged for some reason!

I think the Napalm Specialist should be able to work as well, if you are the only one stacking the burning

You can check out my Current Roaming builds here!

“The Confusion Bomb” 100% condition duration setup:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.h2.a.1m.h19|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.7i.1b.7i.1h.7v.1b.7v.1b.7v.1b.7v|2w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|k53.k64.0.a1.k68|30.d|2d.2e.2x.2j.0|e
“The Confusion Bomb” – Full Conidition damage Setup:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1b.h2.a.1h.h19|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719|2w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|k53.k64.0.a1.k68|30.d|2d.2e.2x.2j.0|e
“The Troll Build”:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.h1l.e.1m.ha|0.0.0.0.0.0|1c.713.1c.713.1c.713.1c.713.1c.713.1c.713|1c.64.1c.64.1c.64.1n.64.1n.64.1c.64|a3.0.a1.u16c.k68|30.1|2d.2e.2x.2j.0|e
“The Napalm Specialist” (Toolkit can be swapped for FlameThrower with some minor adjustments)
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.hf.a.1m.h19|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719|2w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|a5.u647.0.a1.k68|30.d|2d.2m.2x.2j.0|e
“The Explosive Alchemist”
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|4.1g.h1h|0.0.0.0.0.0|1g.71i.1g.71i.1g.71i.1g.71i.1g.71g.1g.71g|21j.0.1n.64.1n.64.1n.64.1n.64.1i.64|u5ab.a6.0.u2ab.0|39.7|2b.2g.2j.2f.30|e
“The Explosive Alchemist – Condition”
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.h1h.a.1m.h2|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.71h.1b.71h.1b.7i.1b.7i.1b.71g.1b.71g|2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|u5ab.a6.0.u2ab.0|30.d|2b.2g.2j.2f.30|e
“The Explosive Toolkit”
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|4.1g.h14|0.0.0.0.0.0|1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7|1g.67.21j.0.1n.64.1n.64.1n.64.1i.61|u57b.a6.0.a1.k68|39.7|2d.2f.2x.2j.30|e
“The Condition Grenadier”
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.h2.a.1m.h19|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719|2w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|u58b.0.0.a1.k68|0.0|2d.2f.2x.2m.0|e
There is video showing them in work if you follow my signature link! There should be something for most atm

Om Nom Nom! I’m just saying

Those what, 166 damage bleeding that pops up! I love it!

You will be able to find it here on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/feed/UCaQ4iNYAQ-wtDLkL70OuS3Q

Here is our website whee you also can find it:
http://sittingonacouch.com/category/gaming/

and also for a free DL on Itunes!

The bug is in WvW aswell (even worse off is it, that it also stops giving the weapon stats).
But for some reason, it happens when you get downed or die, and for me it also happens when I enter the first round of a match!

But you can make it work again, by reequiping the weapon with the sigil again after been downed, very annoying! Mostly because I at least still have the UI bug where I sometimes only see the weapons I have outside of PvP under Charcter Info, and not the sPvP weapons <.<

Also, I play an Engineer, so I’m allways in the “right weapon” set ^^

Fire bug would be insane op haha :-D that would be way out of control! Beside that, the other ideas are fun :-)

Cheers Bas! It’s going to be an amazing experince to get the very first Engineer only Podcast running! People can all ready now send me a PM about any questions, things they would like the podcast to be about, and people they would like to see as guests and so on!

I hope all of you in our small community are looking forward to this is much as I am, and will help make it such a succes that we can compete with the other Proffesison specific Podcasts all ready running!

And exactly as Bas is saying; Trust me, I’m an Engineer! It’s going to be great!

Silent.4378:

Im thinking about making an engineer myself, so do you guys think condition engi would be good for wvw roaming?

Condition damage for roaming is probaly the best choise at the given time! We got an amazing arsenal of AoE conditions that last for a loong time! With the ability to get 50-100% condition duration in WvW quite easy, we make for amazing condition damage roamers!

You can find a lot of intrestring builds and videos on youtube,!
Check out Maskaganda’s Channel for a really skilled WvW roamer here:
http://www.youtube.com/feed/UC9NnXVfY4vRU1F-X7b1Oorw

Or check out some of my roaming videos at my channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrAmadeuson

^ SirKoroshi is new on the Egnineer proffesion, and he got some realy intrestring going as well, so definetly worth checking out as well!

