I personally love my engineer but I have noticed a major fall back with him compared to my other level 80 I have (both in complete exotics). When I play my mesmer I can go through mobs extremely fast whether I focus him on conditions or burst damage. But sadly it seems that the only way an engineer is to even come close to being on par with other classes is for them focus on grenade kit, which I personally do not enjoy because I do not like ground targetting AOEs for all my abilities. I am definitely not asking for the ground targetting AOEs to be turned into focus target AOEs (as it is for underwater).
But I would like to see dual pistols and the rifle get some buffs to them to allow them to be on pair compared to other classes. If you choose to become a condition engineer (which less face it is just nothing compared to grenade dmg) you seriously do less damage compared to other classes that are condition dmg builds. Everyone seems to say that engineers are the “jack of all trades, the master of none” which I can understand but an engineer if focused right should be able to do good damage when using dual pistols. As I believe someone stated before in another post thieves and warriors both get rapid fire attacks (thief with dual pistols and warriors with the rifle) but you give engineers poison dart volley, which is good for a condition build, but does half the damage even with the poison ticking. I personally love running with dual pistols because that is my playstyle but it seems when it comes to being an engineer we don’t compare to other classes. Whether if its because we are the “jack of all trades” or have support abilities (which I would like to say that an elementalist gets as well, and can actually do better support than an engineer) I would like to see damage improvements to the pistols and the rifle. I’d also like to see the Flamethrower and Elixir Gun get improvements as well (FT still has targetting issues with abilities and the EG, which is supposed to be condition focused does less damage than even the pistols do). I would like to see some more focus going towards the engineer class sense it was the last class you focused on before the launch I would think it would be the first class you’d focus on after the launch but I guess I am wrong.
I would just like to see some improvements to a very fun class and stop seeing people level up other classes because they see how underpowered the Engineer class truly is. There is a reason Engineers are the least played class in the game (if you actually even pay attention to that) and trust me its not the playstyle of the class.