Lowering the cooldowns is a pretty straight-forward choice considering how useful the Rifle’s abilities are from both a damage and utility point of view. There’s a lot of really nice traits there that synergize great with the Rifle’s abilities. The Rifle is a pretty obvious choice for this build, since I invested so heavily in the Power and Precision trait lines. The damage seems lower this last BWE3 compared to prior beta weekends. Superior Air is a nice choice anyway though for just extra damage and the potential for yet another crit (that can trigger another bleed or burning effect). Sigil of Superior Air – Sigils are pretty boring for Engineers since they don’t affect kits (yet there was a post by an ArenaNet developer that mentioned they would in the future) and you can’t use any of the swap ones since there’s only one “weapon set”. The Runes of Svanir are almost a gamechanger though in how it makes this otherwise glassy build into a beast.
I played a bit with some other rune sets like the generic Divinity set for more crit damage and the Runes of the Adventure (which is a lot of fun when it works but seems to bug out a lot and not actually trigger) and found most of them to have very little noticeable effect. That makes it like an auto-Endure Pain which is super useful. The toughness is great too since it’s my only source of it, and if you have Elixir R up when the stun/invuln goes up, you can remove the stun while keeping that invuln. That’s just wickedly powerful considering how potent Chill is. Considering that Grenadier gives me an extra freeze grenade, I end up with 3 4.5 second chills for a total of 13.5 seconds of chill on a 15 second cooldown. Together with the +30% condition duration from traits, my chills from the Freeze Grenade have a +50% modifier.
This Rune set is amazingly potent in this build. Runes of Svanir – (165 Toughness/+20% offensive Chill Duration/-50% defensive Chill Duration/5 second self-stun+invulnerability when hit below 20% HP) Check the following video for some clips of it in action along with detailed analysis on several situations I found myself in while playing with it.Įdit (): And check out a Tournament Game where I play it:Ĭlick past the jump for more details on the build. One of the most fun builds I came up with during BWE3 was a Rifle Engineer that focused on high direct damage and great control using the Grenade Kit as a utility skill.
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