Also while I do agree we make for an amazing Duo proffession (check Maskaganda and his Guariden buddy Techno Viking), we are still quite amazing and cabable in solo roaming, you should win most of your 1vs1 Encounters

Yeah, but I do think timidobserver.7925, comment was meant for 6x Runes of it! I personal run with 2x Lyssa for the duration, and I’m sure 4x + 2x Altrusim can be quite fun as well!

The reason most won’t take 6x Runes of Lyssa Halcyon, is even if it worked on Supply Crate (the only good Elite we have), it’s a very loooong CD Elite skill, and we wouldn’t get as much out of the 6th runes as say Warriors or Necromancers

Ahhh man! I am so Jelly that you guys at NA got this awesome event!! I’m looking so much forward to when the videos get up so us poor EU fellows can see it as well! Good look saturday! Show them the might of the Engineers!

Hopefully we will soon be able to get such an Event up and running here on the EU side as well!

It is a well known bug that it dosn’t work on Supply Crate, why it’s still not fixed is another question :b

Hehe I found it quite the odd website to link to yeah!

The new healing Turret does indeed look very intrestring, and if you got the timing/reflexes , it should be quite powerfull! Working on a concept idea with that Turret and a Elixir Gun, but still in the works!

Keep in mind that the Overcharge leaves a 3 second Water Field, which means you can sit with your Shield skill 4 for it’s full duration, and then press it for the blast finisher, could have dished out some extra damage on the ranger in the video ect? (from the reflection)

Also, I do still think medkit is better suited for in most of my builds, mostly because I often have 15 points in tools, so it recharges my heal at 25%, it’s a bit more easy and clean to use, and with all my LOS abusing and kiting I simply love my drop medkits! Also I feel in a 1vsMany I don’t have the time to use the Turret’s full potenial, because I’m so busy don’t other things!

When that is said tho, I really think the Turret got a lot of pontial after last patch, and I’m sure we will see a lot more to now in WvW and sPvP (and it’s amazing in PvE so far for me)

Bonus note: It’s quite strong, and probaly my to go in duels from now on, because I have more “control” over a 1vs1, then my usual 1vs many, so I feel I can used it’s potenial better there!

@Nakoda thanks for the tip!

I’m afraid the link to the build you posted here send me to german I think? Economy Website? :P

But I watched the video, and followed the link to the build from there hehe! I like the build, but I would say it’s a lot more like my Condition Grenadier build, thne my confusion bomb build! ^^
It’s a solid build for sure tho, all ways love to see people do their own twist on my builds,, and I also like to run with Elixir R from time to time, because of that little near self ress with it, as you show off so nice in that video! But nice little video, and I like your running around with the new healing Turret! Still testing that one out myself!

If I should come with a little tip btw, I would swap one of your Carrion weapons out with a giver’s weapon, that would put you right on 100% condition duration, instead of the 90% you have now, giving your sharpnel grenade a 24 sec duration! ^^

If you enjoy doing solo WvW, roaming around, soloing camps, taking on people 1vs1 or 1vsMany, then you will love Engineer! Engineer’s is an amazing roaming proffesion, and we got a ton of different build, just ignore posts like Welswift made!

We can do so much more then SD and HGH builds in WvW ! Both a great builds tho, so they ain’t to be looked down on, they just ain’t the only viable ones!

We got plenty of ways to build a fun and trolling build that can soak quite some damage! We can build for quite good AoE supporting healing with the new Healing Turret and Elixir Gun! We got the best condition damage IN the game atm. where you can make, quite a few, different condition damage builds!
Also in WvW we scale amazing with Condition Duration, and you can end up making some quite fun stuff, like Immobilze lastng for 6 seconds, or bleeding that last for 24 sec (for not talking about our perma burning and perma poison if we want to)!
The easy acces to perma Swiftness give us good mobility on the map as well!

For Zerg WvW (I don’t do this much), but there we can just spam grenade or FT auto attack, run around and pick of the slow people, pull people into your zerg, or, as I prefer, make some quite strong support builds, brining a lot of combo fields and blast finishers!

All in all, quite the amazing WvW profession, even with a 50% Confusion nerf!

Also, for PvE, just make a high Crit grenade build when doing dungeons, for Vulnerbillity Stacking, run some condition duration, and you will be sitting on 15-25 stacks of it, which will make “you deal” plenty of damage! Boring, but effective =P

You are welcome m8!

