Engineer - Power Grenadier

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Overview

The power Engineer build for PvE Dungeons, this build provides a large amount of vulnerability, great personal DPS, and extra utility with combo fields.

Skill Bar

RifleHealingUtilityElite

Kits

Grenade Kit

½

Grenade

Throw several grenades that explode.

Damage: 117

Number of Grenades: 3

Number of Targets: 5

Explosion Radius: 120

Range: 900

½

5

Shrapnel Grenade

Throw grenades that explode in a hail of shrapnel, causing bleeding.

Damage: 196

Bleeding (10s): 220 Damage

Number of Grenades: 3

Number of Targets: 3

Explosion Radius: 150

Range: 900

½

10

Flash Grenade

Throw grenades that explode in blinding flash.

Damage: 36

Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Number of Grenades: 3

Number of Targets: 3

Explosion Radius: 150

Range: 900

½

20

Freeze Grenade

Throw grenades that chill foes with a frigid blast.

Damage: 178

Chilled (2s): -66% Movement Speed, -66% Skill Recharge Rate

Number of Grenades: 3

Number of Targets: 5

Explosion Radius: 240

Range: 900

½

25

Poison Grenade

Throw several grenades that explode in poisonous cloud.

Damage: 178

Poison (8s): 268 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

Number of Grenades: 3

Number of Targets: 3

Range: 900

Unblockable

Elixir Gun

¾

Tranquilizer Dart

Fire a dart that bleeds and weakens foes.

Damage: 130

Bleeding (4s): 170 Damage

Weakness (1s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, 50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 900

¾

8

Elixir F

Fire a bouncing glob of Elixir F that cripples foes and grants swiftness to you and allies.

Damage: 244

Swiftness (3s): 33% Movement Speed

Cripple (3s): -50% Movement Speed

Number of Bounces: 3

Range: 900

2¼

12

Fumigate

Spray a cone of elixir fumes, inflicting poison and vulnerability to foes and curing conditions on allies with every strike.

₅Damage: 140

₅Poison (2s): 335 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

₅Vulnerability (6s): 5% Incoming Damage, 5% incoming Condition Damage

Conditions removed: 5

Number of Targets: 5

Range: 450

¼

15

Acid Bomb

Elixir. Leap backward, spraying an acidic elixir on the ground that damages nearby foes.

Damage: 277

Distance: 550

Number of Targets: 5

Duration: 5 seconds

Radius: 180

Combo Finisher: Blast

Unblockable

½

20

Super Elixir

Elixir. Launch an elixir orb, healing nearby allies on impact and creating an area of continual healing.

Impact Heal: 700

Pulse Heal: 204

Number of Targets: 5

Pulses: 11

Duration: 10 seconds

Radius: 240

Combo Field: Light

Range: 900

Flamethrower

2¼

Flame Jet

Spray fire in a cone pattern while moving, burning foes on the final attack. Deals 10% bonus damage to burning targets.

₁₀Damage: 800

Burning (2s): 262 Damage

Attacks per Second: 5

Range: 425

½

6

Flame Blast

Fire a napalm ball that rolls through foes and explodes.

Damage: 247

Number of Targets: 5

Range: 600

½

15

Air Blast

Push back foes and projectiles with a hot air blast.

Knockback: 400

Number of Targets: 5

Extends Burning Duration: 2 seconds

Range: 300

30

Napalm

Burn foes with a wall of napalm at the target location.

Damage: 36

Burning per Pulse (2½s): 262 Damage

Duration: 10 seconds

Combo Field: Fire

Range: 600

20

Smoke Vent

Vent smoke from your flamethrower blinding nearby foes.

Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 180

Elite Mortar Kit

½

Mortar Shot

Launch an explosive round from your mortar, damaging foes in the target area.

Damage: 284

Number of Targets: 5

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,500

½

12

Poison Gas Shell

Launch a mortar round that spreads poisonous gas in an area.

Damage: 226

Poison (2½s): 67 damage, -33% Healing Effectiveness

Number of targets: 5

Duration: 4 seconds

Interval: 1 second

Radius: 240

Combo Field: Poison

Range: 1,500

½

20

Endothermic Shell

Launch a mortar round that chills foes in the target area.

