Guild Wars 2

I got GW2 with two of my friends at launch. Since then I’m the only one left that has any interest in playing. I have one friend that liked the game but started Engineer and liked it’s versatility, but wasn’t too hot on some of the patch changes early on. Now he feels too behind on the changes to GW2 since he left. Can anyone give me a rundown on how the engineer has been doing this entire time?

engineers are good

What is it you want exactly? a description of all the builds that were good then nerfed? that would take some time… if you want to know how the engineer is doing now though, that’s a different (and shorter) story.

In PvE : I’m not too sure, but I guess they’re doing okay.

In sPvP : -power engineer is still a bit weak but you can have fun with SD or grenade builds
-condi engineer is quite good and has some nice survivability (usually people use 30 0 0 30 10 or 30 10 0 20 10 builds with bombs/ toolkit/ grenades/ elixir gun)
-engineer is still vulnerable against conditions (and CC, to a lesser extent)

no.

engineers are good

this.

arenanet really wants turrets to be a thing, but turrets are too kittened up so if this patch doesn’t improve them a lot, then it is going to kitten off a lot of engineers because 2/5 of the new traits are wasted on turrets if they remain unusable

Uhtameit.2413:

What is it you want exactly? a description of all the builds that were good then nerfed? that would take some time… if you want to know how the engineer is doing now though, that’s a different (and shorter) story.

In PvE : I’m not too sure, but I guess they’re doing okay.

In sPvP : -power engineer is still a bit weak but you can have fun with SD or grenade builds
-condi engineer is quite good and has some nice survivability (usually people use 30 0 0 30 10 or 30 10 0 20 10 builds with bombs/ toolkit/ grenades/ elixir gun)
-engineer is still vulnerable against conditions (and CC, to a lesser extent)

Well that’s a reasonable summary. My friend is an experimenter, and will like to mess with things. But he’s running of knowledge back from launch. So is there a way to check the difference between launch engi and today?

really just playing with the build editor and comparing it to what he used to know : http://en.gw2skills.net/editor