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Table of Contents
1. Introduction .................................................... [1000]
2. Patch [6.0] ..................................................... [2000]
3. Reactor ......................................................... [3000]
4. Talents .......................................................... [4000]
5. Rubies ........................................................... [5000]
5.1 Rubies for Volleys: ...........................................[5001]
5.2 Rubies for Hand Beam Cannon MK1: .......................[5002]
5.3 Rubies for Defibrillation ..................................... [5003]
5.4 Rubies for Burner ............................................. [5004]
5.5. Rubies for Frag bomb ....................................... [5005]
5.6 Rubies for Paralyzing Ray .................................... [5006]
5.7 Rubies for Burst of Mana ..................................... [5007]
5.8 Rubies for Dither bomb ...................................... [5008]
5.9 Rubies for Devices ............................................ [5009]
5.10 Rubies for Emergency Revival Kit .......................... [5010]
5.11 Rubies for Combat Mode .................................... [5011]
5.12 Rubies for Defensive Devices ............................... [5012]
5.13 Rubies for Flying Pad........................................ [5013]
5.14 Other Rubies.................................................. [5014]
6. Racial, World Mysteries Abilities and Incarnation skills.... [6000]
7. Stats PvE......................................................... [7000]
7.1 Stats PvP....................................................... [7001]
8. Build: Recommended Astral PvE.............................. [8000]
8.1 Build: Other PvE...............................................[8001]
8.2 Build: PvP....................................................... [8002]

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Hello everyone, my name is Jote. I've been around since closed beta. I am currently in the guild Warsong (New Frontier). I'm known in the guild for high PvE dps. What got me interested in engineers was its special interaction with astral ships. I prefer playing engineer over the other classes because of the versatility they bring to astral and raiding. I had my time to play around with engineers since they were introduced in patch [5.01].


With the new patch, engineers’ ruby grids were slightly altered. Three new types of rubies were added. Only “Calibration” rubies are essential for PvE. Beyond that, the builds are relatively the same with last patch [5.02].

The new [6.0] stuff:

Calibration

• Volley shots now have an increased 4/8/12% critical hit chance
  

Movement Detectors

• When your “Steel mosquitoes” attack is dispelled, the enemy takes damage and is slowed by 1.5/3/4.5 seconds
• *R3 of this ruby on activation makes steel mosquitoes hit a little harder than one normal steel mosquitoes tick but are still not worth the rubies for PvE.

Vacuum Trap

• When steel trap reaches your target, knock down 1/3/5 enemies within 4/7/10 yards of the target.
• **Not useful for PvE.

Engineers have their own special mechanic - the reactor.

Certain skills increase or decrease the temperature of the reactor. The reactor will always try to stabilize back to 0.
• HOT temperature will have the arrow going right [Heats]
• Cold temperature will have the arrow going left [Cools]





Fire Shot

• Deals damage and cools the reactor by 25 degrees. Your go to spam button.
  

Acid Shot

• Deals damage and heats the reactor by 25 degrees. Your other go to spam button.
  

Hand Beam Cannon MK1

• Ticks damage every second and increasingly cools the reactor by 30 and 60 / 90 degrees for each additional tick respectively.
• * Will turn itself off if the next tick causes the reactor to go over -199 degrees. -25 is about the lowest you can go before you lose out on the third tick

Lightning Shot

• Deals damage and cools the reactor by 38 degrees. Your go to spam button when cannonade procs.
  

Defibrillation

• 1. Deals damage and stuns for 1/2/3 seconds. 60 second cooldown OR
• 2. Instantly resurrect a friendly player without confirmation and grants .5/1/1.5 seconds of immunity. Always take r1 you will need it for either effect.
  

Astral Shot

• Deals damage and heats the reactor by 38 degrees. Your other go to spam button when cannonade procs.
  

Column 2

Burner

• Deals damage every 1.2 seconds and heats the reactor by 30 degrees per 1.2 seconds.
• * Will turn itself off if the next tick causes the reactor to go over 199 degrees. To get the maximum duration of burner, use when reactor is at-25degrees

Frag bomb

• Deals damage to a target and a tiny AoE radius around it. Use whenever off cooldown.
  

