User:Ninjazzy/Scrapper Squad

Scrapper Squad

Okay so this is what Flame and I have managed to come up with so far, please feel free to throw in your raid experience or ideas because this is very much a work in progress and neither of us will claim to be engineer mains.

Idea and Dilemma

Thanks to Cat, we're getting together 10 Scrappers to maybe do a raid or something. Boon wise, we mainly need offensive buffs ( Might,  Fury,  Quickness) because we're hoping that we can rely on  Impact Savant to keep us sustained, which allows permanent barrier so long as you are still doing damage. All damage gets primarily absorbed by barrier, so Scholar and Writ uptime is greatly increased. We aren't bothering with  Alacrity because Engineer doesn't have any sources of it. It's not optimal; it's just for memes, and I think it'd be a fun exercise.

The main dilemma with going with a 10-Scrapper Squad is that there are very few sources of offensive boons that Scrapper (or Engineer in general) can give to allies. A lot of the Elixirs grant boons that aren't necessarily as helpful, or they're not reliable (random). There's not really a good way to get reliable  Quickness uptime without sacrificing a lot of DPS, but we have two sources,  Applied Force and Superior Sigil of Celerity. Because the majority of the boons are self-generated, we figured that having all the Scrappers run  Boon Duration would be detrimental to overall group DPS (not tested).

Build and Gear

This build utilizes full Berserker gear with 6x Superior Rune of the Scholar, and a Berserker hammer with Superior Sigil of Force and Superior Sigil of Celerity. Nourishment is Peppercorn-Crusted Sous-Vide Steak or other power-based food, and importantly, utility is Writ of Masterful Strength. The Writ functions similarly to the sixth rune bonus, and provides +200  Power when above 90% health.

The main power build looks like this: [&DQMGOiYvKz3ZEtkSrhKuEicTJgGGAIYAiQGDEgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=] or see the build on gw2skills

 Explosives 2-2-3

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Explosive Entrance		Your first attack when entering combat explodes, dealing damage to nearby foes. This ability refreshes after a dodge roll.
Major Adept	Short Fuse	3	Gain fury when you hit a foe with an Explosion.
Minor Master	Steel-Packed Powder		Explosions cause vulnerability.
Major Master	Explosive Temper		Explosions grant stacking ferocity when they hit.
Minor Grandmaster	Shaped Charge		Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.
Major Grandmaster	Big Boomer		Deal increased strike damage to foes with a lower health percentage than you. Hitting with an Explosion heals you over a few seconds.

 Firearms 3-3-2

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Adept	Sharpshooter		Critical hits have a chance to cause bleeding.
Major Adept	High Caliber		You have an increased critical hit chance against foes within the range threshold.
Minor Master	Hematic Focus		You have increased chance to critically strike against bleeding foes.
Major Master	No Scope	8	Critical hits on foes within the range threshold have a chance to grant fury. Fury grants you ferocity.
Minor Grandmaster	Serrated Steel		Bleeding you inflict gains increased duration.
Major Grandmaster	Modified Ammunition		Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.

 Scrapper 1-3-3

Tier	Trait		Description
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Minor Adept	Function Gyro		You gain access to the function gyro, which replaces your tool belt skill 5. Gain access to Gyro skills.
Major Adept	Gyroscopic Acceleration		Well abilities have an increased area of effect and grant superspeed to nearby allies on their first pulse. Your function gyro also grants superspeed to allies when cast.
Minor Master	Speed of Synergy		Using a heal skill grants superspeed in a radius around you. Using a healing skill's associated tool-belt skill grants you personal superspeed.
Major Master	Object in Motion		Deal increased strike damage while you have stability, swiftness, or superspeed. This damage increase compounds for each boon you have.
Minor Grandmaster	Impact Savant		A percentage of the strike damage you deal is converted into barrier.
Major Grandmaster	Applied Force	10	Gain stability when you gain might at or above the threshold. Might grants bonus power.

Utility Skills

•   Medic Gyro, or others (situational)
•   Shredder Gyro
•   Blast Gyro
•   Grenade Kit
• Some Elite (  Supply Crate,   Sneak Gyro, meme racial Elites, etc. based on the situation)

Alternatives This is mainly for when you have an group that isn't only Scrappers.

