Guild Wars 2

Ran into a problem yesterday where alot of people on my teams kept running far to fight the turret engy and lose and they would do it again. I find that the biggest problem with that build is that everyone complaining about it either knows there build cant beat it, havent practice against one and refuse to go against the meta. Worst part is they complain about it in map chat and name calling because there a turrent engy.

I ran some practice runs on what i thought would be a turret engy and i found lb or shortbow ranger it was pretty easy to kill him. Also necro also easy even when i ran a scepter focus. Just for fun we tried a zerker warrior who used stances. A 6-2-0-0-6build, lol that worked sometimes. I personally also ran into a thief who wiped me 3 times in 1 game and he was the only theif to even drop me on my turrent engy and he killed me each time in under a minute which i found amazing.

I checked some things cause i saw people on here calling them op and saying how do i beat one. I personally feel most people dont want to run anything that isnt meta because there are alot of toxic players. I wished i would of print screened it but i had 2 mesmers 2 rangers and me on my ele and we beat a 3 engy 1necro and 1 ranger team in ranked. All im saying is that if you feel your seeing to many people log in to engy you have to run a build which you know can compete with it. I literally dropped my friend with my shortbow condi ranger in about 30 sec with rune of the krait. I know its not a meta build and most find it unplayable vs other builds because it isnt as good for team fighting. Just throwing it out there that there are alternatives and you dont have to play the same build as everyone else in the game. i honestly find the biggest issue is people in this game dont know how to play in there lane. Everyone thinks there dps thief should be able to kill anything in 3 hits and there bunker guardian shouldnt die in 1vs fights. The community is failing to come up with other builds because the best players in the game dont struggle and stay in there lane when it comes to fighting these simply builds.

kdaddy.5431:

Ran into a problem yesterday where alot of people on my teams kept running far to fight the turret engy and lose and they would do it again. I find that the biggest problem with that build is that everyone complaining about it either knows there build cant beat it, havent practice against one and refuse to go against the meta. Worst part is they complain about it in map chat and name calling because there a turrent engy.

I ran some practice runs on what i thought would be a turret engy and i found lb or shortbow ranger it was pretty easy to kill him. Also necro also easy even when i ran a scepter focus. Just for fun we tried a zerker warrior who used stances. A 6-2-0-0-6build, lol that worked sometimes. I personally also ran into a thief who wiped me 3 times in 1 game and he was the only theif to even drop me on my turrent engy and he killed me each time in under a minute which i found amazing.

I checked some things cause i saw people on here calling them op and saying how do i beat one. I personally feel most people dont want to run anything that isnt meta because there are alot of toxic players. I wished i would of print screened it but i had 2 mesmers 2 rangers and me on my ele and we beat a 3 engy 1necro and 1 ranger team in ranked. All im saying is that if you feel your seeing to many people log in to engy you have to run a build which you know can compete with it. I literally dropped my friend with my shortbow condi ranger in about 30 sec with rune of the krait. I know its not a meta build and most find it unplayable vs other builds because it isnt as good for team fighting. Just throwing it out there that there are alternatives and you dont have to play the same build as everyone else in the game. i honestly find the biggest issue is people in this game dont know how to play in there lane. Everyone thinks there dps thief should be able to kill anything in 3 hits and there bunker guardian shouldnt die in 1vs fights. The community is failing to come up with other builds because the best players in the game dont struggle and stay in there lane when it comes to fighting these simply builds.

The problem with this is that you’re saying there are “X many builds like X and X can beat turret eng”, which the majority of people don’t play because they don’t do well against any other classes. To go into a match with one of those banking on the fact that there’s a chance the enemy team will have a turret eng is not wise. There needs to be more counterplay to something like this.

I’m not joking when I say a turret eng could be watching netflix, see an enemy come to him, insert his head into his keyboard and do relatively well. The turrets do massive damage to light and medium armored classes.

This is a very discouraging matchup for less experienced players.

There’s only certain classes that can comfortably kill a Turret Engineer and it’s a Longbow Ranger from full range or a Greatsword Mesmer. The Fire Sigil procs combined with huge damage from range make it super easy. For Mesmer, it’s particularly easy because you can cause a lot of AOE alongside your Shatters from a long distance. I always eat Turret Engineers incredibly easy.

I do agree with that other typles of playing styles should some how get a bette shot of winning. I disagree with you from the aspect of the new players. I dont think we should cater to new people coming in. Also the best players seem to take them out pretty easy with them on point or off.

All im trying to say is we cant nerf every class cause its cheese. yes i agree its easy to run a turret build and beat new people but its also easy for the good players to wipe them. Im trying to look at it from both sides and to be honest, i would like for some other builds to be viable in pvp.

The best counter to a turret engi is actually communicating with your teammates.