Guild Wars 2

With the inspiration of the Engineer being the Ritualist, the thought just occurred to me that Bomb Kit was inspired by Destructive was Glaive.

Back in GW1, Ritualist had a bundle spell that, when used, would deal AoE damage around the ritualist, and ignore a percentage of the enemy’s armor.

What do we get in GW2? We DROP a Bomb, that does AoE around us, and reduces enemy’s defenses with vulnerability.

Coincidence? I think not.

Engineer was one of the final classes to be designed, coinciding with Glaive Bombing only taking off near the end of GW1’s life span.

What do you think? Is Bomb Kit a reference to Glaive Bombing?

No.

I feel your grasping at straws because you want there to be a connection, where no connection exist. Just my opinion.

Hmm while i normally would have an opinion kinda what Coglin says to many references, with this being 2 games of the same series, it makes sense (from what you described for that glaive bombing, didn’t really play gw1 before after it was kinda empty and never got to really play the ritualist)

I don’t think Bomb Kit is a reference to Glaive Bombing. I feel like they have similar mechanics, but, really, a lot of things do. Necromancers can also do this ‘glaive bombing’ thing with Wells and Marks (if the marks are cast at their feet), as can Rangers (via traps).
A similar ‘this behaves somewhat similarly’ argument could be made for the Engineer’s Kits in general being a series of references to Team Fortress 2 (Bomb/Grenade = Demo, Flamethrower = Pyro, Toolkit = Engineer, Elixir Gun/Medkit = Medic). Doesn’t mean it’s actually a thing.

For those who didn’t played gw1:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Glaive
Basically a bomb which does dmg when dropped but you can hold it for some time to get passive benefits.
The playstyle is similar to Bombs, but well..
When you have explosive material, the first thing you can do with it (and the easiest one) is to make a keg and set it off next to an enemy.
From the player’s point of view, there’re certainly some similarities, but from the lore’s, I don’t think so.

Rangers, necros can’t do it with traps/marks, they are more like mines, and there’s more theorycraft for engineer-ritualists. (Like turrets ~ gw1 spirits, and you can even force some sense into weapon kits ~ weapon spells [http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Weapon_spell] as making extra effects for the your equipped weapon, as engineer you can’t switch weapons. But it’s a “bit” forced even for me )

Kain Francois.4328:

With the inspiration of the Engineer being the Ritualist

And not an engineer as the common steampunk archetype, mind you. That’d be way too far-fetched an idea.