Paralyzing Ray

• Crowd control, disables the enemy for 15/30/45 seconds. Reduced effectiveness in PvP.
  

Seal of Health

• Party buff of 10/20/30% hp.
  

Burst of Mana

• HOT - Deals damage and applies a DoT up to 9 stacks for 4 ticks. Requires reactor to have a temperature of at least 50.
  
• COLD – Deals damage and applies a slow for 3-7s. Requires reactor to have a temperature of at least -50.

Dither Bomb

• Requires temperature to be less than -50 deals damage to one target and applies a dot up to 3 stacks depending on temperature [-50,-100,-150 respective temperature needed to apply 1/2/3 stacks of DoT when bomb lands].

Light turret

• Creates a device, every 2 seconds the turret will shoot the closest target; a ruby overwrites this rule.
• Your set and forget dps turret. Be sure not to set this too close to another pull.

Emergency Revival Kit

• Engineer die hard. When engineer’s hp goes to 0, hp is set to 1% of maximum and gain a shield for 10/20/30% of maximum health. Speed is greatly increased during this time.
• Take at least r1 of this to prevent your oops moment.
  

Steel Mosquitoes

• Throw a device that deals damage ticks every 3 seconds for 4 ticks; the first tick happening almost instantly.
  

Firethrowing Turret

• Creates a device, every 0.5 seconds deals AoE damage in a cone within 15 yards of the turret is facing. Instantly heats for 100 degrees. Use for aoe pulls or in combination with Overload.
  
• * Turret position is always placed facing the direction of your character’s animation to place the turret.
  
• ** Cannot use if reactor is above 100 degrees, cannot use if reactor is below -25 degrees
  

Overload

• Dragon Tear skill. Your next offensive device does not trigger the global cooldown of offensive devices. (AKA anything in column 3 excluding emergency revival kit.)
• You cannot have more than one of the SAME device out at a time. Creating the same device that is out will cause the existing device to die off. Exclusion goes to Steel Mosquitoes when used on different targets.
• Use when off cooldown for maximum dps.

Combat Mode

• Frag bomb, Dither bomb, Steel mosquitoes do not cost energy while mounted.
• Gain a shield equal to 20/30/40% of maximum hp. Sets up an immovable mountable turret for 7/9/11s (however a 2s animation follows so -2 from the previous numbers)

Adds additional effects to volley shots and burst of mana:

1. Fire - pushes the target back each time
   
2. Acid - stacks up to 3 times and deals dot damage. Additional acid shots refresh the countdown.
   
3. Lightning - stacks up to 3 times and silences & disarms for 2s per stack when it fades. Additional lightning shots refresh the countdown.
   
4. Astral - stacks up to 3 times and deals AoE damage when it fades. Additional astral shots refresh the countdown.
   
5. Burst of Mana HOT - Deals damage and stuns enemies
   
6. Burst of Mana COLD - Knocks back enemies and applies a slow for 3-7s
   

Medical Emergency Project

• Creates a device heals friendly targets in a 10 yard radius for 7/9/10 ticks. Each tick is 1 second.
  

Hover Pad

• Become immune to melee damage for 4/6/7 seconds, you are immobile
  

Pylon Project

• Creates a device and increases the caster’s energy regeneration rate by 50% for 6/8/10 seconds. Use when you can afford not to move.
  
• *Use in combination with racial ability for 23 energy per second.
• Potion of concentration does not benefit from this skill but still has its own effect if used during this time.
  

Steep Trap

• Creates a device that travels to the enemy and roots for 6/8/10 seconds. Ticks damage every 3 seconds. The enemy can get out of this by killing the device.
  

Flying Pad

• Dragon Tear skill. Become immune to melee damage for 4/6/7 seconds, movement speed while on flying pad is increased based on the quality of dragon tears used.

Will be grouped by talents. Some rubies will appear more than once.


