Guild Wars 2

Heyhey

I can only talk about the PvE part with full expirience and there the engi is like the allrounder and best damage dealer together with ele.

The engineer is able to stealth a party like a thief, stack a huge amount of might and vulnerability for the party dps and supports the team with relfecion, projecile absorbtion, heal, condicleanse and basicly everything except stability uptime.

The damage output is mainly AoE and he is able to hit 5 targets with almost all of his skills. The damage numbers are also pretty high and he is on the top dps tiers. I’d say together with ele. He helps with his vulnerability to deal great passive damage against bosses (who lose vulnerability faster than normal mobs) so he’s great against bosses too and helps the thief (for example) to shine.

TL;DR: The engineer is top tier in dungeons, especially now that the FGS has been fixed. He’s better than a 2nd warrior or something, definitly. The only drawback is how hard the engineer is to play to be efficient. If you think you got swift fingers, like a high skillcap and a good challenge, the engineer is a good choice for you.

Greez Ziggy

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Show-us-your-Mesmer/page/31#post4422161

If you need a tissue – I’m sorry they are all out of order …

There are 3 uses of the healing turret + charge:

• Put it down and overcharge, get condicleanse and great self heal, pick it up immediately again so your CD will be 15 sec. Great personal heal, if not the best ingame (heal over time).

• Put it down, overcharge, blow it up, so you will heal 1300 additional heal for burst heal if you really need it or if you want to heal your team further. Note that you heal only yourself if you put the turret down and that you heal everyone with the overcharge AND blast finisher via toolbelt detonate.

• Put it down and overcharge it, after it use it for another combo field, for example fire or smoke. Note that the blast finisher of the healing turret is where you are and not where the turret is (!!! unlike the damage !!!). So you can easy use the overcharge for a heal, walk a mile and use the finisher 5000 range away for anything else. You may safe some time with this, like in combat.

Greez – Ziggy

Isnt this forbidden Blood? ö.ö

That’s an asura problem in general – they are so tiny, you won’t really notice their appearance anyway, unless they are really really strange. A legendary for an asura? No thx.

tigirius.9014:

I just love these arguments. #1 skill doesn’t do much damage most people choose grenades in a none zerker build from what I’ve seen especially in PVE, they can actually make the #1 skill on this kit a skill that fires off like it does underwater and not affect balance at all but people will keep peddling that nonsense, far be it that Engineers get some equal balance time on this title. smh

“EEEK! Engineers? Being balanced to be as effective as Warriors?! Well I never!” (nose in air)

It looks like you don’t play an engineer at all …

Talking about PvE:

• grenade #1 is the strongest team auto attack the engineer has and also the strongest ranged auto attack in general
• grenades are used in zerker and kitten builds in pve
• underwater the grenades are much weaker since they really miss a lot unless the target is huge and fat (like megalodon)
• it extremly affects the balance, making noobs a bit better with aiming and expirienced engineers much weaker; either the grenades will not hit a moving target at all or if they calculate where the target is walking to, they would miss anyway much more than they do now (think about guard scepter, mesmer warlock, …)
• nonesense? heh
• “being balanced to be as effective as warriors” … the only reason to take a warrior over an engineer in a pt is because of his banners, the engineer is better in everything else

-Ziggy

Heyhey, Ziggy here!

As the others already mentioned before, the healing turret does not lag, nor is it a bug. EVERY turret has an attack rotation, so does the healing turret. All their overcharges will be affecting the next rotation. Make sure to activate the healing turret before the rotation starts, better spam the key.

Greez!

Overall buffs, especially warden fixed for pve, scepter and staff buffed for pvp, yea, some minor bugs are there but nothing that cannot be prevented by yourself.

What I meant is that projectiles are homing to your chest and some reflection walls (curtain f.ex.) are so low that you can have adventages as a mesmer if you are asura.
The same is with the flame thrower napalm field. It’s not high and a charr or norn easy will shoot over the field with flame blast. There is a thread about this where I’ve explained it with awesome paint art

btt: Here you go with some pics of my charr engi + legendaries:

Greez Ziggy

Just give us the option to hold down the key for continuing attacks.

Greetings everyone!

