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Aeolus Winds.2149:

they switch between each kit depending on the situation they are in

:)

If you see builds and differnt skills and kits, they most likely are for most comfort or according to the situation. In the end, just take any guide as a basic good idea of what you can play. Then adapt to the situation.

For example lets say you play Power Scrapper in Fractals: You take Grenades, Bomb and either FT or EG. Now let’s say you are at the harpy fractal:

First you have to get up the platforms with harpyies, so reflection would be great! I’d say go for nades for some burst, flame thrower for reflection (low cd, against the knockback attacks) and bulwark gyro for it’s toolbelt against the barrage attacks. Also use hammer #2 for more reflection!

At the first bosses I also recommend to swap a bit around. Nades and bombs for pure damage (or FT instead of bombs if you want to reflect some attacks, depends on mesmer) and then go for the mine! You got some nice CC for breakbar and each time and you can insta strib the boons from the ettin where the mesmer would need a few auto attack chains to strip protection. Mine Field is also a huge burst skill.

And so on and so on…

You see, you just have to know what each skill is capable of doing and then swap them according to the situation. It’s important to know wich skill deals how much damage, how much quickness and wich buffs you got in general, what you encounter and how much damage you want to trade off for utility to help others deal more damage more easily! aka → expirience

Greez!
- Ziggs Ironeye

Dinosaurs.8674:

4.) Sloth has low toughness, so power has better DPS

Preeeetty sure he’s got 2597 armor (heavy). But will test again.

Dinosaurs.8674:

6.) Typical advantages of condi engi (more blinds/immobs, all ranged damage) are unimportant

They have the same blinds except for that one pistol attack. And the ranged damage is pretty identical. Power can even deal more damage on ranged if you give him the tools to do so.

But everything else – I totally agree with you!

I’ll probably go with those skills (Power Scrapper):
Healing Turret || Bomb Kit | Slick Shoes | Elixier Gun || Mortar

Chaith.8256:

Simply, there’s 3 different times the Engineer is moving, that’s when he’s evading.

^this Each leap is an evade

I ask myself if the vortex pulls to you or to the blast. Second would be so awesome!

29k dps on sabby? I don’t want to insult you but I guess your dps tool may bug a bit. I really doubt that. Or maybe everyones bugs and yours doesn’t I don’t fully trust them anyway >_> Or are you talking about theoretical dps??

Yea slick shoes = power engi dominance.

Wahoooooo!

I can’t believe that vortex gonna have 600 range … that’s op – and stupid. 240-300 is enough imo.

It will surely be a funny way to play engi with it. And probably pretty good in PvE aswell, since power Scrapper is anyway forced to use Superior Sigil of AIr wich sucks balls so hard I’d trade it for almost anything!

About that whirl finisher thingie – Can’t wait to test it with Electro-whirl … oh wait … :< Meh >_>

I really hope there will be a leap one that does “something” with each leap. Trigger leaps twice? Cause damage? Knock back??

Greez!
- Ziggs Ironeye (Ziggy)

Am I really the only one?! O.o

Yu da real MVP ! :O doing stuff now!

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ok I’m done:

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQJAqalUUhSsYfWwWLQ7FLpF13TFANAYJuiHw4dkGFJA-TxRFQBtTPQ/UdBAPAgGq8LBnAA3t/gwUjgUALqsC-e

With full Viper, you’d get 105.2% condi duration with bleed n burn.
That’s like 2.5% more damage with every condition but bleed n burn. But I’d say 75% of our damage IS bleed n burn, so those 2.5% result in 0.625% damage increase.
It also increases your power damage by 0.6% (wich is 20% of your total damage so it’s a tiny dps increase of 0.12%
~+0.6% damage

With Sabbys Viper back item, you get 100.27% condi duration with bleed n burn. You also get 2% crit chance and 30 condi damage. The crit chance will probably be as meaningless as the power boost from full Viper and the condi damage will be around 1% more condi damage.
~+0.9% damage

That’s what I call minmax :<

That’s because you use alchemy wich grants you boon duration, aswell as HGH. Can quote myself:

Xyonon.3987:

The core of a solo build should always be the FT. Then you pick either alchemy / tools / inventions for EG, boon duration and condi cleanse / burst and raw dps / sustained dps and survivability, heal.

