Power Scrapper Build Guide : Tank, DPS, Quickness And More!

The Scrapper is a profession which is woefully underrepresented in Guild Wars 2 endgame play. Boasting great damage, ridiculous durability and an alternate (but very similar) build for permanent groupwide quickness and superspeed, what's not to love? Watch and learn how to never drop below full health in a raid again!
Power Scrapper Build : hardstuck.gg/gw2/builds/engin...
Quickness Scrapper Build : hardstuck.gg/gw2/builds/engin...
Thanks to Snebzor ( / snebzor ) for his godlike scrapper gameplay and assistance in creating this video!
00:00 - Intro
01:05 - Traits
07:16 - Skills
11:46 - Gearing
13:25 - Rotation and Tips
17:29 - Conclusion
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[@TorlandoYT]

Absolutely love your scripted build videos, I always feel like I'm being sold on a build. Very helpful, please do more!

[@MightyTeapot]

INCOMING

[@aquietsky]

@@MightyTeapot HUGE GUIDES

[@lafunk1978]

Please more more more!!!

[@darkexxile9992]

I've sworn by Scrapper for years. I'm so glad these buffs have attracted more attention to the Specialization and it's getting more love. This is the most fun I've had playing a class in an MMO since TBC Shaman in WoW.

[@sveik_]

It’s weird but I also conflate Scrapper and really just Engi in general with Shamans from WoW lol.

[@darkexxile9992]

@@sveik_ it's gotta be the turrets/totems.

[@gplr1882]

@@sveik_ lol yeah, nice comparison. Was shammy main in wow, now engi main in gw2 :D

[@goshawkrst]

I have always seen Scrapper as a Shaman from WoW. Nice one !

[@Eospheras]

Haha, it's same for me- i am shaman main in WoW for years and when i was testing all the classes in GW2 i chose engi as well ;D

[@kumamarru5492]

My main! It sure is nice not to feel like dead weight to your group. Blessed Scrapper buffs.

[@aelfycarcini3992]

I love my scrapper. I used to be magician or healer in every mmorpg I played before. Now my main is my dear scrapper. Is great being one of those who are always doing ress to ppl, but at the same time doing a lot of damage.

[@MagicalMike2]

Aw man, my engineer is one of my parked characters because I've never found a satisfying build that wasn't kit-spam. You're gonna make me have to find another character to plant at the eternal ice chests now.

[@JamzP14]

You can run a "kitless" Holosmith build and do just fine in most PvE scenarios. (Probably the only places I run grenade kit are on things like Whisper of Jormag where I NEED range options, but I don't need as much CC.) It's about a 10% DPS loss (in theory), but if you're like me and you hate grenade kit, it's not much DPS difference.

[@Artistic_Storm]

This helped reinvigorate me into turning my engineer into something I actually love, thanks so much for the video and guide.

[@Rukabuk]

Oh wow. I gave up on Scrapper years ago after it didn't seem like ANet knew what the fuck they wanted to do with it. Really just wanted a solid DPSing class that uses Hammer and after multiple years this seems like it. Happy to see all these changes. I might get back into it.

[@ulysesjoos6628]

bro your way to explain and express your ideas is awesome. Keep it up teapot!

[@JebroUnity]

Welcome to the scrapper team o7 Been playing this build for a LONG time, lots of alternatives as well for various bosses, and tank/heal with variations of this build as well! The scrapper is TRULY, a jack of all trades and I bloody love it!

[@Satoog]

Jebro the God of Engi!

[@IcewolfBrett]

Excellent! I theory crafted my way to some of this but these are great options. I had no idea mortar kit was so good! Thanks.

[@PlayanBerserker]

Omg i was in need of this. made a scrapper from scratch and didnt know where to start lol!. Cant wait to test this build on my casual fractals / strikes runs

[@DasTarnschnitzel]

Love that build!!! Use my scrapper for the Return Achievments and the boons, utlitiy and tankyness really helps.

[@Sicktoid]

I will try the build eventually, but I wanna take a moment to appreciate the fashion wars here. You actually made that scrapper helmet look kinda cool. Not an easy feat to pull off! :D

[@erikthiele289]

Nice. Just started playing engi yesterday, and I am already in love. And now an awesome build video from Teapot. Yeeees

[@davidthemichael]

Really enjoyed this, thank you for sharing. You reminded me of things about my engineer i had forgotten.

[@Curt1678]

Excellent video. I'll be trying this build.

[@jstrecu8054]

Great video, super fun build. It's hard to maximize DPS on the quickness variant, but very durable and would recommend for someone who is learning a boss.

