Guild Wars 2

So many great ideas, I was happy of at least one of them would make it live :/

Matthias (Power Scrapper)
During the bubble phase spam all your mortar and bomb fields since you won’t be dealing any damage anyway, but after the bubble pops you will have increased damage thanks to Modified Ammunation. In general, thanks to the Necros and the enviorment, this trait will rock here.

• Bulwark Gyro & protection & emergency water fields + blasts -> scholar bonus
• backup reflect
• aoe swiftness & superspeed (less travel time = more dps and less deaths)
• emergency Function Gyro
• ego block & stability

Escort (Condi Engi / Power Scrapper)

• as condi, no Warg will ever reach the first building … ever! >:3
  after 2-3 Wargs help the team
• as power, go up with a 2nd of your kind and push the add out and then pop Sneak Gyro and chill, repeat
• blind

Keep Construct (Power Engi)

• great burst damage (after ego burst there’s also the Frost Bow ;D)
• Magnet Pull and Overcharged Shot + Chrono Pull will move the Orb directly from 3 to 4 and to 5. Saves more time than more dps form another Ele would.
• block for jump
• sustain for orb catch phase
• mobility for split

Xera (Power Engi)
Instead of low dps Necros or staff Eles (still keep 2), pick dps professions like Engi or Thief. An Engi can blind the adds before or after they got pulled to render them completly useless, even inside of shards. There won’t be any condi cleanse required but for Xera’s blurred frenzy for the tank, and even for that the healing turret is good if he messes up to evade / block.

• wide 5 target cleave with great burst, also for clearing shards
• knockback for orbs into rifts
• emergency burst multiple shards with wide aoe and bomb aa

Maybe I forgot some stuff but in general, there are plenty of things you can do for every single encounter. You just have to do those things and you’ll be a solid pick for your team.

Just makes sure you really know your rotation, so you won’t mess up and have noticable less dps than the alternatives. Most important for your dps: Never interrupt your bomb auto hit!

We don’t have an easy life, but I doubt any of us Engineers ever picked this profession to have an easy life to begin with, aye? ;3

Greez!
- Ziggy

Heya!

Engi is great for raids, no doubt, but requires some extra work to be worth the pick. Pugs normally don’t really like them because of the average player will not be doing this additional work.

Or simply because they think Engi is bad. :P

Every Monday and Thursday I do full clears with my guild and I’ve been playing Engi plenty of times on every single encounter. I’ve made very good expiriences so far and found specific reason to be at each one of these fights. This said, our guild wants an elite standard and we do not want to use “useless dps loss professions” anywhere.

Everywhere add the general Engi abilities like:

• dps
• cc
• water fields + blasts
• condi cleanse

but being more specific:

Vale Guardian (Condi Scrapper / Power Engi / Power Scrapper)

• condi dmg for Red Guardian
• power dmg for low armor Vale Guardian (perma melee engi / green fields scrapper)
• Seeker control
• aoe swiftness & superspeed and greenfields (less travel time = more dps)
• protection & Engi sustain to tank Red Guardian
• emergency Function Gyro (not a real reason for speedclear, but definitly for pugs)

Gorseval (Condi Engineer)
We split the whole team in 2 groups for the adds, NW and NE, then they each move to SW and SE. This way we safe time by only having to move once and have more dps time than travel time. Meanwhile I keep both south spirits in place with Shrapnel and glue … lot’s of glue >:3

• holding two spirits
• blinding adds to prevent kicks

Sabetha (Power Engineer)
A stationary easy target like Sabby with adds (thanks to the adds, you are able to proc Takedown Round[/url] all the time) grants us to deal high dps, even more than DW Ele, slightly less than a Thief, but also …

• highest small hitbox burst with short cd + jump shot for mobility makes us top tier for doing cannons
• blinding Thugs (during flamewall or for the connon guys to prevent deadly kicks)
• ranged for last phase (if double Druid in melee is required)

Slothasor (Power Engineer)
The Engi should do a Shroom since he’s not as high dps as an Ele, but still not bad at all, not least thanks to the frostbows.