But fried golden dumplins for open world seems a bit tryhard Not that I’d complain, I LOVE tryhard! But I think for the average player that’s too expensive.

Better swap rage with bloodlust btw. The CD is killing the sigil and 250 power are already ~10% damage increase.

Defenitly is a great build for open world tough. Maybe Elixier H as heal skill? but depends on how solid your 25 stacks might are. I think you’ll be at 20-25 tough

greez!^^

Earth > Bursting yes. And Earth > Malice if you got enough Viper gear aswell. The question is if I either use 1 Sinister Ring or 1 Sinister Ring and Accessory.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQJAqalUUh+sYtWwELQ7FLpFFYJuiHA9038V/3TFANAA-TxRFQBub/h2pHAAPAg+p+TDV2lgTAAxUKQKgFVWB-e

This would be better tough :P

But yea Viper back is very important since there isn’t a Sinister one. So I got that one and I think it’d be best to go FULL Viper except for 1 Sinister Ring, leaving you with 101.5 condi duration with burn n bleed. But it’s not capped for all other conditions tough, so it’s not totally wasted, those 1.5%.

You could even use the 18% food to save 90% money per food So you’d have 99.5% wich is perfect imo ;3

Yup, you have to see it like this:

Your around 2500 power. Now with maxing out might, you’ll be at 3250 power, wich basicly means “you now deal 30% more damage”. Better than any other build.

The core of a solo build should always be the FT. Then you pick either alchemy / tools / inventions for EG, boon duration and condi cleanse / burst and raw dps / sustained dps and survivability, heal.

Or you play whatever you want and just for fun!

That’s what I did today, now the biggest question is if I either want 2 or 3 condi trinkets?

I’m capped at something like 101.5% condi dura for bleed and burn. But without it at 98%. So you could say to swap out a sinister trinket for viper its like:

Viper: +2% condi dura for bleed n burn, +3.5% for rest, +18 power
Sinister: +18 condi dmg, +25 precision

I’d probably take Viper, what would you? (No hardcore math yet)

Wahoo!

Do you guys think this thread should get a sticky? If yes I’d also keep it up to date with newer stuff like todays patch, where improvements for condi engi are rather possible with the new trinkets shop.

What do you think?

Greez!
- Ziggy

~ weekly bump! ~

Rotation always is based on priority. Use the skills with the highest damage, if it’s on cd, use the next one, repeat. Just try to use Kinetic Battery properly and you’ll get another sweet boost.

However the build is rather garbage for raids, don’t even try to use it there. It has low dps and is only good for bursting low HP stuff.

If you really want to destroy stuff in open world I suggest you change the build a bit.

You should use a flame thrower with Juggernaut, Mass Momentum and Applied Force so you’ll have 10-15 stacks might (strength runes = 15) and 30% quickness uptime.

You can’t keep up with your build even against the FT aa now. So what next? We still have SD and tools. You should pick 2 of the 3 utilites your using right now.

• Rifle Turret for highest damage over time
• Tool Kit for highest survivability and blocks
• Personal Battering Ram for great damage and best cc

Then PLEASE DO NOT USE AIR, rather use Bloodlust or Strength. Air deals 0.3 x power every ~4s wich is lower, MUCH lower than 250 power from Bloodlust or the ~10 stacks might (~300 power) from Strength. I’d suggest Bloodlust here (aslong as you won’t frequently go downstate) since Strength is only better at 8+ stacks might and gets basicly useless in a zerg where other might buff you.

Greez!
- Ziggy

Wahoo!!

