Guild Wars 2

I’m really excited about the changes to the engineer as announced in the AMA. The grenade changes disappointed me until I saw the mortar kit in action. Now I’m quite okay with what’s going down in that department.

What I’m wondering at the moment is why Adrenal Implant was moved down to master from grandmaster. This puts it in contention with the Speedy Kits+Kit Refinement hybrid trait.

No, I can’t say that it ruins a build or “the spirit” of a build, but it’s a trait I used in conjunction with speedy kits and static discharge to create a glassy burst damage engineer that could stay mobile and hopefully survive until cooldowns allowed the next burst. Having to pick either reliable swiftness or increased dodging capabilities makes that whole “hopefully survive” thing much more difficult.

If the reasoning for lowering it to master was because it wasn’t impactful, perhaps combining it with the existing “Enduring Damage” minor trait would give it the value worthy of a grandmaster trait. From what we’ve been shown, it seems like there aren’t any interactions between the traits it shares it’s slot with and other traits that could create possibly overpowered synergies (even as the train currently exists in-game). It just seems a little baffling why it got lowered.

I’m mostly curious since this change kinda puts a wrench in the build I’ve been running for a while so I’m a bit sentimental about it. If there’s some balance reason it was lowered or whatever else, I’m hoping someone from ANet can chime in and provide some insight.

While I hear ya and it ruins my plan of picking up both of those, I do think it’s a good choice in that I think the more they make you choose the more variations on builds will come from it. You might lose some potential synergies out of it, but it’s “for the good of the game” I think. People wanted diversity, you need conflict to create that diversity in a system like this. If you had clear cut choices everyone would choose them.