Guild Wars 2

its a wonderful build, i’m loving it.

Did a few adjustments:

- weaponsets: S/T & Sc/P
- since clonegeneration is really high with deceptive evasion and the scepter i prefer shattering or Dom V Crippling over illusion dmg (daze shatter comes in handy due the minor trait ‘dazzling’.
I also like the block on Sc, it hits like a truck and adds a bunch of vulnerability on top of the dmg.

my armor is zerker with 6x Air, my trinkets are cavaliers with rubys, so everything is very p/pre/crit/tough. my only cd comes from signet of domination, a master tuning crystal and food, but adds up to 600 CD without any effort in gear.

i think about switching one or two zerker pieces to rampagers, but i’m very pleased with the results.

its by far the most entertaining build on my mesmer.

here my adjusted build

after reading this yesterday, i tried during the aquatic dailies if the rune is working. It seems thakittens not working (checked like 120 hits without triggering).

So yes, its a bug.

shatter is AOE dmg, phantasms are single target. It could be a bit difficult switching targets with phantasms…

AndrewSX.3794:

Just saying, now you’re just giving the impression of non-accepting criticism… it’s a 2-page long thread where the whole Mesmer community is explaining you why this build is bad, yet you don’t (or do not want to) see the arguments.

Also:

The reason i’ve made this build is because i have over ~ 800 fractals done and i have yet to see a mesmer that was useful. I may call me arrogant or delusional, but trust me… i am neither. I have seen hundreds of mesmers that all seem to share the same… fate.
I look at mesmers, they run around… they put some feedback, then they drop dead…
At lvl 48 fractals… i dodge out of a mob’s way, fear him to heal… mesmer takes agro… i look as the mob’s HP barely moves… then he hits the mesmer, mesmer goes splat.

Nemesis.8593:

The reason i made this build, the reason i branched out into other classes… mesmer for a change. Is because i’ve had only bad experiences with mesmers in PvE, in high level fractals.

I recall this one event that made me think… “that’s it… mesmer is next”.
-snip-
Then i thought to myself… next time i find a shatter mesmer in my high lvl fractal group, i am going to flail him. Then i thought… how come mesmers do so little damage and are so god kitten squishy… Then i thought… maybe they can do high damage, but they didn’t knew how. Mesmer… that’s what i will go over next…

This DO makes you look arrogant. A lot.

And:

-don’t like situational stuff.

You have said so many good things about your build, but that’s like… not just one build. If you switch traits and weapon and utility… that’s another build entirely, if we were playing a game i would say you are cheating.

What? Changing parts of the build on the fly to adapt to encounters and situations is one of the few things left in this game to divide bad/average and skilled/good player.

Are you so tunnel-visioned that can’t think about change up things to perform better for a certain part of content? Or do you really think exists a build to “rule the pve all” w/o even need of touching any part of it from a boss to another?
I’m..i’m…baffled, to say the least.

Again, not meaning to be harsh or personal attack, but this is getting a bit ridicolous…

its a stable DPS-Build and far away from bad, no matter what the ‘whole mesmer community’ brings for arguments. sure, there could be more utility…. but hey, its a DPS Spec. and it fits its role.

Nice work as always nemesis

TheOneNOnlyGeneralBama.9586:

Anymras.5729:

He’s about to hit 62, and the Superiors are usable from 60 onward.

Who with half a brain would put Superior Runes in anything other than 80+ items…

and where exactly is the problem doing this? you could get them back if you have half a brain

Aristio.2784:

To be removed:
Acidic Elixirs
Acidic Coating
Knee Shot
Power Shoes
Leg Mods
Exploit Weakness

To be merged:
Short Fuse+Explosive Powder
Rifled Barrels+Hair Trigger
Fireforged Trigger+Deadly Mixture