Boiling Point

• Increases Acid and Astral shots by 4/8/12%
  

Crystallizing Point

• Increases Fire Shots and Lightning shots by 4/8/12%
  

Cannonade

• Every 10 / 5 Fire or Acid shots grants a buff for 6 seconds which decreases energy costs of Lightning and Astral shots by 30 / 60%
  

Calibration

• Volleys have an increased 4/8/12% critical hit chance
  

Steady Hand

• Volley energy costs are reduced by 10/20/30%
  

Dues ex Machina

• Astral shots have an increased 4/8/12% critical hit chance.
  

Synthesis

• Astral and Lightning shots reduce the cooldown of Frag bomb by 1.3/2.6/3.9s and .9s/1.8/2.7s respectively at r3
  

Variable Polarity

• Each Heating or Cooling shots have a % chance to apply a vulnerable debuff of the opposite temperature.
• Stacks up to 3 times. Aiming for the 3 stacks will be energy inefficient and therefore not dps efficient to do so in a PvE setting.
• The opposite temperature volley will consume the debuff and deal damage.

Focusers

• Increases Hand Beam Cannon by 10/20/30%
  

Dues ex Machina

• All astral damage skills have an increased 4/8/12% critical hit chance
  

Vacuum Storage

• Manual Beam Cannon has a 33/66/100% chance to reset Dither bomb
  

Increased Capacity

• Casting time of defibrillation is reduced by 33/66/100%
  

Superconductor

• Immunity gained through defibrillation is increased by .5/1/1.5 seconds.
• Cooldown of defibrillation is decreased by 11/22/33% if used on a friendly target
  

Direct Current

• Stun on an enemy caused by defibrillation lasts 33/66/100% longer BUT reduces damage dealt by 11/22/33%.
• Decreases cooldown if used on enemy by 11/22/33%
  

Burning Mix

• Burner deals 5/10/15% more damage

Projectiles

• Frag bomb causes a 1/2/3/4 stack debuff on targets hit. Upon removal by Volleys, deal damage. Each volley removes 1 stack.
  

Bombardier

• Throwing range increases by 33/66/100%; Throwing time [cast time] decreases by 33/66/100%
  

Explosives

• Frag bomb deals 10/20/30% more damage
  

Synthesis

• Astral and Lightning shots reduce the cooldown of Frag bomb by 1.3/2.6/3.7s and .9/1.8/2.7s respectively.
  

Secondary Damage

• Radius and Damage of Frag bomb is increased by 10/20/30%
  

Shock Wave

• Frag bomb as a 33/66/100% chance to knock down enemies upon impact
  

Increased Capacity

• Paralyzing Ray has a 33/66/100% to not be dispelled until the target’s hp decreases below 90%
  

Valve Adjustment

• Burst of Mana deals 33/66/100% more damage
  

Electrodynamics

• Cooldown of Burst of Mana decreases by 15/30/45%
  

Dues ex Machina

• All astral damage skills have an increased 4/8/12% critical hit chance
  

Bombardier

• Throwing range increases by 33/66/100%; Throwing time [cast time] decreases by 33/66/100%
  

Secondary Damage

• Radius and Damage of Frag bomb is increased by 10/20/30%
  

Peaks and Dips

• DoT of Dither bomb increases by 10/20/30%
  

Vacuum Storage

• Manual Beam Cannon has a 33/66/100% chance to reset Dither bomb
  

X Class Engineer

• Devices damage/healing increases by 4/8/12/16/20%
  

Death Machines

• Devices deal 7/14/21% more damage
  

Theoretical Machinery

• Device cooldowns decrease by 6/13/20%
  

Heat Exchange

• reduces cooldown of burner and manual beam cannon by:
  

Rank 3 numbers

Firethrowing Turret: 3s cd per second
Steel Mosquitoes: 5s cd per tick
Light Turret: 5s cd per shot

Vulnerability Check

• Devices have an increased 5/10% critical hit chance
  

Progressive Defense

• 5/10/15% of all incoming damage is transferred to a device. If multiple devices are out, damage is evenly distributed.
  
• NOTE: These rubies as of [6.0] still do NOT consume the shield gained from Electrodynamics.

