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sweet line up ill set this up tomorrow

You'll do better damage if you use Blowdown at cold temps rather than hot ones if you're stacking phys damage. Blowdown deals acid damage with a hot reactor and physical with a cold one. I would also say the swiftness and vigor rubies are absolutely critical to any Engineer build, but I have to confess that without a ton of bonus rubies from the CS/other options, it's really hard to grab everything a DPS Engie needs. Support Engies need many fewer rubies to grab everything important to their DPS, to the point you might actually do better DPS that route with what you have available. Still, not a bad outline of some of the super important stuff for a proper DPSer. I've been running with something along the lines of this when I get the opportunity to actually DPS. Even this is missing some stuff that could be deemed important, like having a purify on Medical Emergency, the two other vit rubies, Steel Trap for more device explosions, and the third device ruby. But the very max right now is 48+26, so you can't get everything.

Quoted from "Superwiz"

after accidentally discovering something the swiftness rubys are actually a massive dps loss, but i'll keep that to myself for now

No need to keep it to yourself, I'm curious how exactly you mean and what situation you were in. Being able to use Mana Burst more often is generally never a DPS loss unless you're able to use it more often than you actually can due to global or casting other skills in your standard rotation. Even then, swiftness as high as 500 should be good for your DPS so you can toss grenades and turrets more often. I'm always interested in seeing what other people are doing, though.

Well, I could see that being potentially viable as a burst DPS build, but what does your DPS look like over a few minutes? At 500 crit chance, after which the derived crit chance starts dropping in efficiency, you'll have a 50% chance of doing 50% more damage. In other words, a 25% boost to your DPS. That is pretty big, but after the turret goes down, you'll lose 350 crit chance in Assault aspect. Thus I'm curious what kind of damage you do over an extended period of time, such as a regular boss fight. Honestly what I think concerns me more is this means you'll be getting buffed with Treachery, rather than Temporal. Solo and for a burst build, Treachery is definitely the better option, but my experiences with Temporal in a group have been that you see roughly a 20-30% boost in overall party DPS, just because global cooldown drops from 1.5s to 1.0s. Cramming more attacks into the same period of time is a pretty huge deal.

I'll admit, though, I have yet to make any attempts at the Order trials. I don't know what kind of build works best for that.