• If  Might is covered, take   Throw Mine instead of   Blast Gyro
• If  Fury is covered, take  Glass Cannon instead of  Short Fuse
• If  Quickness is covered, feel free to replace Superior Sigil of Celerity with a more DPS-oriented sigil, like Superior Sigil of Air or Superior Sigil of Impact.
• If you need  Stability, you can take  Mass Momentum instead of  Gyroscopic Acceleration, but your gyro skills will have a smaller area of effect.

Usage

Boons

•  Might is covered by blasting fire fields with   Blast Gyro, which is both a combo fire field and a combo blast finisher in one. You also gain might from the auto-attack chain, both the first attack,   Positive Strike and the final attack,   Equalizing Blow.
•  Fury is covered by  Short Fuse which grants  Fury (4s) on a 3s , and  No Scope which grants  Fury (4s) on an 8s .
•  Quickness is a bit trickier.  Applied Force grants  Quickness (3s) on a 10s when you gain  Might above 10 stacks. Superior Sigil of Celerity grants  Quickness (5s) every 20s when interrupting a foe. Conveniently,   Thunderclap (Hammer 5) is an interrupt on a 20s . It procs on defiant foes, but it does not proc if the the interrupt is negated by  Stability.

•  Superspeed,  Swiftness, and  Stability each grant an extra 5% bonus damage due to  Object in Motion. Thanks to  Gyroscopic Acceleration and  Speed of Synergy, we have 5 (or 6 if we bring   Sneak Gyro) sources of  Superspeed from utilities:
  •   Medic Gyro
  •   Shredder Gyro
  •   Blast Gyro
  •   Bypass Coating (  Blast Gyro Toolbelt skill)
  •   Function Gyro (F5)

All heal skill grants  Superspeed to allies, and using the heal skill toolbelt (F1) grants  Superspeed to yourself. A note about  Superspeed: It does not stack duration! Any  Superspeed applied to a player who already has it will simply be ignored.

Skill and Trait Synergy

Much of this build centers around explosions.   Grenade Barrage,   Electro-whirl,   Blast Gyro are all explosions, as well as all the skills in   Grenade Kit,   Throw Mine and its toolbelt skill   Mine Field, and both   Supply Crate and   Detonate Supply Crate Turrets. Using skills that are considered explosions grants the stacking effect   Explosive Temper, which grants 20  Ferocity per stack, up to ten stacks. Thanks to  Short Fuse, explosions grant you  Fury, they cause  Vulnerability due to  Steel-Packed Powder, and they heal you due to  Big Boomer. Your first attack when entering combat and after each dodge will also explode, due to  Explosive Entrance.

Other important skills include   Thunderclap to proc  Quickness from Superior Sigil of Celerity due to the 1 second  Stun. They have the same 20 second cooldown, so it's best to use it whenever it is available to keep up as much  Quickness as possible.  Quickness also grants bonus +200  Power, so keeping up quickness is important.

  Shredder Gyro is otherwise your highest DPS skill (and a whirl finisher, and grants  Superspeed on its final pulse), so use that off cooldown.

For CC, along with   Thunderclap,   Shredder Gyro's toolbelt skill,   Spare Capacitor is also a 2 second  Daze and lightning field, both of which can be used for additional CC when combined with   Rocket Charge's leap finisher, which can cause 2 short  Dazes on every strike that is combo'd with the lightning field. Be careful when laying down the lightning fields, as blasting them will grant  Swiftness rather than  Might. Which, if it accidentally happens, isn't necessarily bad, since you get the 5% bonus damage from  Object in Motion, but you will lose out on some  Might uptime.   Supply Crate is also a 2 second  Stun, but it has a fairly high cooldown, so it may not be up every time CC is required. If taking   Throw Mine (if  Might is fully covered), it also is a knockback, boonstrip, and blast finisher.

 Impact Savant is also why we think we can do this without healers. It slightly reduces  Vitality while converting 15% of your outgoing strike damage into barrier. Essentially, if you keep dealing damage, you will always have barrier which can absorb damage dealt by the boss, so in theory Scholar and Writ uptime will be close to 100%.