Electrodynamics

• All devices gain a 22/44/66% shield
  
• NOTE: The shield from these rubies as of [6.0] still are NOT consumed by Progressive Defense.

Only for Light Turret
Target Marker

• Marks a target extending light turret’s firing range. Light turret has priority on marked target. If target dies or runs out of range, default rules apply.

Only for Steel Mosquitoes
Movement Detectors

• When your “Steel mosquitoes” attack is dispelled, the enemy takes damage and is slowed by 1.5/3/4.5 seconds

Only for firethrowing turret
Burning Mix

• Increases firethrowing turret by 5/10/15%
  

Contour Overload

• When Emergency Revival Kit is activated, deal damage in a 7 yard radius around the engineer, gain 15/30/45% reduced incoming damage
  

Mass Production

• Reduces cooldown of Combat Mode by 15/30/45%
  

Discharger

• Increaes all resistances by 3/6/9% while in Combat Mode
  

Increased Energy Absorption

• Increases shield gained on Combat Mode by 10/20/30%
• *Multiplicative which means a 40% shield becomes 52% at r3
  

X Class Engineer

• Devices damage/healing increases by 4/8/12/16/20%
  

Theoretical Machinery

• Device cooldowns decrease by 6/13/20%
  

Progressive Defense

• 5/10/15% of all incoming damage is transferred to a device. If multiple devices are out, damage is evenly distributed.
  
• NOTE: These rubies as of [6.0] do NOT consume the shield from Electrodynamics.

Electrodynamics

• All devices gain a 22/44/66% shield
  
• NOTE: The shield from these rubies as of [6.0] still are NOT consumed by Progressive Defense.

Only for Steel Trap
Increased Energy Absorption

• Increases the number of charges steel trap has or adds 1/2/3 seconds to steel trap. Equates to 1 additional tick of damage.
  

Vacuum Trap

• When steel trap reaches your target, knock down 1/3/5 enemies within 4/7/10 yards of the target.
  

Heat Exchange

• reduces cooldown of burner and manual beam cannon by: At rank 3: 3s cd per tick.
  

Fuse Blow

• 33/66/100% to knock back enemies in an 8 yard radius to a maximum of 15 yards from you
  

Discharger

• Increaes all resistances by 3/6/9% while on Flying Pad
  

Adrenalin

• Only one may be active in a party. Targeted person when casted will gain 15% hp + 15% per person in the group within a 100 yard range.
  

Realist

• Increases Vitality by 3/6/9 points
  

Biohazard

• Increases Anger by 3/6/9 points
  

Aura of Astral Power

• Buff increasing magic damage by 5/10/15% but reduces all outgoing healing by 50%
  

Elemental hazard

• Increases all elemental damage by 4/8/12% (Lightning, fire, ice)
  

Just a Scratch

• Increases stamina by 3/6/9%
  

Good Job

• (pats self on back) Increases Proficiency by 3/6/9 points
  

Easy Target

• Target takes double damage for 15 seconds or 10% of its maximum hp
  

The Cure

• Double heals for the party for 10 seconds
  

Bronze Frame

• Increases armor by 5/10/15%
  

Electrodynamics

• Reduces the cooldown of dragon tear skill Overload by 15/30/45%
  

Racial abilities
Close Circuit

• Regenerates 5 energy every second for 7 seconds
  

Heavy Caliber

• Deals instant astral damage. This skill always critically hits
  

World Mystery abilities
Overtime Job

• Allows you to use the same device on a ship twice in a row before cooldown is activated. The device used on affects the family of devices and cannot be reset for another 10minutes, so if you use this skill on a cannon, all cannons cannot be reset for another 10mins.
• Outside of ships, this gives all devices within 10 yards of you a 50% shield.
  

Neurogas

• creates a gas field in which enemies take 20% increased damage. As of 5.02 willpower does not remove this effect. Healing to full hp will remove the debuff.
  

Engineer Reincarnation skills
Light Turret

• 6 shots, 60s cd. Fires every 2 seconds.
  

Pylon project

• For mana users: restores your (mana every 3 seconds * 2) for 5 seconds; restricts your movement for 5 seconds; 1 minute cd. (works out to be more efficient than an alchemy mana pot if 1h/2h weapon is upgraded).
  