Damage: 226

Chill (1s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

Number of targets: 5

Duration: 4 seconds

Interval: 1 second

Radius: 240

Combo Field: Ice

Range: 1,500

½

25

Flash Shell

Launch a phosphorous mortar round that burns brightly at impact point.

Damage: 226

Blind (5s): Next Outgoing attack misses.

Number of targets: 5

Duration: 4 seconds

Interval: 1 second

Radius: 240

Combo Field: Light

Range: 1,500

½

30

Elixir Shell

Elixir. Launch a mortar round that heals allies the target area.

Healing: 370

Number of targets: 5

Duration: 4 seconds

Interval: 1 second

Radius: 240

Combo Field: Water

Range: 1,500

Slot Changes

Flamethrower can be replaced by:

Bomb Kit

Bomb Kit

Device Kit. Equip a kit that replaces your weapon with bomb skills.

to blind dangerous trash mobs and blast stealth for when you are without a thief with

Smoke Bomb

½

25

Smoke Bomb

Set a timed charge that creates a cloud of smoke, blinding nearby foes.

Blindness (3s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Number of Targets: 5

Pulses: 3

Duration: 4 seconds

Interval: 2 seconds

Radius: 240

Combo Field: Smoke
Tool Kit

Tool Kit

Weapon Kit. Equip a kit that gives you a variety of tools.

,

Elixir S

60

Elixir S

Elixir. Drink Elixir S to shrink yourself, recover from stun, and evade attacks.

Duration: 3 seconds

Prevents Capture-Point Contribution

Breaks stun

and

Rocket Boots

¾

20

Rocket Boots

Gadget. Fly forward, damaging foes with your rocket exhaust. Cures immobilized, crippled, and chilled.

Damage: 244

Rocket Range: 900

Radius: 120

Combo Finisher: Blast

Range: 600

to make difficult trash runs.

Specializations

Variants

Use if you are replacing a thief in dungeons where lots of stealth is needed.
Use if you have trouble hitting moving targets with grenades.

Equipment

Stats

Berserker Trinkets, Armor and Weapons

Upgrades

Superior Sigil of Force

+5% Damage

3

Superior Sigil of Air

50% Chance on Critical: Cause a Lightning Strike. (Cooldown: 3s)

6x

Superior Rune of the Scholar

(1): +25 Power (2): +35 Ferocity (3): +50 Power (4): +65 Ferocity (5): +100 Power (6): +125 Ferocity, +5% damage while your health is above 90%.

Variants

Superior Sigil of the Night

Superior Sigil of the Night

Outgoing damage is increased by 10% at night.

instead of

Superior Sigil of Air

3

Superior Sigil of Air

50% Chance on Critical: Cause a Lightning Strike. (Cooldown: 3s)

in night time dungeons.
Specific enemy damage bonus Sigil instead of

Superior Sigil of Air

3

Superior Sigil of Air

50% Chance on Critical: Cause a Lightning Strike. (Cooldown: 3s)

in dungeons with one enemy type.
- for example
  
  Superior Sigil of Undead Slaying
  
  Superior Sigil of Undead Slaying
  
  +10% Damage vs. Undead
  
  for Arah.

Infusions

Versatile Mighty Infusion

Versatile Mighty Infusion

+5 Power +5 Agony Resistance

for armor.
Mighty Infusion

Mighty Infusion

+5 Power +5 Agony Resistance

for weapons and trinkets.

Food/Potions

Plate of Truffle Steak

Nourishment (30m):

+100 power+70 precision+10% Experience from kills

Consumable

⇒

Plate of Steak and Asparagus

Nourishment (30 m):

+80 power+60 precision+10% Experience from kills

Consumable

for the Cheaper version.

Superior Sharpening Stone

Nourishment (30 m):

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

Consumable

or 10% Enemy specific Utility Potions

Usage

DPS Rotation

Engineer has a lot of skills, the DPS rotation depends heavily on your alacrity uptime. Though the general idea of a good engineer rotation can be boiled down to using your highest damaging skills off cooldown.