 Modified Ammunition also means that the squad will do 2% additional damage per unique condition on the boss. Power Scrapper can really only reliably inflict two:  Vulnerability and  Bleeding due to  Sharpshooter. For this reason, we may need to convince someone to play pistol/pistol condi Scrapper to upkeep more unique conditions on the boss for that bonus. More testing is needed.

Skill Notes

•   Bypass Coating is a 5-target stunbreak around you, and grants  Superspeed
•   Electro-whirl is a whirl finisher and a projectile reflect.
•   Rocket Charge is a double leap finisher.
•   Shock Shield is a 2-second channeled block that does damage as well as grants barrier.
•   Thunderclap is a lightning field and daze.

Utilizing Scrapper effectively also includes knowing what combo fields and combo finishers are available.

Combo Fields

• Water:   Medic Gyro,   Reconstruction Field
• Lightning:   Spare Capacitor,   Thunderclap,   Function Gyro
• Fire:   Blast Gyro
• Smoke:   Sneak Gyro,   Supply Crate
•   Elite Mortar Kit also has ice, poison, light, and water fields.

Combo Finishers

• Whirl:   Electro-whirl,   Shredder Gyro
• Blast:   Blast Gyro,   Throw Mine
• Leap:   Rocket Charge

See the wiki page for combo to read up on what each field/finisher combination does.

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If you're curious what all is available, see below.

Slot	Fields	Blast finisher	Projectile finisher	Leap finisher	Whirl finisher
Profession mechanics
Tool belt	Throw Napalm (fire)   Toss Elixir R (light)   Function Gyro (lightning)   Spare Capacitor (lightning)   Chemical Field (poison)   Reconstruction Field (water)   Regenerating Mist (water)	Big Ol' Bomb   Orbital Strike   Rumble	Harpoon   Hidden Pistols   Launch Personal Battering Ram   Particle Accelerator   Surprise Shot   Throw Vine   Throw Wrench
Mech Command
Weapon skills
Mace			Rocket Fist Prototype	Energizing Slam
Pistol		Glue Shot	Fragmentation Shot
Sword			Refraction Cutter   Refraction Cutter   Refraction Cutter Blade	Radiant Arc   Radiant Arc
Hammer	Thunderclap (lightning)			Rocket Charge	Electro-whirl
Short bow	Essence of Living Shadows (dark)   Essence of Liquid Wrath (fire)	Essence of Animated Sand   Essence of Borrowed Time
Rifle			Rifle Burst	Jump Shot
Shield		Magnetic Inversion	Throw Shield
Harpoon gun		Timed Charge	Capture Line   Homing Torpedo   Net Wall
Spear		Devastator		Conduit Surge
Bundle skills
Elixir Gun	Super Elixir (light)   Super Elixir (light)	Acid Bomb	Tranquilizer Dart
Flamethrower	Napalm (fire)	Flame Blast
Tool Kit
Bomb Kit	Fire Bomb (fire)   Smoke Bomb (smoke)
Grenade Kit
Med Kit	Cleansing Field (water)	Infusion Bomb
Elite Mortar Kit	Endothermic Shell (ice)   Flash Shell (light)   Poison Gas Shell (poison)   Elixir Shell (water)		Mortar Shot
Slot skills
Healing skill	Cleansing Burst (water)   Medic Gyro (water)	Coolant Blast   Detonate Healing Turret
Utility skill	Blast Gyro (fire)   Hard Light Arena (light)   Purge Gyro (light)   Bulwark Gyro (lightning)   Superconducting Signet (lightning)   Smoke Screen (smoke)	Blast Gyro   Deploy Mine   Detonate   Detonate Flame Turret   Detonate Harpoon Turret   Detonate Net Turret   Detonate Rifle Turret   Detonate Rocket Turret   Detonate Rocket Turret   Detonate Thumper Turret   Rocket Boots   Rocket Boots   Throw Mine   Thump			Shredder Gyro
Elite skill	Sneak Gyro (smoke)	Detonate Supply Crate Turrets   Detonate Supply Crate Turrets   Supply Crate   Supply Crate
Downed skills
Downed skill		Booby Trap
Trait skills
Trait skill	Drop Gunk (ethereal)   Smoke Bomb (smoke)	Orbital Command Strike