As I have already mentioned in another thread, it’s not about how wide the hitbox is, rather about how tall it is:

Best looking, imo charr any sex or human male. I’m a male charr. I’ve got a predator and quip, gonna post you some pics later

However the best class to play, with slight adventages are asura. The hitbox is different and also the usage of the flamethrower combo field + finisher is easier.

greez

Greetings everyone! Finally can answer too here

Energized armor grants you only 75 power and since you are loosing 100 ferocity I’d not suggest it. You also loose a high amount of damage from Firearms AND 100 precision. So – traiting in inventions is a total waste of trait points.

Allways go for 6/6/0/0/2 if you want damage. If you know what you are doing you can stay on that. Just swap utilities rather than traits to adapt the situation. However if you need vigor, go for 6/6/0/2/0 and forget about rifle mod and take swiftness on crit for a perma vigor uptime.

As an engineer you want full zerker or kitten equip + strength runes. Sigils depend on your allies. If you have 25 stacks might: force > battle, otherwise vice versa. In my case I take both since I solo a lot and 9 stacks free might are great! If you have troubles with blocking and doding attacks, you sure can use energy too.

The most important advice I can give you: Don’t stay on your utilities, swap them and adapt. Also do so with your weapon. Sure rifle has some burst, but the shield and pistol 3 both are very defensive and bring great utility. For example Mai Trin, a rifle is a no go.

Here my meta build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdIQFAUlUUpEr9ZxdLseNSbBNqwA6TMi2+5FEgjC-TxRBABXp8rjLIAN7PgnOCAeQAUq+jZKBJFAMTAA-e

PS: whoever used sitting duck in his build – it has a 5 sec cd and therefore does not work with aoe very well. It sux!

Greetings, Ziggy! Wruahh whooo!!!

Mantra full dps build is 6/6/0/0/2,
for reflection uptime and damage 6/4/0/4/0,
for reflection burst I’d say 6/6/0/0/2 too,
and for reflection and AoE now 4/6/0/4/0.
If there is no use of brining any mantras, 4/4/0/6/0 for reflection,
5/4/0/5/0 for damage if phants die fast + reflection,
4/6/0/0/6 for phantasm dps.

But in the end there are so many thing you have to think about before picking a build. Do you need reflection, spike, uptime? Do phantasms survive? Do you need AoE, interrupt, do you use 2+ mantras? Yea, much stuff to think about as a mesmer ^^

You’re voice sounds familiar – haven’t you have played a Necro? o.o

btt: good video to remind ppl what they loose if they waste skills. I often see the same mistakes in PvE too. Just wasting finishers or simply not using them. 1 out of 10 engineers even buff before a fight u.u

This is mesmer downed skill 3 – just hit someone for 5k with that skill and it said smoke bomb in battle log.

Mortar Kit itself can have NO cd, yet the skills 1-5 should have between 20 and 180?

Hahahha .. heh … mortar … why not a mortar KIT!? and remove global cd – FIXED.

Oh my bad – I’m sorry then xD But yea I now understand what you mean. Maybe the skill is stronger against many many enemies in a line, but it’s so slow and clumsy, it’s probably not woth not exploding it. Good point.

I play some self made signet + invuln + reflection build with staff and condi dmg. It works greatly against hambows, some thieves and engis and especially ranger. Rapid fire is suicide <3

This is just how the camera works. The left click camera just turns around your own camera. If you use the right click camera, the char also turns around and shoots into that direction you’re looking at. This is perfectly fine for shooting at points in the air or for using max range skills in close combat (like Mesmer Feedback).

it would have been better if you get a 5 sec daze when interrupted ö.ö

The phantasms and clones aswell iDefender seem to have lower HP since patch.
Check it out ANet – for further informations visit: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Clone-health/first#post4444709

Wait whut?! When did they do THAT? Didn’t read nothing in patch notes – again a bug?

€dit: Went to Orr fryfox and tested the HP myself. I’ve got a different number:

PvE:
*Clone – ~4’000 HP → definitly not 2’433 HP → 4’170 HP
*Phantasm – ~5’500 HP → 5’821 HP
*iDefender – ~12’000 HP → 12’476 HP

Since Defender PvP→PvE is +71,4% HP and Phantasm PvP→PvE is +71,4% HP aswell, and if I add the same amount to the 2’433 HP of a clone, I recive 4170 HP, wich is definitly right.

But seriously, was it in the patch notes???