Careful, Wall’O’Text alert! But it’ll be worth it! Greez!

Aeolus Winds.2149:

Hi, I recently started playing the game again after a long break, but I have created an engineer. Now, I have heard about raiding being more like traditional MMOs, focusing on tank/dps/healer roles rather than the everybody does what they want style of things (Bearing in mind, that’s what I think GW2 was like).

Welcome back to the game! You made an excellent choice with the Engi and whenever you need help, don’t hesitate to pm me here or ingame! I’ve been and still am mentoring countless Engis ^.^ but only for pve! =.=

And yea the game has some sort of dps/tank/heal, but in a different way. The tank is rather an aggro holder wich is most of the time based on toughness in the first raid wing. On the second wing the tank is chosen by the boss and marked for your understanding, so a completly different mechanic!

Healer means you focus on keeping your allies alive with as little heal as possible while still dealing as much damage and support as possible. So if you see your party is awesome, the normal druid healer tends to use condition builds or a longbow for damage. They adapt to you, but in pugs they’ll most likely be full heal druids, wich makes sense.

Aeolus Winds.2149:

So anyway, here are my questions.

1. Are raids role based? Should I focus on a specific skill set, or should I just do what I want?

As an Engineer you should focus on damage and utility. Utility comes from your skills so your gear will be focused on max damage wich means Viper stats for condi and Berserker stats for power builds. A good engineer should have both, wich makes the profession a bit expensive to play. Power is cheaper tough and also better in most situations. However condi is required for the first raid boss of the first wing.

Aeolus Winds.2149:

2. Is the scrapper spec focused on tanking? Is it essential for end game play? Do you need to use a hammer with it?

Not at all. The tank should be a profession that loses only little or no damage while tanking. This means it’s most of the time the Druid or the Mesmer who’s tanking. Or when they have a special ability for situations, like the revenant for Vale Guardian (1st raid boss, 1st wing).

The Engi focuses on damage, cc and utility, but mainly damage :P About that hammer …

Aeolus Winds.2149:

3. I want to craft the Legendary Rifle The Predator sooner or later, but would it be worth it?

That’s all, thanks.

… hammer > rifle in pve. You shouldn’t be using a rifle for max efficiency, since the hammer offers just more damage and utility for you and against the pve evoirment. The rifle has been the best old power weapon, but it lacks damage and all the little things the hammer has. It still has it’s purpose in pvp / wvw tough.

So … I don’t suggest to build the legendary rifle :/ But if you want just the skin, do it. Depends mostly on your wallet.

Aeolus Winds.2149:

Thanks for the info!
Just a question about the skill set, would it be more like taking a specific build made online? Or is it simply just a role like buidling myself as a Healer/DPS?

There are so called “meta builds” who will deal “most damage” in a meatbag situation. This means – when you just attack and worry about survivability just with movement that will not cripple your damage.

I suggest you take a look at my post here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/All-Skills-Damage-for-Power-and-Condi-3/first#post6006236

You can see all skills and their damage aswell as a power and a condi build I currently suggest to use. Of course it’s always better to adapt to the situation. But for starters just go with the flow and once your an expert think on your own! I’m also very happy to help you here if you got questions or want some opinions

Wahooooo I hope I could help you, if you got questions, go ahead! I’ll stick to this thread now xP

Greez!
- Ziggy

Wahoo!!

TheScalyBard.8239:

What stats would I be looking for for a power scrapper build? I’ve tried condi in the past, just couldn’t get into it. I’d love something that would be raid viable. Long as I’m not tanking (many, many MMO’s have proven I’m terrible as a tank).

Why, Zerker of course! You can see the Skill List aswell suggested builds with stats in my thread. Shrapnel over Mortar would be a small DpS gain, but utility loss, just for your info.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/All-Skills-Damage-for-Power-and-Condi-3/first#post6006236

Today I was fighting Slothy and boy I have to say I was happy to see another place for power scrapper to bloom and be really useful for the team. Elixier Gun, Slick Shoes, Bulwark Gyro are all great skill you might want to use.

