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GW2 Stress test Engi upgrades! Turrets no longer aweful?

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Diremongoose

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EVERY engi skill now has a useful toolbelt skill. In the case of turrets, the toolbelt fires a shot of the turret without being deployed.

Rifle turret shoots a bullet, rocket a rocket, flame an AoE napalm ball, net turret a net.

ATTENTION ENGIES: Turrets MAY now be viable. Spamming those toolbelt skills do some nasty burst damage
I'd be interested to hear if anyone has tried them since the change (whenever that was).
 
After some testing...rifle turrets are still AWEFUL. Even the toolbelt skill only does half the base damage of a rifle shot, and no conditions. Thumper turret is sub optimal - toolbelt skill is very overwhelming.

Healing turret is GREAT...if you pick it up you get a 15s heal, plus the regen is nice. Rocket turret now does burning, and as does the toolbelt. Nice. Net turret - immobilise toolbelt, still awesome.
 
I have to agree with the rifle turret being awful. Even with the new toolbot skill. My build was a power rifle power burst build that used fast toolbelt recharges.
1. Throw Wrench from Toolkit
2. 5 stacks fo Vulnerability
3. Rocket Turret toolbet

I used a modified version of Teldo's power build and was able to burst pretty well for an engineer.
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Diremongoose said:
That image is not working for me, nor do I know the base build you're referring to. Would you mind recreating it in a build editor such as this one?
http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/
Click to expand...

I made a new post and linked it there. Not sure which image you are refering to but here is the build I was refering to.. also, the base build was from Team Paradigm's Power Rifle build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fcQQFAUl0pqdH5SbF17IxoHkuziG0D9mX/KqQ B;TkAg0CnoqxUjoGbNuak1MLB
 
Interesting. I've not bothered with the toolkit since it sucked in BWE1. I'm not a fan of divinity runes, but it looks like a solid build. I'll definitely give it a try when I can.
 
Same here. I honestly hated Tool Kit in BWE2. But with this build the toolkits toolbelt skill "throw wrench"
* scales with power
* pierces enemies
* Hits target twice if you can net them first
* 5s cripple
* and releases bolt of static discharge

Also, I found myself throwing "box of nails" (2) quite a bit for the cripple. Gear shield helped too because it blocks incoming attacks.
 
I hadn't played around much with throw wrench, but it sure is used to great effect in the video. Seems like it has a lot of potential with CC. It always felt sort of slow to me, but I suppose that I wasn't using it quite right.
 
They kill to throw wrench is to immobilizing your oponet first. Unless you are lucky enough to get a group of them stacked together it is hard.
 
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