Spie.5024

Mirage (mesmer)

I’m also curious about ranger vs thief. Finished my legendary armor and gearing out the various Engi builds. I also don’t know which one to play for PvE next between ranger and thief. Mostly for open world farming, raids and maybe fractals 😃

I run this build for all my map comp stuff and I find it pretty well rounded as explained in the video. https://youtu.be/gy3A_PiM3ZI

New main for medium armour or any? Engi is the best medium class I guess. although both ranger and thief are fine as well I guess for pve?

I’m curious now so would you mind sharing builds for these that I can try to compare with scrapper for solo play? What gear traits and skills to run for each of the specs you recommended? Is it power or condi because condi doesn’t work well for certain core Tyria for example.

I still run scrapper in open world because I haven’t found a better option so far for solo play that isn’t only about soloing bounties. If I have to solo a bounty or a champion, I’d usually just go celestial or Viper mechanist but for mowing through trash, collecting stuff and doing general open world stuff on my own (not meta’s), I almost always default to a scrapper build with alchemy and elixir for quickness, blast and shredder gyro.

I have to say I was a bit sceptical about the holo build as I thought the dps would be way too gutted but it actually works dps wise but the toughness is definitely up there. good quality of life, easy survival, easy to play, no kits for those against using kits as mortar is just a nice addition but not where your main damage comes from 🙂 . I imagine with strength runes it would be even better but works with scholar as well. Edit: Tried it in exotic with strength runes and this build works fine for soloing champions. I think even the most stupid players can solo on this as it’s simply that tanky 🤣 Thumbs up from my side for the engineer one. Just like any build, you might have toplay around with skill slots for certain changes as this build specifically lacks stability and stun breaks when fighting for example Mayatl The Fierce.

Couldn’t agree more.

Power holosmith is fine though? Quickness scrapper is also decent

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I have as heal mechanist and while the group has to move around if you stack the golem properly inside the hit box and give it commands regularly , the 600 range works to give boons. Just during the CC phases, it can be difficult and moving up to the platforms is also difficult to keep up boons but you don’t need it for the weak enemies there.

Out of curiosity is it possible to do Condi quickness build on engineer? Like a sort of ritualist with nade kit and gyros build perhaps? Secondly how are the condi alac / condi power builds?

Agreed and besides that people are often bashing on other classes because it feels like their preferred class doesn’t match the ease of play, or just does different things

Agree on so many levels. The hate mechanist gets here from people who probably don’t even play engineer or haven’t played it before mechanist is insane. mechanist is indeed one of the most well rounded classes out there and all of their specs perform reasonably well so there’s no need to cry on the forums for pve at least but still people complain and make hyperbolic statements to nerf it but can’t pin what exactly should be nerfed, let alone why…..

I hope they see it’s actually fine and not overpowered. engi is in such a good spot for pve! it’s a fantastic time to play engi in pve