I love condi engie. Recently, I made viper's ascended gear just so I can optimally use condi since it isn't as good as power engie right now. A small accomplishment to most of you I'm sure, but a huge one for me considering I played through 5 years of this game with just exotic gear. Condi engineer (or piano engineer) is one of the first rotations I really learned and certainly my favourite dps build for Engineer. I just want to point out how there really is not much versatility for condi on the engie. Condi engie has always been the same. The addition of holosmith just added the rotation of holo-mode + corona burst, then swapping back to what basically feels like core engineer for your kit rotations. There is no build diversity for condition damage on the engineer, it is always the same. Compared to power, condi is lackluster. Power is currently meta but also has the most meta (and non meta!) build diversity. Power holo for fractals and raids, with sword and rifle variations. Power scrapper for when you need to carry some players with some tanking. MANY variations of power scrapper for open world (hammer, flamethrower, and grenades are all amazing open world power builds.) Condi engie has.... one weapon to use. P/P. You really can't even mix a shield in there since you lose Pistol 4. You need to always play piano style or you're missing out on powerful conditions. There is no "lazy" condi build like power flamethrower. Your specs always stay the same unless you count going from alchemy/explosions to holosmith for pretty much the same dps. Just a slightly different aesthetic once every 8 or so seconds. Anybody agree/disagree?
What condi build are you running in PvP? I really love condi pvp builds but I can't seem to make one for engineer that actually deals any reasonable damage.