TL;DR: For Slothy power scrapper >>> condi engi.

Greez!
- Ziggy

Wahoo everyone!

Today I was at Slothy with my Engineer and Mesmer and I wanted to cleanse conditions from my allies as fast as possible so they wouldn’t suffer at all from them. But …

… TOO BAD I CAN’T SEE WHO HAS ANY CONDIS ON THEM!!

Well, I could toggle the squad to the simple UI, but then …

… TOO BAD I CAN ONLY SEE MY SUBSQUAD!!

D: It feels like I’m missing the information I got back in the old days when we were running dungeons and fractals, where I’ve seen when somone got feared or got tons of conditions so I could cleanse them fast.

So I suggest to change the simple UI to show 10 players, not only 5, so professions with condi cleanse duty get the information they need in raids.

I think I’m not the only one with this problem …

Greez – Xyonon

PS: Please support my reddit post if you also feel it’s a serious problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/49k7yx/toggle_squad_needs_to_show_10_players/

Hehe I remember Starcraft balancing a specific unit → built time 35s to 40s to 35s to 30s to 35s something about that – Reaper <3

Yea it’s better to balance small than those hammer nerfs in whack’a’mole style → CD increased from 20s to 40s, or damage increased by 30%! Stuff like that … Makes me cry :/

Let’s repeat again:

Daredevils and Guardians get barely a dps boost from alacrity. Both have only 1 or a few utility skills wich are dps increases, so we can (almost) ignore them.

They are aa-focused professions. Auto attacks, as you might know, have no CD.

The cast time of auto attacks gets reduced by 33%, aka you can do 50% more auto attacks in the same time. Or in other words: they get boosted by 50% instead of only 33% like for example an Engineer who’s aresenal consists of almost only CD skills.

Are we good?

Oh and it’s 33%-50% now.

Wahooooooooooo

Hi! ^.^ First of all you have to understand that there is no real rotation for Engineers, since we’re not restricted by weapon swap CD’s. This means what you want to do is pick the strongest skill you have and use it, if it’s on CD, pick the next one, repeat.

So basicly you need swift fingers, a good sense of time and most important the knowledge to know wich skill is how strong.

For the last part, you should check this out:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/All-Skills-Damage-for-Power-and-Condi-3/first#post6006236

If you have any questions, I’m very happy to help you with anything you need! I’ll check this thread frequently now

Greez!
- Ziggy

apharma.3741:

Xyonon.3987:

I’m all ears.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/The-actual-effect-of-quickness-and-alacrity

Wethospu.6437:

So the alacrity nerf from 66% to 33% changes this 50%-66% boost to a 33%-50% boost.

Wethospu.6437:

boost to a 33%-50% boost.

Wethospu.6437:

-50% boost

Think, before you talk.

Agreed. Aslong as you don’t go full kitten (never go full kitten) and play with turrets only, you’ll most likely be fine – hell I even healed once with engi at Sabby – WITH MEDKIT Q_Q xD

I opened a thread about this aswell once, it’s especially no fun for people with tinitus… I agree they could lower the pitch a bit, but beware of all the players soon to appear who want to rip you apart for this idea xD

greez!

Kobeathris.3645:

I think I have read that MS affects charging mantras as well. Is that true? Regardless of whether or not it is, in a power build, would using MoP, and recharging on the autos instead of confusing images make a difference? If nothing else, it is ranged AoE instead of single target at least.

Before the Chronomancer, Mesmers used Mantra of Pain as a replacement for their auto attacks, since it’s higher DpS (aslong as you don’t interrupt the 3rd aa of sword). So yea that’s what you should do, if you have space for Mantra of Pain that is. You also require Duelling for the Mantra trait to make it worth (should be baseline really …), so it’s rather a solo thing nowdays, nothing for Raids (so far) for sure.

