Guild Wars 2

After seeing the preview I was a little confused as to why the traits were placed in the trait trees they were placed in.

Dropping a bomb when crit seems like something that belongs in explosives.
Synaptic Overload would fit really in the Explosives or Firearms…

Would like to see the two switch places.
Thats all.

I really had hoped they would have added a trait in tools that reduced the gadget and toolbelt cd such as
50% chance on crit to reduce the cd of toolbelt or gadgets (not sure if both would be op)
by 1 sec with a 1 sec cd

That Gadgeteer trait, though. You’re giving up very high Aegis uptime or permanent +50% endurance regen for a few boons, most of which are easily acquired on other utility skills anyways. Aegis on Throw Mine is a pretty big slap in the face too, compared to Armor Mods.

I’ll wait until patch day until final judgment, but I’m not hopeful about Gadgeteer. I don’t think boons are what gadgets needed. If you use a lot of them, you’ll inevitably end up spending a lot of time in your mainhand weapon, which usually will deal garbage DPS.

They’re also putting a Turret trait into Alchemy.
To date, there has been absolutely no reason for a Turret Engineer to ever go into Alchemy at all, and their first action toward changing that…is a Grandmaster trait. At least it’ll be easy to reset out of it if the trait’s kitten.

Engineer traits are underwhelming. Why would one bother equipping any of that instead of what we have right now.

MrForz.1953:

Engineer traits are underwhelming. Why would one bother equipping any of that instead of what we have right now.

This.
Also, still nothing about our class mechanic, the toolbelt.
Sure, i appreciate they added a gadget trait. But gadgets are still mediocre, you can’t make a build just out of them.