For the HGH Rifle Build, you can try out my Power Explosive Alchemist! The build you can find here:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|4.1g.h1h|0.0.0.0.0.0|1g.71i.1g.71i.1g.71i.1g.71i.1g.71g.1g.71g|21j.0.1n.64.1n.64.1n.64.1n.64.1i.64|u5ab.a6.0.u2ab.0|39.7|2b.2g.2j.2f.30|e

Also, if you want to see a little video of how it function you can check that out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y5QkrOh6oY

Keep in mind it’s a little bit old now the video, so the gear I used in it ain’t on par with what I use now! was ony level 78 Exotics (got a ful level 80 exotic set now, and the superior sigil of battle), but as you will find in the video, it’s still quite potetn!

Hey everyone! Here goes a little update for you all!
First of, I’m gathering new footage for a roaming video that wil be a mix of me running Confusion bomb build and Condition Grenadier build! While doing so I ended up getting a little funny clip, that shows quite well how I abuse LOS to troll and kite people when it’s 1vsMany! I ended up with uploading it for itself, so you can enjoy that here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gFIvPtF50M&lc=j9eS2Wd2b8hhssGpqbbiVl9B8c_0FN04saWqP4GCup4&feature=em-comment_received&lch=email

With that said, I have now tested out all the builds for some time after the patch, and while the HGH Explosive Alchemist are still amazing strong, I won’t be using them anymore, mostly because they have become a bit to simple and dull for my taste, with only one kit and else drinking elixirs! They are tho, still insane good builds, so don’t be afraid of use!

“The Napalm Specialist” is super strong in 1vs1 and 1vs2, and it be adjusted a lot to fit people’s personal playstyle, the perma burning and low CD on the burning skills wins most of the fights quite burtal! It’s also in the standard setup in the build I linke, quite simple to use, so it’s a good build to start out with!

The Troll build are still amazing at what it do, trolling and soaking, while kiting around and being annoying,! The 50% confusion nerf does hurt a little bit, but it’s a power build more then anything, so not that much of a deal

The explosive toolkit still got the same amazing stupid amount of burst, and it still dies super fast if you mess up! It is truely a High Risk and High Reward build, but it’s super fun to play from time to time, so I will probaly be making a new video with that sometime as well!

Now, the two builds I will focus on most of the time is gonna be Confusion Bomb and Condition Grenadier, where The Grenadier build probaly is the strongest of the two! I say that, because it dish out better damage, at longer range now! Before the 50% confusion nerf, it was worth the risk to go melee vs 3-4 people, to plant the concusion bomb, because the damage it would deal was so strong (most people just spam attack in a 1vs4, for good reason).
But now, it’s hard to justify running into melee, when I could bomb them from 1500 range with AoE bleeding stacks lasting for 24 seconds, and perma poison!
That dosn’t mean Confusion Bomb ain’t stil la killer, the amount of burning it got as well still makes it a kitten good killer, and it’s still good in 1vs1 and 1vs2, but anything beyond that get’s a bit to hard, where the Grenadier build shine all the time, so It will probaly be the new build is use the most, sadly!

Also, tomorrow I will have some interveiws with potenial Co-hosts for the “Sitting on a Coach” Engineer Podcast team, which I will be Co-host of! Which I of cause hope you all will enjoy! When his/she is found, we will try get the first podcast up and running as fast as we can!

/cheer Drakeco Dustslinger

I agree with what NevirSatDie, you can make some silly strong HGH power builds as well, and running a rifle in such build together with a HGH condition build should be quite powerfull! You would bring a lot of CC to assist your friend with!

Oh Kitte Rezzet!?!?! So Grenade kit and bomb kit ain’t viable in WvW?! Kitten man for real!? So all this time I have spent in WvW, with those kit’s have been a waste? They wasn’t viable!?! Ahh geees man! that’s some kitten right there! I’m glad you can be so 1337 and come tell me how it ain’t viable!

/Sarcasm

Get a glue, just because YOU can’t make them work, ain’t the same as they ain’t viable, even while Bomb Kit took a hit this patch with 50% confusion nerf it’s still a super strong kit, and grenade is even more whicked! And yes, I do play WvW!

YourOwnFear.2743:

I love how you use a partial quote because a whole wall of text would have supported my argument that you cemented with your response. There are only 2 builds that do well right now, HGH/409 and SD. One of which is the exact spec you claim to run and face roll in. I also point out the devs mentioned they will be looking into nerfing both.

So you are correct elixir S is still useful for HGH/409 builds but I never said it wasn’t. I said its not enough utility for other specs now that we can’t heal in it.