Priority Skills

- Use these skills whenever they recharge.

Use your grenade auto-attack to fill in the gaps.

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Stealth Stack stealth for your party by swapping for and Rifle for Shield.

+ +
+

You can swap any kit while you are still out of combat to for additional stealth from

Pathing

Once you Trigger certain Mob Groups while beeing in Stealth they will follow you unless you "Path" them. This is done by standing Still until the Mobs reach you. For further information check out this:

YouTube:

Pathing Tutorial by Vitarain

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Running

Swap to for additional movement speed if you know you wont be put into combat in the next 20 seconds.
Use for additional movement.
- You can swap to a kit and back to rifle before the end of the leap to increase the leap distance slightly and to cancel the damage upon landing to avoid being put into combat.
Use in reverse for additional movement.

Stacking Might

Swap to
Use and swap back to
Place on top of the placed
Move so you are standing inside and are aiming into the length of the line.
Use and
Use
Use and cancel the leap.
Place and
Swap to shield and use , then swap back to rifle.
Swap to
Use the toolbelt skill and swap back to
Use and again.

Tips

Skill Usage

Always press

Healing Turret

½

20

Healing Turret

Turret. Deploy a turret that heals you briefly, then regenerates you and your allies.

Healing: 2,520

Regen (3s): 390 Heal

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 480

twice so

Cleansing Burst

15

Cleansing Burst

Overcharge your healing turret, supplying a burst of healing that cures two conditions.

Healing: 2,520

Regen (5s): 650 Heal

Conditions Removed: 2

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 480

Combo Field: Water

triggers right after placing the turret. Healing turret provides great sustain for your team, able to heal 5 people for a significant amount and curing 2 conditions on each every 15-20 seconds. Use it liberally to keep the

Superior Rune of the Scholar

Superior Rune of the Scholar

(1): +25 Power (2): +35 Ferocity (3): +50 Power (4): +65 Ferocity (5): +100 Power (6): +125 Ferocity, +5% damage while your health is above 90%.

bonus up on your team.
You can pick the turret up for a 5 second cooldown reduction, or use

Detonate Healing Turret

Detonate Healing Turret

Detonate your healing turret.

Damage: 1,270

Radius: 120

Combo Finisher: Blast

for a blast finisher.
- When choosing to
  
  Detonate Healing Turret
  
  Detonate Healing Turret
  
  Detonate your healing turret.
  
  Damage: 1,270
  
  Radius: 120
  
  Combo Finisher: Blast
  
  you should do so during
  
  Cleansing Burst
  
  15
  
  Cleansing Burst
  
  Overcharge your healing turret, supplying a burst of healing that cures two conditions.
  
  Healing: 2,520
  
  Regen (5s): 650 Heal
  
  Conditions Removed: 2
  
  Number of Targets: 5
  
  Radius: 480
  
  Combo Field: Water
  
  for a blast in the created water field, or detonate it on a fire field to increase group DPS. However be aware that
  
  Detonate Healing Turret
  
  Detonate Healing Turret
  
  Detonate your healing turret.
  
  Damage: 1,270
  
  Radius: 120
  
  Combo Finisher: Blast
  
  also comes with a knockback.
Air Blast

½

15

Air Blast

Push back foes and projectiles with a hot air blast.

Knockback: 400

Number of Targets: 5

Extends Burning Duration: 2 seconds

Range: 300

reflects projectiles for a short duration and is nice for positioning mobs to your desire with a knockback.
Use

Smoke Bomb

½

25

Smoke Bomb

Set a timed charge that creates a cloud of smoke, blinding nearby foes.

Blindness (3s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Number of Targets: 5

Pulses: 3

Duration: 4 seconds

Interval: 2 seconds

Radius: 240

Combo Field: Smoke

and / or

Flash Shell

½

25

Flash Shell

Launch a phosphorous mortar round that burns brightly at impact point.

Damage: 226

Blind (5s): Next Outgoing attack misses.

