Guild Wars 2

I’ve played an engineer since launch and a little during the open beta weekends. From day one I enjoyed the class on a condition that the obviously broken traits and kits would HAVE to be fixed sooner over later.

Instead it would seem those glaring bugs and broken traits seem to be ignored, leaving us with few viable ways of playing with any level of decency compared to the other classes. Of course then for inexplicable reasons those viable builds get broken apart or “rebalanced” so we have almost nothing that compares to anyone.

The arguments have been made from the players on this forum and others. Many see the engineer as the class that is to be abandoned in lieu of obviously better ones. I gave the Dec. update a shot, hell I never even liked grenades to begin with so it was a wonderful opportunity to pull out the tricks I haven’t tried yet but have thought about. Having our weapon sigils alone was fun for a few days, but as the month rolled on and the wintersday novelty wore off, I was left playing the class with nothing left to distract me from its continuing failures.

So it’s been about a week and a half since I logged in last and I know that doesn’t seem like much of a break but I just have no motivation to play this class, nor the motivation to try again on another. I’ve worked hard on my engineer, I’m 80% of the way towards the legendary rifle and for all the fun that having a new shiny can be, it’s again just a distraction and a brief one at that, from the glaringly bad class that is the engineer.

So I ask, has anyone heard hide or hair from a developer or anyone with some kind of official knowhow? Is this just simply the way it is for those who wanted to play the engineer? Stick it out with a terrible class and keep hoping, or reroll? Or in my case quit?

Not sure what your asking for here. They already gave their class balance philosophy. Some players disagree with what they believe engineer’s bring to the table. Anet never stated that Engineers are underpowered/overpowered/balanced. They just stated that they keep their vision of Engineer in mind when making changes.

They even gave us an idea of whats to come. They want to make sure every build is viable. No one build outshines the other. Also AOE balance, they feel some aoe builds are too strong for the opportunity cost and that they plan to bring those in line in the next few patches.

I swear I dont think anyone reads the patch notes.. They just see a change they dont like and make a QQ post about it. It is one thing to disagree with their statements, but they have been communicating.

TLDR: The communication we have been given is fine. Just be patient and wait for the next update if you feel those statements dont hold true. They have given us their long term goals for Engineer. Their balance philosophy of making small changes, means it wont happen overnight.

NickDollahZ.5348:

Not sure what your asking for here. They already gave their class balance philosophy. Some players disagree with what they believe engineer’s bring to the table. Anet never stated that Engineers are underpowered/overpowered/balanced. They just stated that they keep their vision of Engineer in mind when making changes.

They even gave us an idea of whats to come. They want to make sure every build is viable. No one build outshines the other. Also AOE balance, they feel some aoe builds are too strong for the opportunity cost and that they plan to bring those in line in the next few patches.

I swear I dont think anyone reads the patch notes.. They just see a change they dont like and make a QQ post about it. It is one thing to disagree with their statements, but they have been communicating.

TLDR: The communication we have been given is fine. Just be patient and wait for the next update if you feel those statements dont hold true. They have given us their long term goals for Engineer. Their balance philosophy of making small changes, means it wont happen overnight.

It’s like Jack “Statesman” Emmert’s ‘Vision’ all over again, I think I’ll just save you all the time and tell you to prepare for the worst and hope it doesn’t turn out quite so badly.

I hope they do an AMA soon so we can ask them questions like:

- why do they think medieval weapons should do so much more damage then 20th century weapons of war?
- why are engineers taxed for versatility and no other class is, not even the king?
- why haven’t they added a 1 shot kill ability to all of the classes to balance out the imbalances we see with the Thief and Warrior capabilities?
- when will the cone attack miss bug be finally squashed?
- when will pistols/grenade attacks speed increase to the levels they should be at so we aren’t firing 30 bullets and throwing 30-39 grenades to kill a mob at level 80?

I see interviews being done all the time in the gaming sites but we still haven’t had that second AMA we’ve been waiting on. I’m sure more then one engi would like to know what’s happening.