[@narottamzakheim5051]

Awesome guide!!!! Im def gonna check this out... been struggling with my engi... but this sounds perfect... great presentation... thanks :)

[@R_SENAL]

Ok, sold, changed my alt build template while watching, will find a place and time to try out soon! :)

[@nejiisurgod]

Just gonna mention that compared to a firebrand with cone quickness mantras that target the nearest players instead of the subgroup, the quickness scrapper guarantees quickness to all your subgroup raiders. Great guide, enjoying quickness scrapper as an alternative to cfb with scuffed gear.

[@agriosbr]

This video helped me get into Scrapper. Thank you so much!!!

[@TheBickerstaff]

It's worth mentioning that thunderclap and shredder gyro have the same length cool down, so you should always be able to combo them.

[@nathanwood7525]

I love your buidl vid man! it really makes me want to get back into the game

[@Foose1337]

THIS!!! The Build I have been waiting for that finally makes scrapper attractive to me as a jack-of-all-trades player.

[@wuzzle5261]

I've sworn by these strengths for a long time, I'm really glad someone with a bigger voice in the community brought some attention to them.

[@cozmocozminsky3811]

Great video, coming back before the expansion, didnt do neither strike missions nor raids yet, I guess this will be my new build

[@jsangler]

Wow this actually made me want to play engineer for the first time over my 8 years of GW2 lol The shield sustain looks ridiculously good

[@Galastan]

I just found Power Scrapper and Power Quickness Scrapper after I've come back to the game, and I'm having a ton of fun with it. Not usurping my Sylvari Firebrand main, but a fun secondary. Charr Scrapper gang!

[@Howluffu]

Bless the scrapper! I'm in love. I actually wanted to tank raids when they announced scrapper and raids!

[@nhyxz]

Amazing will try this asap

[@Wurrah]

Thanks for making me interested in my engineer again!

[@joshflorence1998]

Great video!

[@stokesy1001]

Absolutely love my Engineer for this very build!

[@driguzya]

So I was getting a bit frustrated with Scrapper and Engineer in general... However watching this gave me a whole new understanding on the build/class in general and has made me want to play it a whole lot more! So thank you very much!!

[@maozhong88]

I'd say it's one of the harder classes to be good at in pvp. I'm not saying it's bad, engineer is seen in almost all tournaments lately, though only holosmith because it is more rounded compared to scrapper. It's just way harder to do well as engineer compared to other classes like necromancer or guardian.

[@MasterCarlock]

excellent value here as usual bro

[@MasterCarlock]

I am :D

[@altun3200]

I was planning on using the expansion level boost for my low level engineer, and was thinking on going for Holosmith first, but I think I changed my mind, I like tanky characters that at least do decent damage, as I mainly play open world, and giving boons is a very nice bonus.

[@Kiljoy_]

It's a really cool build so far. I just turned 80 so I don't have scrapper yet and changed scrapper to Alchemy and I have destroyed everything I've come across. I can solo champions and group bosses. The only ones I haven't soloed are legendaries and the giant champion at the char town of Nergal whatever. I'm really loving this build and makes me excited for engineer and can't wait to unlock scrapper. ^.^ thanks man

[@lovvlyone1162]

This has been my favorite build (outside of pvp) for quite some time. :-)

[@ZeroSleap]

Damn this for sure will bring me back to engineer try this specialization

[@hickey155]

Playing this build in pve and Alchemy trait instead of weapon in wvw for a long time. Very nice gameplay.

[@ryanjansenvanrensburg3281]

Great vid thanks teapot!

[@kalydon2826]

I waited so long for this xD

[@otakuribo]

I have been maining scrapper since Heart of Thorns, since before the rework that made it playable! Love to see some scrapper love and hope the EoD elite is at least as fun 🛠

[@wallywest3931]

I absolutely love the difference between your calm, coordinated voice on this guide videos and your raw, energized ones, like on the streams. Nice guide. Live the Power/Quickness Scrapper! Keep it up!

[@brad7073]

Thank you for the rotation tips it helped me with the class in general. I need to switch to scrapper as holo was completely neglected out of the meta unfortunately :/

[@abberoon572]

Finally my love Scrapper!

[@Satoog]

Awesome!

[@b1ngnx33]

Thank you

[@MrBluetini]

The power scrapper build link has different utilities bar scrapper gyro, is there a reason for this are they better for raid scenarios or something?

[@Kyosika]

I guess i'll be playing Scrapper now

[@DrBrickface]

Grenade kit + auto-target AoE + superspeed kiting + barrier is the most overpowered thing I have ever played/played against in WvW. It honestly warrants disabling grenade kit in WvW right now.

