"Assistance Needed": Veterans advice on PvP

[Baudrillard.4612]

Good evening/morning/day everyone!

Recently I took a huge break with Gw, doing some real life things, so I was abscent for quite a while. Before that I was playing Engi and Rev in 50/50 proportion. So, I'm a kind of player who likes PvP a lot and now, when I came back into the game I found that Rev is still in very good condition: Glint imperishable build is still here and still good, bow renegade is also an interesting thing - no problems with playing both of them. Then I decided to check my Engi and was a bit frustrated. According to Metabattle and Godsofpvp there are two viable builds: Nades Holo and Demo Scrapper. I tried both of them, but it should be some kind of trickery or my poor skills: both of them feel kinda meh? Holo seems to make 0 dmg in comparison to what I remember. Scrapper has overall better survivability, but it's literaly a challenge to kill somebody when it still can be easily focused by 2 players with CC.

So, here is my questions to veteran players: am I doing something wrong? What happened to all powerful builds alltogether? And more important, what other (more viable/fun) builds I can try to avoid that traditional over the years feeling of engi resentment?

Thank you for any answers and advices!

[ellesee.8297]

Nade holo is one of the strongest builds in the metagame right now. It does great damage and has a lot of survivability for being zerker amulet. If you're not doing damage on it, maybe you arent executing properly. The big hit will be landing sword 3>2 with t3 heat which can be easily set up with a shield 4 knockback. Land your nades, specifically shrapnel nade. Try to start and end holo form with 3 for the might and try to land a barrage in holo form while at high heat for the damage bonus.

Scrapper is meh. Prot holo is a vastly superior side noder.

[Baudrillard.4612]

@ellesee.8297 said:Nade holo is one of the strongest builds in the metagame right now. It does great damage and has a lot of survivability for being zerker amulet. If you're not doing damage on it, maybe you arent executing properly. The big hit will be landing sword 3>2 with t3 heat which can be easily set up with a shield 4 knockback. Land your nades, specifically shrapnel nade. Try to start and end holo form with 3 for the might and try to land a barrage in holo form while at high heat for the damage bonus.

Scrapper is meh. Prot holo is a vastly superior side noder.

Thank you for an advice! I'll try to reconsider how I play)