Introduction to Engineer

Elixir skills provide self boons via the slot skill, and area boons via the toolbelt skill. These toolbelt skills are Ground-Targeted skills with 900 Range.

Elixirs are very rarely brought on team-focused engineer builds, but the following skills are sometimes useful.

• refills Endurance and removes Immobilizing effects, but is primarily brought for its toolbelt skill.
  • toolbelt skill: pulses Revive to Downed players.
• is a Stun Break that provides a short period of Invulnerablity.
  • toolbelt skill: provides Stealth to allies.
• provides some self-boons, but is usually brought for the toolbelt skill.
  • toolbelt skill: provides Stability to allies.

The following skills are the less used elixirs.

• provides you a Heal and some defensive boons.
  • toolbelt skill: provides defensive boons to allies.
• converts conditions on you into boons.
  • toolbelt skill: converts conditions on allies into boons.
• provides you Quickness and Stability.
  • toolbelt skill: provides Superspeed to allies.
• transforms you into one of two forms that both provide a large amount of Defiance Break.
  • toolbelt skill: turns enemies into Moas, dealing significant Defiance Break.

• allows you to ignore a hit which would Down you, Healing you instead.
  • toolbelt skill: provides Defiance Break.
• provides two Knockbacks in quick succession.
  • toolbelt skill: provides an additional ranged Defiance Break.
• places a mine at the target location. When the flip skill is triggered, the mines explode, dealing Strike Damage and removing enemy boons.
  • toolbelt skill: places mines on the ground which deal Strike Damage and Cripple.
• launches you horizontally, removing movement-impairing conditions.
  • toolbelt skill: applies Burning.

The following are the less used gadgets.

• knocks foes down behind you.
  • toolbelt skill: is a Stun Break that provides Superspeed.
• is a personal Stun Break that provides you Resistance.
  • toolbelt skill: Reveals enemies.

Gadgets can be significantly strengthened when modified by .

Turrets place an entity at your current location, which then proceed to attack independently from you. When placed, turrets activate an overcharge skill, and then proceed to attack normally. Turrets can take damage from enemies and be destroyed. When you are done with your turret, you can either Detonate your turret for extra damage and a Blast Finisher, or pick it up to reduce its Cooldown.

• Heals you and provides Regeneration to allies.
  • overcharge: provides a Water Field, Condition Removal, and an area Heal.
  • toolbelt skill: provides a Water Field and area Regeneration.
• does single-target Strike Damage.
  • overcharge: increases your 's rate of fire.
  • toolbelt skill: is an instant cast Strike Damage skill with a short Cooldown.
• hits enemies with area Explosion.
  • overcharge: deals Defiance Break.
  • toolbelt skill: fires a rocket which does an area Explosion.
• Cripples enemies.
  • overcharge: Launchs enemies with a Blast Finisher.
  • toolbelt skill: provides you a Stun Break and Stability along side a Blast Finisher.
• Immobilizes an enemy.
  • overcharge: Stuns and Immobilizes an enemy.
  • toolbelt skill: also Immobilizes an enemy.
• applies Burning.
  • overcharge: pulses Blind.
  • toolbelt skill: places a Fire Field and applies Burning.
• drops , , and for 60 seconds.
  • toolbelt skill: drops med kits in an area. Allies can pick these up to Heal themselves.

Gyros spawn mobile wells which follow you as you move. Each provides a Combo Field beneath you. All gyros tend to see use in regular gameplay.

• provides a Water Field, a large self-Heal, and pulses Healing.
  • toolbelt skill: provides a Water Field and pulses Protection.
• provides a Lightning Field and pulses Barrier.
  • toolbelt skill: is a Ground-Targeted skill that provides Stability and a projectile block at the target location.
• provides a Light Field and pulses Condition Removal.
  • toolbelt skill: provides a Poison Field, and pulses Poison.
• pulses Strike Damage. Instead of providing a Combo Field, it is a Whirl Finisher.
  • toolbelt skill: provides a Lightning Field, Dazes enemies, and pulses Strike Damage.
• provides a Fire Field, pulses Might, and ends with a Blast Finisher. Blasting the Fire Field provides more Might.
  • toolbelt skill: provies a group Stun Break, and group Superspeed.
• provides a Smoke Field and pulses Stealth.

Exceeds are Holosmith utilities which scale with Heat. Each receives a buff at 50 Heat and at 100 Heat.

• Heals yourself and Chills nearby foes.
  • toolbelt skill: does Condition Removal from yourself. Above 50 and 100 Heat more conditions are removed.
• summons blades which do Strike Damage in an area around you. They last twice as long if you are above 50 Heat, and do extra damage above 100 Heat.
  • toolbelt skill: deals Strike Damage to five targets. it deals increased damage at 50 Heat and 100 Heat.
• provides Light Field and pulses Protection and Fury. at 50 Heat the lasts longer and covers a bigger area, and at 100 Heat no longer has reduced boon duration for allies.
  • toolbelt skill: is one of the few area Pulls on Engineer. Its radius significantly increases at 50 Heat, and it deals more damage over 100 Heat.
• provides a wall which blocks projectiles. at 50 Heat it reflects projectiles. During the channel you can at enemies to hit them with an Explosion. above 50 Heat additional walls are launched. Above 100 Heat the launched walls do 50% increased Strike Damage.
  • toolbelt skill: grants allies Swiftness and enemies Cripple.
• is a Stun Break that provides damage reduction for a short period of time.
  • toolbelt skill: Blinds enemies. Above 50 Heat it provides yourself with damage reduction.
• is an Unblockable beam that Launchs enemies. If you are above 50 Heat, it leaves behind a field which pulses Burning.

Signets are utility skills available to you when you choose the Mechanist elite specialization traitline. Signets provide a passive effect when they are not on Cooldown, and can be activated to cause an effect. When you activate these skills the effect happens around your mech. If your mech has been defeated or recalled, however, the effect happens around you.

Since the toolbelt is unavailable when you are a mechanist, there are no associated toolbelt skills.

• passively Heals you for a small amount. When activated, it Heals you for a large amount.
• passively copies your boons to your mech. When activiated, it teleports you and your mech to the target location, Breaking Stuns and Removing Conditions.
• passively boosts your Condition Damage. When activated, a Lightning Field and damaging conditions are applied in an area around your mech.
• passively boosts your Strike Damage. When activated, a Knockback occurs around both you and your mech.
• passively reduces incoming damage. When activated, a bubble appears around your mech that blocks projectiles and pulses Barrier.
• passively reduces the Cooldown of your other signets. When activated, your mech either shoots a giant laser at its target, or revives if it were defeated.

The Firearms traitline is the primary damage traitline for the Engineer. It provides Critical Chance and Strike Damage for Power builds, and increased Condition Damage and Condition Duration for Condition builds.

Strike Damage builds take , , and . When these traits are taken, firearms provides 55% Critical Chance.

Condition Damage builds take , and .