Guild Wars 2

Hey,

I’m a human engineer. So I’m just talking about the Human Racial Elites and the Engineer Elites.

For PvE purposes, is any elite skill significantly better than the others? Or are they all about the same?

The Reaper, Avatar, and Hounds all look super cool. Being a power engineer I’d go either Avatar or Hounds, but if I was condition I’d go Reaper.

Supply drop outshines our other options by a mile.

Yup dont brush off supply crate, as lame as the name is it is actually quite powerful

Supply Crate is a combo finisher so that alone to me makes it leagues above the other options.

Supply Crate is really the only one worthwhile. Mortars range is akin to Grenades, which is pitiful considering you’re stationary and can’t spam as well.. and the Potion gives you a random chance at two other professions elites; of which even those respective classes also opt out of using those skills (Tornado and Rampage).

Another vote for Supply Drop, it eclipses anything else in terms of usefulness.

Don’t waste skill points in getting others – use SUPPLY DROP!!!!…..
your can Bonk Mobs on the head when the crate falls on them ^^

Although I think the special wolf skill is “suppose” to outshine everything…..
but I have the normal version – so don’t bother….

I don’t think anything else even compares to Supply Drop as an elite. It reliably provides damage, a stun, healing, and extra firepower and can be used quickly and easily in pretty much any situation — and, if you trait for it, it becomes even more effective.

Racial elites and improvement traits aside, the other options you have available an Engineer simple do not compare.

The Mortar is situational at best. Though it can do some decent area effect attacks and effects, it’s typically only marginally more effective than your character’s regular attacks and utilities (especially if you factor in what the turrets from the Supply Drop would be doing).

To use it though, you’ve got to lock yourself into a fixed position — meaning that in the vast majority of situations, you have to trade off a significant amount of survivability (via dodging) for a minimal overall improvement in capability.

In a game like Guild Wars 2 where movement and avoidance are paramount, it’s simply not worth the slot.

Elixir X is just as bad, but for entirely different reasons. While the variety of effects that the skill can generate are decent enough, the fact that they’re applied at random means that you can’t reliably count of getting the effect you want when you trigger the ability.

More often than not, you’ll be wanting the tornado ability and get the unarmed one or vice versa. Either way, you’ve got an ability you can’t trust.

Elites are supposed to be these big, cool, fun skills. Unreliable skills simply aren’t fun.

As a human though, I run with the Hounds for racials while PvEing. It’s quite useful to distract Elite mobs while grabbing a Skill Point or whatnot.

In PvP though I would definitely say Supply Crate at all times.

FiftyTwoBears.5482:

As a human though, I run with the Hounds for racials while PvEing. It’s quite useful to distract Elite mobs while grabbing a Skill Point or whatnot.

In PvP though I would definitely say Supply Crate at all times.

Supply crates does that too. I use it to bypass champ karka all the time

Penguin.5197:

FiftyTwoBears.5482:

As a human though, I run with the Hounds for racials while PvEing. It’s quite useful to distract Elite mobs while grabbing a Skill Point or whatnot.

In PvP though I would definitely say Supply Crate at all times.

Supply crates does that too. I use it to bypass champ karka all the time

Yup, the turrets from the crate draw aggro on just about anything, including npc’s in WvW camps and all of that…
Fair enough that those turrets die fast, but the mobs usually target the ones damaging them first, so your important ones like healing and net turet last the longest every time

Well, the Supply Crate would be nice… if they only proc’ed with the superior runes that trigger on elite. Can you see the usefulness of a Lyssa set paired with Supply Drop at the same time? Feasible retreat… if only SD proc’ed fine with runes.