To be adjusted(Adjustments in Bold):
-Forceful Explosives
Explosions have a larger explosion radius.
-Enhance Performance
Gain 5 stacks of might for 15 seconds when you use a heal skill. This effect cannot trigger more than once every 15 seconds.
-Autodefense Bomb Dispenser
Drop a Big Ole Bomb whenever you are disabled (stun, daze, knockdown, knockback, launch, float, sink, fear). This effect cannot trigger more than once every 30 seconds.
-Sharpshooter
33% chance to cause bleeding for 3 seconds on critical hits.
-Target the Maimed
10% increased damage against bleeding foes.
-Infused Precision
50% chance to gain fury for 5 seconds on critical hits. This effect cannot trigger more than once every 5 seconds.
-Go for the Eyes
Critical hits (No longer exclusive to the rifle) have a 50% chance to inflict blindness for 5 seconds. This effect cannot trigger more than once every 10 seconds.
-Coated Bullets
Pistol shots pierce, +50 Condition Damage.
-Low Health Response System
Gain regeneration for 10 seconds when you are attacked while under 50% health.
-Protective Shield
Gain protection for 5 seconds when you are hit with a critical attack 20 second cooldown.
-Automated Response
Remove one condition every 5 seconds while under 33% health.
-Always Prepared
Drop 4 Bandages and 1 Antidote when you start to revive an ally. This effect cannot trigger once every 30 seconds.
-Packaged Stimulants
Med Kit skills can be thrown, and reduces cooldown of Med Kit skills by 20%.
-Armor Mods
Gain 5 seconds of retaliation when critically hit. 15 second recharge.
-Adrenal Implant
100% faster endurance regeneration.

There ya go devs. No need for any thanks or credits, just please do it.

thats a joke, isnt it?

Soon.5240:

Maybe try using the Rifle Turret in your 7 slot – not for the Turret itself, but for the tool belt “Suprise Shot”. This is a fast cool down (I think 7 seconds) and coupled with Static Discharge, does decent damage.

blutstein is right that you are headed in the direction of what know as a Static Discharge build – but a true static discharge build relies on ranged damage delivered from the tool belt. The Took Kit’s tool belt (Throw Wrench) also works with a SD build.

If you want to take the SD to the next level, consider using Bersker armor and not Knights.

not true, you could take the tool kit, but the build works very well with gadgets to.
A Static Discharge Build relies on strong toolbelt abilities

But youre right, mostly rifle turret, toolkit and a stunbreaker.

thats pretty much a Static Discharge Meta Build. Very viable and tons of fun, but you have to know, how to dodge properly

i would only switch one gadget to toolkit because

- the toolbelt skill hits very hard with short cooldown
- another source of vigor and swiftness in combat beside medkit (you can’t dps if you switch to medkit infight)
- toolkit block (great for defence)
- prybar hits like a truck and some added confusion for free

It’s my favorite Engi-Powerbuild.

get better weapons & armor and a good build. To be honest: World-PvE is really easy.

DrFutzLoop.5316:

My preference for weapons is D/D with a sigil of bloodlust and perception on each. This allows for up to 25 stacks of +10 precision and power.

2 stacking sigils don’t work together.

Zoose.1640:

Eles are the master class my friend.

^^ this.

its so ridiculous reading other players comments like ‘broken class’ or ‘unplayable’.
L2Adapt.

Turkashi.4502:

I though that 20% dmg on vul foe is generaly, not on 1 attuement. So yes, you’ll have it…for eternity

WIKI: Piercing Shards
While attuned to water, your spells deal 20% more damage to vulnerable foes.

So its only on water. And 5 Sec after the switch if i’m right.

hey,

short question about the minor trait Lingering elements: Attunement Bonuses linger for 5sec.

If i take percing shards (20% Dmg to vulnerable foes) and switch from water to fire, the 20% bonus stays active for 5 sec?

ty!

can’t watch in germany.

whats the build of your guardian?

Daecollo.9578:

digiowl.9620:

Consider this:

Necromancers have several traits that steal health. Yet unless you piled on all of them and got multiple mobs to stand a stack of wells for the full duration you could not get better performance than simply popping a omnom and banzai the same mobs. This even tho it would only proc on 2/3 of the crits.

Elementalist with all his tricks and burst heals can get about 900 hps.

Guardian with his virtues/regens/symbols can almost get up to 650ish-1000 hps, with regeneration even more.

Necromancers get 150 health every time there minions hit something and everytime they hit something, and there minion steals 976 health every 2 seconds. That is almost 750 HPS, the same amount of health my warrior got with omnomberry pies.

Warriors have NO condition removal compared to these classes. Yet they have only 200 hps compared to them, that is almost 4-5x less healing abilities. They have the worst of both worlds.

