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The frightened bomber for PvE melee mobs

Saighdiuir de na Faolchu
Cliff
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Posted On: 01/01/2013 at 05:08 AM

Equip bomb kit and run away from mobs. :) Circling back in with a dodge with a bomb trait when you dodge. I up as much condition dmg I can and make sure crits and hits add burning and bleeding dmg. I increase bomb radius as well with explosive traits. I up my tool traits so I can lay more dmg as well. Its effective AoE dmg and can wipe massive ammounts of melee mobs. Doesn't work so hot for ranged attackers. I switch back to ranged for that.

I am new to reading and posting builds. This build is strictly PvE and hasn't been tested for anything else. Its funny to watch 15 or more trying to attack you while you run laying bombs at their feet. Works well for some dungeon situations. Then again, I am new to dungeons as well, and die to often to give much advice there.

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Briseadh
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Replied On: 01/01/2013 at 08:27 AM PST
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I have fun on my engi in PvE running around with grenades and having my turrets up. Lots of dodging required here and if I need to pick off ranged enemies I pull out my rifle to finish them off. I also drop mines around me when my health gets too low as one of my traits, which sometimes flubs if I can't get the enemy to step on them.

Don't mess with Mama Bear, I might hug you too tight. =D
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Kalizaar
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Replied On: 01/02/2013 at 01:24 PM PST

Later on you can also trait your bombs explosions to heal as well. I enjoyed playing a bombing engineer quite a bit, but melee characters you group with will hate you. They don't want to be running around constantly chasing you down to hit stuff, and especially hate it when you place your big old bomb scattering all the mobs in every direction. Although they do like your might boon when you use BoB in your burning field.

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Cliff
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Replied On: 01/02/2013 at 09:24 PM PST

Thanks for the input. I saw the heal allies with use of bomb. Does that heal self as well?

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Sekkerhund
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Replied On: 01/02/2013 at 11:47 PM PST
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Anything that says "heals allies" also heals self, for any class.

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Osu
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Replied On: 01/12/2013 at 06:45 AM PST
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That healing bomb thing, plus the elixer gun makes a decent healer build for the engi.

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Morigana
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Replied On: 01/14/2013 at 02:27 PM PST

For me - I didn't like the amount of healing that the Elixer-Infused Bombs did - not for a 30 point trait. I preferred putting 10 points into Tools so that I could get Speedy Kits (equipping a kit gives a 33% speed boost for 5 secs - with 5 sec cooldown - so basically swapping kits continually gives you a 33% continual speed boost - very helpful when follow Spartan in WvWvW - or just running in PvE - and then have the ability to swap to Kit Refinement which casts a spell when equipping a kit. I love this for Elixer gun since when equipping the Elixer gun I get an AE regen where I am standing basically just like the #5 under elixer gun) - plus with elixer gun you get an extra toolbelt heal. But I am full 30 points in Explosives - there is just too much there for AE damage to ignore. I was putting 30 into Toughness - but found bigger and better explosions made surviving in both PvE and WvWvW easier. In PvE or in WvWvW when getting hit by 5 or 6 baddies - no amount of toughness matters. But the elixer gun, the extra toolbelt heal, and Kit Refinement for the AE heal when equipping the Elixer Gun are real life savers. I also love being able to use the trait that allows me to throw grenades to 1500 with the 30 points into Explosions.

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Cliff
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Replied On: 01/15/2013 at 03:40 PM PST

Thank you all for you input. I have been experimenting with builds in WvWvW and still like the flexibility of bomb kit and finding grenades are good for my AoE from a distance. I still feel squishy despite being lvl 80. Its a matter of practice and time I guess.

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Susulemon
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Replied On: 01/15/2013 at 06:36 PM PST

bomb kit is actually the MOST dps auto attack in the game, no class has a spammable attack that deals such a high dmg so for pve content its pretty much a bliss for eng, just lure mobs over and fight them head on by dropping bombs.. even if u go down u can fight ur way up from down state

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SummerRaine
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Replied On: 01/16/2013 at 02:01 AM PST
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I made a engineer and can't get enough of her. There is something about running around bombing the bad guys that I just can't resist, lol. I LOVE it!!! :)

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