[@mirage8753]

уou can barely see engies in wvw, so disabling something is a wrong turn

[@arostiaris]

What are the medium pieces of armor..? Looks amazing !

[@aicechannel5949]

Great build! I have a quick question though. how much boon duration do you need to permanently keep quickness for the team? And do you have a written rotation so that we can practice. Thanks!

[@MightyTeapot]

I'd start with around 50%, it's overkill but quickness uptime should always be your biggest prio!

[@doom8294]

Barrier nerf felt real bad at first but I got used to it. This build still rips and the sustain is still much higher than other builds.

[@kursatsaimtuna7163]

we'll get minus vitality removed so it'll be slightly better in the future

[@jeanpierregambaro6803]

At no time do you invoke the alterations. How to get rid of it with this build?

[@Caitmonster]

Guess I know what I'll be trying on my guild's next raid night.

[@brenobarbosa3489]

Main scrappers unite

[@mikem2k6]

What kind of build do you play for the power variant? How is your dmg going?🔩

[@ClockworkBard]

*Thief:* I've got Invigorating Precision, an OP trait that lets me sustain with DPS stats. *Scrapper:* You call that sustain? Someone hold my elixir. *Necromancer:* I'll take that for you.

[@ClockworkBard]

@Zaidya Copyfree. All yours.

[@jake53105]

It’s been awhile since you’ve made this but im new and have to ask… how did you get a scrapper hammer with that much strength?

[@vilacvuong5779]

This is a really cohesive breakdown TP! I've not main or really used Engi but, found them really cool due to them being very versatile. I know the range in your build would be using grenades, but would there be another option to use as a ranged weapon as well? or would you just use the grenade for the range and hammer for melee?

[@MightyTeapot]

Yeah if you want you could drop grenades and take bomb kit, and replace hammer with rifle. This is a weaker variant in terms of damage output but it can work. You'll be doing a lot of bomb autoattacking though hehe. Overall though I would recommend staying with the current setup as hammer and grenade kit are very very strong and provide both melee and ranged options alongside a lot of utility.

[@vilacvuong5779]

@@MightyTeapot Aaak okay, I'm going to take your recommendation and give it a spin. Thank you!! ;-)

[@vilacvuong5779]

@@MightyTeapot I'd just read the wiki on the grenade kit and has different types of grenades to cover different types of situations. that's really cool!

[@gplr1882]

Do you use the mortar kit in your rotations? I still struggle with too many abilities to get down in a fight if i constantly need to swap between hammer, grenades AND the mortar

[@MightyTeapot]

Nah you don't need to use it for rotation, you can safe it for utility no problem

[@Miners666]

I haven’t played in over a year but Scrapper was always fun. I think I had an open world build where a sigil gave me swiftness on kill, a trait gave healing on swiftness, a rune gave barrier on healing. So I had permanent barrier even out of combat 😆 Is there a way to make grenade kit skills non ground targeted? I can’t remember.

[@pizzashiny7018]

im reloading the game for the ...i don't know. I never tried engineer, thanks for this guide, wanna start some chaar again :D

[@jscoppe]

@Teapot: Thoughts on Chronomancer runes since the build typically uses 3-ish wells? I've been running in my Scrapper and was able to adjust stats with various gear slots as needed. With the extra quickness up time from wells, plus the recent buff to the quickness w/ superspeed trait, I find I don't need any concentration from gear and still have 100% quickness up time.

[@MightyTeapot]

Not really that necessary because the rune only gives YOU quickness which you just get from the trait anyway.

[@jscoppe]

@@MightyTeapot Well I'll be... I must be going crazy because I thought I confirmed the rune worked with the trait. And re-reading trait it seems obvious, now. Thanks anyway!

[@leigheros1003]

I have been touting scrapper for aaaaages. Finally, ppl might agree with me :P

[@The_Quaalude]

I always thought hammer on engineer would be dumb, but this is one of my favorite builds

[@kurisu1204]

Ok. For a tank build i did NOT expect the full power dmg equipment o.O. So i have a question: How do you take aggro with zero toughness?

[@taelius]

2021 is the year of the scrapper

[@hockeyfreak2700]

I have been playing this build and absolutely love it. I was even able to tank on it and out DPSed some of the DPS. Do you think it's a viable tank on all bosses?

[@MightyTeapot]

Yes you can tank every boss with this!

[@ubernagash]

it is true i have been runing this build fora long time and it it is insine the longevity you get, I have carried players so offen wityh this build, and help points in pvp againt 3 players, depends on the player ofc skill always wins over builds but it so strong

[@Sassoonssamson]

Damn just started using it before few days and was able to finish EOD meta and Strike missions. It should be retitle Power Quickness Scrapper.