Protection CAN last forever for necro/guardian/ele if you play them correctly.

i play a pure power spec on my necro, without lifestealing traits or minions.
And stop telling people, how they play correctly. thats simply embarassing.

i’m perfectly fine with the ‘worst’ dodges on my necromancer.

Don’t you realise the problem is up to you?

Daecollo.9578:

blutstein.2468:

they are perfectly fine and have been adjusted recently.

Warrior healing isn’t fine at all. They go down way too easy and this was the only thing really keeping them up.

Until I get the same protection in some way, I’m probably going to make a new thread about Critical food, or bump it every 15 days.

Honestly, the food got over-nerfed. Admit it.

learn to dodge.
the heal-on-critfood was overpowered. admit it.

they are perfectly fine and have been adjusted recently.

Swiftwynd.1685:

blutstein.2468:

would like to see a video with the build in action!

Ask and you shall receive!

http://youtu.be/Tpf2dT9roPs

Crossplay and I bumbled through CoF Path 1 thanks to a couple of random warriors who were a bit sloppy at best, but the boss fight on this run turned out quite nice to watch, so I uploaded it

We’re going to keep working at perfecting our builds’ synergy before we take it into harder content, but ideally his boon build alone could almost stack 25 might for the group with enough practice, so my extra blast finishers tossed in should easily round it out

thank you very much!

looks amazing!

would like to see a video with the build in action!

yep, i can confirm this to, tested in 100 hits

http://dulfy.net/2013/02/26/gw2-lost-and-found-living-story-event-and-achievement-guide/

FiftyTwoBears.5482:

we all just need to abandon the forums, so arenanet wont know what’s going on, cause it seems like they’re just literally nerfing us based on other class forums and what we talk about here too

you just have to stop crying around and starting thread after thread after thread after thread after thread how disappointed and lonely you are. Please.

i think the new effects are not that bad at all, if they REMOVE the internal cooldown entirely, or lower it to 5 sek at least.

but for my playstyle, i have to see if the new KR has some uses… maybe.

just ignore the whining post above…

I really enjoy my Static Discharge power build. its close to pwning
mostly berserker-gear and ruby orbs.

Love my engineer since release, adapted every HUGE cough nerf (really, the sea of tears after every little change in this forums is downright ridiculous ) and looking forward for the patch. there will be plenty new builds available if they fix turrets! I like the idea of a turret-kit!

Keep up the good work!

hi,

so, actually I enjoy my little Asura necromancer, specced eather 30/0/0/10/30 or more vampiric based 30/0/0/30/10 or 30/15/0/25/0 with a/f and d/w.

But one things really annoys me: the necro profession really lacks of combo-finishers outside of the staff, or am i wrong?

any tips to throw out some combos on my necro`?

its funny to see how many people have nothing else to do as posting KR whinethreads one after another

runeblade.7514:

For example, you wear Utility goggles, you have perma-fury and immunity to blind forever as long as you have Utility goggles in your utility slot.

How could anyone call permafury and blindimmunity balanced on top of free 10% dmg??? thats ridiculously OP.

think —> write

Maskaganda.2043:

lordbachus.6091:

I dont understand you guys, you all make the obvious buff feel like a nerf because of a single trait that was changed, sadly thats not only the case with engineers, but all over the classforums.

it’s been like that since patch #1.

and in every other mmo…

learn2 adapt
(i sense flames incoming)

JonPeters.5630:

I can tell you its actually fixed in this build, so I suspect that the patch notes are just missing this information. There are a number of bug fixes whose notes never got through the patch note process. We will try and get this list and update the notes, but for now this trait works in PvE so patch and enjoy!

scope is fixed too?

dariuslarissa.6097:

