Guild Wars 2

Is the announcement trailer, a preview of what’s coming in that we’re seeing just how much time will be spent on balancing the class after launch?

The time for just about every other character class on the announcement trailer was roughly 48 – 60 seconds with clear and precise lore implications and why that new mastery was happening.

We get to the Engineer and it was 36 seconds. No excitement, no lore, just “engineer is looking at energy in a new way”.

Is this what we have to expect when the balance patch comes to fix many of the older trait lines in the class? Will there be very little attention given to the class by the balance team? Should we expect more delays on the older mechanics such as Gadgets, Elixirs (the potions not the kits), or Explosives?

Should we expect to wait another 5 years before we see these things fixed in this class? This is a serious question I’m sure it’s in the back of the minds of most new and old engineers.

Edit: My signature btw isn’t reflective of this question for engineers it’s actually regarding their recent changes to the condition durations when two classes are still chronically stuck in condition builds right now. That’s another matter entirely. I just wanted to make sure people were aware before I get attacked about that too.

I know thats a fallacy….. I just don’t know which type it is. Yesterday I saw 2 yellow cars after not seeing a yellow car for nearly 2 weeks…. so clearly theres been a sharp increase of Yellow cars now on the road. And since this is the first post I’ve seen from you, I can extrapolate that you are only capable of making terrible posts, and all future posts you make will be progressively worse.

You’re trying to prove an entire hypothesis on a single data point, where the data doesn’t even have a direct relationship to the thing its trying postulate.

Hows this for a data point. It took 4 years before they looked at elixir gun traits before they updated them.

My point is should we expect to wait another 5 before we see updates on the Engineer class and it’s critique yes but I think it’s a valid question. What should we expect for the balance of a class that’s not even represented properly in the expansion announcement?

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I know thats a fallacy….. I just don’t know which type it is. Yesterday I saw 2 yellow cars after not seeing a yellow car for nearly 2 weeks…. so clearly theres been a sharp increase of Yellow cars now on the road. And since this is the first post I’ve seen from you, I can extrapolate that you are only capable of making terrible posts, and all future posts you make will be progressively worse.

You’re trying to prove an entire hypothesis on a single data point, where the data doesn’t even have a direct relationship to the thing its trying postulate.

Odd, I thought it was supposed to be the Ranger/Soulbeast that was under-represented.

These forums! So confusing.

No offense, but that is one hell of a jump to a silly conclusion. The class looks great. Check out the wiki, has all skills and traits, courtesy of bogotters video.

I concurr with the lore point.

Several of the other professions seem to be linked to a well informed aspect of the new area history or at least to some rcognized lore aspect from tyria.

Holosmith “uses light in interesting ways”. No Scarlet mentioned, no reference to Ellie, no connection with Moto, no relation to Elona, the Dragons, the Gods or… anything.

“Yay, in the desert the sun hits stronger, lets make the new elite about that!”
Come on…