Guild Wars 2

So i have been playing for about a month almost 2 months. I know people go to thief ele warrior or mesmer and ranger.

I played spvp and gotten deer rank and about 200 points, i am still a small fry.

THIS post is about why i like engineer. I know it’s my opinion.

For starters i see everyone loves to use berserker gear / amulet in spvp and world pvp. It’s the most damaging and offensive oriented build stat that kills the fastest.

I feel engineer is not made for damage – even though they can spec for damage, it’s not as strong as other classes.

I know in the engineer forums they cry and cry about engineer not being strong. I know engineer is not made like other classes to faceroll and deal massive damage and go on killing sprees.

I feel engineer is a tanky short ranged caster that excels at stuns, support, and moderate sustain damage.

For this reason – i am enjoying my engineer and learning to build around my strengths not my weaknesses. I know engineers are not in the meta or fashionably loved very much. I try to pvp as rifle soldier with some cc and healing and moderate damage. I can bunker on cap areas or i can 1v1 just fine.

I know i said in an earlier post on engineer forums (if you check my history log of posting) that engineer is the weakest class in pvp. Well they are not the weakest class they are just the most different in terms of what the meta and players love to play – raw offense damage dealers. I fall in the trap of trying to be a solo killing machine with my engineer profession. But that’s not the most effective way to play engineer.

So i wanted to just say, that i think scrapper and engineer are very fun and have a unique play style that most people and especially – teams – will need to learn how to take advantage of. The engineer has an amazing class designer and i love the supporting tanky short ranged caster role i play in spvp and in fractals and wvw.

I want to finish my post by saying that most people want to faceroll as engineer but that is not how the class works. And that is not how to be a high skilled cap engineer. Most people think high skilled capped engineers are those that can score the most kills or do most damage. But a really skilled engineer can be very useful to his teammates and assit in damage healing and control, and can 1v1 pretty decent with the right stats and runes/sigils.

Thanks for reading i hope i helped new players who want to play engineer.

I’ve gotten three shot by a soldier rifle engineer… I gave the chick props. It was the first engi I ever fought that destroyed me so fast. Very well played. The main perk to engineer is that they have so many different tools available to then at any given moment. Also, most engi don’t run zerker.