Replacing any ranged autos with Mantra of Pain is always a great to make even GS and Staff good ranged options.

Greez!

Thank you fay with the great post – this was with the new MS?

Dont select him maybe? o.ô

Yea you ~can~ do that, but for most efficiency you should let a rev or mes tank. Especially Mes doesn’t lose any damage at all, or rather … barely :P

It doesn’t matter how much % of their personal dps is lost, it only matters how much flat group dps is lost.

apharma.3741:

Ok firstly quickness does not equal a 50% boost, you even thinking that shows you have no understanding of the game.

Oh? Mind elaborating this one? And don’t forget we talked about this:

Xyonon.3987:

apharma.3741:

Um don’t daredevils and revenants barely get any boost from alacrity and at that point another DPS class is better as it just straight up does more damage than the boost a Mesmer gives?

Daredevils and Guardians get barely a dps boost from alacrity yes. This means they are aa-focused -> quickness boosts them. This makes the Mesmer even better since they get boosted by 50% instead of only 33%.

I’m all ears.

Heya

I have to disagree with the statement. The scepter is a hybrid weapon, yes, but it’s still a great power option for pve. The (single target) dps of this weapon is almost as high as the sword (traited around 80%).

You can’t expect a ranged power weapon to deal the same damage as a melee weapon. The scepter is a great power and condi weapon, I even use it in serval situations in raids! I always use it against Vale Guardian (where my highest crit with #3 so far was 26k – yes, 26k!) and also against Gorsy when we do no updraft (ranged when not breaking). For Sabby I only use it to go ranged in the last phase. You can even use it as a dps increase if you use skill #3, wells, #3, swap back.

There isn’t just “power” or “condi”. Most attacks deal both and even a power profession has 920 condi damage in raids.

Greez!
- Madame Le Blanc

Yea KB over AI is one of the best examples. Another one is the grenade trait that is a must have for condi, especially against Vale. The alternative to “max dps” is an illusion and only 1.25% dps increase. If you hit 1 nade skill more thanks to grenadier you already won.

Wahooooo!!! Ziggy here!

(Long post i know, but worth reading!)

You summoned me! =^._.^= You should check out the links Bwadark.2519 posted in his post above:

Bwadark.2519:

Damage difference post : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Engi-Scrapper-Condi-or-Power-difference/first#post6023402

Research post : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/All-Skills-Damage-for-Power-and-Condi-3/first#post6006236

I’m the creator of the research post and I will give you further informations once I’ve got them.

And yea I totally agree with everything Bwadark.2519 said!

What I can tell you is that power Scrapper is awesome and every single good engineer out there should carry a power and a condi gear with him!!! Against Sabby I managed to get 22k DpS with power, 24k DpS with condi. What this means:

Sabby is the meatbag, so these are meatbag numbers. Sabby has 2597 armor (heavy).

Against Gorseval the numbers are approximately the same. I’d say condi will be a bit better since you have pauses (updraft / elite spirits) between, wich favors condi. However, you will use Slick Shoes then, wich reduces the condi dps to ashes compared to Power. Power has a solid auto attack, so your DpS will be like 20k (meatbag DpS), whereas condi will be around 16-18k. So you only will use condi if you play “No-Updraft”, brings you back to the Sabby meatbag numbers.

Against Vale Guardian you only need 2 (!) really good (!!) condi engis. They deal really low dps against Vale itself, that’s why you put them to green field duty. Any additional Engi above 2 should play power for max DpS. You’ll still need 3 condis with casuals tough, or simply put the warr to red for might (works perfectly fine).
Vale Guardian only has 1910 armor (light) wich basicly means +30% power damage. So yea you’ll get almost 30k DpS with power in the FIRST phase. Moving will naturally cripple anyones DpS, but condi gets a huge hit in their faces with all their fields they rely on, while power still nearly can sustain the normal damage.

