Guild Wars 2

The Engineer fully traited with grenade kit can but really good. Excellent condition spreading, solid condition damage and with a wee bit of burst. The problem lies in that while playing a grenadier your rapidly pressing your buttons so much that your hand will be sore after 20 minutes. Unlike say rangers who for a standard mob you can tap 1 and watch them die. My suggestion is simple, Targeted AoE. Allow engineers (or all players) to toggle on a mode that AoE attacks function like a targeted attack. And that auto-attacks will be functional with. In my opinion this feature would make grenade engi’s far more fun to play.

To put this into perspective, I’m throwing out that a normal set of commands for my aoe focused Necromancer taking on a group uses 7 possible button presses and 4 Ground Clicks to target certain spells over the course of an average fight. Mostly due to Grenader’s ‘1’ skill not being an auto-attack skill, They have to make 24 Button Presses and 6 Ground Clicks to do roughly the same effect. A large majority of this disparity would be eliminated if their standard grenade skill could be set to auto attack much like when i’m aoeing, my main hand weapon is contributing the entire time while I setup the aoes. Seems a fair request to me, as it’d mostly bring them up to speed with some other setups as far as human-side difficulty of play.

Making the #1 button on the grenade kit an autotarget auto attack like other kits would solve this problem immediately.

Even if auto-targeting would make it overpowered, giving us the option to make it an auto-attack would be nice (just have it go whereever the mouse is currently).

Using that fast cast ground targeting option will result in you throwing grenades nowhere near where you want too. Considering a traited grenadier throws at a range of 1,500 you can try using that and end up throwing at the hill behind your target. Thus resulting in pulling even more mobs, resulting in even more rapid button presses. It causes more problems than it solves.