User:Lady Elyssa/Builds/Engineer

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Some of the open world builds found here may be outdated and have been left here for reference. Please check my main characters pages for some up-to-date options.

— Lady Elyssa

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Elementalist

Engineer

Guardian

Mesmer

Necromancer

Ranger

Revenant

Thief

Warrior

 

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The criteria used for all the open worlds builds is here.

Open World PvE Engineer Group Builds

HHH (Harrier's Healing Hammer) Scrapper

Damage Reduction

Might

• Alchemy: HGH - Elixirs (and their toolbelt skills) each grant 2 stacks of Might.

Regeneration

• Healing Turret.
• Healing Turret: Regenerating Mist (Toolbelt).

Vigor

• Elixir Gun: 2: Glob Shot.

Vulnerability

• Scrapper: Expert Examination.
• Elixir Gun 3: Fumigate.

Weakness

• Scrapper: Expert Examination.

Variants

• Alchemy: Health Insurance can be taken with Heal: Med Kit when unable to reliably blast Water Fields.
• The Cleric's Trinket Pieces can be swapped out for any other primary stat Healing combination.

Elixirs can be taken for the additional boons / utility as needed.

• Elixir B: Grants Stability + Random Boon.
• Elixir C: Converts Conditions into Boons.
• Elixir R: Refills Endurance and Revives Allies.
• Elixir U: Provides Quickness, Stability and Vigor and breaks stuns on allies.

Note: Only need about 95% Boon Duration as Alchemy: Compounding Chemicals increases Concentration by +240.

Pistol + Shield Harrier's Protective Healing Engineer

Might

• Alchemy: HGH - Elixirs (and their toolbelt skills) each grant 2 stacks of Might.

Regeneration

• Healing Turret.
• Healing Turret: Regenerating Mist (Toolbelt).

Vigor

• Elixir Gun: 2: Glob Shot.
• Tools: Optimized Activation - Tool belt skills grant Vigor.

Protection

• Shield Skills.
• Inventions: Experimental Turrets - Thumper Turret provides Protection when first placed.

Vulnerability

• Elixir Gun 3: Fumigate.

Open World PvE Engineer Solo Builds

Power Builds

Damage is dealt directly and takes effect immediately.

Rifle Engineer

Explosions cause Vuln and a 33% chance to cause cripple and bleeding you deal increased damage to Vuln foes. Crits on foes within 300 range grants you Fury and Fury grants you Ferocity. Equipping a kit provides Swiftness.

Use Flamethrower between foes to pre-stack some initial Might, Can use Bomb Kit (instead of Grenade Kit) for Melee Range as Fire Bomb provides a Fire Field and Big Ol’ Bomb (tool kit) is a blast finisher. Rifle Turret can be swapped for Thumper Turret to give you more blast finishers.

Hammer Juggernaut Scrapper

Easy access to Might, Fury, and Stability. Use Flamethrower between foes to pre-stack Might and to ensure you some Stability for your initial attack. Use your Equip Gyros to suit as needed.

Might

• Blast Finishers grant Might.
• While Flamethrower is equipped.
• Hammer auto attack chain

Fury

• Firearms: No Scope provides Fury on Crit on foes within 300 range.
• Blast Gyro (if taken)

Stability

• While Flamethrower is equipped.
• Personal Battering Ram
• Launch Personal Battering Ram

Quickness

• Scrapper: Applied Force
• Chronomancer Runes (if used)

Vulnerability

• Hammer auto attack chain
• Hammer 4: Shock Shield
• Hammer 5: Thunderclap
• Explosions from Bombs, Grenades, Mortar Kits, Turrets< Photon Forge, Exceeds.
• Rocket Turret (if taken)
• Launch Personal Battering Ram

Weakness

• Scrapper: Expert Examination
• Launch Personal Battering Ram

Variants

• Can take Explosives: Big Boomer for improved sustain.
• Diviner Gear can help improve and maintain Boon uptime. 66% Boon Duration is more than ample.
• Rune of the Chronomancer for additional quickness if using mostly Gyro's.
• Sigil of Rage for a slight increase in quickness uptime.
• Scrapper: Gyroscopic Acceleration increases Gyro well size and grants Superspeed.
• Scrapper: Object in Motion increases personal damage.
• Scrapper: Applied Force Gain quickness when gain over 10 stacks of Might.

Rifle Holosmith

Rifle Holosmith plays very much like the Rifle Engineer but now with more Kaboom.

 

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Condition Builds

Deals damage over time.

Dual Pistol Sinister Engineer

All Blast Finishers grant Might and Explosions cause Vuln and have a 33% chance to cause Cripple and Bleeding. Crits have a 33% chance to cause Bleeding. Toolbelt skills grant Vigor and you deal 10% more damage while under the effects of Vigor.

Dual Pistol Viper Engineer

As per Sinister Engineer but with more Condition Duration.

Variants

• Superior Rune of the Afflicted with Sigil of Smoldering + Fancy Truffle Burger / Spicy Cheeseburger.

+ Dual Pistol Viper Holosmith

Variants

• Explosives: Glass Cannon can be swapped to Blasting Zone when unable to keep health above 75%.
• Bomb Kit can be switched for Grenades or the Laser Disk for more mobile play.

Nightmare + Trapper Runes can be replaced with Weaver Runes and a Sigil of Malice or Berserker Runes and a Sigil of Malice.

+ Rifle Viper Holosmith

Plays out the same as Power Rifle Engineer but with a greater focus on Conditions.

 

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Tanking Builds

These make use of High Toughness (vs direct damage), Vitality (vs Conditions) or Damage Resistance.

