Guild Wars 2

Hi guys,

So I’m at a point where I only really have time to play one profession in my free time and I’m trying to decide between Thief and Engineer.

I’ve played Thief since I started the game (about a month ago) and I really do like the class. I love the mobility and the ability to get out of a fight if it goes south coupled with the huge burst.

With Engi I only recently started playing it and its taking some getting used to esp with grenade kit. It does feel really strong though and its nice to be able to take quite a few hits compared to the thief.

Since I’m looking to play just one profession I would like to have something that does well in other aspects of the game and some people have told me not to go engi for PVE/WvW.

I’ve gone over the patch notes but honestly was overwhelmed since I don’t know the classes well enough yet to really understand what is being affected.

Feel free to give any input/advice if you lean one way or the other!!

Thx!

I can tell you one thing, engis have OPTIONS, they can play any role and still be semi-viable, from support to burst to duelists.

Engis are great in WvW and PvE and better for PvP due to their naturally high sustained damage and tons of damage mitigation AND CC.

Thanks for the quick reply! Anyone else have experience with the two?

My engi is not 80 yet but from what I have found online the PVE rotation is INSAnnnee…and even when pulled off perfectly does less dmge than other professions?…with all the changes in this patch are they looking better in PVE do you think?

My advice… wait until tomorrow to decide! :-D

Ps. Also think about how much time you are going to dedicate to learning. I don’t know about the Engineer, but the Thief takes a LOT of time to improve skill-wise.

Kageseigi.2150:

My advice… wait until tomorrow to decide! :-D

Ps. Also think about how much time you are going to dedicate to learning. I don’t know about the Engineer, but the Thief takes a LOT of time to improve skill-wise.

It will be not be clear day 1 what is good and what isn’t.

The role of engi and thief is very very different. With thief you will be glass, you can’t really make mistakes that often as a thief to be successful. You focus on taking out other people’s DPS classes in teamfights, especially mesmers, necros, and rangers, above all else.

Engineer is most often played either as a celestial or rabid build. The rabid builds have immense condition pressure, but are in turn very weak to enemy conditions and many teams run lots of AoE cleanse in teamfights which limits rabid engi to an extent. Celestial engi has a lot more sustain than rabid engi, and comparable, yet fundamentally different damage since its mixed rather than soley condition based. The main draw for celestial over rabid for me is that the rifle is an amazing weapon for single target CC, which is really important in this game. The pistols/sheild have great condition output, but the rifle’s low cooldown immob and knockback and the burst from jump shot just make it a fantastic weapon. There are also zerker static discharge builds, but I don’t see any reason to use them over a thief/mesmer/medi guard.

Also about engi in general, is that the weapon kit system is very fun, because it allows for fluid transitions between weaponsets without your momentum being stifled by swap cooldowns. D/D eles are forced to use rotations by the nature of their attunement cooldowns, while Engineers have considerably more freedom in that regard, as well as lower cooldowns in general.

Thx that was informative!

Novuake.2691:

It will be not be clear day 1 what is good and what isn’t.

Perhaps not, but it will be much clearer than the day before the release :-P