Guild Wars 2

Its seems almost stupid to me that Engineers cant fix siege. they are engineers for god sake. Doing this would finally make engineers a more attractive role to play then

Yes it is stupid.
Anet doesn’t seem to care as much about WvW as PVE and sPvP which I think is a huge mistake. sPvP for Esports is great and all but you are only attracting certain players with it and the way the game is set up to play sPvP you don’t actually have to play any other part of the game.

If Engineers were able to repair siege then every profession would also need a unique WvW type skill. I personally think this would be awesome, maybe Rangers could temporarilly charm mobs to attack enemies and Guardians or Warriors could call for NPC reinforcements if they are close enough to a keep or tower. Not sure what the other professions could have, maybe Ele could freeze siege so they fire slower which can only be cured by another Ele using fire. iono!

But right now it seems like the Mesmer is the only profession with a skill that seems to almost be specifically made for WvW. Portals (whether u agree with them or not) make Mesmers a priority to any raiding party and a single hiding Mesmer can undo what took your team hours to accomplish.

GO ANET.

Exactly, having different skills like them would make each class feel important. If mesmers can make portals and you quickness on siege ,what cant engineers fix them.

CriSPeH.8512:

If Engineers were able to repair siege then every profession would also need a unique WvW type skill.

You are right in that Mesmer’s already have a highly valued role in WvW. And don’t forget that Elementalists can use that wind shield to block trebuchet shots. If you have not seen that in action, I assure you it makes treb wars a joke of a thing.

However, do you really want to end up like those classes in WvW? Locked into always performing a specific task?

Commander: “You idiot engineer! Why were you running around spamming grenades when you could have been repairing this balista! Also when you are done with that go repair the north wall, then the east, then shine my shoes.”

I’d rather see some other kind of passive bonus like using supply to build seige/repair walls is 10-20% more effective for an engineer. For example using 10 supply counts as 12, etc. Not a huge boost but a little something helpful and flavorful for the class.

This depends. For instance, do you want engineers to repair siege with Tool Kit’s wrench like it repairs turrets (whack whack whack FIXED)? If so plant a treb near the spawning zone and get a bunch of engineers to stand in the invulnerability section to beat it just as immortal as the players. Also expect your role in something like a golem siege to be attacking the golems rather than anything else, especially after they’re finished and waypointed, and just imagining how long it would probably take to fix a golem’s HP gives me a headache.

Do you want engineers to be able to repair siege using supplies? If so expect commanders and squad leaders to constantly ask you to make siege repair runs. In fact you might as well assume it to be expected of you, and if low-health siege is destroyed don’t be surprised if you see “why weren’t any engineers repairing it?!” in map chat. Making siege-build runs is already kind of tedious, and you’re just asking to do it more.

If that’s what it takes, then it shouldn’t be a problem. Everyone has a role to play in the war.

And forgive me for saying so, but I would prefer the choice to serve with my rifle rather than at home with my hammer without any social condemnation associated with it.

Regardless of how you like to play Wv3, you should not want change that causes you to be pigeonholed into a specific role.

YojimboJones.6243:

CriSPeH.8512:

If Engineers were able to repair siege then every profession would also need a unique WvW type skill.

You are right in that Mesmer’s already have a highly valued role in WvW. And don’t forget that Elementalists can use that wind shield to block trebuchet shots. If you have not seen that in action, I assure you it makes treb wars a joke of a thing.

However, do you really want to end up like those classes in WvW? Locked into always performing a specific task?

Commander: “You idiot engineer! Why were you running around spamming grenades when you could have been repairing this balista! Also when you are done with that go repair the north wall, then the east, then shine my shoes.”

I’d rather see some other kind of passive bonus like using supply to build seige/repair walls is 10-20% more effective for an engineer. For example using 10 supply counts as 12, etc. Not a huge boost but a little something helpful and flavorful for the class.

I agree with this guy. Also, portals are pretty glamorous. Elementalist blocking shows off your skills. Both get you high fives. Hammering away on a siege like a peon? “Get back to work ya lazy engineer!”

Would be a tad bit OP. If you could repair something like golems, every server would be able to maintain a small golem army pretty easily, and things would get silly, fast.