Guild Wars 2

What’s happening all my kawaii brethren!

Today, I’ll be returning the bunker engineer to its former place as the bunker king. You will learn how to never die, to stay alive forever, and to become immortal after watching this video. Now I won’t waste any time, so enjoy the guide and learn the ways of the “Boss Mode Node Holder” engineer bunker spec!

PS: I had some rendering issues, so the video quality isn’t as clean as I’d have hoped for

Without further adu,
The Guide to Immortality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4r0s23rLI0

Enjoy,
Vöz
(Sittingonacoach)

I have just switched from playing engineer since launch as a main, to necromancer. So yeah, what’s up my undead and kawaii brethren?

-Vöz
(Sittingonacoach)

Zelulose.8695:

Jax.5261:

Zelulose.8695:

Spectator mode should show the game play dodging timing etc. Not a players traits and armor. The top tier builds are being distributed too fast and everyone is going to start running basically the same spec and runes.

All the builds were already known.

XD I have some that have yet to go viral. And one of my builds is becoming viral /=

Lol you don’t have to worry, your builds aren’t going viral. The meta has been static for the past few weeks

I heard these guys praise the dark lord satan to win so many tournaments. If you like to win tourneys and praise the dark lord, this is the perfect team for you!

Personally, I choose longer lifespan as a bunker engineer. UNLESS HOWEVER, my “job” is to assault far node and get it neutralized quickly. I’ll be uploading my personal bunker spec that I use in high tier tpvp within the next day or 2. Check me out at YouTube.com/VozTactics to see it!

Play whatever you’re most competent with. You’ll do more harm than good for your team if you play a class you’re not good with. I’d rather play with a good bunker instead of a halfass mesmer/thief any day.

To be fair, they were a RARE item. Not everyone was supposed to get a pair, that’s what makes them special to have if you were lucky enough to snag a pair! Don’t worry, there’ll be plenty more “rare” items that you can shoot for in future events.

1. Megazord Elite: “Deletes opponents character on hit”
2. Rocket Boots: Damage increased by 4000% and range is now 500 AOE.
3. Engineers now wear heavy armor…

Nah, but seriously.
1. Gadgets either get a passive effect, or buffs+shorter CD (except for slick shoes?)
2. Ability to wield a melee weapon (hammer or mace would be most logical)
3. BUG FIXES FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

This thread has caused engineers to become uncreative facerollers :/

FT is a main part of my tpvp build right now. Excellent kit for CC and stomping

This would be awesome and would promote the game’s pvp immensely!

hackks.3687:

Walorx.5129:

So… How exactly does one use the flamethrower properly in tournament play?

Walorx.5129:

just drop the kits and pickup HGH

edited for clarity.
(sorry couldn’t resist <3)

Hahahahaha this is amazing. Actually can’t stop laughing irl. +1

I respect your opinion and the time it took you to make that post, but for the flamethrower in particular, I still don’t believe it’s necessary to trait for it. The cool downs are all fairly short and you can get much more benefit from many other trait lines. I honestly don’t see any circumstance where a shorter cool down knockback would be better than a shorter cool down pistols or more protection/vigor.

chungiee.8764:

Would you say Juggernaut is not really worth using in tPvP then?

It’s not worth it IMO. It used to be awesome because of the stability it gave, but the extra defense and might it gives isn’t worth it if you’re forced to stay in the kit. You shouldn’t need to trait for the flamethrower for it to be effective.

I’ve had a great deal of experience using the flamethrower in high level tpvp. I however, have noticed it being used completely wrong by others in hot joins/ yolo queues. Most people seem to flock to the flamethrower when starting out on engineer because, well, it’s a flamethrower! However, they soon realize that the cleave damage, and even the condition damage is mediocre at best. Eventually, they just drop the kits and pickup HGH because they have no talent and can’t play without being carried by an overpowered build (Lub u ostrich). So… How exactly does one use the flamethrower properly in tournament play?

Well, it’s actually meant to be used as Utility.

What that means is, the flamethrower is by no means a weapon kit used as a weapon. The FT is meant primarily for its number 3,4 and 5 skills. Here’s what I personally have found is most beneficial while using each skill.

The knockback ability is an amazing tool used to stop your opponent dead in his tracks. Whenever I’m playing bunker on my engineer, I always use flamethrower for the fast, relatively low cool down KB it offers. In conjunction with the shield #4 attack, you can get a nuet off an enemy node with relative ease. Also, the knockback is great to CC a target for your team and can help make sure they cannot retaliate and can help your team take them down much quicker.

The flame wall the FT offers is a decent skill at best. Putting the wall can offer a fair DPS increase for your team. When projectiles pass through it, it creates a fire effect, increasing the damage on hit. Not to mention it burns any enemy that walks through it!

Finally, the blind skill is probably the main reason to bring a flamethrower to a cat fight. It’s acts not only as a “Oh kitten” skill to stop burst, but it also can make sure you get that clutch stomp your team needs! Popping this bad boy mid-stomp will blind your downed opponent, stopping their CC ability and getting that stomp!

