Guild Wars 2

achmed.6542:

well i wouldnt call it similar since you are missing “elixir infused bombs” and all the toughness/+healing. looks more like a typical power build.
no offense but i doubt you can survive a champion fight without moving with your build

Fair Enough.

Perhaps I didn’t make it clear that I intended my changes to sacrifice some survivability for damage. However, since I’m still running with full cleric gear, I’m definitely not a “power build.” My intention was to go hybrid. I guess I called it similar because you only have to change 20 trait points and 1 or 2 skills.

I’ve been running something very similar to this. Mine is more of a grenade/healing combo.
These are the differences:

Healing Turret: (I rarely leave it deployed. I either pick it up right away for the 15 sec CD or detonate it after .5 seconds for the AOE heal combo and 20 sec CD)

I only put 10 points into invention (for the toughness to power trait).

I use Self-Regulating Defenses, it allows me to be a little more aggressive, and still heal myself back to full if I over commit.

I put 30 points into explosives (for grenadier). I use grenade kit as my main weapon. With this, I do ok damage. It is certainly not a DPS build, but I don’t have trouble killing stuff.

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/engineer#14|0|3187|4700|253|4053|4065|30|1795|1417|1885|0|0|0|0|10|988|0|0|20|1478|1479|0|10|1883|0|0|0|0|4|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|

I would like to add my voice to two previous suggestions,

Make Teleporting Cheaper: At the very least, teleporting to help a friend with a quest and then teleporting back should not lose you significant money. Try setting the cost to half of a level appropriate quest reward. Also, include an “Asura Gate” discount. If teleporting to the nearest gate, going through, and then teleporting again is cheaper, don’t make us waste time in loading screens to get the discount.

Make Looting a Separate Hotkey: I use turrets. Monsters melee turrets. Monsters die, leaving loot right next to turrets. I cannot pick up this loot without retrieving my turrets. This WILL drive me crazy. The latest “F key priority” changes helped, but it really needs to be a separate key all together. Alternatively, just make a setting for loot auto-pickup when in range, then we can all stop spamming the F key.