Guild Wars 2

Was suprised there wasn’t one to begin with, especially with the snipers available in some event/heart areas. So, would it be a good idea to give the Engineer a Sniper kit to give it some long range options?

Weapon abilities would be somewhere along the lines of:

1: Auto-attack, Direct damage, slow RAF.
2: Suppressing fire, random spray of bullets towards the target area, aoe slow. Channeled. 15sec cd.
3: Snipe, charged shot, hold for increased critchance, accuracy OR critdmg, knocks target over upon succesful crit. 15sec cd
4: Entrench, setup a sniping position, gain stealth and increased damage on your next 3 shots but you cannot move. Using the ability again deploys a spotting tool for a second player who can mark targets, marked targets have an increased chance to be critted by sniper. Lasts 30sec. 1min cd.
5: Camouflage, gain movementspeed increase and become untargettable for 5sec, you cannot attack during this period. 1min cd.

Sniper Rifle abilities would all have a range of like… 1500-2000. I don’t really have a decent idea on whats fair here… but it is a a sniper so some range is warranted.

Toolbelt skill: Hipfire from your Sniper Rifle, knocking back and damaging targets in a line. The closer your target(s) the further the knockback and damage.

OR since a sniper is usually a big heavy weapon:

Toolbelt skill: Homerun: Swing your sniper rifle at an enemy causing knockback and damage. Enemies that are hit by the first knocked back enemy are also knocked back.

Alright, obviously needs tuning but these are just ideas…
Thoughts?

I do have to say.. they have turrets and all that kinda stuff.. and it has been some years since gw1 .. so in fact i assume an old fashion sniper would be a hel lotta fun. Even though i find it hard to believe arenanet will implement this, i do truly wish they did

Agree with OP.. A Sniper Kit would be AWESOME to play.

id give it a whirl. it could add some new defense options for engineers but it should be a deployable tripod. while your at it give engineer morters siege damage or longer range, either one works

O.o A sniper kit would be absolutely amazing!
It’d open the way for an Elite pehaps; Sniper Team. Similar to Warband Support for the Charr but calls for a Sniper Team that spawn immediately Entrenched?

Well…Since the ash Legion has Sniper Turrets I see this entirely possible. However, it will be needed to be weighed, due to this sniper rifles nearly one-shotting mobs.

I did however, ask the question: “Where is the engineer’s sniper rifle?” When I saw those turrets.

There are already snipers in the game—-Blood Legion story mode comes to mind.

This would be awesome. Actually, this is the reason I don’t play my engi currently, thought they would be a nice long-range class, but in truth most of their abilities like to make you get in your opponent’s face.

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I do have to say.. they have turrets and all that kinda stuff.. and it has been some years since gw1 .. so in fact i assume an old fashion sniper would be a hel lotta fun. Even though i find it hard to believe arenanet will implement this, i do truly wish they did

Well you can find sniper in the game…I don’t see why not.

Give us a sniper rifle kit, or please remake the god awful rifle skills.

Compared to the warrior rifle skills, Engineers got the short end of the stick.

Sniper would be quit awesome o.o!!