Hi, what about this build that i’m going to try just when a get all the tokens… (Now i just need the armor gear)
Traits: 30 20 0 0 20 with explosives V, II and XI. Firearms IV, VI. Tools VI, IV or as you like.
Weapons: Double pistols with Superior Sigil Of Earth and of Corruption. Rabid gear (buyable with HotW tokens and gives you Condition Dmg, Precision and Toughness) with Beryl Orbs (Power Vitality and Critical Dmg).
Trinkets with: 2 ascended rings with Precion, Power and Condition Dmg, rampager’s accessories and amulet with Ruby Orb.
Healing Skill: Elixir H.
Utility Skills: Grenades for a great AoE damage and Condition Damage, Elixir C for converting conditions into boons for you and allies, Flamethrower (useful for farming) or Elixir Gun for heal when you swap on it (IV of Tools), get regeneration (with F1-F2-F3-F4 buttons, i dont know its name XD)
Elite Skill: Supply Crate for dungeons and Elixir X for Farming.
I hope you’ll like my build. Feel free to make changes and post them! If you enjoy more with the rifle I think it’s a good alternative, but i think that the possibility to use 2 sigils and have confusion, poison + 2.5k of damage with skills 3 and 2, and some high burning damage with skill 4 plus the trait bonus is great!!

jep its basically the same build but focused more on conditions instead of critdmg. I definitly prefer my rifle, because i use it as “Survivability”-Option and the frontloaded damage. But adding in more Rampager gear feels actually good for the added grenade condition dmg…

did you actually read my OP? Tankcat for general PvE and Dungeons and MAYBE A LITTLE WvW? not really… (tryed it already and its fun for WvW but meh for the rest)

and i never mentioned something about a broken kit and autotargeting issues…

for now I stick to a 30/10/0/0/30 with zerker and 2 rampagers. throwing around elixiers for rnd effects is kind of meh (even if its effective)

Paulytnz.7619:

blutstein.2468:

yeah I see, you love your build and don’t want to hear any critic at all

This is not true at all as you can see I am stating why I prefer my options over those presented for my personal playstyle/fun. Hey if someone thinks that 1 or 2 minor changes would work better for them that’s great I am happy for them to choose the bulk of my build and have that slight change for themself to enjoy the game. It would make me feel a little proud and give me the sense that I may have slightly done what I set out to do with this post which leads me to my next paragraph…

The whole point of this thread is that with a bit of searching and testing our class is NOT “crap”, “underpowered” or as bad as a lot of what I’m reading on the forums more often than not.

Now for you or someone to come along and reply something like you have I am much happier to see than something like “bs even your build is crap engie’s are still crap no matter what you try”. After all you never offered anything to prove how my build proves engie’s are still crap and just not bothering with now did you?

So thank you for your feedback.

sry man, no offense, but plenty of opinions here to make your build definitly more effective, thats a fact. Sure, its your playstyle, you’re happy with it and thats perfectly fine.

One thing i have to agree: the engineer is NOT Crap. i love the class, i love my grenade&lightning throwing BOOM-Charr. perhaps some minor tweaks here and there, but overall its pretty enjoyable. too much whiners here

yeah I see, you love your build and don’t want to hear any critic at all

try a static discharge build with a rifle. my favorite by far, tryed many builds… give it a try, its a pretty straight forward burst&control-playstyle.

Paulytnz.7619:

But I will keep the Blood as it is still better than most other sigils from my view. Heck I would even go as far as adding a gem over most other sigils for a little bit more Toughness/Power and Precision if I didn’t have the Blood sigil option.

Would that food work in conjunction with this food you mention? Now that could be a bit more healing if so. If not I would still stick with the Blood sigil as this also gives me options to use food for other things such as added magic find (as a lame example) or whatever slight bonuses I might find appealing for the situation at hand.

Thank you also for your feedback, I am happy that it was such a minor thing that you picked out of my whole build.

i would choose a xyz on weapon swap- sigill, since youre swapping a lot. might on swap perhaps.
why the vit-to-condi-trait? youve mainly direct-dmg attacks…

Hi,

recently tried out a heavy condition focused grenade build for dungeons & general Pve, and it was ok so far. but 3 points were really annoying:

- Open world pve was really slow. Applying the conditions takes time and slowed down the progress. Eventfarming was a desaster…
- in Dungeons another condition User cuts yout dmg in a half
- I really really miss my rifle

so my question: are there viable Power Builds for Dungeons and PvE? StaticDischarge rocks for eventfarming but does it in dungeons? Or a Power grenadier Build even with the 30% nerf?

Has many tokens to spend and wanna make a power build with rifle that does ok in Dungeons, world Pve (need 100& map completion!) and maybe WvW?

thanks!