• wide 5 target cleave
• blinding unblockable Slublings
• Elixier Gun as emergency anti-fear with free stunbreak

Trio (Power Engi)
Bosses have small hitboxes, so our dps is higher than the Ele’s against them, especially thanks to all those adds permanently proccing Takedown Round. Thief would be just as good but lacks …

• wide 5 target cleave
• blind – srsly, that’s amazing here
• ranged high cc for Saboteurs
• 1500 range to pull mobs from cage to Zane
• best mortars-care EVER!

I really like those suggestions. Want to add the always demanded “+ inherit player stats” too! At least for Blasty and Shreddy…

Ivantreil.3092:

Pve: In serious content condi engi is the only acceptable way, people havee been testing power alternatives but they havent been acceptable enough yet.

Power Engi deals similiar, without perma Alacrity even more damage than condi Engi. All 4 variants have their specific place in raids though.

Power Rifle Engi is at 27.5k dps, wich is even more than current DW Ele and only slightly behind Thief. Also has the biggest burst for small hitboxes for things like cannons (Sabby).

Chrono is perfectly fine in solo and pve open world. Our damage is as high as most other professions. Don’t get confused by full buffed numbers you see in parties like fotm or raids.

Joxer.6024:

Krispera.5087:

Just use Wells, lulz.

yea, I pop a well on them little suckers along with GS 3 and your laughing….hopefully!
But yea, we all hoping Mesmer gets some love of some sort.

You use a GS – you have no right to complain.

OriOri.8724:

@Xyonon that might be true for Engies, but a tempest did a DPS test and they found that perma alacrity + quickness from a chrono was less of a boost to their damage than either Druid or Warrior buffs were.

I’ve seen that post and the math behind it was utterly wrong. Stuff like “the warrior alone is responsible for 25 stacks might”. Chrono is the biggest buffer there is, hands down.

I would only link passive effects, not full abilities. No leaps, whirls or things like that. The summoning should still stay the same. Besides that – I’d like to see some effects on phantasm skills!

I think I can hit two birds with one stone here for you. I’m the engi player who releases the skill priority lists after each big patch for engis, like this one:

http://i.imgur.com/cBxeWM4.png

There is a column called “Chrono boost” wich shows you how much the Chronomancer in your party actually boosts each of your skills. The list considers perma Alacrity though, so it’s less if you only have one Chronomancer except for skills without a cd, like auto attacks.

So each skill is between 33-50% with some exceptions and depending on what profession we are talking about, the presence of a Chronomancer equals to like +30-40% party dps. This means if you’d add the dps the others do more because of the Chronomancer to it’s own dps, the Chronomancer is by far the highest party dps profession in the entire game.

If a party deals 200k dps, ~50k are beacuse you got a Chronomancer.

About the “(except condi engi since no one trusts a pug condi engi)” – it heavily depends on your party or suqad leader mentality but it’s not entierly wrong. It’s not wether you truly suck or not, rather the possibility the others see when a random Engi joins them.

For example a good Engi is so much better than any Necromancer in many (not all!) situations, but pugs accept Necromancers as condis (for Vale Guardian for example) because noone expects to get a really good engi through pugs. Most good engi players earn their title in their enviorment – in their raid guild / team.

I personally often pug after our monday clear when I got time, just to help out and then I try to take as much responsibility as possible (tanking, healing, green fields, holding spirits, doing cannons, eating shrooms, mortars, wargs, and some other rather specific jobs).
In those cases I almost always play Chrono, Druid and most of all Engineer, because I know what I’m capable of with it and I will be able to fix mistakes and support my team better than with any other profession.

Wahoo!

It’s not like a prfession is always only about dps … for example if the new elite spec would have 28k dps you would still pick it over a 30k thief if the enviorment is full of reflectable projectiles. Just one example.

Subsquad > squad (party) > other players > pets > NPCs

And always the 5 closest to the source of the buff.

