Scrapper - Bulwark Gyro Support DPS

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Overview

Variant of Engineer - Power DPS. This build deals around 5% less DPS than its core Engineer counterpart. In exchange it bringing the strong defensive utility of

,

, and

.

While Scrapper's damage is poor compared to dedicated DPS builds, and significantly worse than Holosmith - Power DPS in organized groups, this build can help struggling parties complete dungeons and fractals while still filling the role of a power DPS.

Skill Bar

RifleHealingUtilityElite

Weapon Variants

You can run Hammer and trait
for similar results.

Skill Variants

Healing Skills

for additional CC from the tool belt skill, or for soloing Thaumanova heat room with the heal.
for granting protection with
.

Elite Skills

for more CC.
is technically the highest dps option.

Specializations

Variants

if might uptime is low or you can’t stay over 75% health.
in long fights without adds.
if there are 2 or more condition DPS players who can benefit from the buff.
if running hammer, or if you need stability.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Scholar

18x

Mighty +5 Agony Infusion

Sigil Variants

instead of
in night time dungeons/fractals.
Specific enemy damage bonus Sigil in dungeons with one enemy type.
- for example
  for Arah.
for encounters without breakbars.

Consumables

Food

Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup

Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup

Nourishment (1 h):

+100 Power+70 Ferocity+10% Experience from Kills

Consumable

Utility

Potent Superior Sharpening Stone

Potent Superior Sharpening Stone

Nourishment (1 h):

Gain power equal to 3% of your precisionGain power equal to 6% of your ferocity+10 Experience from kills

Consumable

Usage

You can click on a downed ally and use
to revive them from range. You can combine this with your normal revive for extremely fast rezzes, or let your Gyro revive while you're doing something else.
Rezzing an ally will grant Superspeed and barrier to all nearby allies due to
. This can help your group recover from a near-wipe and quickly correct their positioning.
Use
whenever the party is in danger of taking damage.
Time
to protect your party from projectiles or CC.
Use
and
(tool belt skill of
) to stealth the group. For longer duration skips you can blast stealth as described in the Engineer article.

See Engineer - Power DPS for general tips on playing power DPS Engineer.