[@pmcastro8358]

I know im super late but i just returned to gw2 and seeing your video. is your build viable in open world?

[@thetokenblackguy88]

@Teapot: To get back into scrapper I’d like to plack season 4 return missions on it. Which variant would you recommend for this?

[@MightyTeapot]

For open world stuff, you'll almost always want to run the quickness build! Self buffing is reallllly good

[@thetokenblackguy88]

@@MightyTeapot Thanks for the clarification. One follow up to that: is there any stun-break I’m not seeing? If not what would you recommend to have one for emergencies

[@MightyTeapot]

@@thetokenblackguy88 Blast gyro toolbelt skill is a stunbreak so you can hold that for emergencies, if you want another one Elixir U is good for solo play!

[@Upbeat220]

Is this still viable?

[@mikefarr62]

Good job! One thing though is Im not generating no where near the barrier that I see you doing. Has something changed there?

[@MightyTeapot]

No nothing has changed. You get barrier equal to 15% of your damage so do more damage!

[@pietersoetaert6625]

@@MightyTeapot This did not age well.

[@MightyTeapot]

@@pietersoetaert6625 It aged just fine, this build was pretty ridiculous pre nerf and now it's still super strong!

[@pietersoetaert6625]

@@MightyTeapot I specifically meant the 15% but I see your point. Yet to learn tanking raids on it and still working on how much Boon Duration to run solo for open world where there is no alac so longer cool-downs on gyro’s.

[@dex4308]

How difficult is it to play ? How hard is it to level ? I just started playing have a warrior to level 30. Lastly how is eng in solo content pve / pvp ?

[@missk1697]

Could you make one for support scrapper?

[@dyrinn45]

My guess is that this would be kind of underwhelming in wvw. Do you think this would work in sPvP?

[@styxzero1675]

Would this be better than holosmith power?

[@arniec6817]

The music reminds me of the Very Hungry Catepillar.

[@pizzashiny7018]

Can this build works in openworld ?? And how customize it Thanks a lot !

[@paulstott5130]

I'm trying my hardest to get back into gw2, I find the hardest part getting the trait points to unlock an elite specialisations. I have both expacs and unlocked firebrand by ploughing thru Thorns, but i find the expac excruciating to get through so tried fire , must be me i just find it bloody hard! Also the thought of having to re-do areas again for new classes ...

[@KilledByAGinger]

Path of fire is definitely gonna be the best for you to gain hero points, just doing the story and exploring the map will get you a lot of points throughout playtime and the hero points are generally easier to obtain as heart of thorns has a lot of champion mobs to kill that require multiple players

[@ubernagash]

Oh i have know this all along, it is mad the dps out put and Barriers, not running your build here yet but the one use is pretty good ;)

[@Wisznuification]

This is probably the obvious thing for most of you, but - how did you get this bg green cursor?

[@linguotgr]

I have a friend who would love a tanky build like this but is terrible at playing with kits. Any suggestions for playing this kitless?

[@MightyTeapot]

Real answer : learn to play the game. Other answer : just use grenade barrage and don't use the grenade kit itself, use supply crate instead of mortar.

[@Nick-nn9yv]

Is this build still good? Looking for a scrapper build currently

[@Mr.Nichols]

2023: Engineer is still god tier S+++ prof.

[@Maverick512000]

How well does this spec perform in open world solo? Can you solo champions or HoT hero points like Condi Revenant can? Great video and well created guide though.

[@MightyTeapot]

Yeah you can solo stuff pretty nicely with the quickness build!

[@Maverick512000]

@@MightyTeapot thank you

[@rushixo8619]

Looks interesting! Mightyteapot = Jude Law? Sound very similar

[@SloppyPowerFart5000]

1year later does this build still hold up or was it nerfed to the ground?

[@Bearpapa1214]

sir, the hardstuck build link show 404, can you update new link ?

[@mejiasan]

any plans for eod build guides??

[@sl5945]

is this still good? I know they got nerfed. it seems more interesting to play than quickness firebrand tho and I wanna be useful in grp content. will people shun me for not playing mechanist or qfb if I pick this up?

[@Nijaparyman]

Note that when using this build in non raid/strike/fractal environments when someone is not providing quickness for you, i.e. farming a meta, the quickness variant of this build will do more damage then full dps. only when quickness is applied for you is the dps variant better.