If you want to become a flawless Druid, I suggest you get yourself a Viper, Zealot and Berserker gear.

For Raids you can make use of all of them, depending on the encounter and your allies. In high fractals you should be using Viper unless you have plenty of Necros wich minions you should keep alive with staff aka Zealot.

Magi / Cleric works aswell instead of Zealot (Zealot is expensive) but you only gain ~10% healing for over 30% damage. It’s also a bad idea to have over 1000 thoughness in raids since it will interfere with the aggro (tanking).

Gale Song: Trigger “Eye of the Storm!” when a foe attempts to control you by stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, taunt, or launch.

Working as intended. For Tempest Defense though it seems like a bug. Or it’s a bug they couldn’t handle so the new trait Gale Song just got that written in it’s description to make it look intended! :’D

Joxer.6024:

DPS is so low that no one wants you for your buffs as its “better” to bring a different class.

I don’t want to be rude or disrespectful but I stopped reading after this sentence. :|

I agree with caerulean. It’s not like two different Elite spec Mesmers would be automaticly forbidden or bad.

I also hate the inconsistence of the cast times for blowing the gyros up. Aren’t the dazes supposed to be able to interrupt at will? The Medic Gyro nerf hit me hard aswell, especially the protection field one. I mean it’s not like it’s close to as good as the HT in terms of healing, neither offers the gyro a condi cleanse – there’s another gyro for that – a total garbage gyro it has to be said, like a defect single target nullfield for condis only … with a even worse toolbelt…

Daniel Handler.4816:

Xyonon.3987:

-snip-

I thought I recognized your name.

I based my claim in this thread off of your work.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/All-Skills-Damage-for-Power-and-Condi-3/first

Specifically this table.
https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/221474/Condition_Engineer.png

“The DpiSCT including Quickness shows the true strength of a skill. This is the most important value of them all and shows how mighty a skill really is. You should always priorize your skills according to this to achieve max DpS.”

You said that, and that is why I said condi engi has problems vs mobile targets. You took Grenadier over Glass Canon, giving up 5% dps to make the Grenades more useful against moving enemies. But there is no Grenadier like trait to make it easier for skills to land all of their pulses.

Heya,

I’m honored you took my work as a reference! Semi-recently I released a newer updated variant, that fits the current patch notes. Afaik Rocket Boots have been buffed too. Power Engi and Condi Scrapper are on their way, probably after the next big patch.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4vzplt/engineerscrapper_updated_skill_priority_list_for/

If you look at the condi sheet (http://i.imgur.com/cBxeWM4.png) you can see there are new interesting datas. For example “DpS over AA” tells you exactly how much each skill contributes to your total DpS, if you use it on CD.

On the top you see how much of a DpS increase each kit is, considered Grenade Kit as the baseline due to it’s auto attack.

Daniel Handler.4816:

Raid inclusion is based on maximizing DpS. Because of mobile targets you lose

• DpiSCT on napalm (which is double rocket kick)
• the dps of IA
• the lost ticks on skills that pulse
• 5% dps to trait Grenadier

I agree you lose a big junk of damage from Napalm, but only in the last phase though. You don’t have to break VG at all in the 3rd phase and in the 1st, 2nd and 4th phase your target stands completly still.

You only lose the dps if IA (wich can be quite high if you use KB right, wich I don’t use at VG in the first place though) if you replace the whole kit with the FT.

The lost ticks on skills that pulse? The only massive DpS from a pulsing field comes from Fire Bomb, wich is fairly short and can be placed where your target is heading to. There is also poison Gas Shell – same threatment here.

The 5% damage from the Glass Cannon trait does only affect power damage, same as the neighbor trait Explosive Powder or Modified Ammunation in Firearms. The Condi Engi DpS is pretty precisely 20% power and 80% condi. Against VG with it’s low armor it’s 21.4%. So GC only improves the condi Engi DpS by 1 lousy % … above 90% HP. :P

Wahoo!

