Guild Wars 2

Disclaimer: I like Anet and the developers for their hard work and attempts to talk to the community to improve their game. I understand their hard work and that game developing will come with some glitches and bugs that will be unexpected etc. Also feel free to correct me on some points as I am a returning player after a break I took August last year to finish school

Moving forward I would like to push a live stream conversation about the problems of each class, but at the moment I of course want to focus engie for a number of reasons. Weird idea i know, but I figure its worth discusing if not a more personal way of connecting with us on the problems we’re having since anet is typically busy with HoT etc.

1. This class has had, pretty much, the most bugs throughout the skill/trait list and thus we are never playing to the best we can and get the short end of the stick that way. I understand engie is, if not, THE most versatile and complicated class with all of its kits that have all these skills that need to work together cohesively. Im sure ever engie main plays engie for that reason. For that reason, all the bugs can be really frustrating.

2. It feels as though the devs have a great Idea for kit and then only half apply it. For instance the integration with Alchemy line, Elixirs, and the Elixir Gun. The Gun itself is an powered on Elixirs and it would make alot of sense if the whole kit benefited from the tree if not only the elixir traits. Elixir X, I dont think should be changed to something more unique and not copy/pasta of other elites.

3. Gadgets, excluding A.E.D and Goggles, are still useless in almost every build. With the nerf to swiftness + rocketboots, I’m much less likely to run them. I’ve never use Battering Ram, Mines are STILL barely useful(and thats mostly just the slow startup times and its hard to clip imo) The trait lines barely even help that problem. Shouldnt Kinetic Battery is great, but thats got some odd bugs too. (SN: I still dont know why battering ram is even a skill for us. A much better, sensible gadget could go there.)

4. Turrets. They already die so easily, why are the cooldowns not only high, but there are no traits to reduce cooldown for them. Unfortunately Last time turrets were popular people complained because they were used in our bunker kb build and of course that died. (Maybe this isnt a good point, but when turrets are touched its either really good or really bad) I think that the KB Turret build was fine. I think the meta was just full of Glass and burst and noone wanted to deal with a build that wasnt glass burst down.

5.Engie community is one of the best Ive seen in any game ive played and the feedback you guys would get could be more immediate. The guys/girls in this forum are great, and know a lot more than me of course. Having a stream to talk with us would be a much more intuitive experience.

6. We just want our class to work and not have to spec nades most of the time for damage.(that second part is more or less from my observations).

I hope that our Elite Specialization will make sense of most of the questionable changes and I would also like to see the bugs fixed too lol.
Thanks for your time.