What most of the pugs don’t understand is WHY you do something. They copycat sites like Metabattle.com without hesitation or any second toughts.

I don’t want to say those sites are generally bad, they arent! But it’s important to understand WHY exactly you want a condi engi in your team. Answer: only red add in first place! And secondary it’s about max damage.

So after semi-famous self-appointed experts cough DnT cough spread the words of how glorious and almighty the condi engi compared to the power scrapper was, most people (not everyone!) blindly believed them and called it meta without thinking about it any further. This is also the moment when new engi players started to exist, with no expirience whatso ever, especially not about power builds. The veteran engis most likely knew better tough.

I mean sure you need condi for the red add and you need cc wich the engi is expert in aswell. So you obviously pick a condi engi, since we also have max condi dps. But many important factors have been ignored, factors like:

• alacrity uptime / nerf
• quickness uptime -> better auto attack
• change of “meta” build for power engi
• armor of the target
• movement and mechanics of the target
• loss of a kit (gorseval slick shoes)
• 10 man raid = more conditions = better ratios for power scrapper
• new hammer and new traits

and so on.

So, would people accept a high damage dealer Scrapper for raids? Maybe not yet, but if they don’t – that’s fine because it saves you time by not playing with most likely bad players anyway. If you got expirienced and intelligent allies in your team – they will allow it.

If you got questions or doubts, just go ahead and ask! I’m here to provide you with all the information you need! Kits, builds, things to do etc etc.

Greez!
- Ziggy

Wahoo!

Always happy to hear that! I will change the numbers if I find another universal build better. Like once the new raids are out, condi gets buffed a bit -> Viper trinkets “easy” optainable. An almost full viper Engi can throw the Sigil of Malice away and go for Earth instead, for increasing the DpS by a further tiny bit.

Greez!
- Ziggy

Wahoo!!

guildabd.6529:

In theory flamethrower 1 should do highest dps in vale the third phase, you know, it never miss.

DGraves.3720:

Bomb 1 would easily outpace It.

guildabd.6529:

Good luck bombing while he moves over a red orb.

Oh you can still miss 25% of all your bombs and outdamage FT #1. But yea, only hammer auto is stronger than FT auto, but has short range. Nade auto is slightly weaker, yet only aslong as the enemy burns.

Dinosaurs.8674:

Xyonon.3987:

Against Vale Guardian you only need 2 (!) condi professions, mainly 2 condi engis. They deal really low dps against Vale itself, that’s why you put them to green field duty. Any additional Engi above 2 should play power for max dps. Vale Guardian has only 1910 armor (light) wich basicly means +30% power damage. So yea you’ll get almost 30k DpS with power in the FIRST phase. Moving will naturally cripple anyones DpS.

I don’t agree with this. The reason people bring 3 condi classes to VG isn’t because you need 3 to kill the red guardian, it’s so that the red guardian will die at approximately the same time as the blue and green guardians. The time you gained by bringing a power spec over a condi spec in the main phase will be wasted (and then some) when your 8 power/support players demolish the blue/green guardians and then wait for the 2 condi players to finish red.

I don’t agree aswell. You need 3 condis if they have low-average expirience with the Engi, or if they have semi good condi professions in the first place. Their dps is enough to keep up with the rest of the group in the split phase tough.

You can bring the warrior to the condis aswell to give them might, since you have a might overflow at Green / Blue anyway. You can balance this a bit, but in the end you’ll be able to manage to finish all 3 Guardians off at the same time (approximately ofc). I mean normally Blue dies before Green too.

Dinosaurs.8674:

It also provides some additional seeker control and healing for the red team during the split phase, which isn’t absolutely necessary but is helpful if the condi players are less experienced.

This is one of the reasons why I suggest to play Condi Scrapper at VG. Superspeed, sustain, protection. Scrapper makes it very easy to tank the Red Guardian and the DpS loss is barely noticable at the Add and not even there against VG itself.