It’s the best stunbreak we have acces to in any situation that ain’t a 1vs1, and even in a 1vs1, it’s an amazing stunbreak to soak up the worst burst that can be thrown at it! Elixir S was so OP before that I couldn’t justify run any other of our stun breaks, now it’s still an amazing tool I swap into when I see a 1vs2 coming, or when I feel like slacking, but at least some of the other stunbreaks is close to be on par! And I don’t run any of the two above builds, and we got way more then those two build “viable” anyway! Both in WvW, and tPvP from the Engineer’s I talk with there, bunkering appear to have gotten quite cool with the new healing Turret..

TLDR: Elixir S is still amazing, it will still se a lot of play, and it have allways been a to strong skilL! Stop the whine, the skill ain’t broken nor usless! You guys are as usual stuck in a very very narrow world, where everything crumple if someone poke to your toys

@Velron I have found that bug as well, and after more testing I found out it happens if I’m “still in the air”, so like if an elementalist use Updraft, If I click the skill as soon as I get hit, It will play the entire knockdown animation, but if I first click it when I land, I will get up instant and out of stun! kinda wierd!

Oh yeah, don’t get me wrong! I think we will see a lot more S/D players now, because it’s quite the awesome combo! :O And you are for sure right about they are a hardcounter to HGH Engineers! Got a Thief m8 running around and testing it as well, and so far his feedback been quite good on it! But from what I have seen it looks quite balanced (ofc, my build dosn’t get hurt from it at all, because I pretty much only have my 5sec Swiftness and Vigor!)

Jon, there also appear to be a bug in general when we die or get downed, the weapon will no longer apply, and it’s stats and sigils won’t work! You then have to unequip and reequip the weapons for them to function!

It’s quite the obvious animation, because they first do a long jump aroubd you animation on the first attack, and then they can do the boon steal attack, so you can dodge it quite easy! also you gotta keep in mind it’s only Sword MH Dagger OH Thief, that cna do it

The Net Turret part is before the Quickness nerf btw, and I was a bit slow on the movement! if he had went shortbow I had just meleed him, and I did keep him CC’ed most of the time (also most Thiefs do spam 22222 all the time when low, because the kill is so close, so it also to show how you can abuse that)

Also, anyway can play my builds =p I don’t see them being that complicated, and it’s more a general overview where I show some of the many tools we have acces to! But yeah, it’s hard to show every Engineer build, and it’s mostly the basics on how to counter I wanted to show =p

Check out my “How to: Theif” here, where I give out some basic tips on how to fight them!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B4mbYlRiJw

Hey everyone! So a lot have happend to the overall balance of the Engineer since I started on making video, so atm. I’m testing out all my old builds to see if they still work, and tinkering with a new builds as well! Hence, I have updated the gearlist on every signle build, and swapped a bit in the traits where I felt it was needed! So here goes an update on all the builds if you guys want to look at it:

“The Confusion Bomb” 100% condition duration setup:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.h2.a.1m.h19|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.7i.1b.7i.1h.7v.1b.7v.1b.7v.1b.7v|2w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|k53.k64.0.a1.k68|30.d|2d.2e.2x.2j.0|e

“The Confusion Bomb” – Full Conidition damage Setup:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1b.h2.a.1h.h19|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719|2w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|k53.k64.0.a1.k68|30.d|2d.2e.2x.2j.0|e

“The Troll Build”:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.h1l.e.1m.ha|0.0.0.0.0.0|1c.713.1c.713.1c.713.1c.713.1c.713.1c.713|1c.64.1c.64.1c.64.1n.64.1n.64.1c.64|a3.0.a1.u16c.k68|30.1|2d.2e.2x.2j.0|e

“The Napalm Specialist” (Toolkit can be swapped for FlameThrower with some minor adjustments)
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.hf.a.1m.h19|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719|2w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|a5.u647.0.a1.k68|30.d|2d.2m.2x.2j.0|e

“The Explosive Alchemist”
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|4.1g.h1h|0.0.0.0.0.0|1g.71i.1g.71i.1g.71i.1g.71i.1g.71g.1g.71g|21j.0.1n.64.1n.64.1n.64.1n.64.1i.64|u5ab.a6.0.u2ab.0|39.7|2b.2g.2j.2f.30|e

“The Explosive Alchemist – Condition”
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.h1h.a.1m.h2|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.71h.1b.71h.1b.7i.1b.7i.1b.71g.1b.71g|2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|u5ab.a6.0.u2ab.0|30.d|2b.2g.2j.2f.30|e

“The Explosive Toolkit”
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|4.1g.h14|0.0.0.0.0.0|1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7|1g.67.21j.0.1n.64.1n.64.1n.64.1i.61|u57b.a6.0.a1.k68|39.7|2d.2f.2x.2j.30|e

“The Condition Grenadier”
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.h2.a.1m.h19|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719|2w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|u58b.a6.0.a1.k08|30.d|2d.2f.2x.2m.0|e

The only build I’m not sure about working anymore, is the Confusion Bomb Build, while it’s still strong, I think the Condition grenadir now overpower it, simply because with a 50% confusion nerf, Grenade kit now stands even stronger over the Bomb kit, sadly!

