Guild Wars 2

this is purely a pve suggestion and these turrets should be unusable for WVW / SPVP/TPVP so please no comments what so ever about pvp as they wont be usable for pvp.

in the scarlet invasion we have seen minons that fly using helicopter blades. now as engineers we could “reverse engineer” this tech and then apply it to rifle / rocket turret.
Have them classed as a minion so they last untill u destroy them and not have a time limit like current turrets do. also they would only attack when you attack and would not attack if you are attacked so they are not bot friendly.
also have them so they cant go above any celings.

maybe even call them drones makes sense and wouldnt be hard to >>>REVERSE engineer<<< tech from scarlets invasions

example

1. flying rifle turret range 1000. flys above the battle at 900 range when in combat it hovers over the target shooting it. can not be targeted by AOE but can still take direct damage

2. flying rocket turret. range 1000. flys above the battle at 900 range when in combat it hovers over the target shooting it. can not be targeted by AOE but can still take direct damage

both turrets then return and stay above the engineer at 900 range and moves with the engineer like a minion / pet.

seeing as ground placed turrets in most pve content is very aoe heavy this would be a nice change. we could release the turrets they fly about do their job and only work in PVE in pvp / wvw it would be ground turrets as normal.

this would give engineers a whole new way to use turrets and not have to worry about them being “stationary aoe magnets”

this would be a PVE ONLY addition to skills and unusable in WvW / SPVP/ TPVP

I don’t want my engineer to become a pet class.

Having said this, maybe we could incorporate this into a turret trait to have them fly, thus making them harder to kill. Perhaps, they can still be targeted as usual and are still succeptible to cleave, but won’t be hit by any ground targeted aoe.

they would simpley be a fire and forget turret for pve and uw ouldnt have to worry about them the whole fight