Toxic Focusing Crystals can be made on your own for 46 silver last time I checked. Simply buy the recipe once and stop throwing away Bloodstone Dust :’D Order all the materials and they are very cheap.

This said…

Toxic Focusing Crystals are way more worth using than Rare Veggie Pizzas!

You “only” pay 26 silver for 20% condi duration and 70 condi damage by using the Rare Pizzas, compared to the 80 – pardon me – 46 silver for 10% and 100 condi damage via Toxics? No – you pay 22 silver for exactly 2% condi duration and 10 condi damage!

If you want to save money, then don’t buy Rare Veggie Pizzas and use Tuning Icicles, buy Super Veggie Pizza instead and invest the money into Toxic Focusing Crystals. You’ll end up with 28% condi duration and 160 condi damage instead of 20% condi duration and 170 condi damage, for just ~19 more silver.

Jerus.4350:

Malice if you don’t want to spend the money on Toxic Focusing Crystal? Or would you say the alternatives are still better?

Or, yes, if you want to go full discount – use Super Veggie Pizzas with Tuning Icicles and Corruption > Geomancy > Malice

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rare_Veggie_Pizza -> 26 silver
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Super_Veggie_Pizza -> 4 silver
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Toxic_Focusing_Crystal -> 46 silver
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tuning_Icicle -> 5 silver

I personally prefer a hard to play profession, but it also has to be rewarding.

To simply boost the dps over other professions is the wrong solution, since you would just start stacking really good engis then. And that’s what lead to the Ele nerfs in the first place. It’s unhealthy for the game.

Party wide buffs are exactly what we need and yes it would indeed help power and condi Engi. I don’t see any problem about condi Engi vs mobile targets – the only skill that trule loses dps is Napalm and that one is only 1400-1800 of our total dps. If you swap it for Rocket Boots and spam Rocket Kick instead of Napalm and Incendiary Ammo, it’s even just a 700-900 dps loss.

Depends on what you are doing. For open world it’s always Corruption and Geomancy.

But for raids it’s a bit different:

Corruption is the top sigil to use in raids, IF you can stack it …

• … at a pre event like Sabetha, Sloth or Mathias.
• … during waiting times via Pocket Raptors.
• … at encounters like Trio or Escort.

Once stacked, don’t swap it until you get downed. So it’s perfect for full runs with a good team.

Geomancy is the next best sigil, aslong as you can proc it frequently that is.

So for any melee fight, you’d be using Geomancy if possible. But if you are ranged like on VG (green fields) or maybe Sabetha too, then better swap it to the next best alternative.

Earth is this next best alternative. It deals less dps than Geomancy but it’s still the best sigil to use if you can’t use Corruption.

Earth has an internal cd and will only proc on one target. Therefore it loses damage to the main target (boss) if many adds are present, since they may proc it.

Bursting is a little bit weaker than Earth again, but you’d be using this if you can’t make use of Corruption and Geomancy.

It’s also better than Earth if you face many adds for encounters like Sabetha, Sloth, Trio or Escort (unless you do solo Wargs).

Wahoo!

Artaz.3819:

Vulnerability applied by Engineer now does break bar damage. (It needs to be a “special” debuff to accommodate for Vulnerability being overwritten) Done.

Still wouldn’t give us a solid spot :/ It’s definityl not cc we lack.

There you go:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQJAqalUUhSsYfWwWLQ7FLpFFYJuiHw4dkGF53GGANAA-TRSFQBCTFkGqsrd6BGpSw+p+BAOBAETpg72fIBPAASBsoyK-e

perfect 100%

Currently on my laptop, don’t have the document here Can give you the exact numbers when I’m home (weekend).

I did the numbers with the common “realistic” buffs everyone uses. So all the modifiers you normally have, with 8 conditions (for MA) – although I start think that there are more average condis on the enemy, when I check them in raids. :o

The big deal with Fire Bomb is – as mentioned – that you can interrupt your aa wich then leads to less dps ofc. Either you use it in the end of an aa, wich requires some attention, or you just use it after any other not-bomb-aa skill, wich can’t be interrupted.

