Guild Wars 2

Which Legendary would you get as an Engineer? I guess our only options are Predator, Quip, Flame Seeker Prophicies, and Frenzy.

My understanding is that none of them effect anything while your are in a Kit. Predator will at least effect some Tool Belt skills like Grenade Barrage and Throw Wrench while you have Rifle out, but not while you’re in a Kit.

Personally, I prefer Rifle to Pistol in a vacuum (and prefer Predator to Quip in a vacuum). But I’m almost always in a Kit, so I usually run either p/p or p/s for the extra Sigil. So I’m having trouble choosing here.

What are you guys thinking?

predator no longer affects tool belt abilties

As an Engineer I honestly think for us no legendary is worth going for. None, to me, fit the Engineer aesthetic at all as well as the fact the majority run with kits meaning most won’t even see said legendary.

I did hear a rumour Anet were thinking of including more at some point but rumours are what they are.

Just as Adelai put, i just dont think any are worth going for. If your situation is you just want to grind for something cause you got nothing else to really work towards anyway……all power to ya, get one. But as it sits now, not worth it.

Had a fix for this, identified it a year ago even at beta 1. Heres what it was (keep in mind i said this over a year ago to them and its not in…good chance they dismissed it)

Flamethrower/elixer gun still show your gun, but change your backpack to the flamethrower/elixergun backpack and show the chord going into your rifle/pistol.

This works because.
1. Rifle looks similiar to a flame thrower and pistol already has blowtorch showing your engineer already is comfortable altering your pistol to be a flamethrower and the animations are there.
2.You can still tell what kit the player has out and are identified by the backpack.

(you could almost do this for the other kits as well but…heres a solution for them)

For toolkit, grenade kit, bomb kit, med kit. Your backpack does not show, but instead you see your rifle/pisto/shields in their holstered spots at your back and hip.

Why this works?
1. You can always see your legendary, even if its not being used atleast your showing it off to the world by a bad kitten rifle/shield on your back and sweet pistol at your sides.
2. Bomb, med, grenade kit could just show you with either a bomb, grenade, medpack in your characters hand to let everyone know what your using. Toolkit already has a wrench in your hand.

This woulda been an easy fix…that wouldnt have required months of coding. No reason why they dont like it, but hopefully they have a better idea…

I really like the idea at least of seeing your sheathed weapon when using a kit instead of the stupid pack.
Predator used to be very interesting for an engineer, because I think it would turn grenades and such into balls of energy and was very unique.
Not anymore though, as far as I know.
The Incinerator would be perfect, if engineers could use daggers.

If I were you I would go about collecting the general stuff you need for Legendaries, save it and wait for them to release new ones.

IF you really just have to have one now, then I would say the Shield, the pages turn so thats kinda kewl.

I have predator and its awesome:-) Also shield dont look so bad even with that guardian theme.
All depend on rest of your gear look. Lots of engineers are so sticked with “engineering look” and dont experiment with other skins. You can for sure make nice looking equip and dyes for quip. Who cares you look like hello kitty:-) Its orginal.
Here is my engi with gear tweaked for predator and it looks great especialy when aura pop up:-)

I’m not motivated because i’m in kit mode 70% of the time as well. Taking my sweet time…

I’m actually going for the Frenzy, mainly because I don’t really like firing a sniper rifle without using the sniping scope part of it, and I don’t feel kitten carrying around a clown gun. The Frenzy looks amazing, and has cool effects, but it’s still a underwater weapon. I’ve personally decided to just get gift of fortune and gift of mastery, and then just wait to see if they add more legendaries.

Predator all the way!

If you get it you’d probably want to use your rifle more and kits less ;D!

kingbread.6174:

predator no longer affects tool belt abilties

Same with Quip, they broke the tool belt animations when they added new particle effects to the weapons. There’s a small work around for the grenade barrage skill if you have the grenadier trait equipped though.

Engineer’s been my main forever, and I’m quickly approaching most of the materials I need for a legendary.

It’s just… I don’t want to lug around Predator aesthetically, for how the engineer uses it. I also don’t care for how Quip would look in the… paws of a Charr engineer either. (Although I plan on using TA dungeon armor for at least one of my set appearances, so maybe I can make it work with that.)

I do love shield, but I more often run a second pistol or even a rifle in most situations.

So yeah. I’ve no strong desire to go for any of the legendaries available to my class… Kinda bums me out really.

Edit: I might add, I’m also kitmaster build. So yeah, I spend the majority of my time with a kit out as well.

I’m still waiting on that legendary shotgun, so I don’t have to deal with a shotgun animation coming out of a sniper rifle’s scope, or the barrel clipping the ground, or hip shotting a sniper rifle….

There is an interesting effect between grenade barrage and the grenade kit’s KR proc. In the screenshot you can see a barrage about to hit the basilisk, but the KR effect also triggered The Predator’s fireball effect. Apparently this only works if I toss a barrage in the air and switch to grenades before I touch down. After some testing I know for sure that grenade kit KR doesn’t trigger the effect by itself.

Super Hyperbeam Alpha > The Predator

I just wish it made pew pew laser sounds.

Mif.3471:

Super Hyperbeam Alpha > The Predator

I just wish it made pew pew laser sounds.

I’ve been using this and Ruinmaker since I hit 80. The latter in particular, suits my Iron Legion colors!

Predator looks awesome but it looks more like a charr weapon than an engineer weapon. So if you’re a charr engi then go for it. Flameseeker looks cool if your making your engi look like a scholar i guess.

If they made a legendary that alters the looks and effects of kits, that would be sweet.

Charzooka is just awesome if you ask me.

I’d argue that not seeing your weapon for a period of time makes it all the more better. It’s like being able to drive a Ferari only on MWF. Sure TTH would suck, but at least you look forward to those MWF days and when you’re on it, you feel better :p For me, I’m super close to getting Quip. Around ~130g more to go

I’m going for the predator, if not only because I can something thieves can only dream of: Play as an assassin with a sniper >:D

Mif.3471:

Super Hyperbeam Alpha > The Predator

I just wish it made pew pew laser sounds.

Its a cool weapon but I think it only fits if you are an asura, doesn’t seem right on a charr.

Super Hyperbeam Alpha – that’s real nice on an Asura.
Where do you get it? Is it craftable?

My Charr engineer demonstrating ‘proper’ usage of Super Hyperbeam Alpha.

In all seriousness though, I love the Charr rifle run animation. It looks way more natural than pistol/pistol in particular.

Penguin.5197:

Its a cool weapon but I think it only fits if you are an asura, doesn’t seem right on a charr.

This is true. One of the reasons I’m so fond of it is it’s Asuran design.
It helps to counter balance the human and charr aesthetic influence the engineer has.

Zenguy.6421:

Super Hyperbeam Alpha – that’s real nice on an Asura.
Where do you get it? Is it craftable?

Mystic forge or Trading Post.