Greetings Maviard! Ziggy here, engineer teacher, like to help new engineers where I can

As a new player you will of course not have the best equip, nor runes and neither expirience. I suggest you use a rifle + bombs for leveling since, like others already said, the engineer basic attacks normally suck. The other 2 skills aren’t that important, so try them all!
Expirience is knowledge and knowledge is power! Test your skills and keep in mind that every skill has a toolbelt skill wich can be completly different from the main skill and sometimes making it worth taking. Since you can’t see those toolbelt skills without unlocking the skill itself, I’ll show them all to you if you want.

You can pm me ingame, aslong as you are EU and not NA, I can show you what ever you want and teach you stuff My name is Ziggs Ironeye, but call me Ziggy.

If you got any questions, go ahead! Greez!
- Ziggy

The flame blast isn’t lacking IF you blow it up, wich you are supposed to do. You also seem to forget that it’s a 6 (!) sec cd blast finisher, wich generates great passive damage. Don’t judge just for damage and cast time. It’s a good skill.

The V.8759:

Twhack (Toolkit):
Give this skill a cleaving ability.

Totally support this. The damage of this chain isn’t that high anyway. However I’d also suggest to reduce the cast time of this skill too a bit.

The V.8759:

Throw Mine:
Reduce the recharge rate to 1/4s.

You really mean we chould throw a mine every 1/4 sec? Dude wtf?!

The V.8759:

Mines (In any kind of form)
Explode when placed under enemies, even if they do not move.

This. This is the main reason why BD isn’t really viable, compared to MA.

The V.8759:

Gadgeteer:
Increades boon duration.

Why not? Yet it’s not really neccessary.

The V.8759:

Mine Field:
No casting time.

• Reducing cast time by 50%. No cast time? No.

Also tirrets often die in zerg pretty fast. The only hope would be to put the terruts on the edge of a fight. Heh – seriously, they are called turrets :P

Since last patch and the death of FGS, aswell the mantra buffs, Mesmer have recived a huge buff. They have been buffed the most last patch. Great class and fun to play.

Animation and sound was great, aswell the skill itself. Now it’s crap.

frifox.5283:

The wiki numbers were made by me, though that was like a year ago. Unless ANet changed their hp the numbers should be correct.

They once recived that PvE buff and since then, nothing happened. So, yes, it’s still correct.

Yup, the current mimic is just terrible. I tried it a few times, especially against theives. However it has nearly no impact. A blink, portal or anything else is just worth more. Think about arcane thievery – it’s about the same, but it feels just better. You really feel how you trade 3 condis for 3 boons. Better buff that a bit and change mimic to A REAL SKILL MIMIC!

Ohhhhhhh my bad I’m terribly sorry >.<

Against Lupi, focusing on precision may be better, since you can throw elixier R for reflection. But in that case maybe ferocity would be good too, wich leads us again to zerker. Hm – … or does a precision, ferocity, condition damage stat set exist? I doubt it but … hm ö.ö

Well as for me I only solo CM p3 where the meta build is the best imo. I might try using turrets with reflection, now that I think about it ö.ö

Btw, wich dungeon runs are really soloable WITHOUT exploits. Greez

On lupi, you’ll get *cked by the condicap. No – Zerker or kitten >>> Condi in every aspect of TEAMplay.

For solo, condi is viable. Either hybdrid (precision, power, condidmg) or full condi (condidmg, precision, toughness) is good for solo, when there is no condi cap. Full condi even makes you tank against bosses.

Well they fit if you have no back item that looks completly different and if you use brown and dirty iron dyes for your Engi. Yet if you use some aetherblade or magic or futuristic outfit with let’s say bright colors, super adventure box stuff or spinal wings, etc. Then you are gonna lay down, hug yourself and cry – cry like a little baby who lost it’s candy.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Uh you can’t just arbitrarily substitute bleed for attack speed and call that conclusive math.

You can calculate the 16% damage of the bombs, yet you cannot calculate the condition damage of the bleed. Once you hit the 25 stacks, your long lasting bleed get’s replaced by other bleeds, even if they are just a few sec. Also bleeding damage vanishes once the enemy died. This supports my “use bombs on low HP” theory even further. Also keep in mind that bombs are also able to proc bleed (15%), fire bomb (60%) even better than grenades (45%). So yes – it’s conclusive math, yet not perfect, I admit.

However I guess you get the point now. If not, I cannot help you anymore :|

greez Ziggy

6/6/0/0/2 for general full dps open world.
6/6/0/2/0 for content you need to dodge more (no rifle mod).

Zerker or kitten doesn’t matter actually. I’d say solo Zerker is better and in parties kitten. Depends on your might stacks.

