Guild Wars 2

I’ll have what ever the op is smoking. My whole build would be ruined if the nerfed bombs. I spend my time with my bomb kit. Its what makes me play my engineer.

You know what I’ll show you the door and kick you out myself.

jknrich.1549:

I’ll have what ever the op is smoking. My whole build would be ruined if the nerfed bombs. I spend my time with my bomb kit. Its what makes me play my engineer.

You know what I’ll show you the door and kick you out myself.

One or two builds that EVERYONE use may be different, but thousands more will open up, and Engineers wont be bottleknecked into one of three things.

They have already nerfed bombs and grenades. Perhaps the post was prior but grenades are FAR less powerful than they used to be. FT is actually on par for dps. Turrets yep are still worthless outside maybe PVP.

Grenades need to have an auto attack.

Bombs just suck and is about the most boring anything I have played in over 20 years of MMOs. Its funny for about 5 minutes as you run around then quickly you go “Meh” and switch builds or go play another profession. Ok, this is my opinion but I know its a fairly common one.

Gadgets… Dunno about PvP/WvW but my experience in PVE is they suck and partly because you find your self dropping points into alchemy that are only useful if you run a kit. Again my opinion. They are also the most death wish asking with mediocre overall dps in pve you can get. Seriously, a “melee” engineer that is not running a flame thrower in a dungeon is dead meat.

Right now the only truly all around viable builds are Grenades and Flamethrower(especially with the ability to swap in EG). Everything else is mediocre at best and if anything needs to be fixed at least in PVE. Grenades and Flamethrower have NOTHING on any other profession I run and I have 4 80s and the only profession I dont have is a thief. They have been nerf enough and if anything Grenades are lacking in they are literally carpul tunnel painful to run with no auto attack/target. Right now I bind middle so I can at least run around semi auto tossing #1s.

@Captain Swag I’m not bottles necked into running the meta builds I am running my own. That I’m putting a lot of hard work into making bombs is a big part of it. Why because I enjoy them. Kits like bombs and nades make a engineer its class along with other kits. There still is no reason behind this at all.

@jniel your playing bomb kits wrong if you feel they suck.

Nerfing things because YOU FEEL that they are overpowered and nerfing them will just magically open up other Builds, or what? Ah wait, after nerfing apply sugar randomly, don’t put reason behind it.

All it does is it puts out frustration on players that were forced out of this Build. Forcing players out of specific playstyles isn’t called Build versatility and Fun. Never, ever.

Also if you mean those are classwide OP, why don’t you deliver any proof or example to make your claim trustworty ? You’re sounding like the AreaNet Balance-Team sometimes does. If you have the Numbers and/or Proofs – make them Public – if not do some testing and then come back with the results and use that to put reason behind your claim.

But never ever say that your only proof is that you feel bad about it.
Others might feel different about it, especially if it ’s a Community.

Balancing should be done by theoretical numbers and comparissions first, practial testings and examples second and feelings last. And not only by feelings especially not if it ‘s only considering the feelings of a very small part of the community. If you can’t uphold that, either due to a limited time or some other reasons then you shouldn’t touch stuff that has been thought through aside from when it shows as “Game Breaking”.

But even then, “Game Breaking” stuff should either have ridiculus numbers or ridiculus examples one can show so that even the most simple people should be able to tell.

I hope you get what I’m trying to say.

I support your Idea in making other Kits more worthwhile and open up Build Diversity but those should be well thought through and not based of such simple claims, especially not when they have a high risk of decreasing viable Builds.

Cheers!

Captain Swag.5893:

I didn’t say buff their damage, I said buff them.

Whether its lower cooldowns, or higher damage, or whatever, the other kits aren’t on par.

Then spend some time to come up with concrete suggestions!
Saying “buff this, nerf that” is hardly more than trolling.

I said already don’t feed the troll but trainee moderator deleted the post.