Guild Wars 2

Switched from teef main to engi main for HoT. Love the class, but something that bothers me is how we have to sacrifice dps to bring another utility skill like slick shoes.
Whereas say a condi warrior has all their dps come from their weapon skills.
If there is a fight where condi warrior or condi engi are even, it would seem more attractive to bring the warrior for banners.

Do other engis feel like we are in this choke hold?
Have multiple geared out toons, what argument would you use to bring an engi over my equally geared rev/war/tempest if condi isn’t needed?
Thoughts?

Every profession loses damge for utilities. A condi war gets more dps from Signet of Fury, Shattering Blow and “For Great Justice!” too. Mes loses wells, guard loses signet for reflection, etc etc. It’s totally fine we also do. It’s not like we would lose tons of damage when we miss one kit. For Gorsy, EG is gonna leave the stage for Slick shoes, wich is ok imo, since it only has one big dps skill. Sadly it’s one of our best tough, with fat 34k dmg.

Just give us flipping weapon swap already. One weapon with tons of kits to supplement.Its an old idea and this is an entire different animal of a game then release. This will not overpower the engi.

Why do we need it if we are already ok? I don’t see a reason to long for weapon swap.

as power its not too bad, which means power engi is quite versatile and can bring a thing needed for the encounter. nades are necessary, but your other 2 utilities are relatively selectable especially if you dont need a fire field.

as condi its a huge loss. dont. you need all of fire bomb, ia/napalm, and shrapnel nades cuz theyre each like 15-20% of your total dps.

Yea that’s what condis weakspot is imo. Those are the full buffed condi engi skills with their damage. They are ordered by dps according to their cast time. This means, Static Shot for example is stronger than Poison Dart Volley due the short cast time.

20k+ dps
Incendiary Ammo 25’000
Napalm 40’000
Blowtorch 34’000
Fire Bomb 22’000
Shrapnel Grenade 21’000

15-20k dps
Poison Grenade 16’000
Static Shot 4’000

10-15k dps
Grenade Barrage 15’000
Concussion Bomb 10’500

5-10k dps
Bog Ol’ Bomb 8’000
Poison Gas Shell 7’000
Poison Dart Volley 17’500
Freeze Grenade 6’500
Flame Blast 6’000
Air Blast 3’000
Grenade 5’000
Bomb 5’000

0-5k dps
Flame Jet 9’000
Fragmentation Shot 3’000
Flash Grenade 3’500
Mortar Shot 2’500
Orbital Strike 4’000
Endothermic Shell 2’000
Flash Shell 2’000

others
Superior Sigil of Geomancy 14’000
Sharpshooter 1’500
Incendiary Powder 4’000

If you got questions, go ahead!

Rocknull.2986:

Just give us flipping weapon swap already. One weapon with tons of kits to supplement.Its an old idea and this is an entire different animal of a game then release. This will not overpower the engi.

Why? I mean I use flamethrower and mortar when I need ranger or uber close range attacks in addition to hammer. Just make it so we can swap out the weapon kits easier would be better or give us more weapon kits but yeah most would say it would make us too OP though…