Clones:

• PvE: 4,096
• PvP / WvW: 2,304

Phantasms:

• PvE: 7,955
• PvP / WvW: 3,332

iDefender:

• PvE: 19,943
• PvP: 8,354

There is a trait that grant’s illusions 20% HP and the signet for 50%.

Well you got 3x for each MoP and 2 recharges -> 3*3=9

Wow – image the burst of 9x mantra of pain O.O – while being stunned all the time xD wich stacks vuln ö.ö

Frost spirit change was up for eternity.

Hi, Ziggy here!

Skills that change with my Quip:

• auto attack
• poison darts
• static shot

Skills that change with my Predator:

• auto attack
• jump shot (only sound)

Skills that allways change, regardless of weapon or kit equiped:

• downed auto attack
• grenade barrage
• packaged antitoxin (toolbelt of antitoxin spray)
• static discharge (just with some skills, depending on skill, not random)

Greez Ziggs Ironeye

Ok I’ll explain it a bit further for you

• Vulnerability does only deal damage on it’s own. It only deals damage passive and if it’s already there when other sources inflict direct damage. Therefore you need time to stack it, but that time doesn’t exist if a mob is about to die or if it’s a trashmob that dies within a few seconds. The damage you deal with grenades + passive damage will not be higher than the damage of bomb 1# in those cases.

• Bombs have higher attack speed than grenades, 16% actually and deal 26% more damage. If you include the bleed, you could say “let’s ignore the higher attack speed of the grenades then”. So 1/4 higher damage from bomb 1.

• Fire Bomb deals along with the 10 sec of burning also 4 times the listed damage over 3 seconds. This damage alone is only 10% lower than grenade #1 and hits even 1 more time (vuln). The burning damage is 3280-5467 depending on might stacks (0-875 condi dmg). Even a few ticks of fire and you already outdamaged the grenade 1# with it.

I don’t tell you to stay on bombs, no way! Allways go for grenades for the burst skill, like barrage, sharpnel and freeze. Also use the AA if enemies are Elite + (maybe even Vet, depends on KS). But DO NOT USE grenade 1# if you are facing trashmobs or if enemies are about to die. Look at my fantastic paint skills! They will explain what I mean:

Greez Ziggy I hope I could explain it now ^^

Only fire bomb and smoke bomb. But nevermind that – I used simple math. If you want me to do exact math, I also can do that. But right now I gtg, see ya

Sharpnel has a 15% chance to stack 15 sec of bleed. That’s like 800 damage every 2nd AA. With grenades thats like +400 damage per AA, for bombs rather +130. And even if you think about the Sharpshooter trait, the difference is much lower than the 30% the bombs deal more damage than grenades, especially when you got some might stacks, since bleeding scales terrible compared to direct damage skills.

The point is: grenades only deal higher passive damage due vulnerability. Yet against trashmobs or mobs who are about to die, vulnerability won’t matter that much, since it needs time to “deal damage”.

I suggest to use both, grenades and bombs, but if I had to choose, I’d say grenates are better in general.

But FT beating grenades and bombs in open world? Yea, i guess that’s right. But only if you keep 2# on CD and only if there are 1-3 enemies.

ANet do you still work on this? Do you still read this? Do you love us in the slightest???

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Grenade will give you better personal DPS because of the vuln stacking. It’ll only lose if you are already capped on conditions without the grenades.

Nope. Only grenade 2# and 4# will. Bomb 1 deals about 30% more damage then Grenade 1 and has a wider AoE if enemies aren’t stacking perfectly. Also when mobs are about to die, or when we are talking about trash mobs, new vuln doesn’t matter anymore.

That’s what i meant. Zerk or kitten doesn’t really matter. I made some math and we are talking about a few % crit chance for a few % dmg. Still, I prefer Zerk – cuz I already have it ascended XD

What I meant was more the scholar runes. Strength is better everywhere but groups where you will not be the might stacker / you allways have your 25 stacks. I doubt that scholar will be worth it in normal parties. Especially as engineer, where you allways get the aggro

The thing about juggernaut is that it grants you might you will not have in parties. Well you will have might in parties, but everyone will have might at parties, and 25 stacks is the cap. You won’t really benefit from this trait there.

However while playing solo, you can easy go for it, it’s great for open world if you like the FT. However FT aa is still weak and is just there for style. It would be great if the skill would deal really great damage but well … we don’t have the flame legion technology, do we? :/