• For energy users: increases energy regeneration by 50% for 5 seconds. You are immobile for 5 seconds. Can be canceled early.
  

• For leveling, the same ratio below should be aimed for but leveling never does give you the correct gear. Just avoid anger.
• The optimal offensive stats for PvE is a ratio of 1 to 1 with proficiency and brutality. So For every point in proficiency you have the same number of points in brutality.
• 0 Points into determination and Anger.
• For defensive stats PvE as a guideline at least:

Vitality 30
Willpower 0
Bloodlust XX
Tenacity 0-12

• Still keep proficiency to brutality a 1 to 1 ratio
• Add in determination to an amount of your liking
• Keep in mind that anger is only useful for longer group fights unless you can apply wound fast because of high runes.
• Willpower should be at a minimum of 20 to a maximum of 35.

Now that you have a general understanding of what things do, onto what things to get!


Don't forget this little green gem for trash pulls! Neurogas
You can heat your reactor to max with before the fight then use-> when the fight starts if it's not an aoe pull.

General rotations:
-> -> -> -> alternate and until cannonade buff procs then -> alternate and ->

For short fights/aoe:
-> -> -> / -> ->

• I opted out of Steel Mosquitoes because its damage is unreliable in astral. Rarely any bosses or mobs stand still or last long enough.
  
• *Steel mosquitoes is a must for raiding; trade firethrowing turret for steel mosquitoes for conversion to a raiding build.

Or if the image ever fails, Direct link: Here

• Paralyzing ray for long term cc
• Defibrillation for short term cc / battle res.
• Pylon project for more energy = more dps.
• Drop Electrodynamics all together if you do not have enough rubies. (It subtracts about 30s cd if you have a purple tear)

Are there any other builds?

• Of course there are. However these require more attention and effort for about the same dps with the above build.
  
• These are builds are fun mechanically but just don't expect to see the same constant results as the above build.

I want to focus on burner: Here

Rotation:
-> -> -> ->Device(s) of your choice -> / -> Cannonade Proc -> /

I want to focus on dither bomb: Here

Long rotation:
/ -180 to -190 temperature -> -> / ->Just to reset temperature -> ->


Short fight:
-> -> / -> to reset temperature -> ->

• Why did you take steel trap? Steel trap also lowers cooldowns of burner and hand beam cannon on damage dealt (remember from above, even though the damage is insignificant it still does damage and thus lowers cooldowns.)
  
• These are heavily reliant on your devices damage rate and lowering cooldowns.
  

This is a burst oriented PvP build.

• This build is meant to be altered.
• Ex- Add projectiles to your liking for another short burst with volleys. Replace Theoretical Machinery for defensive rubies. You don't have to follow this ruby for ruby/talent for talent.
• It is something you should start at / build upon / create new builds tailored to yourself.
  

Direct link: Here

The general combo you'd want to do is:
-> This will be the bulk of your burst damage along with +
Keep in mind cannonade procs!

The build i posted is meant to be altered to a degree.
The PvP build is a burst build meant to kill your opponent fast before a healer can heal them/use potions/make people use their panic button-- this combo cycles faster than healer bubble uptime.
In PvP you either get two shot or you kill the other person faster because of rune differences. An extra 50k hp won't help that.
I left a few rubies and talents out of the PvP build because it really just depends on situations to get armor rubies/projectiles.
Using a heated burst of mana in combat mode also stuns in the hitbox range.
Immobilize works on all classes, you just have to follow up with cc if they target the trap. The trap is meant to keep them in place so fireturret can do work.

Thanks Efi . Stop throwing snowballs at me!

@TheRampage Volleys do more overall damage yes, but fireturret does faster upfront damage. Long term dps allows people to be healed overtime. Burst damage tests a healers reaction to act.
You're looking at steel trap only as a defensive tool. You can trap casters. Gain distance and run if you need to. You don't always have to fight to the death.
Like I said above, you can add to the build. R3 defibrillation would be a start. There's room for 5+ talent points if you're on [New Frontier].