Guild Wars 2

something needs to be done about this class, why are they so tanky, immune to everything yet do so much damage and CC?..they also have incredible mobility. They just seem to have everything and no weaknesses whatsoever… it doesn’t matter if its decap or turret engis.

Engis are acording to plenty of polls the least played profession. Ofcoarse people find them op if they dont know how they work.
Stun and dump conditions on an engineer and see em die.
Is it a turreteer? Kill the turrets.
Bomb bunker ? Snipe them.
If you chase an engi on his node you make it simple for him.
Ever played LoL? Think of em like a Singed withsome non scaling turrets.

You make it sound so easy Noha, but it isn’t that simple. Engies have too many gimicks

They “seem” to have everything? Do you feel it is possible it may just be perception? Perhaps you simply have not learned how to counter them yet?

I ask because if they were as strong as you feel, doesn’t seem odd that they were the second to least played profession in both the EU and NA ToL?

mrauls.6519:

You make it sound so easy Noha, but it isn’t that simple. Engies have too many gimicks

Many, most gimicks. But thw worst stunbreakers and conditional removal out there.
Just like how thieves have a hard time surviving in dungeons, or mesmers having bad travel time(strong in combat though). All classes ans specs have weaknesses.

If you wanna complain about it.. Complain about the oh so common hambow… Press 4buttons and win games (on an avrage level). You can even complain about how necros are so unwanted in dungeons. Everything have weaknesses.

Noha.3749:

mrauls.6519:

You make it sound so easy Noha, but it isn’t that simple. Engies have too many gimicks

Many, most gimicks. But thw worst stunbreakers and conditional removal out there.
Just like how thieves have a hard time surviving in dungeons, or mesmers having bad travel time(strong in combat though). All classes ans specs have weaknesses.

If you wanna complain about it.. Complain about the oh so common hambow… Press 4buttons and win games (on an avrage level). You can even complain about how necros are so unwanted in dungeons. Everything have weaknesses.

no engis are much more stronger than hambow, at least hambow is predictable and u can counter play that. you can’t counter an engi, their turrets are super tanky so usually you would die to all of their conditions b4 u down their turrets and there is no point dodging as they just spam spam condition all day.

I’m tired of people bring up unrelated statistics. How does them being close to the least played profession relate to the skills the profession has? None at all. Engies have too much to work with

Engi is just as predictable…
And not even a bunker decap engi is as easy to play as an hambow and do well with.
If engi werent the least played profession i swear they wouldnt be a problem cuz ppl would know how they work…

Seriously it was a mistake to buff turrets. Why would they buff turrets, anything that uses AI to do all the work for you should be weak or else it totally ruins any sort of skill encounters in this game.

Lifestealer.4910:

Seriously it was a mistake to buff turrets. Why would they buff turrets, anything that uses AI to do all the work for you should be weak or else it totally ruins any sort of skill encounters in this game.

The engineers turrets do not scale.
I repeat, they do not scale.

The fact that a class has a lot of viable specs does not mean that every engi you face has access to all that kind of things.

Engis usually run 2/3 kits unless they are zerker (and in that case they only have burst damage). Try to figure out which kits he is using and play at your advantage.

Also, another thing:

why are they so tanky, immune to everything yet do so much damage and CC?..they also have incredible mobility. They just seem to have everything and no weaknesses whatsoever

The exact same thing can be said for warriors. But again, warriors in PvP rarely have incredible mobility.