Guild Wars 2

So playing through Iron Legion storyline for a Charr character, I came across a situation where one of the NPCs builds some turrets and you pick them up, carry them to a desired location, then place them. But the really nice thing is that you can then pick them back up, carry them to a new location, and place them again. This is for the bits of the story where the Ash Legion is modifying your characters’ ghost killing gun into a turret, specifically, for those wondering what I’m referring to.

And it struck me that this type of thing would be really, really nice for Engineer characters. Rather than the “Pick Up” command for turrets making them disappear, then having to waiting for the respawn to count down before you can place it again, why not let the player pick the turret up, carry it around in their hands, then place it down again?

The turret could have 2 options while in your hands, you could either place it back on the ground with “1” or put it into your inventory with “2” (putting it into the inventory would have the same effect as the current pickup option). The turret health would be kept the same, so no refilling turret health by moving them or anything.

Would really help turret-heavy Engineers, aleviate some of the downtime between battles where you have to either go without your turret or wait a minute for cooldowns on some of the higher level turrets. Carry one of them with you and you can at least cut down some of the downtime.

I’d suggest it being a default option for turrets, but if it was determined that would be too advantagous for non-turret spec’d Engineers (just carry around a Rocket Turret for a pretty good damage boost) then it could be added to one of the existing Turret traits. Deployable Turrets seems the obvious choice.