If you’d have 0 cd, spamming bomb aa would lead to 20k realistic dps, spamming Fire Bomb 27k. It’s not a huge dps increase (<700), but it sure is more than Jump Shot for example :P If you face KC or VG (low armor) I wouldn’t bother using it though.

Wahoo! Nice rotation, I would like to mention a few things though:

• The average Fire Bomb deals 27k DpiScT, a normal aa only 20k, so make sure to spam it on cd, but not interrupting the aa. Best to use after another skill that isn’t the bomb aa, wich can’t be interrupted.

• Jump Shot is a DpS increase in theory, but even if you spam it on cd, it’s only ~100 more DpS and if use it while a bomb aa, Big Ol’ Bomb or Orbital is about to hit, those won’t recieve the “on movement” dps bonus. It’s not essentially a huge DpS difference to use or not to use so it’s a good filler or for a “break” though.

• Don’t trait the rifle just for the 2s cdr on Blunderbuss. More condition damage will outdamage that one easily.

Greez!
- Ziggy

Even with heavily reduced CD on shield, I would never ever use it with those skills. For condi pistol will always be better, power you lose too much weapon damage and it’s basicly a weaker version of the hammer :/ Shield needs more than CDR.

You think that would be op? I mean there is a reason why you never see turrets and pets except for Necro.

SlimChance.6593:

Maybe it could remove a boon and do extra damage for each re maiming boon? Kind of like iMage only with boons.

iWarlock – but yea that’s not a bad idea indeed.

cyberzombie.7348:

-turrets gets condi removal for each repair

Wat?

cyberzombie.7348:

-introduce the deep wound condition for blunderbuss and big ol’ bomb

That would do?

cyberzombie.7348:

-increase the arc of the motar kit

Yet also increase the projectile speed! And fix the auto attack already Q_Q

And even they are bad :<

Tbh turrets and plenty of other professions “pet skills” need more than just random buffs. I would suggest to give them all an individual slot for a pvp amulet. So you could equip a rifle turret with a zerker amulet, a healing turret with a magi one etc. This would surely help Elementals and Spirit Weapons aswell …

Wahoo!

Heya, late to the party, but got lot to do in RL recently In a good way though!

I see I got already quoted, thank for that Krag.6210 and also thanks for bringing it up in the first place Jerus.4350.

Still I’d like to add some more things to the list:

Vale Guardian

Power Engi is also great as a damage dealer in melee like a Thief or an Ele. This implies that you already have at least 2 condis in your team ofc!

It’s very handy to have Big Ol’, Buck and Net Shot to deal with seekers while the other pushers are ranged. The Rev shouldn’t be forced to use it’s elite, wich would result into protection uptime loss. Or you can simply go to the green fields with Engi, maybe even Scrapper for a more defensive playstyle and for the synergy with another Scrapper (Condi).

It’s enough to have 2 condis at Red Guardian + 1 PS. 25 stacks might are almost equal to a condi profession, even better if the war is condi itself!

Sabetha

I said:

bursting Karde (recieves bonus damage from conditions, only true threat in the whole fight)

This has been hidden fixed with the last big patch though – at least I didn’t notice any big condi numbers anymore. Therefore I’d suggest to swap to power Engi here and do the cannons.

Engi has great mobility with Jump Shot, blind for preventing Thugs to kick you off the platform and most importantly – high burst.

A Thief for example will deal his constant ~30k dps against Sabby. If he moves to the cannons, he’ll restart with the same damage again, and when he comes back, again. Engi on the other hand can use the downtimes to recharge abilities wich will be able to burst more frequently.

Thanks to the adds, you are able to proc Takedown Round[/url] all the time. This is a huge junk of dps, trust me. If you do the rotation right, you will barely have a dps difference to a Thief anymore!