I also have run out of space in my first post it appear, so I’m not sure how to keep editing things and keep it simple, I hope I can get in contact with a mod so he can maybe add a few new posts behind the first!!

Also, I’m soon probaly gonna be a Co-host on an Engineer podcast at Sitting on a Coach (you can find them here: http://sittingonacouch.com/category/gaming/) where I ofc. hope for you guys support! Go check out some of the other classes podscasts all ready now, a lot of good tips there!

I will try get the “How to X Proffesion:” videos going again if I can get time!

Hugs and kisses – Drakeco Dustslinger

I allready love playing with:
Incendiary Powder trait:
- Increased burning duration from 2 seconds to 4 seconds.
- Increased internal cooldown from 3 seconds to 10 seconds.
- Increased activation chance from 33% to 100%.

It’s simply perfect for hit and run playstyle, just sending of one auto attack and with condition duration that’s 6-8 sec burning right there! I’m sold on it!
Testing the Healing Turret for roaming atm, more info later!

Maskaganda.2043:

Updated confusion and retaliation effects to do the same damage as they do in sPvP.

:<

yeah they did go trough with that silly one…

Noss.4105:

Maybe people start ignoring confusion more if the damage doesn’t look so intimidating, and that could actually boost the damage, who knows. Patch will tell.

That is my hope as well that will happen! When I do some sPvP that actually tend to be what happens a lot, so who knows? maybe in the end it will overall make confusion deal more damage! But I wish you good luck with the build, because it was for sure fun to fight, so hope it can keep going in

ahh so it was a hybrid build!! No wonder I wasn’t sure on what was going on haha!
But great build, I really enjoyed it, and the combo damage you did with confusion was awesome! really liked it! But I gues you won’t keep hybrid when they nerf confusion with 50%? =/

PS. Prybar is BAUSE!

Ahh awesome!! Glad to meet you! Was super fun to fight with you! You actually how me totally fooled the first two – three duels because I thought you for a Shatter Power build, mostly because you ran a sword in main hand! So when I suddenly bursted myself to death from confusion I was like, wtf
100+ duels with Osicat trainned me a lot on the memser animations, so it helps me out a lot to avoid the worst spikes! tho, you was really good at it! so was a blast fighting you hehe

But yeah, I moved to Gunnar’s Hold with my guild for about 3 weeks ago now! So it is kinda new there!

Hey there Placentalicous! I love to hear about people that use my build with their own personal twist! Feel free to share it in this thread so more people can see it!

To your question: I will of cause have to give it a test inside WvW when th paetch hit, but so far I have been testing the build for some time inside sPvP to see how 50% less Confusion damage feels, and even while confusion deals a lot of the damage in the build, it’s mostly vs players not understanding confusion. Good players didn’t take damage from it anyway, and I just used it to lure out condition removal or shut them down for some time!

The build still got pretty much one of the best burning uptime in the game, able to keep it up permanent quite well. So that’s still a major damage dealer right there, and probaly the reason why it’s still working quite well in sPvP at 50% less confusion damage, but it is of cause a major damage nerf. It also means I will have a much harder time to justify picking up bomb kit, instead of grenade kit in WvW, in sPvP bomb kit feels a lot stronger because of the time we fight on the points and it really shine.

But outside in WvW Nade kit is, even before the 50% damage nerf to confusion, nades feels stronger then bomb kit on many points: The Freeze nades beat glue bomb, the bleeding nades beat the burning bomb (the duration on those bleeds a sick!), the smoke bomb is on some points better then the flash grenades, but that can hardly justify picking it over grenade kit.
Concusion bomb is of cause what sells the kit for me, and it’s a lot stronger then the poison grenades (even while those are strong)! I mean 5 stacks confusion in AOE won me a lot of encounters where I was outnumbered because people tend to spam a lot more skills there.
but with a 50% damage nerf? meeeh, I will have to test it, but i’m afraid AoE poison fields will be more solid in the end!