The 3rd Engi is a power Scrapper – but still an Engi too. He can support the red team aswell with things like Mortar or (yes I say it) Blast Gyro.

Dinosaurs.8674:

These problems are even worse if you are running something like condi druid, which isn’t bad in the fight overall but has poor personal DPS and a low amount of CC. Running a second engi as power when your only condi members are druid and another engi would make the fight more difficult.

Yea that’s the problem or running a bad condi profession in the first place. Condi druid is good for things like Gorsy with no ubdraft, but for VG? Horrible idea. You could even make better use of the druid if he’d play Staff/LB, rather than forcing another REAL dps dealer, rotting in the green fields.

But yea, only 2 condi Engis are suited, no other profession, agreed!

Dinosaurs.8674:

guildabd.6529:

In theory flamethrower 1 should do highest dps in vale the third phase, you know, it never miss.

I don’t know what “theory” you’re talking about but this isn’t even remotely true. And not that it’s true in either case but do you mean a condi or power build?

You’re saying that flamethrower 1 outpaces the damage of all other engineer skills? No bomb kit 2, no grenade barrage, no blowtorch? If this is the case, the optimal DPS build for engineer against vale guardian is flamethrower, rifle turret (for instant cast surprise shot) and elixer U (instant cast quickness)…but somehow I doubt you are bringing that to your raids.

He’s talking about the aa only I guess and he is obviously talking about power … But yea, only hammer auto is stronger than FT auto, but has short range. Nade auto is slightly weaker, yet only aslong as the enemy burns.

If he’s not talking about aa only, he’s just wrong, agreed!

Greez!
- Ziggy

Wahooooo!!!

You summoned me! =^..^= I’m on this for a loooong time now (they reduced my work to ashes with the balance patch that nerfed alacrity tough >>). Anyway …

… first of all you should check this thread out. I put A LOT work in it:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/All-Skills-Damage-for-Power-and-Condi-3/first#post6006236

What I can tell you is that the difference is smaller than ever. Against Sabby I managed to get 22k DpS with power, 24k DpS with condi. So what does this mean?

Sabby is the meatbag, so these are meatbag numbers. Sabby has 2597 armor (heavy).

Against Gorseval the numbers are approximately the same. I’d say condi will be a bit better since you have pauses (updraft / elite spirits) between, wich favors condi. However, you will use Slick Shoes then, wich reduces the condi dps to ashes compared to Power. Power has a solid auto attack, so your DpS will be like 20k (meatbag DpS), whereas condi will be around 16-18k. So you only will use condi if you play “No-Updraft”, brings you back to the Sabby meatbag numbers.

Against Vale Guardian you only need 2 (!) condi professions, mainly 2 condi engis. They deal really low dps against Vale itself, that’s why you put them to green field duty. Any additional Engi above 2 should play power for max dps. Vale Guardian has only 1910 armor (light) wich basicly means +30% power damage. So yea you’ll get almost 30k DpS with power in the FIRST phase. Moving will naturally cripple anyones DpS.

I recommend for green field duty: Condi Engi, condi Engi, Druid, DpS Mesmer (use 2 Mes).

If you got questions or doubts, just go ahead and ask!

Greez!
- Ziggy

Yea those traits suck at the same place. They should swap the PH with fencers – why would you want to trait pistol AND sword anyway? One is for condi, the other power, they are on the same level.

Another thing they sould change are ALL clone traits and skills. They changed scepter 1, 3rd aa chain to something awesome! It’s really what the scepter needed. Now do this for all the blocks and GS 2 / staff 2 and clone on dodge aswell! They need this!!!

I wouldn’t say that blasting ethereal fields is the problem, nor the buff they grant. It’s the chaos armor itself wich is garbage. It would be nice to have a trait that changes all your ethereal fields to “some fancy chrono based new name” fields wich apply 2s quickness or 1s slow with projectile / leap finishers.

