Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I am contemplating coming back to GW2 and have questions on the viability of engineers in PVP (wvwvw/pvp). Last I played engineers were not very viable in situations and lower on the competitive pvp tier. Has this changed in anyway?

Thanks!

IMO Engineer is one of the best in SPvP now.

Engineers always rocked, we’ve been nerfed a few times but still very strong in pvp.

A few extremely minor buffs to turrets, but they are still useless (some point defenders try with them though).

Many popular engineer aspects, and the builds that relied on them, severely nerfed or even deleted entirely from game.

It was always the best class in pvp for those who can handle. And it still is.
It was always a bad class for those who can’t handle. And it still is.

Check out some streams – ostrichegg or teldo show some awesome skill.

Our problems are not in PvP, but in PvE… There are no middle of the road builds that work in PvE…. In pvp most people go full dps or survivabillity

There will never be balancing in PvE – Guild Wars 1 was also not balanced for pve. Why should anet balance for pve as long as all content is done by any class easily? It’s the player base who search for 4 warriors + mesmer. Which is totally kitten because if one warrior does not fine a good engi could outdamage him with grenades.

Engineer is awesome fine for pve: grenades do awesome damage + offensive condition support, bombs also hit hart + offensive condition support. Healing turret or super elixir support dungon partys well, flamethrower is still no viable kit, more like an utility kit as tool kit is. But players may missunderstand this still and attack with flamethrower #1 – opening threads comparing it with warriors greatsword lol

For me engineer feels smooth and stabilising – but there will no balancing in pve as long as dumb community searching for one 100% perfect group constellation while many other constellations are equal strong. You can do cof with 3 necros + 2 enginners close as fast as with usual farm group.

This class racism only comes from the worst of the worst players! Yes this is offense.