@Reuxvnoir, Aristio:
Did anyone of you actually read the OP??? he asks for a leveling build and is lvl22. Posting terrible lvl80 Builds is no help at all.

@OP: Power/Rifle is the way to go. A Single Mob, even veterans shouldnt be able to reach you due a lot of controlling with your rifle and bomb kit. Its all about positioning, Auto with rifle pierces, thunderbluss&Jumpshot is AE.

http://dulfy.net/2013/01/11/gw2-shield-skins-gallery/

Malvado.1460:

Sorry to double post, but i wanted to REMIND You that this tread is about SIMIN in Arah Path 4, we don’t want self regulating defenses we want pure and massive dmg, also wanted to remind that most pve engineer will not be full zerker/dps’rs in the rest of the instances, since most already got used not to be on top dps meter and rerolled a balanced supportive build. Anyway I wanted this topic to be a little useful to myself. I want to do simin with my guildies which told me i need to change to full dps, now i dont want a normal all going around dps’er build, i just want one that allows me to do simin well as if my party had 4 zerker warriors and 1 time warp.

here is a build that iam still testing on, that I think will help me on simin battle, it works similar to the 100nades build but has more focus on precision since the battle will last more than the 1st burst of the grenadier
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQFAUlIqiXX7SiF17IyoHk2nNhgKAYfewWtFEC;TsAg0CnowxgjAHLOOck4Mq4Yx0CA

Scope doesnt work.

yeah you’re right, but never the less its the perfect declaration of arrogance

aydenunited.5729:

Decklan.7540:

You’re lack of respect for WvW is matched by my lack of respect for sPvP.

There are small skirmishes all the time in WvW. I also feel there are far more options available in regards to builds, runes, stat allocation, etc.

I feel a good WvW build is harder to come up with than a good sPvP with it’s one amulet and less upgrade component choices.

I get sick and tired of sPvP elitists always showing up and discounting anything because it doesn’t adhere to their pure sPvP meta. You have these ideas in your head that you have to “run full burst” or “run full bunker.” That is a result of the sPvP meta and the mere fact that you can’t allocate stats in balanced ways that net success.

In PvE and WvW you can. You are simply being close minded.

As of this post I feel horrible falling into your troll trap.

Good luck to you, if you change your mind about sPvP in relation to WvW feel free to PM me and we can discuss ideas.

this kind of ‘you are not worty for discussion without being my opinion, i played xxx hours and so i’m better than you. My word is law’ answer shows cleary HOW close minded you are.

to OP: Run a very similar build and never looked back at the ONE AND ONLY cough burst spec.

InfamousBrad.5879:

Pistols, Pistol and Shield, or Rifle? No. Grenade Kit and Bomb Kit for leveling.

• Rifle’s auto-attack hits like a brick. The other 4 attacks are, at best, situational. The good news is, it’s single-target, it doesn’t steal aggro from other players. The bad news is, it’s single target, you’re doing no damage to the other targets when you get swarmed.

grenades and bombs suck without traits. Extremly against single target…

Rifle Autoattack pierces (learn 2 position mobs), Blunderbluss and Jumpshot are AoE. So 3 out of 5 Skills are AoE. By far the best leveling weapon.

ok, agree to the offensive support for your group…

speedy kits is definitly enough swiftness if you use 4 kits. i would take 5 points out of precision and into tools. But i have to admit i’m not a fan of condition builds on my engi

Hell, you use FOUR kits… infused precision is a waste. And, where exactly is the support for your group you’re speaking of?

So,

I love my mesmer, but didn’t invest much time in creating a cute looking sylvari.

So I purchased a total-makeup-kit for gems and changed that.

The problem: I switched gender and realized, that there is no namechange included. so, my cute little female sylvari has to explore the world with a male name…

is there any hope that i could change it in the future (and hopefully without purchasing another makeup-kit because I had that already?)

sry for bad english, but it seems the german forums are not visited by the devs

Playing the same build like the OP, but i suggest compounding power & Confusion cry in the Illusions line…
Scepter/Torch is also not the ideal weapon choice for a shatter-burst-build. Strongly sugest sword/pistol or sword/focus for mobility

@Astus: sounds interesting, can you link the build,pls? I’m working towards p/t/cd gear but have not much playtime this days snief