Uhm … did you delete your comment? o.o

Well I guess it was an accident? ^^‘’ I’ll post it anyway just in case ok?

Build:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASncoClYh9ZBubB0ehlRkCsWulA47UWlWh+LzywE-ThRBABXt/o8jS1fMTJ4DXAA80BAwDAgUADMGA-e

And if you want to, use those:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Scoop_of_Mintberry_Swirl_Ice_Cream
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/index.php?title=Tin_of_Fruitcake&itemid=77569

Greez!
- Ziggy

Wahoo!

I think noone will disagree that Scrapper and Firearms are the spine of the open world engi. FT is definitly the strongest weapon thanks to the synergy of those two trait lines. But what third line shall we pick?

Inventions – bunker down, period. Pooping those medkits and mines every exact 2s (ty FT aa) is just so great! You have perma regen and awesome heal and bonus dps with those mines. Your healskill also automaticly cleanses condis wich makes the Gyro an instant cleanse. It’s probably the most “regenerative” option we have. If still feel you need more sustain, you can reduce your damage and pick Rapid Regen and Final Salvo for ultra sustain.

Tools has some charme too, especially for more dodges and a 2nd activation of toolbelt skills, aswell the cdr on them and static discharge. I think Tools is better for bursting trash and has a higher damage output in general. It’s also nice to have 33% permaspeed instead of only 25% like Inventions. However, tools is only really good if you use SD correctly – forcing you to use utilites like Tool Kit or Rifle Turret.

Alchemy has HGH, and that’s pretty neat. It’s also very effective for condi heavy encounters. Forces you to use EG, but in a good way. I’d say this line is rather for teamplay, than for soloing. HGH is much more useful if you buff allies with it, rather than youself.

In the end all 3 options are great. But for solo I’ll probably stick to Inventions.

Greez!
- Ziggy

Guys don’t poke out details – this is a concept. Ofc he wasn’t able to balance everything right away. It’s about the idea, and the idea is awesome!

the emperor? o.ô

Greetings!

It really takes A LOT to impress me. But you did it. I read everything carefully, not just overflew it with one eye on the TV screen or something! :’D

I once tought about a similiar idea – shifting more support to the phants and less damage. But you – you did it even better!

I’m really impressed! But I’m a realist and I gotta tell you those changes will never make it live… BUT (!) the whole thing is a great concept for another elite spec. Some sort of “reality bender” or something. A new Elite spec that changes phants to pure support and deals good damage himself.

About those traits, I have to agree with a lot of them, would probably change a few things but I hope some stuff will make it into a balance patch one day.

All in all – good work!

Greez!
- Xyonon

Wahoo!!

ArchonWing.9480:

Yea, I am not sure if anyone can solo some Magus Falls champs; Central Tyria is definitely possible.

Aslong as it isnt Balthazar xP The rest I’ve soloed Oh and the kitten Mushroom Queen ofc! She’s impossible aswell >_>

I’d suggest you use a FT self might sustain scrapper power build. Then swap some utilities according to the situation and you’ll be fine! Most important, you have to know what your doing, you have to play good!

If you have questions about specific HoT champs, let me know ^^

Greez!
- Ziggy

Wahooo!

If you really want to max out your damage, yes, then go for Viper stats + Berserker runes with Malice and Geomancy (Earth for ranged) sigils.

Greez!
- Ziggy

HoT? Don’t you mean that one patch at july 2015?

Also make sure you don’t catch any other shields 5’s or you will get no CDR at all.

It disappears when downed.

Greetings!

• Danger Time is NOT shown in hero panel, like any other % increase with a condition.
• Danger Time works just fine.
• Danger Time does NOT affect phantasms, obviously, like any other % modifier. They all only affect you OR phantasms only.

Greez!
- Madame Le Blanc

Not that I recall – hasn’t it always been 1200??