Number of targets: 5

Duration: 4 seconds

Interval: 1 second

Radius: 240

Combo Field: Light

Range: 1,500

to blind trash mobs when you are replacing a thief.
Fumigate

2¼

12

Fumigate

Spray a cone of elixir fumes, inflicting poison and vulnerability to foes and curing conditions on allies with every strike.

₅Damage: 140

₅Poison (2s): 335 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

₅Vulnerability (6s): 5% Incoming Damage, 5% incoming Condition Damage

Conditions removed: 5

Number of Targets: 5

Range: 450

cleanses one condition for each pulse for a total of 5 condition cleanses on every ally hit, you can use this skill without a target to make it easier to hit multiple allies.

Misc

Always carry a shield so you can blast might or stealth out of combat with

Magnetic Inversion

Magnetic Inversion

Release the magnetic field to push back nearby foes.

Damage: 61

Knockback: 300

Radius: 180

Combo Finisher: Blast
You can/should cancel the leap part of

Acid Bomb

¼

15

Acid Bomb

Elixir. Leap backward, spraying an acidic elixir on the ground that damages nearby foes.

Damage: 277

Distance: 550

Number of Targets: 5

Duration: 5 seconds

Radius: 180

Combo Finisher: Blast

Unblockable

by dropping the bundle (swap weapons), right after the skill cast completed. This ensures you stay in position and not pull enemies away from the stack spot.
Chain

Overcharged Shot

15

Overcharged Shot

Fire a blast so strong it launches your foe as you fall backward and cures immobilized, crippled, and chilled.

Damage: 244

Foe Launch Distance: 450

Self Knockback Distance: 300

Range: 600

with

Healing Mist

35

Healing Mist

Elixir. Vent a healing mist, granting regeneration to yourself and allies.

Regen (10s): 1,300 Heal

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 240

Breaks stun

for an extra CC without getting knocked down.

Toolbelt skills have many intricacies to them as they can be used without the utility going on cooldown. This allows you to swap a utility in and out purely for its toolbelt skill:

Toss Elixir B

½

25

Toss Elixir B

Elixir. Toss Elixir B at a location, granting stability and one of the following boons to allies: fury, might, retaliation, or swiftness.

₃Stability (4s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted.

Fury (10s): 20% Critical Chance

Might (30s): 30 Power, 30 Condition Damage

Retaliation (10s): Reflect incoming damage back to its source.

Swiftness (10s): 33% Movement Speed

Radius: 180

Range: 900

gives stability and one of the following boons: fury, might, retaliation or swiftness.
Toss Elixir U

½

50

Toss Elixir U

Elixir. Toss Elixir U, creating a random spell at the target location.

Duration: 12 seconds

Range: 900

randomly creates either a

Smoke Screen

½

30

Smoke Screen

Deception. Create a smoke screen that blocks projectiles and blinds foes.

Blindness (1s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Smoke Screen Duration: 7 seconds

Combo Field: Smoke

Unblockable

or a

Wall of Reflection

40

Wall of Reflection

Consecration. Protect the targeted area with a wall of mystic power that reflect projectiles.

Duration: 10 seconds

Combo Field: Light

, useful if your group lacks projectile defense.
Toss Elixir C

½

25

Toss Elixir C

Elixir. Toss Elixir C, converting one condition into boons for allies.

Conditions Converted to Boons: 2

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 240

Range: 900

converts two conditions to boons, one of the Engineer's many condition clears.
Toss Elixir S

½

50

Toss Elixir S

Elixir. Toss Elixir S, granting stealth to allies in target area.

Stealth (5s): Invisible to foes.

Radius: 180

Range: 900

grants stealth for 5s, very useful for both long and short skips.
Toss Elixir R

¼

100

Toss Elixir R

Elixir. Toss Elixir R, curing conditions and reviving allies.

Revive Percent per Pulse: 17%

Conditions Removed: 1

Duration: 10 seconds

Radius: 180

Combo Field: Light

Range: 1,200

revives an ally gradually and cleanses conditions in a target area, has 1200 range!