In the end I still think the build will work, and I’m going to make a roaming video with it is athe very first ting, but I’m afraid my Condition Grenadir build will overpower it, unless they buff the bomb kit some what! =/
Even while I like the Grenade kit, I don’t like how they somehow manage to make it the best kit for everything, leaving the rest in the dust.

But overall, I’m very disapointed in the way Anet is gonna fix Confusion, because while I do agree it’s to strong, I don’t agree it’s because of the damage output.

he flaw with confusion at the moment is it trigger from a lot of things it should trigger from, the biggest being: Traits that activate a skill, Trait that gives on dodge effects and weapon/kit/attunment swapping.

An example would be me fighting my clone, 5 stacks confusion is about 3k damage on a skill use, let’s say I get hit by that, I then make an attack, because I was a bit to slow to notice (Happens), I take 3k damage then, which sent me below 75% health, where hidden flask now trigger and I take 3k damage more, I of cause panic, because I just took 6k damage in about 1 sec, and the enemy is about to hit me with blowtorch, so I dodge, which neat me a 3k hit more, doing about 2-3 seconds I took 9k damage, from using one skill. See, that’s the problem.

If It had been me I had first removed confusion from dealing damage on such things, then tested it for 1-2 months to see if we needed to lower the damage a bit more and THEN I would maybe lower the damage of confusion. But I’m quite sure confusion would be perfect if it only was on skill ACTICATION! I just feel bad for the condtion mesmers, because we at least got other condition builds, they don’t! =/

End of a long rant that turned longer then I expected hehe

Maskaganda.2043:

sharing is caring!

QFT!

I’m glad you gotten into the engineer, because of my video! :-D
You can for sure run pain inventer in this build as the last utility! In speciel melee players is fun to troll with it! ;-)

Raijinn.9065:

I can only imagine what I could do if my conditions hit that hard in tpvp, no wonder people are complaining with conditions hitting that hard.

Keep in mind that while we can do more damage in WvW, we can also obtain a lot more health/toughness, so if people run balanced builds, everything equals out! That said, there is a lot of players that stack 3x Offensive stats on all gear, which means they melt faster then anything, which can be quite funny cause you can take one more then one enemy because of it! But 1vs1 against players with baalnced stats and builds it’s pretty much the same as tPvP in terms of baalnce

Also @tigirius.9014 , looool at your post, I see you ain’t afraid of sounding arrogant! ^^

Amadeus.5687:

It looks like this:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|4.1b.h5|0.0.0.0.0.0|1c.719.1c.719.1c.719.1c.719.1c.719.1c.719|1b.63.1b.63.1b.63.1b.63.1b.63.1b.63|k53.k6a.0.a1.k68|30.7|2d.2e.2x.2j.0|e

I call it the Confusion Bomb Hybrid!

I went with you haveing a full P/V/T armor set and a Rifle, and I actually ended up wih a quite decent amount of Power, Condition dmaage, 40% crit chance and plenty of defensive stats!

It’s funny you would ask about the Rifle, cause one did a few days ago as well in tis thread I came up with the above build, where I run with a Rifle, and I have begun testing it now (But I’m a bit short of time for gaming)! But anyway, the stuff I have been looking into atm it’s for sure a 1vs1 control beast, and it leaves pretty much everything I ran across dead on the ground! It gets more troublesome when more enemies arrive, mostly because I miss the cone Burning and the bounce blind/confusion! That said, it can still handle 1vs2 quite well, and it’s pretty fun to roam with! there will probaly come a video of it when I get the time hehe

hehe I gues it’s a bit to long, we oculd run with Engineous as well? and then “Trust me, I’m an Engineer” could be the closing line

to be honest, I had hoped for “Trust me, I’m an Engineer”, ever since I heard this:

But I’m sadly busy 2morrow!

Even as a WvW player, I still know this: If they obliterate HGH, we still have the best condition burst damage in THE game! You don’t NEED HGH, to do decent condition damage!

I mean, you can have acces to double, even triple of all the hard damage condition’s, and even without might stacking in sPvP my burning is rolling for about 650 damage per thick? with rune of undead probaly 700? so just because HGH is removed, we still have a powerfull condition damage to counter the bunkers (I still think my confusion bomb build actually will melt a bunker build faster then a HGH nade build)

No I don’t think anyone is complaining about that Guanglai, I’m actually not sure how you got to that conclusion at all :P