Guild Wars 2

Playing an engineer is fun, has its quirks etc… but I feel some of the visual design behind them is a little lack luster in my opinion. I just thought I would post my thoughts on some of the polish that could be applied to make the class seem more aesthetically pleasing and unique. No change to skills/abilities but just the way they look. A purely aesthetic.
I know its called tool kit but that could mean anything not just tools, just so we aren’t limited to garage tools only, it is a fantasy world after all.

Wrench. The best looking skill, which looks like a wrench but even this could be made to look better. Why can’t it be a a chain whip? or perhaps a lightening chain whip, or just a lighting spanner (I like lightening) or other device that has some animation.

Nails. This is a copy and paste from the thief class, which we seem to get a lot of but that’s for another post. Could this not be something like oil, or bananas or ball bearings with an original animation? Something like balls being scattered or the balls dropping down from a central point on the character (like you’re dumping a load). Electrostatic field would be cool perhaps, with a unique animation not copied from Mesmer!

Crowbar. A simple pipe and attack animation? This looks the poorest of any skill in the game. A flash light could cause confusion, or laser. It could be a giant anvil thrown at the enemy (spin around and throw, like hammer throw).

Shield. Can’t do to much with this really, just would prefer the shield to look a little more engineery, so when you use the skill the shield coils outward with a cool noise. Perhaps make it a tad larger.

Magnet. Another hard one i guess, prefer a giant magnet that pops out of the chest like the ram, or the head, and perhaps the post-processing effects made larger and stronger looking. You’re pulling huge objects, it needs to look beefy! This doesn’t have to be a magnet, instead of attack 1 using a chain whip it could be used here instead.

Please please please let the artists make a pass over this kit, it feels so underwhelming at the moment.