Guild Wars 2

Okay, I’ve been whining for 3 months now: When is the manifesto going to live up to its ‘true creed’ to quote Martin Luther King.

I only play on one character. And (sadly) it’s engineer which is absolutely rubbish in dungeons. They really are useless.

But the already overlord warrior gets a signet buff? Why?
I’m not saying the warriors don’t deserve the buff or should be nerfed, but give other classes except warrior/guardian/mesmer something to do in your dungeons! At the moment there aren’t good reasons to not pick any of the w/g/m classes.

Or can anyone give a reason why to pick, say, an engineer or a ranger?

They globally buffed signets, it doesn’t even matter since no good warrior runs any signet (except under some very rare circumstances) other then rage, and you are using that for the active, not the passive.

You should go to engineer subforums. People there will explain to you that engi is fine and has amazing burst damage, OP CC, infinite party heals and super combo fields. Why buff such a powerful class?! -sarcasm off-

Ferum Flamebender.5910:

Okay, I’ve been whining for 3 months now: When is the manifesto going to live up to its ‘true creed’ to quote Martin Luther King.

I only play on one character. And (sadly) it’s engineer which is absolutely rubbish in dungeons. They really are useless.

But the already overlord warrior gets a signet buff? Why?
I’m not saying the warriors don’t deserve the buff or should be nerfed, but give other classes except warrior/guardian/mesmer something to do in your dungeons! At the moment there aren’t good reasons to not pick any of the w/g/m classes.

Or can anyone give a reason why to pick, say, an engineer or a ranger?

i think this is not a problem about class balance but a problem with content balance.

Engineer is one of the most complex classes in the game. An engineer has aoe res, a simple condition removal. Bombs are spectacular in pvE. Also, they have a decent amount of immobile and other conditions.

The problem is that content only favors dps, reflect, and non squishy classes.

Basically, class balance for the most part is fine. Although the search and rescue nerf, ranger just became one of the worse party classes.

Anet need to diversify their content.

OP, the manifesto was thrown out the day they announced Ascended gear.

Regarding balance, Grenade Engineer with the traits that cause debuffs on crit seems to be pretty good damage?
I don’t even really know, I so rarely see any Engineers let alone ones that know their class well enough to make a meaningfully noticeable contribution, I can’t really give you any useful tips on how to get the most out of Engie.

And do indeed stay away from the Engie forums, those guys are convinced their class is OP and nerfs are justified.