Guild Wars 2

One of the only reasons for using that horrendous skill before, was for the free stability. You could use it, go out of the transformation, and lots of stability. Well now, you lose it when you prematurely leave the transformation.

So while it may go up in duration by 3s for the tornado, or 4s with rampage with a tier 2 trait, it is overall a nerf.

Do arenanet expect us to use this awful skill? Just remove it and give us something original please!

It’s a bug fix. Obviously. Can everyone chill on the patch? Overall, it is a nice patch for us. Elixir U is fixed up, auto attacks work on everything how they should (grenades should not be an auto attack- get better at using them if you are complaining about that still). Elixir X should only grant stability when you are transformed because that’s when you would be stable, as per the animation and common sense, and was otherwise buffed. Mortar was sorta kinda buffed, but still needs some work.

Like I said, overall I am pleased and I say keep ’em coming. No more crying over things that are rather clearly not intended anyway when they are fixed.

Elixir X is useless…?

Awww… I loved that skill. Now that I heard it’s not viable I think I better switch it out for Supply Crate or something…

Supply crate was already way better : P

aoe stun, like 6 medkits so 6k heal, net turret, healing turret

(grenades should not be an auto attack- get better at using them if you are complaining about that still).

Get better at using them? People aren’t requesting an autoattack feature for grenades because they’re difficult to use, they’re requesting it because it’s tiring and not in any way fun to be spamming your 1 key that much. Even if you instead go 1 – Mouse 1 to cast, it’s still a completely unreasonable amount of effort to have to go to. I pity the people without mechanical keyboards out there who play Engineer; they’re going to need new keyboards at this rate.

I just try to imagine it doesnt exist and we’re just a class with 1 generally good elite and another niche one for WvW. I think its just a result of engineer being one of the last designed professions. X was just a quick fix to give us an elite as was many of the “random spell” crap we were given. It sucks for now but theres no way this is meant to stay. Be really interested to see what they come up with when they finally add stuff to take over for these place holder abilitys.

Don’t remove my Elixir X! I still love it! Just buff it! >:C

Fix, not nerf. How one could expect to retain the benefit when not in the form is beyond me. Clearly an exploit.

Somebody is not using Supply crate? WHAT IS THIS SORCERY!?

Well, exploit or not, it was pretty much the only useful part of elixir X.

So now, the skill is even worse.

Arenanet seem to think that lowering the cooldown and making it count as an elixir is somehow going to get us to use it, but in reality, the fundamental problems of elixir X were never changed.

If they made it a 50s cooldown, I’d not use it… why can’t they learn?

I dunno. Turning into a raging tornado and keeping an enemy player from getting up is pretty hilarious if you ask me.

The mutant is . . . meh. If you spec in power he becomes a beast with his attacks.

man some days I get confuse on this forum. So if I understand this people would transform into let say , a tornado to get the stability then drop out of the transform.

If that is the case I see this as a bug fixed. I tried the Elixir X a while back and found the duration of the transform to be not long enough. For the record though I have not tried it now that I understand more of how the class works. and I am addicted to supply drops.