Engineer - Core Sanguine Grenadier
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Focused on: Hybrid damage and Mobility
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Difficulty:
Hard
This build was last updated on August 15, 2024.
Overview
A Core Engineer hybrid-damage PvP build focused on kiting and sustained damage. This build heavily relies on kiting with the about-face command and snap-targeted grenades.
Skill Bar
Rifle
Utility
Grenade Kit
Utility Variants
- / - Trades mobility and easy access to burning for another stunbreak and higher burst damage. If you're savvy you can stunbreak allies with the toolbelt skill.
- / - Trades mobility and easy access to burning for another stunbreak and 3 seconds of complete invulnerability. Long cooldown. Toolbelt skill provides a short-duration AoE stealth.
- Note: If you would be stunned while using , rather than being stunned, the boots will be preemptively canceled and you will be free to act. Because of this, skilled usage of the ability generally outperforms other available utility skills.
Template Code
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Specializations
Trait Variants
- - Trades burst damage and 100% swiftness uptime for burst Vulnerability application, condition cleanse and a short reveal. Swap rune to Lynx for movement speed if using this.
- - Trades survivability for higher burst damage
- - Trades survivability for higher sustained damage
Equipment
Rifle
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
Amulet
Relic
Sigil Variants
- over - more consistent power burst with and
- over - better cleansing
- over - better consistent power damage (this sigil does not boost condition damage!)
- over - Higher 25 Vulnerability uptime, best used alongside alongside
Rune Variants
- - If you would rather not play with
- - More focus on Might duration
- - Good against teams with heavy condition damage
- - More offensive variant of Orr
Relic Variants
- - Trades poison & burn for more Vulnerability application. Works with all explosions thanks to . Best used in teamfights.
- - Good generally defensive relic. Stacks with (when buffed with resulting in 10s of protection every 20s.
- - Has a strong synergy with if conditions are an issue.
Weapon Variants
- Hammer - Trades the important and skills for a number of defensive skills. Less overall synergy with the build but still has its uses.
Usage
- This build is extremely reliant on kiting with grenades & the about-face command. One should be familiar and comfortable with the command before using this build. It prefers to be just on the edge of combat, barraging enemies with grenades that inflict Vulnerability, Cripple, and a slew of other conditions while also stacking tons of might through . If jumped or focused, it can safely gain distance with , , , , or before returning to kiting just out of melee range with s.
General
- Swap to whenever is off cooldown for Swiftness, or when in melee for
- & have low cooldowns and long range and should be used as often as possible. causes them to provide a lot of might so they should be used before other strong abilities like .
- 's 10s cooldown is great for landing important skills and keeping up Vulnerability stacks.
- Use over for filler.
- Before using abilities with blast or leap finishers, use the water field generated by or for additional healing.
Damage
- Use , , & as often as possible
- Fill with ; do NOT use !
- Use only if you're confident it will hit. Lead with !
- Other grenades are more situational; is one of the build's only unblockable skills, and is one of its only sources of blind. Knowing when to use Poison Grenade is key against comps with projectile hate.
- There are only five non-projectile skills in the kit: , , , , and (created by )
Burst Combos
- At range with stuns: > > > >
- In melee with stuns: > > > > > (this will also trigger if it's off cooldown)
- In melee with stuns #2: > > > > > >
- At range without stuns: > > > . Alternatively, before will get you into melee range for for even higher burst at the cost of a potential escape
Moblity
- Swap to every 20s (watch for the buff on your bar) for 100% Swiftness uptime.
- - Sends you an incredible distance and gives superspeed with .
- - Solid mobility option that can get over gaps. Gives 1/2s of evade starting at frame 1. This evasion doesn't last for the entire jump.
Defense
- While lacking in hard mitigation like blocks and evasion, this build makes up for it by having permanent Cripple application (thanks to ) and a slew of crowd control options. In theory, damage is mitigated by staying out of range of it entirely, so the above Mobility section also applies here.
- - Has both an initial knockdown and added cripple thanks to . One of the few skills that still works against blocking or evading enemies.
- and - Each provide ~2 seconds of control, in their own ways. With a bit of practice these can be used while running away by untargeting, beginning the cast, then turning around and retargeting before the cast finishes. The about-face function makes this possible without having to flail your mouse everywhere.
- - Gives 1/2s of evade starting at frame 1. This evasion doesn't last for the entire jump.
- - Drops 6 med packs in an average-size AoE. Allies (including you) hit by the initial drop will have a staggering 14 conditions removed, and the packs will spawn in a random area within that AoE. You'll have to walk over them to pick them up, where they will heal for ~1.3k each. Save this for the cleanse, or drop it ahead of time as the med packs remain for 60 seconds.
- - A single cast of this heal will proc twice for 6s of Protection and Resistance; once for the initial cast and once for the turret's overcharge. It's generally better to pick the turret back up immediately after than to detonate it as you'd be trading a 7s shorter cooldown for an additional ~1.2k healing.
- causes all toolbelt skills to cleanse an additional condition.
- - Drops a , , and which immediately overcharge. This gives a 2s initial stun, another 2s stun from , a blind-pulsing smoke field from and the usual heal from . The water field from the healing turret will take priority over the smoke field, but it doesn't last as long. This means you can blast/leap/ after the water field dissipates for a bit of Stealth.
Advanced Techniques
- > or can be used as a risky, aggressive stun that ignores block & evade.
- - An incredibly powerful tool overall, and one that can provide much needed stealth. The smoke field provided by is initially overlapped by the water field from the dropped , but it lasts a bit longer. Blast or leap through it after the water field disappears for a sneaky getaway or to finish a downed opponent.
- You can bait dodges by fake-casting . Using the weapon stow command, you can cancel the skill mid-cast and still get the crate visual.
- You can stow by dropping your bundle (same keybind as swap weapon). This doesn't have a cooldown, unlike the native stow attached to the skill, and can be spammed as quick as you can press it if you really feel like it.
- will only cleanse conditions at the end of the skill's animation. Skills that have long animations but can be canceled earlier like can be cancelled by taking out and immediately stowing in a pinch. The cleanse comes out faster this way.
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