Guild Wars 2

Back at release I was all gung-ho about engineers. It didn’t take too long before I found engineers to be much more lackluster than I had hoped. One part was their mechanics (which this thread is not about). The other was on appearance.

Every other profession gets to wield awesome weapons with customization appearances. Engineer gets to do that with 1 weapon .. but kits are a huge part of the profession. And everyone has an identical flamethrower.

Also.. mammoth backpack with grenade kit looks just awful.

Also.. mammoth backpack with grenade kit looks just awful.Now, back when I took a break in November, it didn’t look like any changes were on the horizon. A few patches came and went, no mention of bringing light to engineers. I skimmed through the patch notes between then and now but didn’t see anything.

Also.. mammoth backpack with grenade kit looks just awful.Now, back when I took a break in November, it didn’t look like any changes were on the horizon. A few patches came and went, no mention of bringing light to engineers. I skimmed through the patch notes between then and now but didn’t see anything.Has there been any mention by the devs about “fixing” engineer appearances? Customizing kit appearance, etc? Although it’s not technically a fix, I think the word applies as appearance is a pretty big thing in this game with engineers being the only ones not able to affect it.

Also.. mammoth backpack with grenade kit looks just awful.Now, back when I took a break in November, it didn’t look like any changes were on the horizon. A few patches came and went, no mention of bringing light to engineers. I skimmed through the patch notes between then and now but didn’t see anything.Has there been any mention by the devs about “fixing” engineer appearances? Customizing kit appearance, etc? Although it’s not technically a fix, I think the word applies as appearance is a pretty big thing in this game with engineers being the only ones not able to affect it.Edit: Not sure whats going on with this post. It seems to be duplicating lines and stuff.. but when I press “edit” it all looks fine. Please ignore the weirdness.

Maybe in a couple of years we will be able to customize our backpacks. Even to be able to change the color of the backpacks would help.

I have a female sylvari with the long pony-tail and the backpacks are disgusting and clip horrendously with 90% of the sylvari hair styles(unless I go shroom head or bald)… I’d rather see my quaggan backpack 24/7 and I hope they do change that soon.

I thought it would be really cool to get one of those jetpack back skins and use it with the Sorrow’s Embrace armor in a flamethrower based build.

Then I realized the flamethrower would cover up the jetpack…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Remove-Engineer-Kit-Backs-in-PvE/first#post1964650

Yes, it’s a bit of self promotion, but I figure it’s relevant to this topic. Anet has commented on kits and their reasoning for backpacks, but that reason doesn’t hold water in PvE, hence the title of my suggestion. If you feel this way, just +1 the OP in the link with the button to the right, or just comment your feelings in that thread. I’m not saying you can’t complain if you don’t want to do anything about it, but this is a minor opportunity to help get our voices heard.

Lunar Sunset.8742:

Maybe in a couple of years we will be able to customize our backpacks.

Judging by the way they nerf us every month I hardly believe there will be any engineers left. Every newcomer who reads the first thread about the engineer will avoid this class.