Xera

I can only mention it again: Swap Necros out for actual damage professions. It’s really waaaaaaay easier if you phase Xera as fast as possible. Engi here works perfectly fine, again you got adds for your Takedown Round to increase your dps quite a bit. Instead of 2 Necros who desperately try to epibounce burnless conditions, a Thief and an Engi make a perfect duo in terms of dps and utility. While Thief has a bit higher constant damage, Engi has better cleave, blind, condi cleanse and burst in emergency shard clear situations. Also better for 40% and 20% for ranged, but that’s rather minuscule.

If you want you can also pm me ingame (EU), I’ll be happy to join any raid if I got time!

Oh yea and as Jerus.4350 mentioned: Exotic armor is enough. Ascended armor only grants you like +1% dmg boost without infusions. Better focus on a rifle, hammer and the trinkets!

Greez!
- Ziggy

Not sure if he’s wrong though. I’ve read your post Fay and I agree with most of it, but some stuff seems a bit “on the omg so hard content” side.

I would really like to raid with 9 other great Chronos to try all encounters.

Short:

Geo if you can proc it at least 50% of the time, best sigil.
Earth if you won’t cleave adds frequently.
Bursting if you will cleave adds or fight trash.
Corruption always if you can!

Mesmers can sustain 25 stacks might, perma Quickness and Alacrity is assured aswell, they have power, they have condi, they have heal.

I don’t see a problem with most bosses tbh Especially VG should be totally fine, even easy.

Back in the old days champions+ had a -50% vuln duration, wich made us valuable. Nowdays, this buff is gone AND in raids you are twice as many ppl who only need to sustain a little vuln to keep it up at 25 stacks.

In the old days, Engi sustained 15 stacks vuln on those -50% duration targets, other professions 3-5.

All those +150 “useful stat” traits are like +5% dmg for most of the time 5-6 players, or even more in the case of the Rev.

For a super speed based boon, we’d need to know what the uptime is and then if it’s worth to pick for example another gyro instead of a 3rd kit for more super speed etc.

If we could (we can’t :P) sustain perma super speed for 5 ppl, it should be at least a 5% modifier. In a realistic case I’d rather stick to 10% wich sounds a bit much but over the whole duration is imo totally reasonable.

I think “granting super speed” is easier to manage than “while under the effect of super speed of a scrapper”. So it may be enough to grant this buff for a few seconds, regardless of the super speed duration. That way it would also be easier to balance in terms of duration rather than % bonus.

The bonus should be power and condition damage % bonus, just like grace of the land, so condi scrappers are a thing too (fairness).

greez!

DGraves.3720:

I agree that there are many runes that aren’t universally accessible. None are particularly powerful for that reason.

You assume that.

Dawdler.8521:

Eh? Scrapper was given all the party AoE buffs with gyros. Healing, damage reduction, condi cleanse and stealth. What more do you ask?!

Healing is weak, HT does it better, protection lasts only for a short time, condi cleanse is not aoe, stealth is not needed in raids.

@op

The common ideas are the best ones so far:

→ super speed grants a damage boost (a high one since it’s hard to maintain, also affects condi dmg)
→ expert examination adds an unique debuff on the enemy: daze stun knockback trigger it

Those are the best ways for engis to get a dmg boost. Not just by an aura, but by either super speed or cc.

offtopic @ opener: if you type “-” 3 times, you get a full line

greez!

Power spikes in damage heavily if adds are present thanks to takedown round. Power is also not in need of Alacrity like Condi or Tempest. If you do a 10m golem down to 6m, you can get 29k dps with realistic buffs.

Everone agrees with the rifle needs some buffs, everyone hopes for the rifle getting some buffs, noone believes it will actually happen – cuz ANet clearly hates Engis … or at least they have no clue what to do with us.

“We buffed not used skills – now they still won’t be used, but you got buffs yo!”
→ points at gyros
“Ah yea – Shredder Gyro dmg buffed from 0.0001 to 0.0008!”
-.-’’

The trait should be reworked or removed entierly – it’s currently one of those garbage traits noone ever uses. I doubt anyone is “just gonna pick it!” compared to the alternatives, in no game mode.

