Guild Wars 2

As the tittle says, what are your opinion on its current state? pve, spvp, wvw wise.

For Spvp, we are in the middle of the pack with our META build. It’s a bruiser like light on single target damage, great for aoe cleaves with good support (purge gyro, bulk gyro, stomp and rez like a champ, eg3 and eg5, + nice aoe heals on turrets water field blast).

1v1 options are less good than other META (not enough damage), but the support and sustain are better. It would be the best tanky bruiser build from my POV.

It’s hard to master and the Gyros goodies (cc, stability and effect pulse) are not easy to pull out (gyro should all been on super speed, but they are not).

Emotionally awkward defensive class.

In WvW zerging its useless as all medium armor classes has been brushed aside by the unstoppable boonshare meta zerg but on the flipside scrapper remain a top tier small scale skirmisher due to stomp gyro and high sustain.

SPvP I dont know and who the kitten even cares about PvE.

Mobility still sucks so it’s not as good as other classes for WvW roaming or between points in PvP. Rocket Boots not far enough, doesn’t stunbreak anymore, but lots of stealth with delays in cast time (Stealth Gyro + Elixir S tool belt).

Gyros are still kind of kittened in the way that if you’re running and stop, they kitten around for a second before they move with you. You’ll run outside their range if you have super speed or swiftness in/out of combat.

Still works very well in pve. Pvp… not sure tbh, but it should still be OK. WvW, I don’t do much there so not sure, but it is great for roaming.

They’re still good in PvP. Their damage with Paladin’s is good if you can stack up might, and their sustain is still god like overall. They also provide unique utilities that other specs might have difficulty providing, such as on demand AoE stealth, AoE condition cleansing on low CDs (EG 3, Purge Gyro or Elixir R (I think it’s R…), AoE damage reduction, AoE protection and mobile water field, multiple lightning fields, some superspeed…I think there’s more…oh yeah, the 900 range stomp. Most professions can’t do all of that with one spec. So while they took a little sustain nerf and a decent damage nerf, their utility is still untouched and powerful. I’d take one on my own team given the choice.

Just watch out for other specs taking your skills in the future, just like Engis did to Thieves. Game’ll probably be dead by then anyway.

Current state of Engineer is how you want to play it really. Anet has already abandoned the class in 2013/2014 and left it up to the player to figure it out on their own. That’s why I love Engineer til this day Core or Meta.

Zintrothen.1056:

900 range stomp.

You know, I’ve done around 40 matches on my engie in the last couple weeks and still have yet to get that thing to work.

Maybe I’m just a simpleton.

You have to click on the target (so select the downed guy) then use your gyro key (it usually prompts you saying click this to stomp).

I actually don’t necessarily find the meta to be meta anymore. Quite happy with an alternative hammer plus kits build and no gyros. Do quite well against gyro engis and can do better at 1 v 1’s. Sacrifice some surviveability. I think the meta remains the meta though because it is easier to play, not necessarily because it is the best choice for all play styles anymore.

shion.2084:

You have to click on the target (so select the downed guy) then use your gyro key (it usually prompts you saying click this to stomp).

Yea, i do that…then there’s a very short cast bar and action changes to whatever it is for the manual stomp if i’m close enough, if i’m not, nothing whatsoever happens.

Pve: In serious content condi engi is the only acceptable way, people havee been testing power alternatives but they havent been acceptable enough yet.

PvP: In a good position, and it has 2 viable builds (Scrapper and condi engi), scrapper is way more easier to play tough.

Ivantreil.3092:

Pve: In serious content condi engi is the only acceptable way, people havee been testing power alternatives but they havent been acceptable enough yet.

Power Engi deals similiar, without perma Alacrity even more damage than condi Engi. All 4 variants have their specific place in raids though.

Power Rifle Engi is at 27.5k dps, wich is even more than current DW Ele and only slightly behind Thief. Also has the biggest burst for small hitboxes for things like cannons (Sabby).