[@brenobarbosa3489]

I would also like to add that in raid and fractals with no quickness providers, using this in a power build will help everyone hit more and thus make more damage overall even if the scrapper theoretically is dealing slightly less

[@solarvslunar]

is there a wvw version of this build?

[@MightyTeapot]

You can play meme 1shot nade scrapper yeah, in zergs you'll play heal scrapper

[@coffEEbot12]

I can't belive that the build I've always wanted to play has become viable when my pc is broken and I can't play gw2 anymore.

[@blackcitadel37]

f

[@EzekielPrellus]

What's a baseline minimum boon duration for the quickness variant, before utility food buffs?

[@Magdann]

if you go full diviner trinket/armor, you're almost at +90% (and max is 100%) so don't really bother on the food

[@MightyTeapot]

You really don't need that much after the slight buff this got, but I would start out at around 50% and drop it as you get more comfortable/depending on group comp. You can run very low boon duration these days in perfect situations

[@Neocharm]

What traits/skills do i need to alter for WvW in your opinion?

[@MightyTeapot]

For zerg play you wanna play heal scrapper so a totally different build, for roaming you can play something pretty similar and blow people up with grenade barrage from stealth with sneak gyro!

[@Borando96]

Might be a dumb question, but why not rocket turret over rifle? It deals 3x more damage for only 2x the fire rate, so it's a 50% dmg increase. It's also an explosion, altho it doesn't count as part of your ability or something(?), because after the overcharged rocket, you don't get any more explosion benefits like the healing or explosive temper stacks (which would be really cool tbh), but it still applies vuln. I know the tool belt ability isn't really good, but turrets last for 5min (unless you have to move more then 1000 units away very often, which some bosses force you to do) and with the 50% more dmg, it should outweigh the dmg lose from the belt. I mean the tool belt ability is also an explosion. I know, that it's not like the build doesn't has enough of those, but it still can heal you outside the kits.

[@MightyTeapot]

The toolbelt skill is very good for rifle turret it is big damage with no cast time and very short cooldown. It does much more DPS than the turret itself so toolbelt skill >>> actual turret.

[@Borando96]

​@@MightyTeapot Ah I found my mistake. I used the 266DMG from the wiki as the DMG of the tool belt for the build but I had to use the DMG formula Weapon strength * Power * Skill coefficient / 2597 For anyone who is interested int the maths and actual difference of DMG/s: Given: - Weapon strength (WS) of a Legi/Ascended Hammer: 1034 - 1166 (The tool tips use the midpoint, so 1100) - Power of full Legi/Ascended Gear with Berserker stats: +1381 so 2381 - Ferocity of full Legi/Ascended Gear with Berserker stats: 961 ca. +64% crit DMG (CDMG), so a total of 214% - Rifle Turret shown Damage: 476 (0.75) - Rifle Turret Rate of Fire: 2s - Surprise Shot Damage coefficiency (CE): (1.0) - Surprise Shot CD: 8s - Rocket Turret shown Damage: 1429 (2.25) - Rocket Turret Rate of Fire: 4s I disregard the CD of the Turrets and the 20% combo finisher of the Rifle Turret and the combo finisher of the Surprise Shot I'm going to assume that everything that can crit, will always crit, in this case only Surprise Shot, since Turrets can't crit. They also only use the character's attributes for boons and conditions, but since I can't find anywhere the stats of the Turret itself, I'm going to ignore the coefficiency of the turrets and use their shown DMG I'm ignoring the overcharge of both since they are just a fraction of the uptime and there isn't even a DMG difference for the Rifle Turret Rifle Turret and Surprise Shot DMG/s: (476 DMG / 2s) + (((1100 WS * 2381 P * 1 CE) / 2597) * 2,14 CDMG) / 8s) = 238 DMG/s + 270 DMG/s = 508 DMG/s Rocket Turret DMG/S: 1429 DMG / 4s = 357 DMG/S 508 > 357. Even without crits, it would still deal 364 DMG/s. Altho if you'd add the rocket into the calculation, you would get 446 DMG/s including the 1/2s cast time and without crits and 547 DMG/s with crits, assuming you'd cast it always off CD. But that's probably harder to achive without wasting as much or even more DMG/s as you'd get from doing rocket than just casting Surprise Shot. And as MightyTeapot already said, the tool belt skill deals more DMG than the turret itself, altho it's not so much more. Around every 7,5 casts of Surprise Shot (so about every 60s) you'd get the equivalent of 1 turret shot worth of DMG for "free" and only if we assume it crits every time.

[@samsquanch934]

Can you tank in wvw with this as well?

[@MightyTeapot]

Play minstrel support scrapper!

[@TheHomerville]

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