Overall, the flamethrower brings so much utility to the table and is a viable choice to bring for most bunker/sustain builds.

Unfortunately, the auto attack and napalm are worthless at best, so refrain from using them. Simply pop in between the flamethrower to use the utilities it offers and you’ll realize how much it brings to the fight.

Hope I helped in some way, shape, or form for all you engineers out there.

Good luck and happy nomming,
Vöz

I just happened to mosey on in to this here thread and I’m pretty shocked at all the hatred that’s being thrown around. In regards to the necro-engineer consolation match, I thought it was a completely UNserious, fun match. Hell, I was even running turrets and a mortar as a bunker. You guys shouldn’t bash Gibbly for that match.

Also, along the lines of future matches as him coaching; I cannot speak for his actions or decisions. However, I’d like to vouch that he played and ran (I think) a top level tpvp guild. He’s more than qualified, so you guys shouldn’t bash on him and at least show some respect.

Let’s all be friends and remember that the SOAC tournament was a “for-fun” tourney, not some high cash prize World Cup.

From your loving turret engineer,
Vöz
#Voz’sMansion

P.S: Zombify > Schnigle on the kawaii scale.

I’m not on my computer right now, so I don’t know the exact numbers of the traits, but here’s what I remember.

Protection on crit, 90 armor with shield, elite supplies
Vigor on swiftness, 409, automated response
Speedy kits

Shamans amulet/clerics jewel

Pistol Shield

Energy/Life

6/6 Svanir runes

The amount of healing and toughess is subpar to a shamans amulet for overall survivability. Also, without running elixirs for condition removal, you’ll be absolutly decimated against an HGH engineer or ranger. Overall, you’re build isn’t bad, but in regards to bunking and staying alive, speccing to be as tanky as possible will be much more beneficial to you and your team. For instance, if you’re worried about getting a quick neut off a point, you can get it pretty easily with a flamethrower/shield combo CC. Also, with elixir R and an energy sigil, you’ll be able to pull off much more dodges in a short amount of time, increasing your survivability tremendously. Lastly, adding Svanir runes to your spec will save your kitten a hundred times over. It synchronizes perfectly with my trait setup so your healing skill gets off cool down as soon as the tune is over, allowing you to practically reset a fight. If you need help or more tips, feel free to ask as bunking on engineer is my strong suit!
~Vöz

It’s average at best. Personally, I play with flamethrower, elixir r, and elixir c on a 0/0/30/30/10 trait line. I can hold 2-3 without much problem with the amount of condition removal and knockbacks.

Try reading what I wrote before arguing against it. I said engineers are NOT readable because most other classes use basic rotations (rtl+updraft+fire, bulls charge+frenzy+100b+whirlwind, etc etc) while we on the other hand, use our skills and kits as situations arise midfight. Adding a 5s+ cool down on kit swapping would negate most of our ability to play the class as a whole and would ultimately ruin all builds that use kits (every build).

Absolutely not, that would single handedly DESTORY the class as a whole. Just because we’re the only class without easily readable rotations doesn’t even slighty mean we’re overpowered. As much as I hate to say it, it could just be a l2p thing on your part in regards to dealing with engineers as a whole who don’t play HGH.

Sounds like fun, looking forward to sharing some tips for my fellow engis.

Bas.7406:

Mighty Favazz.1546:

Voz stole the show running Mortar.
I know it is a tourny, but for me, I much prefer seeing you guys bring outrageous builds and have fun with them.

Troll ’em Engie style!

The full turret build was amazing!! I think the Necros ran all minions for the Consolation game, which was where everyone decided to go gimmicky.

Thank you guys for all the love. I believe the towerdive.tv events are up. on youtube now.

I will work on getting mine up as well.

Yeah it was a lot of fun to play those necros like that haha. Props for setting the tourney up, hope to see more of it in the future!

Druidic.3146:

Had a good time with all of you today, and was pleased to see a comeback in the consolation match against Necros. I enjoyed it, and hope I was able to give you guys something to take away for future PvP play. As far as Saturday goes, I’ll gladly let Walorx or Ostrich or anyone else who’s interested step forward to coach it. Good luck on round 2!

Than I will accept the role as coach for Saturday! I’m hoping to see you on my team playing that power rifle spec haha. Can’t wait for this tournament, so excited to lead my team to victory!

~Vöz

I definitely want to coach on Saturday if possible
If not, guess I’ll just head back to my cozy mansion and wait for the next team to try to take it from me.

I had an awesome time playing with everyone, shout out to Bas and the commentators for making everything possible. Can’t wait to play on Saturday and take that win for the engineer squad! Really looking forward to more of these type of events.

P.S: #esportsssss
P.S.S: Leviosaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

~Vöz

Apparently I’m a little late in saying I can do coaching on Thursday since I never even realized it was PST. Anyways, it still sounds like fun, so Ill be on to participate/coach tomorrow around 8:45-9:00EST. Can’t wait ^-^

Bas.7406:

Walorx.5129:

I can be a coach for Saturday if needed. If not, I’ll still participate as a player.