Evasive Knight Scrapper

High Toughness with high endurance regeneration, damage and condition damage mitigation and basic barrier generation.

Variants

• Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew provides Might on Dodge and +40% to Endurance refill rate.
• Bowl of Curry Mussel Soup for 10% Damage Reduction + 5% Condition Damage Reduction.
• Runes of Durability / Leadership for some additional boon duration.
• Berserker/Commander Version
• The Wanderer Version has more vitality to further improve survivability at the expense of damage.

 

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Utility Builds

Boons / Support / Healing / Condi Cleanse

Rifle Berserker/Commander Holosmith

Rifle Holosmith plays very much like the Rifle Engineer but now with more boons.

Sword + Shield Berserker/Commander Holosmith

Shield Skills provide a good source or reliable protection as well as additional defence and CC. The Elite Mortar Kit skill 5 - Elixir Shell provides a Water Field that can be blasted with the thumper turret on activation and detonation as well as the toolbelt skill rumble. The Thumper Turret also provides an additional source of Protection. Try to maintain over 100% Heat to maximise the effectiveness of the Sword skills and Quickness from Radiant Arc + Elixir U.

Variants

• Hard Light Arena provides another source for Boons in addition to some Condi Cleanse.

 

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Support / Healing

Providing support / healing for the benefit of others.

Pistol + Shield Elixir Plaguedoctor Engineer

Variants

• Healing Turret can be taken for an additional strong burst heal.
• Med Kit 3 provides a water field while Med Kit 5 provides a Blast.
• Sigils can be changed to use Transference, Water or Renewal for more Support.
• Consumables can be changed to Delicious Rice Ball and Bountiful Maintenance Oil to improve Outgoing Healing.
• Plaguedoctor Holosmith

 

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Thematic

These builds are focused around a particular theme and include gear suggestions (where feasible) for those who appreciate the theme and look of their characters over a dry DPS build.

Dual Pistol Afflicted Charr Engineer of the Iron Legion

Variants

• Flame Turret can be swapped out for the Laser Disk or Bomb Kit as needed.
• Holosmith Version

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Cosplay

Scarlet Briar

Hairstyle

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Build

• Power Holosmith
• Viper Holosmith

Weapons

• Quip
• Aetherized Rifle
• Scarlet's Kiss

Armor

• Hooded Version Magitech armor + Subterfuge Hood

Head	Scarlet's Veil (medium skin)
Shoulders	Scarlet's Spaulders
Chest	Magitech Jerkin Skin
Hands	Scarlet's Grasp
Legs	Magitech Legging Skin
Feet	Magitech Boot Skin

Additional Info

Table of engineer combo skills

Swiftness / Movement Skills

• Tools: Streamlined kits when equipping any kit.
• Rocket Boots
• Scrapper - Use a Blast Finisher on the Lightning Field from Hammer 5: Thunderclap.
• Scrapper - Hammer 3: Rocket Charge.
• Holosmith - Sword 3: Radiant Arc

Survivability

• Elixir S provides a stun break and 3sec evade + Toss Elixir S provides 5sec Stealth.
• Slick Shoes toolbelt provides Superspeed while Slick Shoes itself provides a Knockdown.
• Rocket Boots can be useful in getting you of a bad spot / AoE.
• Elixir R refills your Endurance + Toss Elixir R can be used to remove conditions, revive allies or if timed correctly to self revive / rally.
• Tools - Optimised Activation (Minor) provides Vigor on Toolbelt use.
• Tools - Adrenal Implant increases Endurance regeneration by 50%.
• Alchemy - Iron Bloodied reduces incoming damage and condition damage by 2% per boon on you.
• Alchemy + Inventions provide sources of Protection.
• Scrapper - Bulwark Gyro damage reduced by 33% + Defense Field (toolbelt) reflects.
• Scrapper - Recovery Matrix grants Barrier on Heal
• Scrapper - Decisive Renown grants Barrier on Revive / finish enemy.
• Scrapper - Adaptive Armor grants Barrier when struck (3sec ICD) and reduces incoming condition damage by 20%.
• Scrapper - Medic Gyro > Reconstruction Field (toolbelt) provides some Protection and a mobile Water Field.
• Endurance has a base regeneration rate of 5% per sec and a max rate of 10% per second allowing for an extra dodge every 5 secs at maximum.

Condi Cleanse

• Utility: Elixir C, Healing Turret (Cleansing Burst), Elixir Gun - Fumigate / Super Elixir, Elixir R (Toolbelt) - Toss Elixir R
• Elite: Overcharge Supply Crate.
• Scrapper: Purge Gyro
• Holosmith: Cauterize (Toolbelt skill of Coolant Blast)
• Traits: Inventions - Anticorrosion Plating (when you grant Protection) / Cleansing Synergy (on Heal)

Crowd Control

Mace - Mechanist Only

• 3 - Rocket Fist Prototype

Rifle

• 4 - Overcharged Shot

Shield

• 4 - Magnetic Shield > Magnetic Inversion
• 5 - Static Shield + Throw Shield

Utility Skills

• Battering Ram / Personal Battering Ram, Supply Crate, Slick Shoes, Big Ol’ Bomb, Flamethrower 3, Thumper Turret, Net Turret, Throw Mine / Detonate
• Hammer 5: Thunderclap, Blast Gyro - Scrapper Only
• Force Signet - Mechanist Only

Elite Skills

• Supply Crate, Elixir X

Pro Tip: You can deactivate Photon Forge by switching directly to a kit, though there is a 5sec hard cooldown upon entering Photon Forge whereby you cannot exit. The exception to this is if you become downed or are able to mount up.