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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1. Introduction [1000]
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].
2. Patch [6.0] [2000]
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.
3. Reactor [3000]
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]
4. Talents [4000]
Will be listed in column order
Important: All engineer talents are affected by alchemy weapon potions NOT spell potions
Column 1
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.