[PvE] Farming Build?

'Ello Engineers! I've been wondering if somebody would be so kind to help me with a build for farming.

Now I will admit, I know very little about the Engineer class, but I've seen many use them in the Silverwastes. However, I'll make it clear now I do NOT want to AFK farm.I would really love to use Turrets and ranged weapons so that I can keep mobile, but beyond that I've not a clue.

Turrets aren't the best to keep mobile (They are useless for almost everything, to be honest). For basic farming (farming mobs, I mean, not just nodes) I recommend to use Flamethrower, it tags a lot of mobs and require you to keep moving all the time. Also tools line with streamlined kits, so you have perma-swiftness even in combat. The rest is not even that relevant. Probably Holosmith, to have better DPS and kill things faster, and/or any source of Stability to avoid being CCed by anoying mobs (Juggernaut, Crystal Configuration: Eclipse, Final Salvo, etc.).Rifle is great for mobility, also rocket boots.

As far as "loot stick" goes in group farming, you can't beat the flamethrower.

If you're solo, holo is gonna to give you the most damage.

Grenade kit does a lot of aoe too, no? Flamethrower much better?

Much better, because you can direct every one of its 10 AA hits, while moving, kiting or chasing stuff, and through obstacles, without needing to manually place a ground target.Technically (In a laboratory-perfect situation) you could tag 30 objectives in a line and behind a wall every 2,5 seconds with just one button click (and moving).With AA nades (In its own laboratory perfect-situation) you'll get at most 15 targets, without cover, and executing 3 ground target activations (6 clicks), in 3 seconds.

So, if you only want to tag mobs... FT is king.

On the contrary, if the enemy has retaliation, FT is you dead...

@MrMojoRisin.7364 said:Grenade kit does a lot of aoe too, no? Flamethrower much better?

Grenade kit generally requires ground targeting, which is either time consuming or inaccurate due to flight times. Flamethrower is much more reliable as a loot stick, as it stacks up lots of hits through obstacles and has lots of little attacks in its AA.