Guild Wars 2

This is how I feel about engi right now. I am by no means an engineer main, I merely alt the class for fun on occassion, and when I do these days, I get wrecked.

I spend most of my matches running away from mesmers and elementalists with gear shield, elixir s, and its toss variant. Yes the stealth usually lets me escape if I haven’t lost too much health, but I feel like my ability to actually do anything to them is poor, and if I come back, my cooldowns will be up and I’ll die. This is on both power and condi builds, that are both forced to take elixir S and tool kit to even have a chance to run away to survive in the first place.

Anyway, since there is no longer any magical catch all build like the old cele rifle, I feel frustrated when I play it compared to my other classes, such as necro.

So how do you engis feel? Do you spend too much time running away from godmode builds? What would you change in the game in terms of traits and amulets and runes and what not to find an engi build that doesn’t have to spend so much of its time running away?

I play condi engi at the moment and if my opponent is not a condi necro I like my chances to win. Maybe you should change your build.

If you liked the old rifle build, take this:

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Engineer_-_Soldier_Rifle

and you should be fine vs more or less all classes. This build does not carry you but has an answer for every situation

Lupanic.6502:

I play condi engi at the moment and if my opponent is not a condi necro I like my chances to win. Maybe you should change your build.

If you liked the old rifle build, take this:

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Engineer_-_Soldier_Rifle

and you should be fine vs more or less all classes. This build does not carry you but has an answer for every situation

1v1 condi engi is generally good, unless its against condi/cele necro, or mantra mesmer. The problem of running away that I describe is more referring to teamfights, where if a mesmer, or anything with high damage pressure decides to focus me, I have to pop my cooldowns to get away and I’m basically forced out of the fight which is just bad for my team. Yeah I can soak up hits with gear shield, but I can’t heal through the amount of damage thats being thrown down like an elementalist can.

I’ve tried a soldiers build before (although with tools instead of inventions, since bunker down would be kind of pointless with such a low crit chance). It was okay, but again, it lacked the ability to heal through the damage it took with heal turret, so I’d spend most of my time running away with gear shield with 2-3K HP left. Even though I was innately much tankier than a marauder build or a rabid build, I couldn’t really heal through that damage, making the tankiness feel futile when another build could be doing much more damage, especially with grenades.

I think that once mesmers get fixed/nerfed back (if they ever will, i hope they will) , and our bombs will get fixed (the current bomb radius is just ridiculously small) it will all get better. Your chances of winning against good d/d ele nowadays are not so good, unless you burst your condis so effective that they can not cleanse. You can’t win a sustain game against them. As for mesmers , they need fixing and thats it.

I know what you mean mate… I’ve found myself having to disengage time after time recently… But it’s the difference between 5 points given so you do right.

Never liked it much but elixir x is looking better and better…. Not only for the massive hp boost if you need to get the phoock out of dodge but for the transform… Can shut down that mesmer (taste of their own medicine) etc…

I love the mortar kit but ‘X’ is lookin better and better…

IDK I’m still finding my own way post patch. Until you find your thing, keep running ;-)

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-Z70;2cPFw0f6sT-x0;9;4lmk;0146247257;4SN0;3CoF2CoF2a0K

This is what I run most often and I do fairly well against 60% of the mesmers I fight. The good ones are truely unbeatable but fortunatly most are brand new to the class.

nearlight.3064:

This is how I feel about engi right now. I am by no means an engineer main, I merely alt the class for fun on occassion, and when I do these days, I get wrecked.

I spend most of my matches running away from mesmers and elementalists with gear shield, elixir s, and its toss variant. Yes the stealth usually lets me escape if I haven’t lost too much health, but I feel like my ability to actually do anything to them is poor, and if I come back, my cooldowns will be up and I’ll die. This is on both power and condi builds, that are both forced to take elixir S and tool kit to even have a chance to run away to survive in the first place.

Anyway, since there is no longer any magical catch all build like the old cele rifle, I feel frustrated when I play it compared to my other classes, such as necro.

So how do you engis feel? Do you spend too much time running away from godmode builds? What would you change in the game in terms of traits and amulets and runes and what not to find an engi build that doesn’t have to spend so much of its time running away?

Unless the mesmer has mantra heal or mantra cleanse on their bar, I spend my time chasing them around.
And it’s really hard fighting Eles because when they nail their burst, it just hurts. At some point early in the patch release, I could beat eles even when people said they were tough, but now, it’s just harder for whatever reason. I feel I need to adjust the way I play because it seems they’ve adjusted how they play.

I’ve been playing my FT/EG build which has got me most of my wins in SPvP lately. Try it if you like http://intothemists.com/guides/5967-fteg_mightstacking_build