Extending field durations you blast is an eyecatcher. It greatly buffs professions like Ele … and … uhhh … well only Ele :| But it’s a concept! To increase the duration of Lava Fonts / Air Overloads by a reasonable amount to boost dps. But I doubt that’ll make a big enough difference to be a solid pick.

I’ve seen different suggestions like buffing / debuffing uniquely via super speed, gyros or expert examination, aka stuns and dazes, heck why not knockbacks aswell to sync with core engi?! Those are imo the most attractive party buff concepts. I’d rather have to do something than just having another +X aura.

Yet what we all agree on here is that we need a party buff / enemy debuff, and that it should be unique.

I agree with insanemaniac. I can’t really add much without quoting him.

What you are doing DGraves, is assuming an encounter that lasts exactly [time] seconds, rather than averaging the damage contribution of Shrapnel. The issue you are adressing here is the same as with any other condition: Mob with conditions dies, and the remaining ones are wasted.

You won’t “majorly overreaching” anything by averaging. In fact, it gets more accurate the longer the fight goes. In 60s, (let’s assume shrapnel lasts 20s), 1/3 of the shrapnels will be cut off before running out of duration. In a 10 minute fight, only 1/30.

Damage multiplied with the chance to proc is totally legit.

“inaccessible”? Explain yourself! :o

OriOri.8724:

And some of the arguments “justifying” our horrible personal DPS is the party buffs we can bring (perma alacrity and quickness). But as someone has tested out on an ele and posted their results, both warrior and druid buffs contribute more to party DPS than the perma quickness/alacrity that a top tier chrono can provide while also still contributing far more personal DPS than we can.

Source please. I doubt any profession is able to “out support passive-dpsing” us in any way.

Mikkel.8427:

Has bursting always been like that? I knew it didn’t scale off traits/banners/signet of dom/etc, but I swore it scaled off of might… I had to log in to test it.

This changes everything. You just ruined my evening. :O! I need to recalculate my rune and sigil options with this information.

Yes, annoying but apparently … intended? Makes no sense whatsoever if you ask me but hey …. that’s how it is …

Still, Earth is only good against single target and Geo won’t be that amazing if you’re not constantly swapping weapons. So Bursting is also totally justified and fine.

Heya!

Condi Chrono is great for HPs and solo 1v1s in open world. It’s also “ok” for fights with a few enemies. For aoe you’d probably be more useful with a power spec with the sword, or large scale fights wearing a staff, 3 iWarlocks and spam Quickness and Alacrity while attacking with the sword.

As for your asked question about Condi Chrono:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAr+ansIC9fiNoBWoBEgilcjqeVr1bF9HWiZoMAStWD-TByCQBzY/hjdQAYm6PA4EAcP9COT5HyeAAsUJIhAUsGA-e

This is what you should aim for as a solo open world Chrono. As for food you should really use the 18% one since it’s a ~10% damage boost and only costs a few silver. There is no need for 20% food or toxic sharpies in open world, so stick to the cheap food if you aren’t filthy rich.

If you have any questions feel free to ask. If you need ingame or visual advice, you can pm me anytime. I can record HP’s on weekends if you request it.

Greez!

Ranged cleave to the ranged aoe weapon!? OUTRAGEOUS!

Everyone in this thread knows by now, that Chrono deals a lot more than 7.8k dps, since they only showed the rota, right? I get the feeling that some people here still seem to misunderstand this a bit. The Chrono from qT had no buffs, it was only for rotation purposes.

I’d love a rune with Power / Ferocity and 7% damage while using a kit. Probably even better than Scholar

Power and Condi Engi have about the same dps if performed nicely. Condi will require more Alacrity to get more damage though, but has longer lasting immobilizes, cripples, chills and blinds wich might be handy in specific situations. A very important thing about Power Engi is, that the damage gets significantly higher if adds are present to proc Takedown Round. So for Sabetha for example, power will be definitly stronger than condi.