~Vöz

I will update everything for the saturday version, after Thursday. We do need a coach for thursday’s event!

I have work until 8:30pm EST on Thursday :/

I can be a coach for Saturday if needed. If not, I’ll still participate as a player.

~Vöz

I would love to be on a team, especially if my boy KPoop is on it as well. A shame I couldn’t commit to 6 hours a day for it. Good luck with the team Apollo, I miss the grudge matches when we used to face off against garb haha

Very fun stream to watch, hope to see more of it!

You did good ANet, you did good today. Not only do I feel my warrior is much stronger right now, along with more condi removal; But I also am absolutely loving the custom arenas. It’s refreshing to take a break from the tourney scene just to have some fun games on the maps that don’t suck (Kyhlo IMO). Anyhow, just wanted to say that the patch was immensely successful and has brought some light on the dark days of tyria.

Thanks ANet!
~Vöz

I call bunking for the NA squadron.
Ign: Vöz
Time available: 8:30/9:00pm EST – 12:00pm EST
Recording: nope.

Bailey.6892:

aydenunited.5729:

Spiuk.8421:

lol massive damage

Sure it is.

It’s pretty considerable. You don’t have to come any closer than 1200 range to apply it. Not our best roaming DPS build, but arguably our 2nd best at the moment (and now our only real burst build), and still viable, just not at the very tip-top tier. Recent changes to turrets makes rifle turret even more useful if you are proactive in your thinking rather than reactive.

What would be the best roaming dps build?

The strongest ATM is either a power or condition variant of HGH.

Leohart.4610:

I don’t know if anyone noticed this but, how did you get vigil shoulders and you’re rank 25? You don’t usually get that until rank 40+. Hope I’m not too off-topic. This build looks amazing!

There was a bug a while back when you could get tiger tokens from rank 1 hammers, but it was patched pretty quickly.

Bailey.6892:

Ahh good to know Kardiamond, btw do you know why he takes the rifle turret but said not to use it?

Personally, I know that many people drop the turret and detonate it for an extra 2 discharges, however I also notice that many times the discharges flail in random directions and miss the target. Although sometimes it works, I just feel it’s not worth the extra effort and you could do more DPS simply using 1 than taking the 2 seconds it takes to drop and detonate the turret.

No mobility, no blocks, fairly weak attacks, etc etc

I can vouch that HGH condi builds aren’t OP and don’t need a nerf. Stop complaining and bring something to strip buffs. An engineer without might is worthless.

So now that the top 100 players know where they stand, are you happy with how the rating system is at the moment? To be honest, I’m not sure how people are where they seem based on only the amount of wins/losses. Was hoping for more of a glicko system, but how do you all feel about the leaderboards now that they’ve finally arrived? Happy with how it turned out, or wish it could have been different?
~Vöz

Hey dude, I’ve been playing as an engineer bunker pretty much since launch. I’m in the workings of making a video to explain how to bunker after the recent patch, but I’d be more than willing to reach you how to bunk on an engineer as soon as I get unbanned on Monday. I’d consider myself one of the more seasoned engineers in the game (1200 tpvp matches on engineer) so feel free to ask me about anything else if you need to. My ingame name is Vöz if you want to contact me ingame soon.

Cheers and best of luck,
Vöz

It was for language, although I said in my ticket that I would apologize to the players I offended and I am truly sorry for what I said (still not exactly sure what I said, but sorry none the less). And I completely agree it isn’t fair, but this is very important to me and I am hoping for a quick response.

TheHit.3752:

You mean deployed.

yeah.

15charblahblah

Yes I do, it involves me getting to play with my cousin who is going to be stationed on Monday and I just got a 3 day suspension.

I understand that it takes an average of 3 days to repond to tickets for support, but I need mine to be reviewed asap. I know that you have many people waiting, but this is very serious and I need it to be resolved within the day. I appreciate the help!

My ticket #: #130405-001462

100nades was never that effective for 90% of the people trying to run it anyways. I’d personally suggest giving Ostricheggs might stacking condi spec a shot. I’m currently running that and it’s much better than 100nades imho.

Can we expect the MANY traits and utilities that are never being used to get any stronger? For instance, I’d love to use turrets and gadgets on my engineer, but they simply aren’t viable and are a waste of utility slots. If so, can we expect these unviable traits/utilities to be buffed in the March patch? Thanks!

~Vöz

Please remove this post, don’t need all these thieves using unfair tactics in matches already.

I really was looking forward to testing new builds with this upcoming patch. Unfortunatly I look through the patch notes to find only MORE nerfs, with nothing else to balance us out. Nothing remotly happened to half of our pathetic utilities (rocket boots, battering ram, etc). So are there really NO PLANS to improve our terrible utilties?

Really dissapointed in this update tbh…
sigh

What time can we expect the update to come?

Esplen.3940:

Link to your build:

http://tinyurl.com/bhros79

Appreciate it! I tried using gw2build.com but the traits kept bugging out on me.